Peter Stark talked at North Rast Together’s October 2019 event about this, along with Anna-Lisa Mills. It’s probably true to say his work was the spark for NECCCo (incredibly now closed www.vonne.org.uk/closure-nort...medium.com/northeasttog...

North East Together 17: Climate change, a collaborative response (October 2019)

An overview of October’s North East Together event focusing on climate change and our collaborative response

I found this yesterday…shall I bring it to the next book group? Pixie was interested so you might be. And more on linking our region’s heritage to climate change, Peter Stark’s angle is NE region was first into carbon-based technology and industry and could be the first out.

Here’s the model @r2ph.bsky.social xx

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As @danspicer.bsky.social says, this is known. But why ‘we’ (big we - society/government/institutions) don’t do anything about it is a better question. Just like week I shared NEF’s dynamic model of wellbeing neweconomics.org/2012/07/meas.... I’m sharing this as an example not the full field

NEF has been working on this for 20 years so there’s a lot of well researched and referenced work for you to get your teeth into. And many others have been too, in academia and public services (VCSE and public sector). Again why it’s not mainstream, guiding public policy, is beyond me

As @danspicer.bsky.socialneweconomics.org/2012/07/meas.... I’m sharing this as an example not the full field

Twtr used to be 🤩 for crowdsourcing examples. This place: not so much 🤷‍♀️. Nevertheless! I'm 👀 for new — esp global — examples of radical / fugitive / activist / undercommons libraries, like these but beyond: placesjournal.org/article/marg...pinboard.in/u:shannon_ma...

Fugitive Libraries

In what ways do libraries act as ‘instruments of social control,’ and how could they be made into instruments of restoration, reparation, or transformation?

The combination of the loss of the academy (foundational / entry level) with the loss of communities of practice has left a big capability hole which I suspect departments are filling inconsistently themselves. Any centralised team needs to at least do one of these.

I know we’re all supposed to be working hard to make this a nice place but this needs saying… I don’t know what kind of psychopath invented scented toilet roll but they clearly hated women. And people with a sense of smell. And anyone with allergies. Basically all other human beings.

UKCharityCamp is a free unconference for the UK charity sector. There's more space this year, and still room for more third sector folk who are into digital to learn and share. I'm going to talk about the folk who're helping make it happen. But for now: go grab a ticket. www.ukcharitycamp.com

After 15 years of work with Rosemary Leith to make the web more accessible, affordable and a trusted space for all we wind down the Web Foundation to focus on building pro-human systems that respect and empower individuals. Huge thank you to all involved. webfoundation.org