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A number of advocacy organizations are applying what researchers call the "pyramid" approach to using Twitter to support their social change work. Continue Reading The Pyramid Approach: How Twitter Use Is Shaping Up Among Advocacy Groups

To avoid being duped by global change deniers who have misled the public in the past, environmental writers are increasingly limiting their coverage of global warming and climate change to just facts that carry the weight of scientific evidence. Continue Reading Science, Environmental Journalists Warming To New Notions Of “Objectivity”

Ever wonder why your best-intended and undoubtedly thoughtful communications efforts to get people to change their ways—like adopt more healthy behavior—seem to be hitting a wall? Here's why. Continue Reading Don’t Listen. (It Might Be Good For You.)

Writers of popular song hits can teach you a thing or two about messages that deliver an emotional wallop. Continue Reading Lessons from Lyric Writers Will Tune Up Your Messages So They Really Sing

When people talk about how the media has helped make same-sex marriage more appealing to the public, they probably aren't including pornography in their list of favorable influences. Maybe they should. Continue Reading You Didn’t Ask, But Here’s What We Can Tell You About Porn and Same-Sex Marriage Attitudes

One side might have to give up more than the other to reach agreement in global climate change negotiations, but the key to success may rest with being able to sell it as a fair deal to people back home. Continue Reading Even In Lopsided Climate Change Negotiations, Both Sides Can Win

The time to start talking to kids about sex is a lot earlier than most think. Continue Reading We Can’t Be Tentative About Talking To Very Young Kids About Sex

More public education about the science of climate change isn’t going to change minds. In fact it might just make the divide worse. Continue Reading Time To Cool It With the Science Education About Global Warming