How do you tell the most important ‘story’ in the world? It’s a story that most ordinary citizens don’t want to think about, because it is complex and involves invisible gases. It’s the story of the amount of carbon we can “afford” to put into the atmosphere, taking account of where it might go and what it might do.
Read MoreLocal solar - the carbon link
Locally owned renewable energy sources can provide multiple benefits. But how do you get local people to invest? A key driver is the net reduction in the local carbon footprint but that involves complex numbers and data. This is where our data visualisation techniques can be useful. Particularly if combined with drone photography.
Read MoreVisualising $209 billion climate reparations
How do you visualise climate reparations? That was the question we were asked last year by researchers investigating potential annual reparations to compensate those communities around the world most damaged by climate change.
Read MoreBlack cabs go green
It’s time to celebrate when an iconic vehicle like the London black cab goes green. Since its launch in 2018 the TX electric cab has prevented more than 200,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions from entering the earth's atmosphere. So we were happy to make a short film for the London Electric Vehicle Company (LEVC) to get across this good news story.
Read MoreThink globally, visualise locally
Dedicated people around the world are addressing local needs related to environmental stewardship and sustainability. But many also want to find a way to educate local leaders not just about the consequences of the climate crisis, but also the need for local climate action. This often means turning local carbon data into stories and imagery that people can relate to…
Read MoreWe like filling stadiums
Most people who live in or near Los Angeles know the size of the SoFi Stadium. So overfilling the stadium with giant CO2 balls seemed like a good way of helping tell a carbon story for a local freight forwarding company.
Read MoreIconic buildings help tell carbon stories
Carbon stories often make more sense if grounded in a particular place and we therefore like using iconic buildings or landmarks to give a sense of scale. So when we were approached by an organisation based in Blackpool we naturally suggested using using the Blackpool Tower.
Read MoreKnowing your place
We often inhabit places without knowing how our activities shape the natural landscape. So map-based stories that visualise what is happening beneath our feet and in the air around us can be helpful. These two videos for Somerset Wildlife Trust are good examples.
Read MoreHelping tell Porsche’s carbon story
How can global car manufacturers show climate change leadership? Phasing out petrol and diesel vehicles alone is not enough as making electric cars uses a lot of energy, particularly in the manufacture of the batteries. So the challenge is to engage with the supply chain and get them also to reduce emissions - primarily by only using renewable electricity.
Read MoreTrees store carbon
In 2014 we made a video set for Wood for Good, the UK timber industry’s promotional campaign, showing the carbon benefits of using wood and timber in the UK construction sector. The brief, eight years later, was to make shorter versions of the films suitable for educational use and social media sharing
Read MoreTransport emissions come to life
How do you highlight the climate benefits of using electric bikes and e-scooters in cities? This was the challenge set by Beam Mobility, the largest micro-mobility operator in the Asia Pacific region.
Read MoreUK Household emissions
A set of simple images showing the carbon emissions associated with an average UK home.
Read MoreElectric vehicles - the raw materials
Electric vehicles are at the heart of the clean energy transition. But as prices reduce and manufacturers increase their model line ups where are the raw materials needed to produce rapidly increasing volumes of EVs going to come from?
Read MoreWhat’s the carbon footprint of cement?
The global cement / concrete supply chain currently produces a disproportionate amount of greenhouse gas emissions. Innovative solutions that make cement and concrete production and usage sustainable are urgently needed. But how do you bring together different technology, finance and academic stakeholders to rapidly reduce those emissions?
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Commuting to work - what is the carbon footprint?
The Western Australia Water Corporation wanted to help employees understand the carbon footprint associated with their commuting to work.
Read MoreAll forests are not the same
Primary ‘old growth’ forests are unique and irreplaceable. But how do you get that message across to governments, policymakers and corporations? And the message that not all forests are the same?
Can humour help the climate crisis?
The world is waking up to the climate crisis. Children are protesting and Extinction Rebellion has gone global. But many people are still unaware of the carbon emissions associated with everyday activities. That’s why we have teamed up with innovative multi-media theatre company Forkbeard Fantasy to see if humour could help.
Read MoreCommunicating your carbon saving
What does 66,000 metric tons of CO2 look like? That was the question asked by Belgian company MAZARO who wanted to show the annual carbon savings associated with fitting their innovative transmission technology to a client’s 350 large cooling fans.
Read MoreFossil fuel contribution to the climate crisis
State-owned and multinational businesses have continued to expand their fossil fuel extraction operations since 1965 despite being aware of the industry’s devastating impact on the planet. In this 20 second film we show what 480bn tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO₂e) looks like.
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Materials in a mobile phone with pennies for scale
What's in a phone?
Mobile phones have become a huge part of our daily lives, but what are they made of? We made an animation showing the different elements including rare earth minerals for one phone, and also in all the phones made in a year (that’s 1,475 million smartphones)
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