TEDxAberystwyth 2025 Speaker
Dr Morgan Phillips is Director of Education and Youth Engagement at the environmental charity Global Action Plan. He also volunteers at The Glacier Trust, sits on the education committee for Black Mountains College, and is a governor at New Quay Primary School in west Wales. Morgan has held trustee and adviser roles for various organisations including the National Association of Environmental Education UK, Green Schools Project, Solutions for the Planet, and WWF-UK. Previously, Morgan ran the Eco-Schools programme in England, led an intercultural understanding charity, Global Footsteps, lectured on the politics of climate change at Brunel University, volunteered with the Common Cause Foundation, and served as co-director for Nepal-focussed climate change adaptation charity, The Glacier Trust. Morgan is the author of ‘Great Adaptations – In the shadow of a climate crisis’, co-editor and author of ‘Transformative Adaptation – Another world is still just possible’, and has contributed chapters to several books including the ‘Handbook of Sustainability Literacy’. He is also lead author of Global Action Plan’s essay collection ‘Environmentalism in a time between education worlds’.
In this talk, Morgan will explore why the three main approaches to environmentalism are struggling to deliver, how the evolution of individualism helps us see why, and the way this understanding is informing a new movement for fundamental change. You can now listen to Morgan’s talk on YouTube.
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