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Internal and External Engagement
In order to best address climate change within your workforce, it’s important to ensure that your staff members are motivated to integrate addressing climate change as a priority in their professional and personal lives. With the right combination of incentivization, communication and reinforcement, your team will coalesce around climate change as a priority, and this mindfulness has a positive effect on operations both large and small.
Your guests are often actively looking for ways to combat climate change in their life. In one study, 44 percent of people surveyed said they “believe their actions are too small to help stop climate change” and 32% said they “do not feel knowledgeable about their actions they can take.” Only 55% of participants in this study believe they are doing enough to fight climate change. Museums, zoos, and botanical gardens have the opportunity to extend the reach of their impact against climate change by educating visitors about what they can do to help the planet. Successfully engaging visitors about climate action is essential for sustainable change to combat climate change.
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Institutions Pursuing Internal and External Engagement Goals:
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
Anchorage Museum
Atlanta Botanical Garden
Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest
Boston Children’s Museum
Cambridge University Botanic Garden
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Cornell Botanic Gardens
Florida Aquarium
Ganna Walska Lotusland
Historic New England
Holden Forests and Gardens
Horniman Museum and Gardens
Houston Botanic Garden
Huntsville Botanical Garden
Jardin botanique de Montréal, Espace pour la vie/ Montréal Botanical Gardens, Montréal Space for Life
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Madison Square Park Conservancy
Morton Arboretum
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Mt. Cuba Center
Museum of Discovery and Science
New York Botanical Garden
Norfolk Botanical Garden
North Carolina Botanical Garden
Northeastern University Arboretum
Oakland Zoo and Conservation Society of California
Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
Sacramento History Museum
San Diego Botanic Garden
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
Santa Fe Botanical Garden
Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University
Science Museum of Minnesota
Science World
Smithsonian Gardens
University of Washington Botanic Gardens
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