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Lights, Camera, Climate Action: How Film & TV Can Spark a Sustainable Future
From positioning smoking as cool to making climate-friendly lifestyles chic, screen culture wields a subtle power in shaping societal norms and…
Sep 5 • 
Sara Bell

August 2025

Why Top-Down Climate Policy Fails
Governments might set targets, but it’s people who create the momentum.
Aug 29 • 
Sara Bell
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On Choosing Optimism & Hope
Sustaining the energy from within.
Aug 23 • 
Sara Bell
Staying Hopeful
And making the money flow in the right direction
Aug 8 • 
Sara Bell

July 2025

Fire and Ice
Imagination, Optimism & The Quiet Power of Small Acts.
Jul 31 • 
Sara Bell
Fighting Billion-Dollar Subsidies From a Camden Office With £16 Left in the Bank
On lawsuits, lost press coverage, and how courage (and a hedge fund) made all the difference.
Jul 17 • 
Sara Bell
I Grew Up in Fear. That’s Why I Don’t Use It to Fight Climate Change.
Fear paralyses. Hope mobilises. Here’s why I believe we need less terror and more trust to change the world.
Jul 9 • 
Sara Bell
The Day I Wiped £1.7B Off Big Energy’s Balance Sheets
One of the defining moments of my career came in 2014 when, as CEO of London-based clean energy startup Tempus Energy, I took on the fossil fuel…
Jul 9 • 
Sara Bell
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Why we started RIISE
How optimism, beauty and entertainment can help us solve the climate crisis
Jul 3 • 
Sara Bell
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