Jack explains what led him to start the Revolution (as a change in the way you look at things), andwhy it is based on building postcode communities
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00:00 - 36:30 Presentation
36:30 - 61:24 (end) Q & A
The meeting revolved around discussions about the company's logo, technical issues, and the introduction of Jack, a climate activist and student, who shared his background and experiences. Jack led a discussion about community involvement and the urgency of addressing climate change, and introduced his initiative, Postcode Revolution, aimed at fostering community action on a hyper-local scale. The meeting also explored potential collaborations with local councils, the importance of community building and mutual aid networks, and the potential for open-source tools to support community sustainability efforts.
Jack to share the postcode toolkit Google Doc link with interested participants for feedback and collaboration.
Peter to follow up with Jack via email to discuss potential speaking engagement in Soham for the East Cambridgeshire Climate Action Network initiative.
Amanda to explore incorporating tools and techniques from Postcode Revolution into the Borton S. Network for sustainability.
Jack to continue developing and refining the Postcode Revolution model, incorporating feedback from participants.
Jack to launch the Postcode Revolution podcast, with Jules Thompson as a future guest to discuss community climate action.
Jack and Jules to collaborate at the upcoming event in Worthing on November 11th.
Logo Design and Technical Issues Discussion
Jack and Graham discussed the logo of their company, which features a light bulb covered in a map. Jack explained that he designed the logo using Canva, a graphic design software, and is considering a fresh brand in the coming months. Graham and Jack also discussed technical issues related to audio and screen sharing during the meeting. The team was joined by other members, including Jack, Joolz, Anna, Gary, Peter, and Nik, but there were some difficulties in hearing certain participants due to audio issues.
Climate Action and Ecological Safety Discussion
Graham welcomed everyone to the meeting, noting the diverse locations of the attendees. Jack, a 23-year-old student and climate activist, was introduced as the main speaker. Jack shared his background, including his involvement with the Climate Majority Project and the founding of Postcode Revolution, a young organization focused on climate action and ecological safety. He also mentioned the collaboration with the great collaboration, which was not formally named in the transcript. Jack then began his presentation, starting with a question, and encouraged the attendees to participate.
Community Involvement and Climate Action Discussion
Jack led a discussion about the level of community involvement among the participants. He asked who knew more than four people in their street, excluding family and direct neighbors. The majority of the participants raised their thumbs in agreement. Jack then shared his personal experiences as a climate activist and his involvement in protests, which led to a criminal record and a stadium ban. He emphasized the urgency of addressing climate change and global heating, and encouraged the participants to take action in their local communities.
Addressing Environmental Issues and Public Disconnect
Jack: Mike Azevedo criticized the environmental protests for being disconnected and ineffective, creating a disconnect between environmental issues and the general public. Jack connected with the Climate Majority Project, co-directed by Rupert Reid and Liam Cavanagh, and met Jules Thompson, who played an integral role in its founding. Jack volunteered with the Climate Majority Project and Community Climate Action, working with Jules and Bonnie on the Postcard Revolution inspired by the Climate Majority Project. He believes in finding a more constructive way to address environmental issues.
Postcode Revolution: Community Action and Identity
Jack discussed his initiative, Postcode Revolution, which aims to foster community action on a hyper-local scale. He explained that the average UK postcode consists of 15 to 50 houses, and he chose this as the focus for his project. Jack shared his personal experience of living on a long main road and how he decided to act within his community rather than just protesting. He used the postcode as a boundary for his community and organized a community connection event in his parents' house. Jack emphasized that the identity of the community is crucial and that the postcode was a good tool for defining the community's size. He also mentioned that the Postcode Revolution project encourages people to use their own unique community identity, not just the postcode.
Postcode Revolution: Community Building and Sharing
Jack discussed the concept of the "postcode revolution" as a cultural shift rather than direct action, emphasizing its appeal to a wide range of people. He shared his experience of organizing a community meetup and outlined the three key areas of the postcard revolution: connecting with neighbors, creating a community, and using platforms like Whatsapp for virtual community spaces. Jack also highlighted the growth of their community, the importance of physical meetups, and the creation of a 'Community Sharing Hub' to encourage a culture of care and sharing. This initiative led to the formation of a postcode book club and a postcode energy group, both of which continue to meet regularly.
Improving Energy Efficiency and Climate Resilience
Jack discussed his community's efforts to improve energy efficiency and climate resilience. He shared their successful initiatives, such as obtaining energy performance certificates for homes at a reduced cost and organizing a postcode music festival. Jack emphasized the importance of community preparedness for climate breakdown and disaster, and his goal to connect communities with emergency services. He also introduced his community toolkit, which he hopes to evolve into a public source platform for collective wisdom on climate action. Jack discussed the concept of postcard revolution, a community-building initiative that could be useful in the context of a pandemic or climate breakdown. He also mentioned the formation of a separate group focused on greening the community and addressing climate and nature issues.
Postcode Revolution Community Project Update
Jack discussed the progress of his community project, which has gained media attention and is now expanding into a decentralized movement called Postcode Revolution. He mentioned a podcast he is launching and a recent meet-up in Brighton. Jack also encouraged others to join the movement's Whatsapp chat or contact him directly. Graham expressed interest in the project and raised questions for further discussion.
Postcard Revolutions and Citizen Engagement
BourtonSnetwork: Graham and Jack discussed collaborating with local councils for postcard revolutions, an initiative encouraging citizen engagement. Jack aims to integrate councils into the communities while empowering residents as active participants. Graham praised Jack's approach to energize people not yet reached by councils. Peter, chair of the East Cambridgeshire Climate Action Network, shared his "So and green and together" initiative recently launched in Soham to address the town's past trauma.
Exploring Social Media for Younger Audience
Peter proposed an initiative to Jack, involving a face-to-face event aimed at younger people. Peter suggested that Jack could use his social media skills to create short videos on platforms like Instagram or TikTok to attract the attention of young people. Peter offered to cover Jack's rail fare to Brighton and possibly provide other forms of funding. Jack expressed interest in the project, but emphasized the need to discuss details and dates. Graham supported the idea, suggesting it could be replicated globally.
Community Sustainability Efforts and Open Source Tools
Amanda discussed the similarities between her community's sustainability efforts and the work being done by an unnamed organization. She highlighted the challenges faced by local councils in managing initiatives due to lack of capacity and resources. Amanda also mentioned their use of a Whatsapp group and a monthly newsletter called the Bought and Browser to communicate with the community. She expressed interest in learning more about the unnamed organization's tools and methods, particularly if they were open source. Jack, from the unnamed organization, confirmed that their Google Doc, the Postcode Toolkit, was open source and encouraged Amanda to provide feedback and use it for their community's benefit.
Climate Majority Project and Community Building
Jack discussed his climate majority project aimed at uniting people concerned about climate and nature, mentioning a sustainable model inspired by the Great Collaboration toolkit. Amanda emphasized sustainable project models not restricted by parish councils' structures. Peter raised transitioning from casual climate discussions to more serious ones in a WhatsApp group, which Jack was expected to address. Jack discussed depolarizing climate conversations, making them more inclusive, and shared experiences from the postcard revolution and climate majority projects highlighting community building and mutual aid networks' importance. Joolz supported Jack's initiatives, asking about their potential to feed into community climate action, which Jack affirmed, noting different action levels' importance. Plans were made for a future food resilience workshop.
00:05:55 Anna McMahon: Forgive me - eating cake so keeping my camera off!
00:06:37 Jacky Lawrence: I'll go on mute
00:08:02 Nik Mckiernan: Apologies in advance if I go off camera, I'm expecting a call back from the vets
00:12:26 Amanda Davis: Yes
00:12:28 Jacky Lawrence: yes
00:12:38 Nik Mckiernan: No
00:12:47 Peter Anderson: Yup
00:19:41 Joolz Thompson: 😊
00:47:44 Amanda Davis: BourtonSnetwork
00:48:19 Amanda Davis: Village of 4,200 plus hamlets and those identifying with Bourton
00:49:13 Peter Anderson: Cool Blocks is a similar programme that has come out of California. They have a well thought through structure and content to engage people within your street and build resilience on different topics over time: https://coolblock.org/ - there may be lots to learn from them.
00:49:46 Nik Mckiernan: Reacted to "pic-b2bc9728-cdb1-4720-a8d5-8061cc81eeac.jpg" with 👍🏼
00:49:50 Nik Mckiernan: Reacted to "Cool Blocks is a sim..." with 👍🏼
00:49:53 Joolz Thompson: Reacted to Cool Blocks is a sim... with "🙏"
00:55:04 Peter Bates: I was using paper tape storage on a Mini Computer in the mid 1970s
00:56:25 Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution: My email is jnc26@sussex.ac.uk
00:56:37 Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T8wWQN27Yeyn66pMwjf9mJbGsAv0rIfW9w6utmkt-LM/edit
01:01:40 Amanda Davis: Reacted to Cool Blocks is a sim... with "👏"
01:02:39 Amanda Davis: GDPR considerations? Not looking for issues. Presume people are giving permission as part of opting in
01:09:46 Nik Mckiernan: Thanks so much Jack and congratulations on what you've achieved so far :)
01:09:55 Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution: Reacted to "Thanks so much Jack ..." with ❤️
01:09:55 Peter Anderson: Thanks Jack, good to see you again!
01:09:58 Anna McMahon: Many thanks Jack, great initiative, thanks for sharing it with us
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
Hello, Graham, can you hear me?
Let's gonna check
works.
Okay.
Cool.
Okay.
Hello, Graham. Can you hear me? Okay.
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:01:26
Absolutely large of life.
Good morning, Jack.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:01:30
Good morning!
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:01:31
And.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:01:32
How are you doing this morning.
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:01:34
You're a little bit quiet. I just give you some more volume at this end.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:01:38
How about now?
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:01:40
Well.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:01:43
Do I speak up.
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:01:44
Need to. Strong. Yes, increase your voice, but otherwise it's fine.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:01:49
Okay, I'll speak. Is is this okay?
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:01:51
Yeah, I think we'll see how you go when everyone else joins.
Okay, cool. But thank you so much for for stepping in like this, is you huge? Help!
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:02:01
Oh, you're so welcome! Thank you for inviting me.
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:02:04
So I'm seeing your screen at the moment, and you probably need to be in there. We go, slide mode
beautiful.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:02:11
Hi Gary.
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:02:13
I love your light bulb. Not many of those around nowadays.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:02:18
Yes.
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:02:19
Yes, it's an endangered species. Is that what you're saying?
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:02:26
the idea the light bulb is to do with. So the the logo you've got the stamp which is kind of
local and sort.
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:02:36
Do in person. Yes, yeah.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:02:37
Where you are, and then the light bulb is kind of representing energy and kind of.
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:02:45
Bright ideas.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:02:46
And bright ideas and then you've got you've got the world as well to show the global
climate nature of it.
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:02:56
Brilliant.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:02:57
So guys.
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:02:57
But yes, I do like your light bulb covered in the map. How on earth did you achieve that?
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:03:04
Just through some software called called Canva. Actually.
okay, I I like graphic design and playing around. So after after quite a while I was able to
to to make that. So I'm still still evolving, and I'm kind of
looking for for probably a sort of fresh, fresh brand in the next few months. But I'm I'm happy with that that for now. So.
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:03:32
Well, I think the more one looks at it, the more intriguing that it is.
Just whilst people are joining. Could you unshare your screen, please cause. Then we can see who's coming in.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:03:45
Sure thing.
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:03:46
Thank you.
And is it the University of Essex that you're at.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:03:51
Sussex.
Well.
well.
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:03:57
To dealing with old memories.
The aging process is is a killer.
anyway. It's very nice to see you. Thank you. Good.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:04:09
Great to meet you.
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:04:09
Morning, Jackie, who is not talking to us. Yes, she is. Hi, Jackie!
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:04:14
Hi, Jackie!
I can't hear you, Jackie!
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:04:20
Yeah, there we go.
Morning. Nick.
Nik Mckiernan
00:04:28
Putting
Hi Jackie!
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:04:33
Hi, guys, I think, Jackie, you're
okay. We can't hear you. It might just be me, but I can hear everybody else.
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:04:43
No, you're not coming through, Jackie. He's quite right.
You're delightfully silent. Well, that's the wrong way to put it. Isn't it
so sorry?
No, you need to find your microphone.
No, no improvement.
Now you need to.
Do you have a choice of microphones on your computer
sometimes if you click on the little arrow down arrow next to the microphone sign that helps
Jules is in the middle of nowhere. Again. Morning, Jules.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:05:24
Hi! Anna!
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:05:33
I'm expecting a bunch more, actually. So let's just hang on a sec.
Joolz Thompson
00:05:37
Yeah, I'm out in the garden. It's not raining at the moment.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:05:40
Nice.
Nik Mckiernan
00:05:43
Jackie. I don't know if this is at all helpful, but sometimes on your keyboard you have got a switch. Your microphone off button on could be a function button, or just somewhere else
on the keyboard, just as a suggestion, I don't know.
you know, still can't hear you.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:06:03
Enjoy the cake.
Joolz Thompson
00:06:13
Who who can't be heard.
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:06:17
And Anna.
No, try, Jackie. I beg pardon, Jackie.
are you able to hear her, Jules?
Joolz Thompson
00:06:26
No, no, I I'd heard you, Graham, and I'd heard Jack, and I wondered if it was either of you.
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:06:37
No? Well.
I see, Peter, but I'm not hearing Peter either.
Peter Bates
00:06:42
Well, I'm not speaking. Can you hear me now?
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:06:46
Very talented, Peter. Yes, that's fine.
Peter Bates
00:06:49
It's good.
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:06:50
And I'll say good morning or afternoon to Anna and Gary.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:06:54
Good morning!
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:06:55
Whom I see.
There's a couple more and good. Stewart's coming in.
Thanks, Kate.
and Amanda's joining, which means it's probably that's everybody.
Morning, Amanda.
Amanda Davis
00:07:31
Other.
Can you hear me? Okay.
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:07:33
Oh, yes, yep.
Amanda Davis
00:07:34
Good morning to everybody. I'm gonna go off camera and look. But I'm looking forward to hearing the talk.
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:07:42
Yeah. Well, lunch isn't essential.
Amanda Davis
00:07:45
Well just got out the shower. If truth be known.
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:07:53
Well, I normally give about another 3 couple of minutes to people to come in with. Certainly a couple more that we're expecting.
So let me just say in the meantime, good morning or afternoon, one and all. Very nice to see you all.
I'm delighted that Jack has joined us because he's single handedly halved the average age of the attendees.
which is delightful.
And then I'll make my normal Gdpr
Conf message that this is being a recorded call. So if you don't want your
home visible to the world.
turn off the camera as most of you have done.
I'm gonna say, let's go. So
Jack, don't give any wordy introductions to people. I'll leave that to the speaker. So welcome to our group.
You're talking to people who are spread cheerfully all over the country, although mostly in the southern part. As I look at it.
and the floor is yours. So please go ahead.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:08:59
Thank you, Graham. Can everybody hear me? Okay, just to check?
Yep, yes, excellent.
I'll just start by sharing my screen once more.
Here we go.
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:09:14
A man who's using a Mac. That's guys.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:09:18
Can. Can everybody see this? Okay, thumbs up? If you can. Yeah, awesome.
So
gonna minimize that.
Okay.
so
Hello, everyone. My name is Jack Cooper.
and I'm a 23 year old student of liberal arts at the University of Sussex.
a Una. Climate and oceans, youth ambassador.
a former radical climate activist and founder of postcode revolution.
Postgre revolution is a young organization that asks, What if we talked to our neighbors?
What if we connected by acting on climate, nature, and energy.
and creating greater ecological safety and resilience.
That's the future. On your doorstep.
as you can see here, the
project is currently being incubated by the climate majority project with whom I've been involved since before they were called the Climate Majority Project and called the Moderate Flank, and they're a large part of the reason of how I met the wonderful Jules Thompson who's on this call.
and it invited me here today.
and how postcode revolution came about.
Thank you very much for having me, and I hope we can have a bit of banter amid the very serious subject matter
that we're going to be talking about light amid the dark is what I strive for always.
and postcode revolution is now, I'm very pleased to say, collaborating with the great collaboration, not just on this call, but more formally as well. And I hope this is a start of many more collaborations to come.
So
I'm gonna begin this presentation, which I'm gonna just zoom out here
so you can
so we can see. So this is a prezi presentation. So I've got this big
big board here, and we're gonna zoom into the different aspects.
Of it. And I'm going to talk about it.
And please, if for some reason you stop being able to hear me, and if I go silent, or there's technical difficulties are on your end. Please just say and stop me and
and we'll
we'll correct them. So yeah, I'm gonna begin
this presentation with a question
and
feel free to sort of raise your hand or put the thumbs up
or hand in the in the chat. If this applies to you.
who here knows more than 4 people in their street.
excluding your family and your direct neighbours.
So who here knows more than 4 people
excluding their family in their house and their direct neighbors? Put your thumbs up.
If that applies to you.
Okay, just give it, give it, see? So I'm seeing quite a few thumbs up.
thumbs down.
so that's great. And I I expected, in a room full of people involved in in parish parish council and council
Council work, that that may be a higher, higher percentage of people that normally say yes to that question.
and that's great.
And you were the you were the people who I'm I'm in the right room. For for talking about this? Obviously,
as you as yeah
sounds like you're you're you're doing it already. But for me, growing up
and for for many people that I've spoken to. I knew my direct neighbors, but no one else. In my postcode
on my street I played in gardens between fences
and lived without a strong sense of local community.
I grew up in the 2 thousands in the shadow of the Madeleine Mccann case with a strong fear of strangers and being kidnapped
from my home as well.
which is lovely. I also grew up amid
this
global heating and climate breakdown that has not stopped and has only got worse throughout throughout my 23 years, and
I'm sure I don't need to remind you of the terrible events
of the past month around the world, climatically speaking, from floods to tornadoes and
all across the world, from Nepal to North Carolina and Central Europe
to. Well, next week in the Uk. A major Atlantic storm is set to hit us.
and this, this is a this is a visual so
and this is just to communicate that. Yeah, in the Uk, we ourselves are not safe from
climate breakdown and global heating and
postgreg revolution is coming from this context that we need to be prepared ourselves in the Uk, and we are not this is not something that we don't need to worry about, because
it very much does concern us.
I'm a former radical climate activist, as I said.
and
this is me.Amanda
I look a little bit different now this was back in 2022,
when I sat on roads, jumped up on stages, and during the crazy heat waves of summer 2022 ran onto the football pitch at the women's euros quarterfinal in support of just up oil.
And yeah, that is some images of me pretending to glue myself to the goalpost imminently before I was Rugby tackled by.
The security
and yes, one of the comments was
the describe me as perhaps the slowest activist of all time.
As yes. I wasn't able to
be on on the goalpost for a long period of time. But I acted out of a place of love and desire to
raise awareness about
climate change and
in that context of those summer heat waves. And when I was aware of yeah, 9 million people watching, and the game was being played near me, I
felt like it was
an opportunity that I could not let
slip. So
I got a criminal record for my actions. And I'm still serving the last year with a 3 year stadium ban
for this. I got police cautions for other actions, but this was the most most serious consequences I received, and I was publicly shamed in the Daily Mail and have read every comment.
I've got a little selection of the comments here.
Your amusement,
and but I wanted to draw your attention to
the the comment in large Maces's comment here as this, of all the comments stuck in my mind, the most.
So Mikaz said.
thank you again for doing environmentalism a disservice with disconnected and ineffective way of protesting. Unfortunately, by turning yourselves into enemy number one to the general public. On the contrary, to your mission, the Government is now under more pressure to deal with menacing, campaigning, and distancing themselves from you as the public intolerance grows.
Meanwhile you are negatively rebranding environmentalism into some woke leftist radical movement, and in doing so
actually creating a disconnect between the issues and the general public.
For example, I have long been a big advocate of environmentalism, and believe we should be expediting the transfer to green energy. Amongst other anti pollutant initiatives. Unfortunately, because of these stunts. It's hard to talk about this stuff.
Fear of being called a Lefty, even though climate change has nothing to do with my political alignment or a snowflake. This is your doing. Thanks. Find a more constructive way, please.
So amid yes, the pathetic man-childs and tools and
target practice comments that this. This was the one that actually really stuck with me, and
made me think
rethink the most
And
so I decided to
in some ways find a more constructive way, as Makaz put it, and at this time around this time, after this action, I connected with an organization called the Climate Majority project, or then they were known as the Moderate Flank.
So
and
the client majority project
Jules Jules Thompson played an integral role in the founding of that.
and that's where I 1st met Jules at Bidston back in.
I think it was September or October 2022,
and at that time it was a process of still trying to work out what the climate majority project was and what it could do and what it could be, and Rupert Reid and Liam Kavanagh, who were the co-directors, and it emerged out of a lot of thinking that various people were doing, including
Jules and Rupert Rupert Reed, who has been an important kind of academic and
philosophical
voice behind
the theory of of change and what the climate majority project
are doing. This is this is a snapshot from from the website, as it currently is.
and
the postgrad revolution was inspired
from the climate majority project and came out of it, and I also, as a result of the climate majority project, was volunteering and part of the early team for community climate action, who were
deeply connected with the great collaboration. And
yeah, I was
fortunate enough to yeah work with Jules and Bonnie and and various people with community climate action. And then.
after after spending time working on that, I was inspired to launch my own initiative postcode revolution, which, unlike community climate action, which is slightly focusing on a slightly larger scale in the context of parish councils and towns, and
talking in the hundreds and villages and and towns, and sort of hundreds and thousands of of houses. Postcode revolution is is a lot smaller than that and is going hyper local to we're talking. The average postcode is 15 houses in the Uk.
So 15 to 30 where I currently am, there's 50. So those are the types of scales of action that Postgar revolution is seeking to
initiate
and
living on a
main long main road.
Growing up.
I came back to. I came back to Burgess Hill, which is where I'm from in the south of England. I'm currently in Brighton, but last year I came back, came back home
where my parents live, and
decided to start organizing where I was rather than sitting in the road and doing radical climate action. I thought, I'm going to.
I'm going to act where I am and try and really walk the walk when it came to the principles of the climate majority project and the theory of change that I believed in.
So I lived on a on a long main road, somewhat similar to to one of these, which went on and on and on, and it was difficult to identify a boundary for the community.
and
until I decided on.
are postcodes
and growing up, my postcode was always an important part of my place identity.
and for most of that time I thought that it was just my house who had this random string of letters and numbers.
and I
doing a bit of research. I had no idea that 27 other houses, where we lived shared this identity.
and it felt like a good size for the community. And I can
go into the history of postcodes. But that's probably not for for another time. But
yeah, there's there's somewhat kind of arbitrary
classification which formed in the 19 fifties.
It felt like
it, felt it felt meaningful to me, but also a good arbitrary
tool to go. This is this is the boundary for the community, and if they're able to be able to go, yeah, this is my postcode. And this is how big our community is going to be.
without.
of course, with some porous edges and
stuff. But yeah, it felt like a good, a good boundary, and but I but but I do say, and part of the postscript evolution project is
is saying, if if it's your street, if it's you, live in a close where I currently am
in a in a street. Saint Martin Street. It's a
It is a
the the that there's that identity is stronger than the postcode identity. So
when forming this community identity is very important, and for me, in our 1st community it was our postcode. But it could be something something else.
That that could be better for you in wherever wherever you live or other people live.
So basically, I started
knocking on doors and formed a Whatsapp chat. I went round and introduced myself and said, Hello, I'm Jack. I've
lived here for the past 2022 years. I don't know you, but
I've been here and yeah, we we formed formed a a postcode Whatsapp chat, postcode Facebook group for people who didn't use whatsapp.
And
we organized a
1st community connection event in my parents, house and garden inviting people to come and bring some food to share and
and basically connect and and meet each other. Because what we found is that a lot of people in the postcode on our street didn't know each other.
So we
yeah. So we met. And
in terms of the word revolution in the context of postcode revolution,
revolution is define defining it more as a circular movement or a
fundamental change in the way of thinking about or visualizing something.
And
so a paradigm shift effectively. And that's that's the revolution
that revolution is trying to
inculcate. It's 1 that is changing, how people think, shifting the culture, not revolution in the context of on the streets and that sort of direct action. Not that postcode revolution condemns that at all and condemns radical activism. And there's certainly definitely a place for that. But what post code revolution is trying to do is to work alongside that
at the base of the of the triangle which draws
but well articulated to me once of of change, and attempting to appeal to people who don't want to glue themselves to the road, get criminal records, do that sort of radical climb activism.
but do
care and see the situation that we're in, and
see the need for radical change
and postcode revolution. If
enough people
change then that is somewhat revolution in itself, without a need for
a change of government. And this is something the climate majority project is also trying to do which is about changing the electorate very electorate
as well as looking at the different levers of power and levers of change.
So postcode revolution is coming from that context, and is, is one thing that people can do. And specifically, people who are not into that kind of radical crime activism. And it doesn't matter. If you're young. You're old, you're Socialist, conservative. It's attempting to appeal to everybody as this affects everybody, and we all live somewhere, and if you're in the Uk, you live in a postcode.
And so
this is is a slightly grainy picture of our 1st community connection meetup. What I really love about this picture is the the mix of ages you can see. So from
a 1 and a half year old to 80 year olds came to our
our house and garden and
and connected many for the 1st time, and it was a beautiful event. Beautiful day.
Gave
stickers for people to put put their houses on, and
and shared food and conversation and and it was. It was really fantastic, and it was a great start to the the community. Having this in person in person space alongside the Whatsapp Chat and Facebook Group, which we'd
began all ready
and
in the context of
what what I was doing, I at the same time as as doing it, I created a methodology and a
was exploring how to do this, and to to promote it, and to
publicize it in a way that that
would work for me, but also could work for other people as well.
and the 3. The 3 key areas of the postcode revolution
theory of change in approach is number one connect with your neighbors. So that's that's what that's what I did.
knocking on doors and talking to people and
and
yeah, forming those connections which just hadn't existed previously.
Number 2, create a community. So
this did first, st virtually in the form of of the Whatsapp Chat and Facebook group.
and these are Whatsapp is. The is is is my preferred medium for this. Because I haven't found I haven't found a better
platform which so many people use and know how to use. And also
it. Yeah, enables enables. Yeah, there's this virtual community space to be formed very quickly and easily. And there are also community tools which which you can use
if if, when the community gets bigger and you have have different groups.
So that was that was and then and but also it's
in post revolution. It's encouraging the the physical meetup as well, if that's possible. So that was what we did
with the community connection. Meet up
and getting that, and then combining the 2. We had this
community that started to form, and a shift in the kind of way of of being in the street. So we had a lot of sharing of tools and food and resources and created a
spreadsheet. I called it called it call it community sharing hub which is a way of trying to trying to
catalyze this, this shift in.
in, in being and living, so trying to change to the culture, to a community of care and sharing
and helping each other. Once you have that initial connection
and and what came out of that community connection event was was this, this creativity.
and my my dad formed a postcode book club which continues to meet meet to this day, bringing a book on a different theme every
2 or 3 weeks it is now, and that's been a good way of keeping
the community together, having having a core kind of group of people meeting up and still
so forming
and I formed a postcode energy group.
and we organized 5
energy performance certificates for
my parents house, and 4 other houses in the street, and by going as a block we were able to to get energy performance certificates, for I think it was 40 pounds each when it's normally 60 to 70
70 pounds and energy performance certificates. A lot of lot of homes, especially in residential areas. Still, don't have them is. Now, if you sell your home, it's a legal requirement.
but there's still plenty of places that don't, and it enables you to get government grants for things like
boilers. And what air source heat pumps and
and it just shows you how energy efficient your home is and
ways to ways to improve it. So
We were able to do that in the summer. That was the main kind of climate, energy, action.
of of that summer in the community. And then at the end of the summer, we had a postcode music festival.
where? Yeah, neighbours were encouraged to. We had instruments and to to play music together, and
and and yeah, so
that was. And then that was the summer. And then I moved out of the community into another community mall scheme and
and then, and the community. I'm now not not directly involved in the running of that, but it still still continues on, and acting together on climate.
When when I say this, yeah, energy is one aspect to it. So, looking at insulation and energy performance certificates retrofitting. But also I'm looking at climate education and connecting with climate. Fresque is what I'm trying to do in my current community, looking at things like community recycling, composting.
nature, reworlding.
sharing of food and tools, and less purchasing and consumption. Lower energy living. The ideal would be.
my dream is yeah. Car clubs and and sharing of of transport
and also climate resilience. So that was also an important, very important aspect for me
of doing this was
being able to try and prepare my my parents and my
community for for climate breakdown, and
disaster. So especially if you're in areas where there's risks of flooding and
and storms and greater chance of environmental disaster knowing your neighbours is can be so important for safety in disaster. And one of the things I'm looking at is looking at ways of connecting
communities with emergency services, and especially in climate, vulnerable areas.
To be able to build that that climate resilience is a key part of
of postcode revolution as well. So those are the 3 revolutions in postcode revolution, connection, creation of community and climate action.
And
I created a community or postcode toolkit, which basically has. This information in it and explain the introduction why? 5 actions. Q&A with me testimonials what others are doing references. And this is available on
postcard revolution website,
and I've created it in the form of a Google Doc, which
people can comment. And it's still evolving. And I'm still looking for feedback. And
it's a con idea. My idea was to see this as a as an evolving document which
which different people can add to. And I'm looking to get it. Yeah, hopefully, under a public source platform where people, different people can add what they're doing and basically have a collective wisdom document. Because,
what do I know? I'm I'm no expert. I'm 23 and a student, and this is still very much learning for me. And there are a lot of people who have a lot of
knowledge and expertise who I want to bring in on this to share what they've done, as many, many people have done similar things. This isn't reinventing the wheel. But.
for example, transition towns, Transition streets, doing this in the mid, 2 thousands and many people during Covid pandemic were doing this in terms of mutual aid groups, one of which.
the Mutual Aid group where I was living last year in Moscambe, in Brighton. The group was still going
and it was incredibly inspiring that
it continued, and there was an immense amount of sharing and offers of help
for each other and sense of community. And he could see that yeah, it was a real
real value to the, to myself and to the people people living there. And
so Postga revolution is, is looking at this in the context rather than pandemic, even though doing this could be very useful, for because it's
it's likely we'll have another
well, at some point in the next 100 years we'll likely have another pandemic hopefully not not not soon, but it could, it could happen. And so there were many different applications to it. But post revolution is coming from a contemporary climate breakdown
position. And yeah, operating
hyper locally. And
this is an example of the
in the postcode toolkit. This is what I made. This is a template from what I made in my most recent community, and shared with with residents. When I went door knocking
and put this flyer through with my phone number and my address, and
where the pub where we had our postcode meet up.
And yeah, it could be house and garden, but it could also be be a local pub in the context of where I'm in Brighton. It wasn't really suitable to have it where I lived, and we had a pub very close by, but it also could be.
It's in summer outside. That's where another community Meetup, inspired by postcard revolution, happened this summer in Worthing, and or it could be online in the form of zoom. If if that's if that's the preferable space as well, there are. There are many different options options for this. And if you can see from
from that letter, it's trying to
emphasize the different aspects of what we wanted to do, but also make clear that you don't have to be super interested in climate nature to be part of the community, and one of the things that I've done is is formed another. So you've got got the central postcode chat, but then formed another group for greening the community and doing things on climate nature. So it's having this base of of community
and connection. And then recognizing that then climate, nature, passionate folks are going to be kind of, arise from that, and can organize within that. And that's yeah. That's what that's what I'm doing right now, and what what we're doing, and others and others are being inspired to do as well
the
projects. This was in in February. It's been been publicizing it. So it was 2 years ago that it
just over 2 years ago that I started it.
And yeah, we've we've been in the Worthing Worthing Inside Magazine, and Katie, who broke that
article, was inspired. But after after hearing hearing me speak after her, Mum actually heard me speak. Both of them were inspired to form communities where they were in Worthing
and
and because out of a
out of feeling like they can do
get arrested for radical action because of
circumstances of their life, they wanted something else to do and postcode revolution really inspired them and appealed to them
as as something that they could do.
The. And I've also been on Hertfordshire radio speaking about it and speaking about in St. Alban sustainability expo
at the Crew center in Worthing I had a talk, and I'm continuing to to to get the outreach and to to to publicize it and spread the word in. In ways like this.
I've now also got a website which has the toolkit on
and the story of the project links to these these media things and contact.
And I'm also attempting I'm also launching a podcast as well
and have recorded the 1st episode and going to be launching that that pretty soon.
and our very own Jules Jules Thompson, is going to be coming on on the podcast soon enough, hopefully as well to talk about community climate action and great collaboration.
And that's exploring the ideas.
primarily, the ideas, outreach and action of postcode revolution, people doing similar things
and giving people ideas of what they can do, what they can, read, what they can, watch, what they can listen to.
And good conversation. And a bit banter as well. And
yeah. So
that is that is, that is the website. And here is a photo from our
post Co postcode community meetup in Brighton, which was just 2 2 weeks ago and went really well and had
yeah, almost 15 people come and we are having another meetup in 2 weeks. In another pub.
I'm trying to make it a monthly monthly meetup.
So for me, I'm
very much believe in walking the walk and doing this, and so as well as speaking about it.
As well as the ideas, the outreach like this. It's it's the action is so important. And that's what I'm doing where I am and testing out still what works, what doesn't work, and it's constantly evolving.
But yeah, and I'm learning. But that's that's a lovely shot from
I'll meet up.
and
and here are some links for you guys. So
there's that's the link to the website,
postgrevolution.com on this link tree here, if you type that in. You can find the Whatsapp chat we've got where there's about 35 people in it from all across the country, some of whom are doing the action, part of thing, doing, doing it themselves. Leading. We've now got
approximately 4 communities who are inspired by postcard revolution and are kind of broadly part of part of the movement. I want
hundreds, thousands more, but of course decentralized. But the idea with the Whatsapp chat is to have a sort of hub where people can sort of share.
This is working. This isn't working, but also people who are just interested in the ideas or the outreach and just create a create a movement for it. So you can find that Whatsapp chat in that link tree there, if you'd like to be added. Also my
email there, give. Send me an email. If if you'd like to be added to what's that? Chat that way and send send your number or get in. Get in touch for for anything else.
and so
yeah, that that is postcode revolution, the future on your doorstep. Thank you so much for listening, and for inviting me here here today and
I'm happy to yeah.
Hear any questions.
on on anything that I've just talked about. Thank you. Guys.
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:45:09
Yeah, thank you very much for that. It was one of the more fascinating presentations in that. I was writing down questions as you went through, and then 3 slides later, you'd answer it.
But I am left with a couple which I'd love to start off the Q. And a session with, and then we've got Peter with his hand up, and everyone else, I'm sure, will pitch in.
So the 1st question was, Do you find yourself running up against the initiatives coming from parish councils, who are also being encouraged to get apcs for each house, and
a lot of the retrofitting insulation, and so forth that you're looking at? Or do you find that you're below their radar, and that the people that are coming to you have no idea what the Council is up to.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:45:56
I'd say the second one so below the radar. And
I think that
yeah, Postgre, revolution is kind of working. I'd like to work more with councils, and a good example, for example, is
in the community where I was previously living. There were actually counsellors in the chat, and it was a great means of being able to very easily people kind of messaging stuff. And then the counselors in chat going. Yep, this is, I'm sort of working on this. We're going to act on this. And it provided a great fluidity between
the council and the the lived kind of local community. So that's that's
I think I think post code revolution can. These kind of communities can work very much well alongside councils. And yeah, hopefully, I want to aim. And it's currently been kind of below the radar so far. But that's something that I'm seeking to kind of integrate more.
is is yeah, looking at how to get get get councils on board. But it's also trying to. Yeah. Encourage everyone to be citizens and
In some ways, everyone to be counsellors, I guess, and to take a active, active interest and care for their their local community. But
it's, I think, as you say, it's important also to recognize the fantastic work that councils do. And councillors do. And
as the the great collaboration is doing, it's yeah. I think it's ultimately it's look, it's work. There are many different levels to this to action. And but I think Postgreg revolution could work well alongside. But as but yeah, as you say.
And this is one of my yeah ways of evolving. The project is trying to find ways of of not replicating
unnecessarily work that's already been done, and finding ways of kind of connecting and aligning residents. And these these communities with
with the initiatives and and work that's being done on the ground by councils.
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:48:19
Well well done! I think it's brilliant to find a way of energising people that have not really come to the Council's notice yet, or they they. The Council hasn't got the word out successfully. So more power to you. And I hope that you're
very successful. And of course the vast majority of people on this call are either on parish councils or they're in community organizations that are very interested in what you're doing. So good stuff. Great point, and let's ask Peter if he can come up with
his question. Please.
Peter Bates
00:48:50
Right? Yes. Well, I'm gonna you're getting straight away. And
basically, I'm chair of the East Cambridgeshire Climate Action network. And one of the initiatives which we've actually got running only just launched last Saturday is the so I'm greener together. Initiative.
You probably won't know, Jack. But most other people probably know that Soham, as a town, became notorious 21 years ago, because it was the murder of 2 schoolgirls by school caretaker. So that's how how the town became notorious in East Cambridgeshire.
But I've just launched this initiative
only with one of the town councillors, and I've already committed myself to doing some event of some sort
for aimed at younger people. And I think I've already got the the guy that's actually able to
to do that for me, I hope. Anyway, that's you, Jack. So I'm gonna offer you. Certainly we have to think and talk about details. But what I'm gonna say is
I. If you live in Brighton.
you can catch a direct train to Ely.
and then I can take you to to the town of So on, which is only about 5 miles away.
I'll pay for your rail. I'll pay for your rail fare so long as you use it off Peak, and use your rail card
and we might be able to find other ways in which I can can provide some form of funding. Because I think
I've been thinking about this as you've been talking, and I think
probably initially it would. It may not work in an online environment if I want to attract younger people round about your age
are there? So I think you've somehow got to be face to face.
People are going to come out and dare I say, touch and feel you in order to kind of get interested in some respect there. So I'm not really sure exactly how we're going to do it. But what's in my mind if you're interested
is, I think we may need to kind of get some kind of social media running first.st get you doing quick, quick. I don't know how to do it. But quick Instagram or tick tock short videos to get the attention of the young people of
So and see what we can do in that respect. If you are up for it.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:51:24
Thank thank you, Peter. Thank you.
Peter Bates
00:51:26
And are you up for it?
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:51:27
Thank you. Well, I I I'm I'm definitely up for yeah, these these kind of initiatives. And and that sounds fantastic. So I think if we if you, if you email me or I, if you if
basically just as long as as long as I have
the time
to do it amongst I'm a yeah. I'm in my 3rd year at university. And well, this this project is actually what I'm working on as part of that which is fantastic. And I also co-run the Forest Garden Society at university. So
yeah, just let's let's talk about it after this call, Peter. And I'd be very interested in getting involved and seeing seeing what I can do, what I can do to help it's yeah, just just we'll, yeah. We'll talk about the the dates and times and what? What? So what? What that would involve.
And I know, yeah.
Peter Bates
00:52:33
I'm thinking this is a model which we could actually kind of. Oh, you, if you wish to do so sometime you replicate this across the country. You know, in that way. So that way, and you've by the way, you've only got about an 8 years sell by day before you're past your sell by date. By the way.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:52:52
Me too.
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:52:52
Thank you very much for a very generous offer, and I'm very delighted to note that in the chat Peter Anderson is already explaining that we should be going global on this, and he's linking you up to California. So
there's no holds bars. Jack. Now you're on your way.
Amanda, please.
Amanda Davis
00:53:11
Hi, there! I hope you can see me. Okay, I'm working off 3 or 4 different screens here.
So I put in the chat details of the what we've set up fairly recently, the Bolton S network
an F is for this sustainability, of course.
And the idea there is, and I put it in the chat. But we've put it into our local new news. It's like a monthly that comes through the letterbox with 4,200 people in our village, and we got very connected during Covid. So I'm seeing a lot of parallels, a lot of similar lines. So basically, let's say that we've we've also got something that's very similar to what you're doing
and we haven't met before. I've not heard of it before today. So it's great that we're connecting up.
But what what you've given me today is so much more idea of tools that let's say I'm an old fogey. But I was doing computer science in college before there was computers available in college. So we were learning it all from a book and doing. You know the punch cards and the magnetic tape programming, and then taking it to the local bank on the mainframe. For, like the 2 h that the college could afford a week.
But the use of tech in the most agile, most engaging way that can organize in a way that you don't have to be the one that it relies on, Jack.
because what I think happens in parish and town councils.
As we set up meetings we set up structures and then find we haven't got the capacity to take it forward, or we've got to have health and safety. We've got to do our risk assessments. We've got to have our insurance in place. There's all these reasons that get in the way that just don't when you're just acting on your own in a community.
So what we've done is we had something at Parish Council called the Environment
Action Working Group, or something like that, and it was a subcommittee of a committee.
and it it went well for a couple of times. But the the councillor, who was running it didn't have time to get the minutes together, and so nobody knew what they'd agreed to, because they hadn't written it down, because they're expecting the minutes and all that stuff
and what you're doing.
It's very similar to what we're doing, which is based via a Whatsapp group
but also through for older folks that are more used to the magazines going through the letterbox each each month. But there's also an electronic, a digital version of that newsletter. It's called the bottom browser.
So what I put in the chat was what we put into the bottom browser.
But I suppose what I'm saying is 2 things. One is
well done, and it's reassuring for me that we're doing the right thing.
especially if you're academically studying it as well as Creator, owner.
Of it, founder.
I wonder
is is it open? Source all your information so that we would be able to sort of take pieces from it.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:56:09
Yeah, yeah, so yeah, it's the
go. The the postcode toolkit is is Google, Doc, and you can. It's it's, you know, to comment. I'll just put a link in this chat as well. So my, I'll put my email again here, and then I'm also I'll just link you to the latest
iteration of the postscript toolkit and this. This goes for everyone. Please feel free to
to comment. And yeah, give feedback. It's still, it's still very much an evolving, evolving document. And
yeah, my, my view of this is is is to make it as open source as possible.
And again.
what what I'm really trying to yeah, do is is Rec is, recognize that I'm not
what what I'm doing here. It's not many people are doing as as your sounds like. You're amazingly doing very similar things. And this is kind of what the also the Climate majority project is trying to do as well, which is kind of to join people up who are doing these things, and to create a sense of like a wave of of a shared understanding that this is this is, there is a climate majority of people who care about climate and nature in this.
in our country and to
and with with postcode revolution. It's it's
aiming to get to give people the tools to be able to, as the great collaboration does with the great collaboration toolkit to
to be able to do it themselves. And
ultimately, yeah, so far, it's
yeah. We've yeah, there are 4 kind of communities sort of inspired by it. But it's mostly just been me. And I'm looking to build. Yeah.
Amanda Davis
00:57:57
The critical thing is the word sustainability used to be used for whether a project would carry on after the formally funded period finished.
And so what you've done is create a model that is sustainable in the sense that
not only is it about sustainability itself, the model is sustainable in that you walk away. You went to university, and it didn't fall down because you've created a model in a way that isn't dependent on people. And this is the message, Graham, for councillors, parish and town councils, and the models. If we are the Creator as councillors of models.
please don't have it disadvantaged by the structures of parish councils and the requirements of them.
Let's try and enable them out in the community. Enable them, but don't restrict them
and liberate them and ensure they're sustainable in their modelling
in such a way that, or encourage them because you wouldn't have any power to to impose a structure.
But learn lessons from what Jack's saying, because I think you know, it's reassuring for our projects. Important. But it's also yeah, we'll definitely link into your
overarching sort of national, if not international Register.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:59:15
Yeah, be, it'd be zip code revolution in in the Us.
Amanda Davis
00:59:20
That's the one, and I'm in Brighton in a couple of weeks, so
might see you there.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:59:26
Hi.
Amanda Davis
00:59:27
You very much, Jack.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
00:59:28
Thank you. Amanda.
Graham Stoddart-Stones
00:59:31
Thank you all very much. Does anyone else have any points or questions to raise? Please.
Peter Bates.
Peter Bates
00:59:41
Yeah. Sorry.
Yeah. More kind of
specific kind of question, Jack.
Around. I mean, you know, we set about a Whatsapp group which is almost the equivalent to postcode group.
in our local neighborhood.
And I joined, you know, Covid, which is an obvious kind of
reason for doing that. I'm just wondering. How
go to well, I'll tell you what actually happened. I mean, you know.
I suppose. No, I'm not phrasing very well, but I'm thinking of how do you get to the point in which you can then?
you know, generally kind of get people kind of working together, talking together and whatever it is. But then you move it on to the kind of more. Dare I say serious type things around climate change and climate activity in that respect, because I'll give you an example.
I don't. I still don't know all the people in our Whatsapp group. People went around right at the beginning and told and told each other, you know where what number they were on, but I seem to have lost all those details.
But I did get. I raised the question of
in the whole of city of Ely. We've actually got now a 20 mile an hour speed limit.
and I was before that became in force. I was actively encouraging people to take part in the consultation for that, and I had one mysterious person on this Whatsapp group was dead against it, and really quite kind of
vicious. Well, vicious about it.
Now, I didn't pursue it any further, because I thought it was going to upset the balance of that Whatsapp group if I actually tried to pursue it in that way. So I'm just wondering, how do you actually manage to
raise the whole issues around climate change, etc. Etc. But not actually kind of alienating people. At the same time.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
01:01:49
Yeah, thank you, Peter, great question. And it's a very important one. So
yeah, basically in
I think one of the one of the broader, broader motives of post revolution and climate climate majority projects as well.
If if if I can, if I can speak to them. But if yeah, from what I understand of of the climate, majority Project
is
is is about these kind of depolarizing the conversation on climate and nature, and I think,
I think we're. We're still at a point where you know well, the Conservatives and in the in the Us. Is the most extreme example of this, where climate nature has been
weaponized and turned into a political football in a similar way to kind of wokeness. And yeah, based, basic kind of human rights are turned into
political things which, frankly, they're not and
and so this has been an issue in the sense of of kind, of
of politics. And to what extent should the group be be political? I'm trying to frame
the kind of
basically having this.
the the post revolution has this strong kind of community and climate focus, but the having the base of kind of connection with your neighbors, and creating this community where you are, in my view.
yeah, the the climate and nature. Specific actions. What what I've done and been doing is forming basically canvassing interest within the group and then forming a another chat for that. And then, with the Whatsapp Communities feature, you can then still link that to part of the community. As well. So, and and
what I would say with post revolution as well in terms of the branding, being tried to talk a bit more about like energy rather than climate. Nature as well, and kind of cost of living, is a good way in as well, I found to
to to that. That that again. Some people can still see climate nature as as political things and like left woke things when it's it's it's just the biosphere. And it affects affects all of us. And
yeah, and basically, so trying to shift that that shift, the general shift in framing of framing of of that, but also having
having space having a specific space for that within the those kind of climate, nature, actions within the community, but then, also recognizing that if you're having the that kind of community, if you're building by building that community in the face of climate, emergency, disaster, and kind of that adaptation.
Then in some ways it doesn't matter if you're mentioning climate or nature like. If you have those connections where you are, it's going to be very useful in the event of disaster and building that resilience, and then also having more sharing of food resources. Tools don't need to mention kind of climate, but that itself is a more eco-friendly kind of recycling lower energy ways of living. So those
in some ways yeah, having those inner circles. It's like they're all
climate
related. But there's different levels to it, if that makes sense. And and in trying to include everybody in that at the base, and then kind of work with work with at present, who? Who is more kind of interested in the various different different aspects of of the
of the change. Yeah.
Graham Stoddart-Stones
01:05:40
Thanks, Jack, very much, and presumably you're now a dryer, Jules, so we could go to you. Please.
Joolz Thompson
01:05:51
Yes, very quickly. So I've got to dive on to my next meeting. But I just want to say great work, Jack. And you know, building community is the hard yards
as is meeting and just talking to our neighbors in modern society.
Around our community park, bringing that together. We've had. People have lived in the village for 27 years and didn't know their neighbors. So we've just met.
So we're stronger together. So it's a brilliant brilliant aspiration. And clearly when I massively support.
And as Jack said, he and I met through the climate majority project and also working on community climate action. And my question is, how do you? How do you feel by building this kind of community and
mutual aid network? How might that feed into community climate, action, and and sort of acting in cohort as communities in support of our district and county's aspirations, and also in support of a Parish Council. I think we heard from Amanda
that sometimes parishes form committees and then struggle with capacity. So do you think it will feed into that and sort of build, build stronger cohesion for communities to act together.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
01:07:02
Yes.
yes, thank you, Jules. Yes. And I think that
as wanted to. Yeah, stress with this, that
It's kind of that there's a reason we have
parish councils and and
town councils and County councils and national government and international government, because ultimately,
yeah,
if if the entire world was to run off postcode communities, and it would be a bit of a bit of a bit of a struggle, I think, to organize, especially when yeah, centralization has many, many good aspects, aspects to it. And and having these structures which can and institutions which can represent vast numbers of people.
Is very important. And so I definitely think, that yeah, post revolution can work with organizations like community climate action, especially when it's kind of spreading kind of initiatives and stuff which concern, say, your whole village or town? And a larger area. Because, yeah.
ultimately, we live. We yeah, we live in broad areas and just our postcode. And there are specific systems and
things that that affect us, which which are at that that larger scale. And having all these different different levels
and forms of action working together, I think, can can hopefully bring about, bring about the change that we all want to see.
Joolz Thompson
01:08:42
Fantastic. Well, I've got to dive off, but I just want to say, Well done! And really really excited about looking.
and then looking forward to and looking forward to working with the building.
Community. Mutual aid networks from postcode grassroots ground up, fab fabulous, well done.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
01:08:59
Thank you.
Joolz Thompson
01:09:00
Absolutely and look forward to further collaboration.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
01:09:02
And Jules is. And yeah, Jules, community crime action. And Jules is going to be in in Worthing on the 11th
on Friday, the 11th and
and I'm also gonna be there as well. So
yeah.
doing away.
Joolz Thompson
01:09:21
Shop on food, food, resilience. How are we going to feed ourselves as we move forward into this climate emergency
cool? I'll look forward to seeing. Then Jack thanks everyone. Bye.
Graham Stoddart-Stones
01:09:32
Thank you. Well done all. Thank you very much. Next week we are being advised. Given examples of, and all the things you can do to save water at home by Becky from the Welsh water organization. So I think that should be fascinating for all. Thank you all very much for your time this time, and long live revolution, Jack! Keep going.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
01:09:55
And we'll see you now.
Graham Stoddart-Stones
01:09:56
Next time. So thank you all so much. Take care. See you next week.
Bye-bye.
Jack Cooper - Postcode Revolution
01:10:01
Thank you. Guys. Thank you.
Mitigation, Adaptation, Biodiversity
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Cool Blocks is a similar programme that has come out of California. They have a well thought through structure and content to engage people within your street and build resilience on different topics over time: - there may be lots to learn from them.
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