Do you love working with people of all backgrounds & have a burning desire to do something about the climate crisis? We're building a diverse group of 30+ people in our area. We need 3 or 4 locally-based leaders to help kick it off.
Did you ever wonder why it is so difficult for people in London to live sustainably and do something meaningful about the climate crisis? We're setting up this charity to find out how green & sustainable a group of Londoners can be. We hope to generate funding to do wonderful things but in the meantime, we need to find our members, work out how we will best organise ourselves, work with our members to come up with the ways and means to live sustainably and reduce our carbon footprints, and then start recording the data from our activities so we can demonstrate how effective we actually are.
We believe in tackling all environmental and social crises as one: plastic, biodiversity, deforestation, soil degradation, overfishing, refugee, poverty, racism, sexism and all discrimination. We want to create demonstrative, visible evidence of improvements to our community through product and material re-use, re-purposing, recycling, better shopping and eating, energy and water efficiency gains, carbon footprint reduction, caring for nature and the built environment.
Activities - over and above the "becoming more green & sustainable" part - include involvement in any or all of:
If you are in our area (London boroughs of Camden, Hackney, Haringey, Westminster, Islington and the City) please apply & say hello, and get all your questions answered!
Due to our newness, we have very little funding and are all volunteers at this point. This role is part of the core work of the charity - as a group of eco-warriors and "actually-I-m-not-an-eco-warrior" people, we need leaders who can find or adopt fellow volunteer participants from the area and make them feel that they're part of something special, new and effective, that the charity is supporting them in every way they expect, and that they can communicate the issues easily. We need real people-people with interpersonal skills to complement the qualities the other volunteers bring to the charity, to get this little community off the ground, and to take part in the planning, actions and fundraising for the next phase.
Without a doubt this role is for someone who feels the need to do something about the climate crisis (and all the other crises). The experience should also make a great entry on your CV.
To make a success of this, you need to be local to our base area of Islington, Haringey, Hackney, Camden, Westminster or the City. We really want people to attend in-person group meetings to enhance group dynamics, volunteer commitment and motivation, and to leverage their local networks to help our progress.
Please bear in mind that personal change is only one of the five ways fundamental ways that we can change society - we don't focus on personal change alone, we want to change our community, our local businesses and our local government. Find out more on our website.
We are very keen on everyone being local, coming to in-person meetings and leveraging their local knowledge and connections, to keep group dynamics strong and foster motivation and commitment.
