Environmental communications

Green Feet Ecosystem Services provides environmental communications support for projects related to conservation, restoration, biodiversity, ecosystem services, land stewardship, climate resilience, Indigenous-led initiatives, environmental education, and more.

We help turn technical information into easy-to-understand materials that can be used by partners, funders, communities, decision-makers, and/or the public.

what we do

Our communications work may include

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educational materials

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story maps & interpretive writing

A graphic depiction of a tree with bare branches and roots, all in white, set against a black background.

environmental messaging & communications planning

A black and white illustration of the Earth with a focus on North and South America, surrounded by figures holding hands and small circles, symbolic of unity and global connection.

cross-cultural communications support

Silhouette of a plant with roots and a dollar sign symbol.
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funding & project narrative support

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reports & plain-language documents

infographics & visual summaries

Silhouettes of a woman and a man facing each other, with the woman having short hair and the man with spiked hair, both in profile view.

community engagement materials

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giving nature a voice

Clear communication is essential to many aspects of life, but it often ends up being an afterthought. At Green Feet Ecosystem Services, we believe that meaningful environmental work deserves to be shared and celebrated, and that everyone should be able to access and understand key information. We help organizations, communities, and project teams to share complex information in ways that are accessible, thoughtful, and visually engaging.

Environmental projects often involve many moving parts and complex terminology. Projects include (to name just a few!) intersections between science, policies, laws and guiding documents, community priorities, land-based knowledge, technical data, and cultural protocols. Our role is to help bring all those parts together into clear, engaging communications that support understanding, collaboration, and action.

I’d like to learn more about environmental communications and the history of communications.

Let’s tell the story of your environmental work

Whether you need help explaining a project, engaging with a community, preparing public-facing materials, submitting a grant, or another interesting project, Green Feet Ecosystem Services can help bring your environmental work to life through meaningful language and thoughtful visuals.

If you need clear, accessible, visually engaging environmental communications, we can help.

Contact us to discuss how we can support your project, organization, or community initiative.

Our Approach

When we start a new environmental communications project, we begin by listening carefully, understanding the intended audience, organizing the information, and then helping to shape messages that feel grounded, useful, and visually engaging.

We prioritize:

  • Local knowledge and lived experience,

  • Plain-language and accessibility,

  • Environmental integrity,

  • Storytelling,

  • Use of visuals, and

  • Our audience’s experience.

Bridging Between Technical Work & Community

Strong environmental communication is more than simply sharing facts and figures. It is about helping people connect with nature and feel both the wonder and the urgency that we do regarding key environmental issues.

We focus on creating communications that are accurate and accessible. Whether explaining ecosystem services, summarizing fieldwork, supporting restoration outreach, developing infographics, working on grant writing, or helping partners tell the story of a project, we aim to make information clear without losing depth of meaning.

Our approach recognizes the value of both technical knowledge and lived experience. We know that environmental work is connected to communities, histories, relationships, responsibilities, cultural knowledge, and future generations.

what’s important to us

Examples of our work

Infographic about water considerations and relationships in wetlands, including statistics on wetlands' ecosystem services, bird and fish species, types of inland wetlands, and benefits of coastal wetlands.
Infographic explaining an ecosystem services program, its upstream communities, incentives, examples of actions taken by people and funders, and how these contribute to a better future through sustainable practices and environmental stewardship.

what is communication?

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Communications Cycle

The communications cycle shows how communication functions, regardless of the method or means involved.

Forms of communication

There are many different forms communication can take. It can be verbal, nonverbal, visual, written, and more.

There are many things to consider when creating communications. One key is: keep your audience in mind and test your creations with someone from your target audience. Your end result will do what you want it to!

Tools

Information is power

Communication matters a great deal more than people might think. It is the difference between someone hiring you or your competitor. It’s the difference between someone you don’t know trusting you or not. And, at the end of the day, it is how we all connect with each other and learn and share information.

Communications and the technology that helps with moving information across distance or time have always been sophisticated. Humans have communicated for hundreds of thousands of years, navigating language and cultural barriers, physical constraints, and more.

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