Carbon Conversations is a series of six engaging meetings in which participants address climate change in a different way, focusing on values, emotions, lifestyle and identity as well as the basic facts of emissions.
Group session
Led by trained volunteer facilitators, groups of between six and eight people meet in homes, community centres, workplaces or other venues. The six two-hour meetings engage people both emotionally and practically, helping them overcome the barriers often associated with making large carbon reductions. Members explore the basic climate change problem, their responses to it, their ideas for a low-carbon future and the four key areas of the footprint – home energy, travel, food and other consumption.
Breakout session
Most members make reductions of 1 tonne CO2 during the meetings and develop plans to halve their footprints over a longer period.
Carbon Conversations was recently featured in the Guardian as one of the 20 best climate change solutions.
Carbon Conversations also featured in Cambridge Matters. Click here to read the full article (PDF)
Join Carbon Conversations!
Two Carbon Conversations groups are starting after Easter:
One, open to all, will be on Hills Rd. The other, especially for CCF volunteers, will be at our Milton Rd office.
Both groups are on Wednesdays, 7.30 to 9.30pm, on: 18th April, 2nd, 16th & 30th May and 13th June (date for the 6th, final meeting TBD)
To learn more about Carbon Conversations, or to join an upcoming group please email Mary Geddes or phone 01223 301842.
The national Carbon Conversations project is now being managed by COIN – the Climate Outreach Information Network – based in Oxford. Enquiries about Carbon Conversations nationally should now be directed to: COIN, The Old Music Hall, 106-108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JE info@coinet.org.uk 01865 403334
