What do you think?
People have opinions. Good, let's hear them. The issues we work with cause intense debate and lead constantly to shifts in policy, practice and public opinion.
Our role is to help our clients create, influence, anticipate and manage this opinion on the path to positive social and environmental change.
In this section we sketch out some of the debate and dialogue that informs our work and highlight great ideas and best practice in communications for social change.
What do you think? Speak up! Contact us to comment on what you have read here or make a contribution.
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Forster Director, Peter Gilheany, mulls over the state of Britain's eating habits and Jamie Olivers latest efforts to improve them.
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Julia Brown explores the future of CSR:
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The term CSR could well be dead by 2015
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Complaints to the Advertising Standards Authority about ‘greenwash’ in UK advertising rose by over 400% between 2006 and 2007
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London Youth's Tracie Trimmer Platman takes another look at why young people make streets and public spaces their own.
- The street is the ony place young people can make their own
- Perception of young people as violent and disruptive creates a vicious circle of behaviour
- There are plenty of positive lessons for the media and the public
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Writer, broadcaster and social activist Simon Fanshawe overcomes the relentless barrage of 'why bother' on climate change and lets off some steam.
- The personal carbon footprint in China and India is still less than the UK
- Personal action creates pressure for decision makers and the wider public
- Get some perspective: reduce driving but don't waste time banning patio heaters
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Writer, broadcaster and social activist Simon Fanshawe sees it both ways.
- There was no gay scene in India until the internet and thanks to social networking, political candidates can no longer hide
- But are we forming virtual relationships based on lies and fantasy and retreating from social spaces into an isolated, disconnected world?
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Forster Associate Director, Ben Jackson, defends the direct impact of individual lifestyle changes.
- George Monbiot is wrong about green consumer smugness
- Buying organic and Fairtrade subverts the price-for-profit at all costs business logic
- Millions of ordinary people are putting their money where their mouth is on the weekly shop
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Robin Maynard, Director of Communications at The Soil Association seeks to reconcile the contradictions between air-frieghted organic produce and local food networks.
- With a fast route to market, Producers in developing countries get a bigger cut of air-freighted products
- There is no clear definition of what is meant by 'local produce'
