Special #ClimateAmbassdors mini-series! Learn more about the scheme and get to know each of the England regional teams. Joining Kit Marie from the Northwest hub is Cormac Lawler. They sip a Yorkshire Tea and chat about how Irish life changed during the ‘Celtic Tiger’, staring into ponds, amongst other things!

Cormac is the Climate Ambassadors Northwest Regional Hub Manager. He has had a pretty diverse range of jobs and voluntary roles – one might call it a ‘portfolio career’ – connected through the golden thread of ‘community’. Cormac tends to exist in the bridges between things – a sociable introvert, who likes to think he can talk to anyone and find connections between different people. Last year, with his partner and daughter, Cormac moved to the hills outside Manchester to a lovely town called New Mills with a great community spirit – There he is connected with various initiatives, mainly the community orchard. 

Some links to things mentioned in the chat:

-	Climate Ambassadors (https://www.climateambassadors.org.uk) 
-	Sister project: National Education Nature Park (https://www.educationnaturepark.org.uk/) 
-	Sister project: Lets Go Zero (https://letsgozero.org/)
-	Sister project: Sustainability Support Education (https://www.sustainabilitysupportforeducation.org.uk/)  

-	Celtic Tiger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Tiger) 
-	Concern Worldwide (https://www.concern.net/) 
-	Carbon Literacy (https://www.mmu.ac.uk/sustainability/carbon-literacy) 
-	Green Schools Network (https://prospecthouse.school/about-us/green-schools-network) 
-	Manchester Environmental Education Network (https://www.meen.org.uk/) 
-	Morecambe Bay Curriculum (https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/morecambe-bay-curriculum) 

Expand your geography network and connect with Cormac and the rest of the North-West Climate Ambassadors regional team at climateambassadors_nw@mmu.ac.uk

If you're in the East of England, you can get in touch with Kit Marie about Climate Ambassadors at climateambassadors_ea@uea.ac.uk. 

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Coffee & Geography 4x20 Cormac Lawler (Climate Ambassadors Northwest)

== About the 'Coffee & Geography' podcast ==

The aim of ‘Coffee & Geography’ is to get to know, explore and celebrate the diverse & intersectional range of people and their love for the world. We’ll have fun exploring all the myriad of ways that connects your life to geography. Wait – you don’t think you’re a ‘geographer’? Well, that’s ok! If you have a love and passion for the world then you probably are more than you know.

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== About Geogramblings ==

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Kit's projects include the Geogramblings.com educational blog, communicating issues through performing arts, the Coffee & Geography podcast and many community-based initiatives.

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