Blog posts Archive

13 December 2023

Renewed Passion and Broader Perspectives: My Time as a Communicator-in-Residence

During October and November 2023, I had the honour of being part of the Mistra Environmental...

01 December 2023

Reflections on four years of Mistra Environmental Communication

After four years of research, exploration, and collaboration, the first phase of MISTRA...

31 May 2023

Co-creation for ecosystem restoration – a reflection from Mosquitia

Arriving on the Misquito coast in eastern Honduras provides a sobering reminder of the tremendous...

25 May 2023

Snufkin’s trousers: The making of the sustainable consumer

"- I think it would be better if the trousers got older here, Snufkin said. They aren’t my shape...

26 April 2023

Communicating Complexity in Fashion Production: Navigating the Minotaur's Labyrinth of Sustainability

Unravelling the complex yarn of sustainability challenges in the fashion world is not a Gordian...

11 April 2023

Rights-based land use dialogues – essential for enabling a just green transition

Northern Sweden is expected to play a strategic role in Sweden as well as Europe’s green...

23 January 2023

Leading dialogues and cooperations

Dialogues and cooperation between stakeholders are softer forms of control compared with regulati...

28 December 2022

Internet search results could be increasing your carbon emissions

Almost everyone thinks they know how to use Google, and they usually get the answer they want. Ma...

10 October 2022

Self-trust and Co-creation

The public discussion up until the Swedish election is characterized by the absence of a question...

10 October 2022

Moving beyond organics: Understanding the place and space of brown cotton

We need to broaden our search beyond organics to understand other cotton options that are...

14 March 2022

Carbon farming futures-in-the-making – shifting from control to care*

What is problematic with our current food production systems? What are the kinds of futures we...

13 July 2021

Defining to create change

The unwieldy concept of change may sometimes be hard to define. Is change the person picking up a...

22 June 2021

To communicate about environmental communication

Miranda Gatti worked as a communication officer intern at Mistra Environmental Communication duri...

28 May 2021

Anticipatory Imagination: Charting New Pathways to Environmental Communication

This post is part of a blog series on exploratory methodologies for knowledge co-production, an...

12 May 2021

Expanding the horizon of possibility through play

This post is part of a blog series on exploratory methodologies for knowledge co-production, an...

22 April 2021

Storytelling as a Tool for Sustainable Thinking

This post is part of a blog series on exploratory methodologies for knowledge co-production, an...

13 April 2021

A Council of All Beings – communal rituals as transformative practice

This blog post is part of a blog series on exploratory methodologies for knowledge co-production,...

08 April 2021

Sweden as a post-carbon idyll

Amelia Mutter, PhD in technology and social change, continues the blog series based on the book...

17 March 2021

Beyond the reach of science - about the role of art and culture for sustainability

Museums are places for knowledge and research, a kind of archive and curiosity cabinet. At museum...

03 March 2021

Co-creative game design – An emergent and exploratory space for co-producing knowledge

This blog post is part of a blog series on exploratory methodologies for knowledge co-production,...

18 February 2021

What can we learn from the Corona crisis for the governance of sustainability transformations?

In this blogpost, I argue that the Corona pandemic presents us with a unique opportunity to bette...

19 January 2021

Concern for natural heritage – an effective way to raise concern about climate change?

This blogpost is the second of a series of pieces reflecting on the communication of climate...

21 December 2020

Grief and Hope in Bjerströms Sweden

This blogpost is the first of a series of pieces reflecting on the communication of climate chang...

06 October 2020

Facilitation is a matter of power

We have come to the end of the workshop. Participants are checking out by expressing how they...