Susan's blog
Giving Stuff Up
May 2010
One of the most difficult parts of getting really large numbers of people to engage with climate change is that most of the solutions point to ‘giving stuff up’. Most people don’t want to hear that they need to drive less, use less energy or buy fewer imports and so on. For many people this means that there’s considerable tension between ‘doing the right thing’ and ‘enjoying the fruits of the developed world that we’ve worked hard for’ – even when they know there are long term consequences.
CAD's 1st Anniversary and First Blog
April 2010
Just over a year ago, we at Climate Action Darwin submitted our first grant application to get this website up and running. Last week we submitted our second grant application to develop some ideas we have for community education. So it would seem a good time to take stock of where we are and where we’re headed.
When we first planned this website, we imagined a place where we could offer information and that would invite discussion. It would, we hoped, begin to build a community. It would inform, affirm and inspire. The discussion, we thought, would be vibrant and informed, with threads on renewable energy, on active democracy and new ways of living.
