¶ Climate Councils Launch : 1 July 2007
¶ Live Earth : 7 July 2007
¶ Carbon March : 14 July 2007
¶ Climate Camp : 14 August 2007
¶ Climate Marches : 8 December 2007
¶ C&C Video Online
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Energise London !
Afternoon Session
People who weren’t here but should have been :-
Calvin Jones - Climate Change Action Blogspot
Dave Hampton - Carbon Coach (with the balloon therapy)
Duncan Law - Transition Town Brixton Jo Abbess leads off with a rant... Networking ? I’ve had enough of making connections. When are we going to do something practical ? New approaches ? We’ve tried all the possible ways to communicate Climate Change to people. What on Earth is there that can work better ? Practical Focus Groups ? Why are there not more groups focussing on practical projects ? Meetings ? I’m all meeting’d out. Please, don’t ask me to another meeting. Education and Communications ? This is often weak and content-free. I don’t want BLAND. What seems good is to try to create a virtuous circle leading from electronic/virtual communications, through to real meetings, through to practical projects, through to persons of influence, and then back round to media and press. Virtual * Media - besides radio, streaming radio online, and webcasting, new approaches could include podcasting, such as :-
http://www.switchpod.com downloading to portable devices. Universities are now starting to use podcasting for lectures and courses :-
https://www.netglearning.com * Publishing - books, brochures, leaflets, postcards are all valuable virtual tools :- http://www.selfsufficientish.com * Press Releases - self-generated publicity, any reason is a good reason (?) LEADING TO... Real * Get to meet people, in a productive, positive way, for example over a collaborative project, such as mapping a local area and community resources, bringing such things as allotments and meeting venues to light. * Use chance encounters to develop relationships that may be productive in future, particularly in terms of those who have some measure of authority within social structures. * Calling a local meeting, showing a film and holding a discussion, proposing a local project, maybe in a school… * Example of possible model, or vehicle :- http://www.chickswithbricks.com which is centred on women in construction. LEADING TO... Practical * Committing to taking part in a practical project is fulfilling to you and inspiring to others. Examples include “Home Energy” evenings, with refreshments just chatting about how home energy consumption. * Resonance fm has practical projects :- * Practical projects can be successful without a meeting programme - such as the project “Food Upfront” - about creating edible gardens - the front gardens. * Women’s Environmental Network food clubs * Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs - a testing kit of various styles and types, lent from one household to another. This could work for other things eg draught-exclusion * Super-hero “Draught-Busters” team, complete with flowing capes (and lycra leggings ?) LEADING TO... Policy / Influence * Neighbourhood forums - get involved * Find local eco-celebrities, either local councillors/mayors, traditional environmentalists or ecologists, or popstars or TV personalities - and suggest a collaboration * Influential contacts can “just happen” * The Climate Speaker Network can provide well-known and influential speakers for an event :- http://www.climate-speakers.org.uk * TalkAction can also provide speakers :- * COIN (Climate Outreach Information Network) can also help with speaker contacts :- Outcomes / Outputs * Moving the group focus between the different spheres of public life. * Keep the group as ground, basic level, local as possible. * Aim for key, fun, iconic projects - to maximise involvment, commitment and press impact.
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