Oct 27, 2010 | Community Engagement, Deliberative, Joint effort - climate adaptation, Sustainability
I met Fiona Armstrong, a member of the Melbourne climate action group, Lighter Footprints, about a year ago. She was looking to develop an approach to community engagement on climate change that would work for people who might be confused by the current debate. And...
Sep 23, 2010 | Community Engagement, Deliberative, Joint effort - climate adaptation, Planning, Sustainability, Translating the scientific stuff
Local Voices continues this week after a conversation with colleague and collaborator Kath Fisher who designed and facilitated this series of forums in regional Victoria. I asked her what she saw as the role of Citizen Climate Juries in our time, when climate issues...
Sep 20, 2010 | Deliberative, Planning
I’ve been reflecting on Rob Carolane’s fear that the Local Voices Climate Jury’s recommendations wouldn’t match the Council’s standards. This is a common anxiety about these processes, and it’s difficult to allay by insisting that...
Sep 12, 2010 | Community Engagement, Deliberative, Joint effort - climate adaptation, People, place & governance, Planning, Sustainability, Translating the scientific stuff
I met Rob Carolane, a community engagement facilitator at the Victorian Facilitation Network’s professional development day this week. My facilitation speciality is deliberative processes. He was excited – he’d recently been a volunteer table facilitator at a ‘climate...
Aug 23, 2010 | Deliberative
This morning, Labor’s Arch Bevis (Brisbane seat in contention) told Fran Kelly on ABC National that he felt the party failed with voters when it chose to speak only to the Liberals on climate change. The deliberative effort did not extend to the people of...
May 18, 2010 | Deliberative, Joint effort - climate adaptation
It’s a dead-end kind of time for those who have plans for action on climate change that rely on Australian governments. A good time to have a look at what people in other countries have on their minds about climate change. Taegen Edwards of Beyond Zero Emissions...
