The final session discussed how we communicate with others about Climate Change. We were asked to consider examples of bad and good conversations we had experienced. We considered some of the reasons that make it so difficult to engage in conversation: busy-ness, it’s all about the future rather than the here and now, it demands […]
Read More →General consumption and waste In this session we focused on our consumption. We learned how it is a big proportion of our carbon footprint and how it tends to increase in line with our total household income (the more money we have the more we spend!). There is a relationship between what we buy, why […]
Read More →We had a lively and informed discussion about food. We started by discussing some memorable meals that we’d had and interestingly a lot of people described the context much more than the food itself. We then did an activity in pairs where we discussed the meaning of food, such as what and who influences our […]
Read More →‘Travel and Transport’ was the theme of the evening’s discussion this third week of Carbon Conversations. Stories of favourite and nightmare journeys were shared – from wonderful night time cycling through Hyde Park to the extreme frustration of delays, queues and missed connections while under pressure to meet a deadline elsewhere. We talked about what travel […]
Read More →In the second session of Carbon conversations, we predominantly discussed domestic energy and how we could reduce our carbon footprint from energy usage. The discussion started with how much temperature rise could happen in the future and within what time and would we able to cope with it? People had thoughts from 2° C rise […]
Read More →In our first session we discussed some general issues around climate change such as responsibility for the problem and what a low-carbon future would look like. On the issue of responsibility we thought about individual vs structural change. We agreed that individuals do hold significant power through their consumer choices. However we also recognised that […]
Read More →Lovely Green Drinks in Tooting last night at The Selkirk, thanks for hosting! We got to know the London National Park City initiative better and asked how we would raise London’s green cover from 48% (current) to 51%???? Our answer is…, Parklets! Green up the base of trees, hand over 1 car parking space to […]
Read More →The first session of six in our ninth Carbon Conversations series took place this week. We dug into motivations for reducing our carbon footprints, who is responsible for addressing climate change and what a low carbon future might look like. Each week, a different person taking part will report on the themes of each session, […]
Read More →We have hosted the last meeting of the May-July series of Tooting Carbon Conversations.Please come and join us for the next series! More information on next steps below, and to go straight to the other five recent blog posts by series participants, click here.Dan has written this response to taking part… The Final Conversation in the series […]
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