Queensland Climate Movement

This is a reproduction of an article published on December 13th in the Melbourne Age. Although it was not one of the workshops at the Climate Summit, I found it to be so inspiring and hopeful that felt it was something important to share amongst the Queensland Climate Movement. You can view the original article here.

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Workshops conducted in the open space at the Queensland Climate Summit are listed here. Where available, links to the proceedings from the workshop are provided.

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This workshop was part of the movement building discussions, and addressed issues of outreach, communication and engagement in building the capacity and strengths of the Queensland Climate Movement. Specifically, it addressed questions of: how can we engage more people in our communities on climate change issues, what words or phrases are current in climate matters, and what alternative messages could be effective?

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This workshop was to inform and obtain feedback from participants about the proposed Coal Communities Listening tour being conducted in November, 2008, through southern and central Queensland, as an attempt to build awareness, understanding, and relations between Queensland climate campaigners and residents and workers in Queensland’s coal communities.

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This workshop was focused on outreach and engagement practices of the movement, and considered the question: how can we engage more people in our communities in meaningful action on climate change? Participants in the workshop considered the barriers to a more broad-based movement. For each of the identified barriers, a suite of potential movement-building solutions were developed.

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The St John’s Wood Sustainability Group provided a template of a letter that they developed in their community to build awareness of and engage local residents and workers in their Climate Action Group. This letter was delivered to residents, complete with a reply paid envelope, and included an invitation to a film screening in the neighbourhood.

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On the evaluation forms for the summit, people were asked to suggest what influenced their decision to come to the summit. Three key themes emerged from this, highlighting the role of personal connections and relationships in sustaining the Queensland Climate Movement.

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