The first meeting of the Carbon Conversations Revisited group has taken place! Eight of us met to discuss reducing consumption and waste: how we are getting on, sharing ideas, what’s going well and what’s hard. We decided we would keep a diary of all our expenditure between this meeting and the next, as one of us has found that really helps to keep expenditure (and therefore carbon emissions!) down! Next meeting we are going to talk about travel (often a hard one). We all enjoyed sharing ideas and particularly sharing feelings – for example, we found it can affect feelings of status when other friends are talking about spending a lot of money – it feels hard to have people think you are poor when you’re not! This really shows how important it is to have the support of like-minded people – it is very easy to get demoralised in a high-consumption world!
This group is closed for the duration of the four sessions, but if you are interested in joining another group, we can certainly create a second one if there are enough takers. At the end of our four sessions we’ll probably continue, but there may be spaces in the group at that point, so do let me (Bev) know if you are interested! I can really recommend it!




