Words in other places

Sophia features in a video where she was facilitating the Climate Fresk workshop at the UK Houses of Parliament for the first time. The broadcaster’s first line is Sophia’s and later in the video she is quoting Lord Deben from the Climate Change Commission.

Sophia is interviewed as part of a feature exploring why more people in the UK are opting for more child-free. Sophia speaks from the perspective of organiser of the Motherhood in a Climate Crisis project.

Allison collaborates on this episode reading out her positive climate future story: “Forest at the End of the Lane.” [28 mins]

The project, Motherhood in a climate crisis, was started by Sophia Cheng to help people share those difficult conversations.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-62489684

Sophia joins a panel of established nomads to discuss the digital nomad movement in a post-pandemic world. How does this impact our identity?

Watch the 1 hour panel here: https://vimeo.com/747369934

We heard a powerful cry for educational transformation and advancing climate literacy at scale – not only for businesses, but across politics, generations and schools –  as our debaters discussed the key question, “Is it too late to educate?”

Playful 2 minute speaking for the motion: it’s too late to educate.

Find the full debate here: https://youtu.be/_VxCDGjTbNs?t=1519

Sophia Cheng and Emma Palmer in conversation with Judith Anderson. Sophia is developing a collaborative creative project involving personal stories from self-identifying women wrestling with these two topics at the same time. She and her colleagues want to challenge the taboo and put this conversation on the map, NOT to position one woman against another but explore all the nuances around how the climate crisis is shaping how (and if) we mother.

Listen to the 26 minute interview below:

After podcast host Peterson Toascano joined one of the Cli-Fi workshops, he featured it in the arthouse section of his podcast. He does a wonderful job of explaining the writing group. Find out more here.

Listen in from 45 minutes below:

Featured case study in Finance section of The Metro newspaper about opening a Lifetime ISA (Individual Savings Account) in part due to my work on positive futures.

It was a desire for more space that drove Sophia Cheng – who delivers climate change education workshops – and her partner to relocate from a terraced house in Bristol to a semi-detached home in Newton-on-Ouse, a pretty village north of York, between lockdowns. Currently renting but hoping to buy eventually, she says: “We only planned to be here for six months and it’s been 18 months already. We’re getting to know our neighbours, have taken on an allotment, joined the WI, and regularly go cycling round here.” 

CLi-Fi, or Climate Fiction, has become a beacon of hope for many people with eco-anxiety. Sophia Cheng explains.

https://pebblemag.com/magazine/doing/can-cli-fi-fiction-help-us-imagine-a-sustainable-future

Founder Chats with Sophia Cheng, Founder of With Many Roots

Scotish tabloid picks up story after seeing my tweet expressing surprise that Dr Who dropped into our Cli-Fi workshop.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity/peter-capaldi-bewildered-after-accidentally-23990414

To explore the topic of sustainable positivity and ways in which we can integrate it into our lives, we invited Sophia Cheng, Founder of With Many Roots to share her experience and perspective with us. 

https://www.notabag.com/blogs/news/explore-sustainable-positivity

Greener Kirkcaldy’s Climate Champion Alecia attended the Cli-Fi writing from the future workshop and she has written about what she found out.

The science is clear but what is the right next step for leaders to take? What are the opportunities for organisations?
1 hour webinar in partnership with Business Declares.

Given all that will have to change to solve it, “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society”, as the UN suggests, isn’t it worth spending a few hours of our time to understand why?

Podcast episode exploring entrepreneurship in the anthropocene.

Talking about my Giving What You Can Pledge to a Danish national newspaper.

https://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/udland/sophia-cheng-giver-en-tiendedel-af-hvad-hun-tjener-til-velgoerenhed-i-stedet-sikre-sig-selv

Sophia Cheng, 33, founder of communications agency With Many Roots, has increased her pledge over time, firstly giving away 2.5 per cent of her income for two years before switching to donating 10 per cent of her profits in 2018.

Interview: https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/money/altruists-charity-fundraising-explained-donations-741826

Twelve months without flying can be pretty tough if you’re usually on a plane every few weeks or months. As we come into autumn and winter with grey skies and short days, those adverts for city getaways or cheap flights might be more tempting than ever.

Here are some tips to help you not to break your pledge, from one of our pledgers, Sophia Cheng.

Guest post: https://flightfree.co.uk/post/how-to-keep-your-pledge/

For the last two years, communications specialist Sophia Cheng has been hosting DNG’s Tuesday 9am session. And although she started virtually coworking when she was travelling, she’s since slowed down – she’s currently based in Bristol – and says it’s still an important part of her weekly routine.

“It’s an anchor point in my week and that routine and structure has made a massive difference to my freelance life. I thought I laughed in the face of routine only to learn that I actually desperately needed it,” she laughs.

Interview: https://underpinned.co/magazine/2020/07/coworking-concept-bedroom/

Sophia Cheng is a communications expert, a digital nomad who recently made the decision to head back home to the U.K. and a self-confessed newbie activist. I met Sophia through the Digital Nomad Girls Inner Circle and have seen her in action hosting Eco Talks, a regular session covering the ins and outs of the climate crisis.

Her business is With Many Roots, and her pivot has seen her shift from offering project-specific communications services, to hosting workshops for those seeking to educate themselves about climate change. Now due to COVID, Sophia has adapted the workshop model to be delivered online.

Sophia Cheng from Chelmsford has completely changed her lifestyle in the last few years, including the way she works. Just a few years ago, the 32-year-old travelled far and wide across the planet, without much notice of how much her jet setting flights could be affecting the environment.

In 2017, she shocked herself that she had done 37 flights in one year and says she won’t take a flight for 12 months.

After a slow and painful awakening to the climate crisis, Sophia decided to stay put

https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/essex-workers-taking-pay-cut-3788183.amp

“It’s not about shaming anyone – I have a huge carbon debt to pay back,” says 32-year-old Sophia Cheng. A former digital nomad who has taken more than 70 flights in the past few years, Sophia officially stopped flying at the end of June 2019 and is determined not to get on a plane until at least the end of 2020. It will be the longest she has gone without flying since the age of three. Interview:
 https://www.independent.co.uk/independentminds/long-reads/flight-free-shame-give-up-stop-flying-carbon-footprint-climate-2020-a9044906.html

At the beginning of the year many of us are being more mindful about what we’re eating, whether that’s due to Veganuary or pledges to support more locally grown produce like the farm to table movement. But have you considered growing your own organic food indoors? Yep, indoors.

Sophia Cheng, journalist and sprout-growing convert, talks us through three options.
Guest post: https://pebblemag.com/magazine/eating-drinking/how-to-grow-your-own-food-indoors

We’d forgive you, distracted by some of the political debacles in recent weeks, if you missed the recent climate report from the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). But fear not – we’re digesting the Carbon Brief’s breakdown, so you don’t have to. 🕵🏽🌏🌡️
Commissioned piece: https://www.harathelabel.com/blogs/news/1-5-to-stay-alive-the-time-is-now-to-act-on-climate