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Sep '25 •
🌱 Start Here: Welcome to Our Climate Action Community
We’re so glad you’re here! Click on each post to see the full text! 🌍This space is for people who care deeply about the climate crisis and want to move from confusion or overwhelm → to clarity, confidence, and meaningful action. 🔑 What to Expect Next Here’s how to get the most from your first days in the community: 1. Complete the questionnaire so we know where you’re starting from. (Click this link) 2. Introduce yourself in the Introductions space. 3. Explore the Roadmap post on the "About" page to see how our stages of growth work — from 🌱 Seed learners to 🌍 Ecosystem change-makers. 4. Ask your first question in the Questions section— it can be as simple as “Where should I start?” 5. The answer to that is in the tab "Classroom" -> Level 0 The Backstory Then - start with course 0 - the Backstory - you will find it in the Classroom tab. Over time, you’ll discover more resources below the course, see what others are doing, and share your own journey. And remember: every question you ask helps spark ideas and learning for everyone. This isn’t about doing everything alone. It’s about building solutions together. 💚 Welcome aboard! — Richard
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Sep '25 •
🗂 How Our Community Chat is Organised
Welcome! 🌍 To keep our conversations easy to follow, everything is organised into categories. Think of them like rooms in a house — each with its own purpose. Here’s where to share: 🌱 Introductions This is where new members introduce themselves. Share a little about who you are, what stage you’re at on the climate journey, and what brought you here. We’re excited to get to know you. 💬 Questions Your space to ask anything about climate change, action, or this community. Big or small, simple or complex — if you’re wondering, others probably are too. When you see a question you can help with, jump in! 🙌 Just remember: answers should be respectful and backed up with real data, links to established sources, or books whenever possible. That’s how we build trust and reliable knowledge. 📚 Resources & Learning Have a great article, book, documentary, tool — or even a person worth following (authors, bloggers, scientists)? Post it here. Add a note on why you found it valuable so others can benefit. 🚀 Action & Wins Tell us what you’ve done — whether that’s signing a petition, changing your travel habits, having a conversation with a friend, or leading a local event. Every action, big or small, inspires others. 🔑 Insights & Teachings Here you’ll find posts that highlight key ideas, lessons, and myth-busting insights from our roadmap. These are reference points you can return to anytime. Feel free to add your reflections or experiences in the comments. 📊 Solutions That Work This section is for detailed case studies and replicable projects that are moving the needle on the climate crisis. Please include data, outcomes, and steps so others can learn from and adapt what’s working. 🌍 Community Updates Announcements, events, challenges, and milestones live here. Check this space regularly to stay up to date with what’s happening in the community. 👉 Don’t overthink where your post belongs — just do your best. The important thing is sharing, asking, and joining the conversation. 💚
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Sep '25 •
📣 Announcements & Updates
🚀 Level 0 is Live: The Backstory Before we dive into the main course, I’ve released Lesson 0 – What Is Climate Change and Why Am I Teaching You About It? This first lesson lays the foundation. We’ll look at why it’s been called global warming, climate change, and the climate crisis, and how human activity has pushed us off nature’s rhythm. Through history, science, and personal stories, you’ll discover where the problem began, why it matters right now, and why the future depends on the choices we make. Start here — it’s the story before the course.
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💧 Who Gets the Water?
Article 9 of our Water Stress series is now up, and this one asks a question that becomes increasingly difficult the longer you think about it. What happens when there simply isn't enough water for everyone? Homes need water for drinking, washing and sanitation. Farmers need it to grow our food and water livestock. Rivers, ponds and wildlife need enough left in the environment to survive. Firefighters may need enormous quantities during exactly the hot, dry conditions causing the shortage. Industry and energy production need water, while new housing and data centres are adding new demands. So who gets priority? While writing the article, I realised there may be another question we should ask first: Who actually needs drinking-quality water? Do we really need to spend energy and money treating water until it is safe enough to drink, only to flush our toilets with it? Could rainwater water our gardens? Could greywater flush toilets? Could recycled water supply some industrial processes and cooling systems? Could farms store more winter rainfall for irrigation? Every alternative source potentially reduces the number of people and activities competing for the same drinking-water supply. But eventually, during a severe enough drought, difficult choices may still have to be made. And I don't think the answer is simply to produce a league table of homes, farms, wildlife, industry and technology. We need to understand what happens elsewhere in the system when we withhold water from each of them. If we stop irrigating a farm, what happens to food production? If we take more from a river, what happens to its ecosystem? If we restrict a factory, what does it produce? If a data centre needs water, what services depend upon it? And perhaps every major new development should have to answer another very simple question before it is built: Where will your water come from — particularly during a drought? 🔗 Read Article 9 — Who Gets the Water?
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We have two new members!
Please welcome @Remy Smith and @Mohammed Alashqar . Every new member reminds me to update you on what I am working on. I have been focusing on water stress. Two aspects of it. The first is the changing pattern of rain all over the planet. This is causing all of us to adapt our farming methods and forcing us to work out we handle excess water when the rain is torrential. We need to capture some of this to prevent flooding and then store it for the months that are now drier than they have been. Where I live the issue is the new situation of long dry summers. We are so used to having a distribtion of rainfall throughout the year. This has kept our crops watered and our wildlife alive. Now with less rain we are seeing our hedgerows, trees, rivers and ponds suffer. This year many habitats suffered from drought. Trees were weakened and damaged and if this repeats next year, as the forecasts predict it will, we may lose trees from our countryside. The demand ofr water is so high and our storage facilities so low that there is little we can do. But we can change what we are doing in our towns and cities. We risk losing the joy of trees in our communities. They bring delight and they help cool our environment. But it may come to the stage where we need to consider watering trees. We are used to helping young saplings in the early years, but not to supporting established trees. Even now when I suggest that this might be needed there is incredulity from some of the people I speak to. But in our major public gardens they have begun to take this very seriously. An arboretum that loses 400 trees, as happened in one case, shows how serious a problem this is. It also brings up the question of which tree do you plant? If we plant trees that are used to a climate that no longer exists are you wasting your time? If you don't, what happens to the birds and insects that used to live off them? We are entering strange times.
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