What we learned this week

Artists in Appalachia held a funeral for a closing coal power station – not to celebrate its demise but to help the community deal with the change. There are different ways to do this, but it’s important not to disregard the contribution of communities who have served the fossil economy.

“After 39 years of communications campaigning, I can assure you that if a campaign’s goal is starting a ‘conversation,’ its goal is failure.” This speaks more to an American context in my opinion, but interes...