Athena Lambrinidou
Environmental Justice/Psychology of Climate Change//Community Engagement/Empowerment/Slow Journalism/Taking the conversation from financial markets to farmers markets and from boardrooms to living rooms
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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About
In our times of multi-faceted conflict, bringing and bridging together diverse, isolated, often traumatised families/people and creating/connecting community not online but face to face, feels like one of the most hopeful acts that we can offer each other as societies of people. I am excited to work with organisations, businesses and people wishing to further explore this incredible potential for our collective healing and growth.
In 1991, after helping to set up the first Greenpeace office in Athens, I embarked on a seven-year journey to the Mediterranean, the US, the Caribbean, and the Pacific as a deckhand on board Greenpeace ships campaigning on climate change, nuclear waste, fisheries and marine pollution.
In 1996 I settled in New Zealand where I launched a number of community-based initiatives linking art and environmental awareness and worked as a researcher for ‘60 Minutes’ New Zealand.
I returned back to Greece in 2005 at the request of George Papandreou, then President of the Greek Socialist Party and later Prime Minister of Greece, to design and run projects linking the environmental crisis with participatory democracy.
In 2006 I was on the organizing committee of the ‘Religion, Science and the Environment’ symposium held in the Amazon under the auspices of HAH Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.
In 2007 I formed dotearth.gr, my own sustainability consultancy in Greece, where I worked with clients as diverse as Superfast Ferries, Kallimanis Seafood and Sklavenitis Supermarkets designing long term climate change and fisheries depletion strategies.
In 2013, I designed a weekly TV show for Greek National Television, empowering Greek housewives into environmental activism, entitled (in Greek) "Το Ημερολογιο μιας Οικολογριας". Upon the collapse of the Greek economy, I re-designed that show into ‘The Aunties: Taking the Planet Back”, an online international digital magazine and radio podcast wishing to ignite meaningful conversation, collaboration and, ultimately, progress on the climate and resource crises.
From 2016-18 I served as a maintenance van driver of a UNCHR funded NGO taking care of vulnerable refugee families in Athens, Greece.
Since moving back to New Zealand in 2019, needing to take a break from worrying about the planet for a living, I have worked as a Cast/Swing Driver for the Film Industry, an artist/ band driver for the Music Industry, and an Auckland Libraries Mobile Bus Librarian/Driver
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'The Aunties: Taking the Planet Back' last 5 days on Indiegogo.com
'The Aunties: Taking the Planet Back' last 5 days on Indiegogo.com
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You're balancing conflicting accounts in a story. How do you ensure your coverage remains unbiased?
Have loved this quote "Dear Mainstream Media: If someone says it's raining & another person says it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the fucking window and find out which is true" Sally Claire
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I am convinced that those of us willing, as a species, to mess with nature this way, simply in order to satisfy our gluttonous bulimic…
I am convinced that those of us willing, as a species, to mess with nature this way, simply in order to satisfy our gluttonous bulimic…
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Has LinkedIn lost its mind? I got removed from the "ESG & Sustainability Chat" for LinkedIn Top Green Voices and had the "Green Voice" part of my…
Has LinkedIn lost its mind? I got removed from the "ESG & Sustainability Chat" for LinkedIn Top Green Voices and had the "Green Voice" part of my…
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Yes! Dammit… Climate Mental Health Network Renee Lertzman, PhD #climateemergency #climatechange #greedisamentalhealthissue
Yes! Dammit… Climate Mental Health Network Renee Lertzman, PhD #climateemergency #climatechange #greedisamentalhealthissue
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Experience
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Founder/Director/Producer
The Aunties Kitchen Therapy Sessions
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Founder/Director
dotearth creative communication concepts
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Music/Film Industry Driver
Music/Film Industry
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Logistics Assistant
Religion, Science and Environment Symposia
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Environment and Participatory Democracy Advisor
Andreas Papandreou Foundation
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Greenpeace Marine Services
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Education
Licenses & Certifications
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Another true story: President Obama was getting ready to give his speech, and it was still missing what every good presentation should have—a great…
Another true story: President Obama was getting ready to give his speech, and it was still missing what every good presentation should have—a great…
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I spent the most heady years of my teenage life preparing for 'war'. As a pioneer student in a private university that doubled as a recruitment base…
I spent the most heady years of my teenage life preparing for 'war'. As a pioneer student in a private university that doubled as a recruitment base…
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Political prisoner #ShakilaMonfared, currently held in #EvinPrison in Iran , has been sentenced to seven years and seven months in prison, along with…
Political prisoner #ShakilaMonfared, currently held in #EvinPrison in Iran , has been sentenced to seven years and seven months in prison, along with…
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Meet Julie Souza, our new Development Coordinator! Julie will be joining us on instagram live, so that you can hear about what brought her to this…
Meet Julie Souza, our new Development Coordinator! Julie will be joining us on instagram live, so that you can hear about what brought her to this…
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