Category What Can I Do?
Schwarz’s values in sustainability education
I have been using Schwarz’s model of the universal human values, because it has very specific implications for political campaigning – targeting messages to the nature of the audeience. However, if we wish to change the world, political campaigning is not enough – we need to apply the knowledge to education. I am not going […]
Quick guide to meeting facilitation
Last weekend I attended the How To Do It activist conference, and one of the most useful workshops I went to was the one on meeting facilitation. Here I share my notes: Quick guide on What to do: Arrange people in a circle Make people introduce themselves (warm up) Give an outline / agenda Keep […]
My responses to TfL’s cycle superhighway for NW London consultation
Please respond to TFL’s consultaton by 20th March and ask as many colleagues and friends to support the plans for Regent’s park gate closures, as well as for segregated cycle lanes (option B). Here is the link: https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/cycling/cs-11/consultation We have until March 20th. Below, I give some background regarding the importance of this route, as […]
Creating games about climate change solutions
This week I did a class at a secondary school, telling geography students about solutions to climate change. Please feel free to use these slides in your teaching. They are designed to promote discussion. The word ‘heretical’ was entirely unknown to them though – so be prepared to tell tem about Galileo’s heresy, for example! […]
How do people begin to feel empowered?
In another post, I showed how everyone blames everyone else for not acting. This is strange, because in fact, lots of people out there DO something to help the planet. To make this more pervasive, it makes sense for us to study the personal journey from an attitude of buying the cheapest and making consumer […]
Investment into Fracking and my Retirement
FRACKING IS BAD. Fracking is extremely UNWISE. Fracking is only one more way of gambling with our own future prosperity. Oil and gas took millions of years to form and are going to run out eventually – particularly at the rate we are using them up. It is ever harder to find conventional (relatively easy to extract) oil and […]
Greening the Economy: What Can I Do as an Individual?
Looks like humanity has about 5 years to build enough low carbon energy generation to limit global warming to 2 degrees. Here’s a few things that could help to increase our chances: 1. Using only as much water, gas, electricity or food as you actually need 2. Eating less meat and more local, seasonal produce/growing […]
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