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Former airline pilot and Safe Landing community member George Hibberd shared a stage at the Guardian HQ today with the Environment Editor Damian Carrington, Director Orban Wallace and fellow former airline pilot Todd Smith for the screening of the film 'Guilt Trip'.

The film follows George and other aviation workers during their emotional conflict working in aviation and feeling the grief of the industry's impact on the climate and nature crisis.

It's being officially released on the Guardian platforms on 8th July. Watch this space!

Big thanks to .studio for the work put into Guilt Trip since 2021 when the project was conceived.

🌍 Facing Climate Realities: Navigating eco-anxiety as an aviation worker✈️

🔥 Expert talk with Caroline Hickman - climate aware psychotherapist

🗓️ Thurs 16th Jan 2025, 12:00 UTC

👩‍🏫 Caroline is a practicing psychotherapist, a lecturer at the University of Bath, and a member of the Climate Psychology Alliance.

In this talk, she’ll share her understanding of eco-anxiety, the rational, healthy emotional response to climate change, and her practice for how to navigate these feelings - particularly from the context of workers in the aviation industry.

Come along and hear a 30-minute presentation from Caroline, followed by 30 minutes for Q&A and open discussion.

This is a unique opportunity to learn from someone who is really at the leading edge of climate aware psychology. We look forward to seeing and hearing you there!

👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/eGQzehwm (link in bio)

✈️ It was a pleasure to give a guest lecture on the challenges and opportunities of "Sustainable Aviation" to aerospace and engineering students at the The University of Sheffield today.

🙋🙋‍♂️ There was a great discussion with a room full of ambitious young engineers motivated to take on these challenges in their future careers!

🎅 It was a great way to finish-off the year!

🙏 Thanks to Aerospace Engineering Society - University of Sheffield, and Engineers Without Borders Sheffield for the invite.

🎓 We regularly give talks to groups of college or university students and receive requests from lecturers looking to incorporate guest presentations on sustainability into their courses. Or alternatively, as today, we receive requests directly from students.

💡 We're keen to foster debate and talk to anybody interested in our perspectives and positions - so please get in touch if you'd like to arrange this with us in 2025!

French Pilots Go On Strike!

Last Thursday, pilots in France went on strike to oppose the French government’s plans to triple taxes on plane tickets.

But is it in French pilots’ best interests to be striking against increased aviation taxes?

Read our latest blog post "French Pilots Go On Strike" written by former airline pilot George Hibberd:

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Safe Landing recently visited the GKN factory in Florence as part of a UK delegation of trade unionists and climate campaigners.

We learned a lot about how critical it is that we unite the workers' and climate movements to decarbonise our industry and futureproof livelihoods.

👉 Read our full blog post on the trip:

https://safe-landing.org/safe-landing-stands-in-solidarity-with-insorgiamo-in-florence/

👉 Watch our summary video:

https://youtu.be/_P-QcKpPhYs?si=uuewtK9kk458Jr6V

Safe Landing stands in solidarity with #Insorgiamo in Florence - Safe Landing Safe Landing stands in solidarity with GKN workers

✈ 𝗙𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗔𝗶𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰: 𝗔𝗶𝗿𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀
👉 Read our blog post: https://safe-landing.org/farnborough-2024/

👨‍✈️ We'll be at Farnborough on Thurs (25th July), so please leave a comment if you'd like to meet up!

👩‍✈️ If you're an aviation worker and any of the topics covered in our blog post resonate with you, or maybe you're keen to learn more about our group, our positions, ask questions or simply hang-out with like-minded, climate-concerned aviation workers: either comment on this post and we'll be in touch, or email us at: [email protected]

🙏 Please also feel free to join our community check-in zoom call this Thursday at 19:00-20:00 UTC+1 (UK time): https://actionnetwork.org/events/community-check-in-3

Farnborough Airshow 2024: Aircraft sales during climate crisis During a rapidly accelerating climate crisis, is now really a sensible time for airlines to place massive aircraft orders? Let's take a look.