Showing posts with label communication. Show all posts
Showing posts with label communication. Show all posts

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Communicating Resilience: Words, Pictures, Voices


We’ve spent a lot of time looking at the words around resilience; now let’s talk about incorporating images. Pictures are powerful tools that could help engage a wider audience in resilience learning and practice.
A picture from The Lexicon of Sustainability
that features one of our partners: Growing Power.

On the Lexicon of Sustainability website words become the building blocks of new sustainable solutions – words such as: back yard pollinators, urban farms, methane digesters, pasture-raised, vermiculture, biodiversity and carbon footprint. These words express choices about how we live, but they’re also answers to specific questions. How is this produced? Where was this made? Who made it?