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Taylor & Francis and the International Environmental Communication Association (IECA) are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Matthew Nisbet as the new Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Communication, starting from 1 January 2017, succeeding Dr. Alison Anderson of Plymouth University, UK. Dr. Nisbet is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, USA.

The IECA's 2017 Conference on Communication and Environment will be hosted by IECA founding member Anders Hansen at the University of Leicester in Leicester England. The conference will take place June 29 to July 2, 2017 with pre-conference events on June 28.

When it comes to talking about the environment, the Pope’s message of compassion stood in clear contrast to Volkswagen’s fraudulent marketing in 2015.

Experts in communicating about environmental issues have voted Pope Francis the “Environmental Communicator” of the year for 2015, and chosen Volkswagen as the “Environmental Miscommunicator" of the year.

The Board of Directors of the International Environmental Communication Association (IECA) is excited to announce that the 2017 Conference on Communication and Environment (COCE) will be held in Leicester, England. Anders Hansen will host the conference along with his colleagues in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Leicester.

We are well underway in Boulder for the 13th biennial Conference on Communication and Environment (COCE). Looking really good so far.

If you are registered for COCE 2015 in any category, you can access the Virtual COCE site to see the streams and recordings.

Just login to your IECA account and go the Virtual COCE page.

We here at the Bridging Divides, the Conference on Communication and Environment in Boulder. Artist Mimi Katzenbach's installation At the Crossroads of the Four Forms of Catastrophe invites participation from those attending Virtual COCE.

Guest post by Mimi Stokes Katzenbach

As you enter room 235, four columns of covered with colored papers and text meet you.  Deliberately makeshift, very low (non) tech, irregular, uneven, somewhat precarious, temporary: as shelters are in environmental catastrophes. 

Better sit down. You'll be amazed by these seven surprising things you should know about The IECA :-)

1. We have a LISTSERV again, and have had one for a while. Well, it's technically a Google group, but it functions the same way. Send your email to theieca@googlegroups.com. Start a discussion. Ask a question. Share something interesting. Reply by email (what a concept!). All members SHOULD be on the list, but if you are not, you can always join, as can non-members.

Environmental Communication: Research Into Practice

Online course: June 9 to July 17, 2014

The IECA Board and Executive Director Mark Meisner are very pleased to announce that the 13th biennial Conference on Communication and Environment (COCE) will be held in Boulder, Colorado in 2015.

Our hosts will be J. Harrison Carpenter and Dale Miller of the University of Colorado Boulder, known as CU Boulder.

Dates have yet to be decided, but COCE 2015 will be some time in June.

Watch the IECA web site for more details. We hope to see you in Boulder.

The International Environmental Communication Association (IECA) is pleased to announce Virtual COCE 2013.

For the first time ever, the Conference on Communication and Environment (COCE) will be streamed live for anyone to watch for free.