NEW! CLIMERICK CARDS AND POSTERS at the CLIMERICK CARD SHOP

Here’s the first poster available from the new Climerick Cards shop. It’s available in A3 and A4 sizes or can be downloaded. To find out more, go to the etsy shop by clicking HERE or typing http://bit.ly/46aZeaK into your browser. (underlining not needed)

The same theme is available from the shop on A5 cards or in a set with two further climericks in A6 size.

What better way of letting friends who visit you know of your concern - with a light-hearted touch? 

Not serious enough for such a major concern? Take a look at some of the CLIMERICKS that have been posted to this blog in the last couple of years. You will find the hopeful, the challenging, the thoughtful and the downright daft! Together they give some idea of how our card and poster portfolios might develop over time. Whatever mode they are, they are intended to provoke discussion on the biggest issue of today - and thereby help many people to realise they can take action that will help to hasten the end of the dirty, dangerous fossil fuels era and help usher in the new era of Clean air technologies - already outstripping COGS (Coal, oil, gas and shale) in delivery terms, mainly due to investment by developing nations, and China (according to a BBC report 7th October 2025).

The CLIMERICK posted on 12th September looks forward to reinforcement of that trend. You can have a look at that by clicking HERE .

NEW! CLIMERICK CARDS and POSTERS to show your concern about the climate

As from today, you can obtain CLIMERICK CARDS and POSTERS from a newly opened CLIMERICK CARDS Etsy shop. Just follow the link in image below which, in case it’s difficult to read on a phone is http://bit.ly/46aZeaK

You can also access the shop via the QR code here

CARDS are available in A5 and A6 versions and POSTERS (hard copies in A3 and A4) and a download.

The cards and poster currently available are FIRST EDITIONS with a limited range while we find our feet. Once our systems have settled and we have more clarity on what customers like, we expect to offer a much wider range of both posters and message cards. So watch this space and be among the first to provoke climate change interest among your friends, family and workplace peers by thoughtful use of the material.

How about lining up your first CLIMERICK campaign for SUSTAINABILITY DAY for the fourth Wednesday of October (This year 2025 - 22nd October)?

OR maybe for anyone you know involved with or influential at COP30 from 10th -24th November.

#COP 30 #Ecology #Sustainability #ClimateConcern #ClimateChaos #ClimateChange 

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TODAY’S CLIMERICK: RACHEL REEVES, LISTEN - GROWTH IS FOR FOOLS

Edited Pixabay Image

What folly! -More Runways to kill the planet

Rachel Reeves, listen! Growth is for fools,

if it leads to the planet’s downfall.

The Earth’s urgent need

is to swiftly impede

power-making, with foul dirty fuels

Find more about the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE  

CLIMERICK: Let Florida Batten Down Hatches.

 Modified Pixabay free image of a Dodo

 

Let Florida batten down hatches:

California boost your fire watches.

Dodo Donald don’t care,

what is spewed into air

though it causes gargantuan trashes.

This is a CLIMERICK (Climate Concern Limerick). You will find lots more at 

http://eco-verses.blogspot.com

CLIMERICK: O COP WHERE YOU DIGITALISE

A CLIMERICK for COP 29 Digitalisation Day

KEEPING CLIMATE CONCERN

CONVERSATIONS ALIVE with... 

O COP where you digitalise,

the world needs you all to be wise,

and drive global trends

that will bring to an end

excessive resource use and lies!

And you can find more about the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE  

CLIMERICK: The Chant of ‘Drill Baby Drill'

 KEEPING CLIMATE CONCERN

CONVERSATIONS ALIVE with Climericks

                     

             

So - can a UK poet plead with a former US President and be heard?

I doubt it; but it’s worth a try. And maybe some of my US friends .... will want to send this to their friends..... who will.... 

I can but hope.

Here’s the Climerick plea

The chant of ‘Drill Baby Drill’

is one that will totally kill 

any Climate-wise hope: 

Trump, please kill that trope

while there’s time for R-ecovery still.

Trevor Thorn

And you can find more about the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE  

Image credit: Pixabay free image - edited

CLIMERICKS: Encouragement from HM Charles III

 KEEPING CLIMATE CONCERN

CONVERSATIONS ALIVE with... 

My resolve to post Climericks at least twice a week has been maintained, other than a short break recently because we have been away on the beautiful island of Iona where we experienced gales too gusty to walk in safely and cancelled ferries - almost certainly pointing to a future of more similarly adverse weather due to climate change.

And as we return to home to pick up our regular lives, and watch our King and Queen in more exotic locations where climate change threatens island homes, it feels time to remind ourselves of the recognition of the Climericks project, by the King whose Correspondence Secretary, earlier in the year (April) wrote to us from Buckingham Palace:

 

'His Majesty greatly appreciates you sharing your ideas with him on this significant matter, and enjoyed hearing about your creation of climate-themed limericks in order to raise awareness for environmental issues’.

And you can find more about the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE  

CLIMERICK: Materials Science is Where You Will Find, by Trevor Thorn

KEEPING CLIMATE CONCERN

CONVERSATIONS ALIVE with... 

Materials Science is where

you will find a great body of care

for sustainability

at scale capability.

Financiers, Go! Invest there.

 

In the September 2024 issue of Materials World are articles on bringing colour to solar panels making them more attractive to architects; recycling of critical metals from spent alkaline batteries, improved recycling of solid state lithium batteries; The next generation of smart offshore windfarms; how precise measurement is vital in the race to net zero and 3D printing of natural material flooring panel (to replace steel) and more

Find more about the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE  

NEW CLIMERICKS WILL APPEAR ON THIS SITE TWICE WEEKLY - SO KEEP LOOKING TO STAY UP TO DATE.

CLIMERICK: When Next You are Eating a Spud by Trevor Thorn

KEEPING CLIMATE CONCERN

CONVERSATIONS ALIVE with CLIMERICKS

 

When next you are eating a spud,

Think! Its flowers, stalks and leaves were just crud.

But research has found

that this garbage abounds

with fibres for fashion – that’s good!

 

Article in The New Scientist 7^th September 2024 reports on the findings by a team at Imperial College London that the fibres from the above-the-ground waste from potatos (estimated to be 150million tonnes a year) can be used as a cotton fibre substitute,with the potential of saving huge crop space and diminishing water usage.

  

Find more about the thinking behind the growing collection of CLIMERICKS HERE

NEW CLIMERICKS WILL APPEAR ON THIS SITE TWICE WEEKLY - SO KEEP LOOKING TO STAY UP TO DATE.