Banter 80: Creating a Community Climate Action Plan, with Joolz Thompson
Joolz introduces the first of three sessions in which a Climate Action Plan will be developed live with 4 parish councils. This session draws on previous experiences, particularly with Essex towns
Joolz emphasises the need for communities to develop these plans themselves, agreeing what they need to do, and who will do it. He discusses the 'Diffusion of Innovation' bell curve
, and encourages us to be the first step - "Innovators" - who will bring along the rest of the community with them. Plenty of advice on how to get people motivated in the first place, and how to keep the momentum running
Video Timeline (min:sec):
00:00 - 02:30 Introduction to today's session
02:30 - 11:00 Presentation; Profits From Community Energy 08:30 - 10:30
11:00 - 13:40 Video from workshops in Essex Towns
13:40 - 16:45 Funding/Finance
16:45 - 18:00 'Diffusion of Innovation' bell curve
18:00 - 20:30 Getting started
20:30 - 22:40 Town and Parish Councils (Biodiversity)
22:40 - 24:30 Funding
24:30 - 25:30 Early Actions
25:30 - 27:00 Invitation to Join In
27:00 - 29:00 Results from Essex workshops
29:00 - 33:40 Joining In
33:40 - 66:00 Q & A session (Building Momentum, Community Buy-In, Agrivoltaics, Community Benefits)
66:00 - 69:00 TED Video "How to start a movement in 3 minutes"
70:00 - 78:30 Coping with Individualism/Objectors
78:30 - 83:00 (end) Banter
Presentation:
You are welcome to download this presentation. For AI search purposes, an .md version exists at the bottom of this page
TED Video - How to start a movement in three minutes:
So that you can see your own copy of the video that Joolz has included iin the last few minutes of his presentation. Brilliant for getting volunteers to join your project/movement!
Meeting Summary:
Jul 30, 2025 11:56 AM London ID: 834 5460 8536
Quick recap
The meeting focused on community climate action planning, with Joolz leading discussions about initiatives involving parish councils in Buckinghamshire and sharing examples of successful projects across different regions. The group explored various strategies for community engagement, including public participation, collaboration with local institutions, and the implementation of renewable energy projects like agri-voltaics. The session concluded with discussions about climate adaptation and mitigation efforts, including the importance of building resilience and addressing both immediate impacts and long-term changes, while also planning future sessions and events to promote climate action.
Next steps
Town/Parish Councils to register for upcoming Zoom sessions on August 20th and September 15th
Joolz to provide community engagement plan and marketing materials to David's parish council
Joolz to share funding source documentation with David's parish council
Joolz to provide training and support for forming a sustainability working group
Joolz to assist with community buy-in for Thrive Renewables solar farm project in Dunmo
Frank's school Eco Club to connect with primary schools and village groups for climate action education
Joolz to support development of community renewable energy projects to fund adventure playground
Joolz to assist with public works loan board borrowing process for community projects
Joolz to help document and support grant applications for at-risk money and capital funding over 9 months following workshop
Andrew to add community climate action website link to chat
Linda to support and facilitate climate cafes and listening circles in the Wendover area
Joolz to follow up with Linda regarding potential collaboration on Wendover event facilitation
Frank to share details about his school's pupil enterprise activities with the group
Graham to continue capturing contact details of attendees for future communications
Amanda to continue working on connecting with farming experts for regenerative agriculture discussions
Andrew to explore speakers and wisdom needed for overarching concept around farming and food security
Andrew to meet with ACRE in the afternoon for further discussion
Summary
Action Planning and Session Overview
Andrew welcomed participants to the session, introducing the focus on action planning and providing a link to past and future banter sessions for newcomers. He encouraged attendees to add their locations to their names for better recognition and shared light-hearted remarks about his humour. Joolz managed the chat and facilitated the session in Graham's absence, emphasizing the importance of staying on mute and introducing himself as Graham's "glamorous assistant." Participants were informed that about 30 people were expected, and the session would begin once everyone had arrived.
Buckinghamshire Climate Action Planning
Joolz led a discussion on community climate action planning, focusing on a project involving four parish councils in Buckinghamshire. He explained the process of creating a community climate action plan, which includes participatory workshops and voting on ideas. Joolz highlighted the urgent need for climate action, citing recent extreme weather events and the UN's "code red" warning for humanity. The project aims to address five key areas: food, energy, transport, housing, and biodiversity, with the first preparatory zoom session already recorded and available on their knowledge base.
Community Climate Action Initiatives
Joolz discussed community climate action initiatives, highlighting successful projects like California's renewable energy milestones and a Suffolk community's feasibility study for agrivoltaics and wind turbines. He emphasized the importance of empowering communities through local institutions and shared examples of funding sources, including grants, community investment bonds, and public works loan board borrowing. Joolz encouraged town and parish councils to support climate action by facilitating community energy projects and participating in planning processes, citing successful cases in Essex and Norfolk. He invited others to observe and participate in the ongoing Wendover and villages climate action planning process.
Community Climate Action Planning Update
Joolz provided an update on the community action planning process, including the development of a website with a toolkit and plans to launch a forum for collaboration. He mentioned the formation of a Bromsgrove community climate action group and offered support for creating community action plans. Joolz also discussed following up on the creation and publishing of plans to support grant applications for at-risk money. Andrew shared a link to a previous online session and asked about the content of an upcoming climate action planning event scheduled for October 11th. Joolz clarified the dates for preparatory Zoom sessions, and Amanda inquired about the correct dates, which were confirmed as August 20th and September 15th, each at 7pm.
Community Climate Action Strategies
Joolz discussed strategies for community climate action, emphasizing the importance of public participation and collaboration with anchor institutions like parish councils. He advised acting proactively, even if a community is in the early stages of adoption, and highlighted the value of quick wins such as installing renewable energy in community assets. Joolz also addressed funding options, including public works loan board financing, and encouraged communities to engage with local institutions to drive climate action plans. David inquired about engagement plans, funding sources, and training for a working group, while Amanda raised questions about aligning community activities strategically. Joolz provided guidance on community engagement and shared resources for further planning.
Agri-Voltaics and Community Sustainability
Joolz explained the benefits of agri-voltaics, highlighting that they allow for traditional farming practices while reducing opposition to solar farms. He noted that such systems are already common in other countries and can coexist with crops and livestock. Joolz also discussed the challenges of large-scale solar projects in Norfolk, emphasizing the need for community benefits and explaining how agri-voltaics could mitigate some objections. Frank shared an educational initiative linking high schools and primary schools to promote sustainability, and Joolz expressed interest in similar projects. The group discussed the categorization of various sustainability themes, with Joolz explaining how their five themes were developed through community input.
Climate Adaptation and Resilience Strategies
The group discussed climate adaptation and mitigation strategies, with Joolz emphasizing the need to build resilience and address both immediate impacts and long-term changes. Joolz highlighted the urgency of adapting to climate change, citing recent global events and the need to support communities in managing both physical and psychological impacts. Linda mentioned a new project called ICRA, which aims to develop a climate response through collaboration with the Climate Majority Project and the Mindfulness Institute, funded by lottery grants.
Climate Action and Community Engagement
The meeting focused on climate action initiatives and community engagement. Linda discussed organizing climate cafe listening circles and offered support through training and supervision. Joolz highlighted the need for these circles in their window villages planning and mentioned collaboration with Norfolk and Waverley Mind. The group also discussed a Cabinet Office consultation on community resilience planning, emphasizing the importance of including climate risk and adaptation. Joolz shared a video on leadership and the diffusion of innovation, illustrating how movements start and grow. The conversation ended with a discussion on dealing with fragmented efforts and encouraging collaboration among community members passionate about climate action.
Planning Future Sessions and Events
The meeting focused on planning future sessions and events, with Andrew inviting participants to share their experiences and expertise. Joolz Thompson and Linda discussed the possibility of Linda joining a banter session to talk about the Climate Psychology Alliance and her training. Andrew emphasized the importance of "training the trainer" to facilitate more widespread participation in deliberative democracy. Amanda mentioned her ongoing efforts to connect with farming experts on regenerative agriculture and her work with Mid County's cooperative on sustainability. The group also discussed the need for a broader perspective on farming and food security, with Andrew planning to step back and consider the bigger picture.
Chat:
00:02:16 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Banter sessions (inc table of all sessions): https://wiki.greatcollaboration.uk/knowledgebase/events/banter-sessions-inc-table-of-all-sessions/
00:09:53 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: The first session with Wendover Villages: https://wiki.greatcollaboration.uk/knowledgebase/events/cca-climate-action-plan-workshops/cca-01-22jul25-wendover-and-villages
00:42:16 Becky Lovegrove: Andrew can't see the message with link?
00:43:11 frank deas, south west stirling climate action network: chat only shows messages after you joined so some folk wont see them
00:43:19 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: CCA 01: 22Jul25 Wendover & Villages | The Great Collaboration Knowledgebase 00:43:30 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Banter sessions (inc table of all sessions) | The Great Collaboration Knowledgebase
00:45:44 Linda Aspey Climate Psychol Alliance: Thanks for a great presentation. Are these online meetings (Aug and Sept) standalone or a series that progress?
00:47:54 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Replying to "Thanks for a great p..."
These presentations are working towards the live event on October 11th, but there will be further webinars as we go forward, not least in response to requests from our East Anglia survey
00:48:55 John Payne Forest of dean: We have a Climate Action Group in our Parish Council, but they refuse to acknowledge our large and informal Extinction Rebellion Group who presently run two important transport Citizen Scientist Projects How can we be more inclusive! The innovators are by nature the activists
00:48:58 Linda Aspey Climate Psychol Alliance: Replying to "Thanks for a great p..."
Thanks. Still not clear if the events are duplicated for different dates, or something that is building
00:50:47 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Replying to "Thanks for a great p..."
I anticipate there will be similar run-ups to other local workshops, but best if Joolz can confirm
00:52:41 David newman (Blackbird Leys): It exists, the Oxford Low Carbon Hub. https://www.lowcarbonhub.org/
00:53:54 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: See more at Community Climate Action
01:04:12 Nik Mckiernan - North Warwickshire - Community Member: Thanks so much for the session today - great to understand further and look forward to following the progress on this. Got to head off to another session!
01:09:44 Linda Aspey Climate Psychol Alliance: May I share this - the SAFER campaign - calling for Govt action on adaptation. We (CPA) are involved in a joint venture for psychological / emotional resilience - it's called ICRA - the Inner Climate Response Alliance.
01:12:06 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Climate café listening circle sounds good
01:12:09 Linda Aspey Climate Psychol Alliance: [email protected]
01:12:53 Belinda Bawden: There's a Cabinet Office consultation on Community Resilience planning at the moment - with no mention of climate change.
I think we should insist on climate risk and community adaptation being included.
01:13:05 Linda Aspey Climate Psychol Alliance: CMP's SAFER - https://climatemajorityproject.com/safer-2/
01:13:13 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Reacted to "There's a Cabinet Of..." with 👍
01:13:17 Joolz | Community Climate Action: https://www.pupilsprofit.com/
01:13:25 Linda Aspey Climate Psychol Alliance: www.climatepsychologyalliance.org
01:14:03 Becky Lovegrove: going to share recording of today's presentation with colleagues - just checking how soon it will be posted? Thanks SO inspiring!
01:14:20 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Replying to "going to share recor..."
Probably next week
01:14:28 Belinda Bawden: Well done and thanks, Joolz
01:17:11 Becky Lovegrove: Reacted to "Probably next week" with 👍
01:17:29 frank deas, south west stirling climate action network: joolz could you put your email in the chat
01:18:49 Joolz | Community Climate Action: [email protected]
01:19:06 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Leadership can be telling, selling, delegating or partnering - and we can learn them all
01:21:28 Belinda Bawden: Climate Coaching Alliance is doing some great work
01:26:46 Linda Aspey Climate Psychol Alliance: Great session thank you! 🙂
01:26:46 Amanda Davis: Would have loved to, but na on those 2 dates
01:26:57 Linda Aspey Climate Psychol Alliance: Reacted to "Climate Coaching All..." with 👍
01:27:10 Claire Duc: Thank you
Speech-to-text (for AI Search engine):
81 00:08:16.640 --> 00:08:24.530 Joolz | Community Climate Action: closing a few, closing a few applications. And yeah, it's 5 past. So let's make start. So welcome to today's banter session.
82 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:28.609 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Well, we'll be running through some community climate action planning
83 00:08:29.080 --> 00:08:35.129 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and a live project that we're working on with Wendover and villages in Buckinghamshire
84 00:08:35.987 --> 00:08:40.769 Joolz | Community Climate Action: so today is to talk about the activity that we're conducting with 4
85 00:08:41.169 --> 00:08:50.360 Joolz | Community Climate Action: parish councils in Buckinghamshire. It's Western Turville, Stoke, Mandeville, Holdsden, and Wendover and
86 00:08:51.480 --> 00:08:59.859 Joolz | Community Climate Action: we're just embarking on the on the activity, the actual workshop itself. The physical day is on the 11th of October.
87 00:09:00.420 --> 00:09:11.909 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and we've we're preceding that with 3 preparatory monthly zoom sessions, the 1st one we've recorded and that's available on our knowledge base
88 00:09:12.280 --> 00:09:26.440 Joolz | Community Climate Action: under events just near the Banter sessions. So this one will be on there, and it's just near that. So if you do want to watch the the progress as it unfolds, and what we do in the in our preparatory zooms. You can watch the full recordings there.
89 00:09:26.860 --> 00:09:36.450 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And so we're kind of seeding the ground and getting some momentum and encouraging people to participate. Volunteer build capacity that kind of thing.
90 00:09:37.130 --> 00:09:42.590 Joolz | Community Climate Action: with the intention that when we have our in-person workshop we hit the ground running.
91 00:09:42.690 --> 00:09:57.290 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and we will also already have some projects to look at, discuss, and decide a way forward for the community. So writing a community climate action plan is a participatory process.
92 00:09:57.870 --> 00:10:08.199 Joolz | Community Climate Action: We use deliberative democracy in that when we come up with ideas, we ask the participants to actually vote on what they want to take forward
93 00:10:10.250 --> 00:10:12.449 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and it. And it's designed to be
94 00:10:13.261 --> 00:10:16.560 Joolz | Community Climate Action: to include, to design to be inclusive.
95 00:10:17.195 --> 00:10:20.200 Joolz | Community Climate Action: In that everybody's invited, not everyone will come.
96 00:10:20.490 --> 00:10:34.360 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and we have a theory of change where we will run through what's called the diffusion of Innovation bell curve. And we're right at the start of that process. So really, right now, we are the innovators.
97 00:10:34.860 --> 00:10:39.219 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So I'm just gonna share my screen a moment. So bear with me a moment.
98 00:10:52.440 --> 00:10:58.210 Joolz | Community Climate Action: yeah, that seems to work. You should be able to see a community climate action slide.
99 00:10:58.210 --> 00:10:58.520 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yep.
100 00:10:59.080 --> 00:11:06.080 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yeah, okay, there we go. Just pull. Put that full screen.
101 00:11:06.080 --> 00:11:07.489 Carey Bennett: Why does that happen?
102 00:11:10.160 --> 00:11:33.380 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So community climate action is based on the fact that nobody's coming to save us. And even if tomorrow the government decided to do lots of marvellous things they would need to encourage all of us to participate anyway. So community climate action takes care of people and our planet into our hands.
103 00:11:33.930 --> 00:11:39.850 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and we have 5 pillars of action, food, energy, transport, housing and biodiversity.
104 00:11:40.310 --> 00:11:47.730 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and probably water and water. Resilience comes under the food. The food bit also under the biodiversity bet
105 00:11:48.380 --> 00:12:01.260 Joolz | Community Climate Action: my contact details are there on screen on our website, communityclimateaction.uk, please do get in touch. If you want anything. Any further details from me, or would like to have a further conversation about community climate action planning in your area.
106 00:12:04.670 --> 00:12:12.640 Joolz | Community Climate Action: so some of this will, we're going to demonstrate what we've what we've achieved in Essex through some community led energy planning.
107 00:12:12.850 --> 00:12:20.899 Joolz | Community Climate Action: That also, then informs our activity. Now we're working with for parish councils in Buckinghamshire.
108 00:12:22.740 --> 00:12:31.969 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and we've all we, you know. We're probably all familiar with the melting ice caps and glaciers. We'll probably see a blue ocean event in our lifetime, which is pretty scary.
109 00:12:32.460 --> 00:12:34.820 Joolz | Community Climate Action: the continuing
110 00:12:35.810 --> 00:12:50.400 Joolz | Community Climate Action: continuing increase of Co. 2 in our atmosphere, you know, I think most latest. We're probably about 417, with a lot locked in 417 parts per 1,000,350 parts per 1 million is the safe zone.
111 00:12:50.540 --> 00:13:12.269 Joolz | Community Climate Action: We're smashing through the Paris agreements one and a half degrees, which is the safe upper limit. It's not a target. It's the safe upper limit for human existence, and we're smashing through that and the outcome of that is droughts. We're having the worst drought in 150 years in the Uk, which is significantly affecting our farming and our food security.
112 00:13:12.530 --> 00:13:14.419 Joolz | Community Climate Action: We suffer from flooding.
113 00:13:14.900 --> 00:13:23.969 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and if anyone's seen the news about extremes well, we have had some of the hottest weather and huge drought, and then we've suddenly had a
114 00:13:24.610 --> 00:13:41.260 Joolz | Community Climate Action: a danger to life weather warning with with thunderstorms and flash floods in East Anglia, so significant, flooding and record breaking wildfires in the Uk. And if anyone's watching the news, you know, my heart goes out to the communities in Greece
115 00:13:41.550 --> 00:13:47.250 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and Turkey and elsewhere in the world right now where they're suffering 50 degree heat, smashing
116 00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:59.529 Joolz | Community Climate Action: record temperatures. And you know the countries are burning and declared states of emergency, where whole suburbs in cities are going up in flames, and people are being evacuated.
117 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:11.339 Joolz | Community Climate Action: 70% of climate scientists expect to rise of at least 2 and a half degrees. So if we think one and a half is bad with extreme weather, 2 and a half degrees.
118 00:14:11.670 --> 00:14:15.769 Joolz | Community Climate Action: you know, in the by the end of this century is going to be cataclysmic
119 00:14:15.940 --> 00:14:21.660 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and many forecast. It will go above that. So there's lots of talk about adaptation
120 00:14:21.830 --> 00:14:26.439 Joolz | Community Climate Action: rather than mitigation now. So we need to adapt to the changes that here.
121 00:14:26.770 --> 00:14:27.770 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So
122 00:14:28.100 --> 00:14:39.980 Joolz | Community Climate Action: last year, further, wet weather raised fears of a harvest catastrophe. Our farmers couldn't plant seeds or harvest our food. Many seeds were washed away in the rains onto our roads with their
123 00:14:40.530 --> 00:14:53.890 Joolz | Community Climate Action: with the topsoil. And you know, if you're a town or parish council, you might recognise this kind of problem because it exacerbates flooding in our villages and our towns and our urban areas, because our drains are full of silt
124 00:14:54.350 --> 00:14:56.140 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and topsoil.
125 00:14:56.680 --> 00:15:07.909 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and it affects our roads as well in terms of potholes, so a bit counterintuitive. But if we want to fix our potholes, we need to talk to our farmers and change perhaps the way we
126 00:15:08.170 --> 00:15:14.760 Joolz | Community Climate Action: foam that has further impacts in terms of food security.
127 00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:23.870 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And last year the farming industry lost about a billion due to flooding. And this year they're losing about a billion due to drought.
128 00:15:24.280 --> 00:15:27.160 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So too much or too little rain
129 00:15:27.260 --> 00:15:32.570 Joolz | Community Climate Action: in a short period of time has serious consequences.
130 00:15:33.690 --> 00:15:39.360 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And those consequences aren't food shortages in our just in time supply system. We're not geared up
131 00:15:39.770 --> 00:15:44.840 Joolz | Community Climate Action: to manage that, even if it's deliveries being delayed because of flooding.
132 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:51.249 Joolz | Community Climate Action: we are witnessing empty shelves during extreme weather events. So we need to pay attention to where our food
133 00:15:51.400 --> 00:15:56.380 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and the water comes from. Now, before we're hungry and thirsty.
134 00:15:59.860 --> 00:16:04.550 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and the United Nations have declared code red or humanity.
135 00:16:06.160 --> 00:16:10.459 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So just take a moment to let that sink in code red for humanity.
136 00:16:12.630 --> 00:16:24.770 Joolz | Community Climate Action: But it's not all bad news because we can act. We have agency and community climate action is all about empowering our communities, our anchor institutions, our faith groups, our schools, our sports clubs.
137 00:16:24.990 --> 00:16:40.709 Joolz | Community Climate Action: our town and parish councils which form the bedrock of our community, our anchor institutions to act, and all of their audience, members, residents, constituents, and our community to also act. So this was about California which achieved
138 00:16:40.830 --> 00:16:50.439 Joolz | Community Climate Action: a critical milestone for a couple of weeks, powering themselves with renewable energy. Which is great news. They're the world's 4th largest economy. So if they can do it, we can do it.
139 00:16:52.160 --> 00:17:03.899 Joolz | Community Climate Action: We can also have productive use of land for food, using agri-voltaics which allows horticultural and and agricultural production and energy generation.
140 00:17:04.270 --> 00:17:13.520 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and our community group in Suffolk have recently received, been awarded 40,000 pounds for our feasibility study for 50 acres of agrivoltaics
141 00:17:13.750 --> 00:17:22.889 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and 3 wind turbines co-located on a field in our countryside. That's an 11 megawatt project that would power around 6,000 homes.
142 00:17:23.690 --> 00:17:28.480 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and that will return a significant surplus to the community.
143 00:17:28.900 --> 00:17:35.540 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And we're in conversation with local nature-based recovery projects about how that might be spent into the community.
144 00:17:35.990 --> 00:17:42.710 Joolz | Community Climate Action: also how it might fund precept to the parish councils that are involved in our green cluster.
145 00:17:42.890 --> 00:17:51.839 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And if you are a town or parish councillor, you probably have had endless discussions about dog fouling traffic, calming playgrounds.
146 00:17:52.470 --> 00:17:54.870 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and when it comes to things like traffic calming.
147 00:17:55.470 --> 00:18:02.240 Joolz | Community Climate Action: you know, if you want white gates, or if you want rumble strips, or if you want a speed sign, you know the AR system.
148 00:18:02.650 --> 00:18:13.419 Joolz | Community Climate Action: or a need to replace those it costs money, and it will come from our respective reserves. Wouldn't it be wonderful if that was funded by our community? Renewable energy?
149 00:18:14.360 --> 00:18:32.449 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So that's what we're looking to do with our surplus for our project moving forward. We're also in conversation with other community renewable energy companies, and certainly with principle of ours that we donate a percentage of our surplus, maybe 5% towards community climate action planning. So it becomes a virtuous circle
150 00:18:32.540 --> 00:18:44.879 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and we get off a grant treadmill. And by doing that we can look at systemic change and actually own the means of production where that surplus that is generated doesn't go to record profits for shareholders
151 00:18:45.070 --> 00:18:50.300 Joolz | Community Climate Action: of our utility companies, while our communities suffer with fuel poverty.
152 00:18:52.330 --> 00:18:58.420 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And certainly in East Anglia there's a new map that shows thousands of sites suitable for new onshore wind
153 00:18:59.138 --> 00:19:02.970 Joolz | Community Climate Action: an onshore wind is the cheapest single form of energy available.
154 00:19:05.080 --> 00:19:08.590 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So I'm just going to take a moment to play you. A quick video
155 00:19:08.890 --> 00:19:14.359 Joolz | Community Climate Action: kind of pre-release is sneak peek at what we've been doing in Essex
156 00:19:24.170 --> 00:19:28.640 Joolz | Community Climate Action: just waiting for the page to load a moment. And hopefully, this will play. Okay. So
157 00:19:39.620 --> 00:19:43.550 Joolz | Community Climate Action: I founded community climate action because nobody is coming to.
158 00:19:43.550 --> 00:20:06.460 Laila Azure-Marxen: Davis. And so I think it's really important. We gather and build that resilience for the change that's here when facing the climate crisis today we've been in Colchester at 1st sight, which is amazing. Delivering a workshop, trying to help the community to come together around what kinds of action they can take locally to improve energy resilience really, and to make sure that their community has got what it needs in the face of the changing climate connecting people together
159 00:20:06.460 --> 00:20:19.280 Laila Azure-Marxen: is a really important starting point. And hopefully, we can take something forward and build something just starting. That conversation is the really important thing. Starting that conversation in a pub at a parish meeting or something like that, just to get it out in the open.
160 00:20:19.280 --> 00:20:26.800 Laila Azure-Marxen: That's what we're all about. It's community climate action happening right now. Today, I'm Essex's climate Czar.
161 00:20:26.890 --> 00:20:28.580 Laila Azure-Marxen: I'm also a cabinet member
162 00:20:28.780 --> 00:20:58.519 Laila Azure-Marxen: for environment reuse and recycling one of the things that we do. And we find very important is bringing people together from communities to have a conversation and to start thinking about what their green energy future will look like. I'm really motivated by trying to get more people involved and trying to sort of get the issues around climate change and community energy sort of back out to the community. The idea is that we can share all of this expertise.
163 00:20:58.630 --> 00:21:00.650 Laila Azure-Marxen: that they can talk to each other.
164 00:21:00.730 --> 00:21:25.740 Laila Azure-Marxen: and they will be able to gain a lot of knowledge very quickly. When I got here this morning I didn't feel where we were going with this or where I was going with this, but I do feel that more. So now I feel actually quite focused. And I feel like I'm going to leave here with something tangible. I think I've got some ideas for going forward, and was also very reassured to learn that in order to be someone who starts the conversation, you don't have to have
165 00:21:25.740 --> 00:21:49.759 Laila Azure-Marxen: all the answers. And that's exactly what's happened today. It's been a really good good meeting of some minds, a bunch of passionate people who want to make a difference. You can really feel the energy talking about energy. Yeah, it's really exciting. So if this is something that would work really well in your community, then please do reach out to us at Essex County Council. We'll start to organize something like this with you for your community, because we think it's very important to
166 00:21:49.760 --> 00:21:57.539 Laila Azure-Marxen: hear the voices of the people that live in your area, and how we can shape the green energy future in Essex.
167 00:22:04.670 --> 00:22:09.610 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So there we go. That's a little bit about what we've been doing in Essex.
168 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:25.839 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and last year I did a presentation for the Slcc's. Are you prepared for net 0 summit on funding our future? So you know, we can make all the plans we like, and you know we can have great ideas. But what's really important is, where does the money come from?
169 00:22:26.130 --> 00:22:28.639 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And that includes the at risk money.
170 00:22:28.770 --> 00:22:42.339 Joolz | Community Climate Action: which is for things like feasibility, studies, or planning applications which might not be feasible, we might not receive planning. So that's called at risk. And then the capital required to actually go and do to buy stuff to buy assets.
171 00:22:43.670 --> 00:22:52.720 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And so knowledge base. And on our on the great collaboration, we're publishing information about sources of funding
172 00:22:52.910 --> 00:23:00.750 Joolz | Community Climate Action: national philosophy, district or County Council, various grant funding from the Government's Community energy fund.
173 00:23:00.870 --> 00:23:15.990 Joolz | Community Climate Action: the community ownership fund that was. And that's currently stopped. But I'm sure the Government will replace that at some stage various Vcse grant funding available from things like the Resilience fund. So we're just going through a process. For instance, with our Rugby club.
174 00:23:16.260 --> 00:23:39.279 Joolz | Community Climate Action: I've taken up playing Rugby again after a hiatus of 30 odd Years Veterans League. It's walking Rugby thankfully. But my journey with doing that activity started with contacting my local Rugby club, and I used to play for as a youth and saying, What are you doing? What are we doing about sustainability? Can I join as a member? Can I form a sustainability group?
175 00:23:39.670 --> 00:23:48.580 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And we're now doing a grant funded energy audit. And then we're going to look at installing heat pumps, solar and
176 00:23:48.800 --> 00:24:00.839 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and insulation in the clubhouse, which you know, the energy Bill is tens of thousands of pounds per year, so we'll both reduce that. But then we have an opportunity to provide an example
177 00:24:01.440 --> 00:24:03.359 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and to talk to the membership.
178 00:24:03.730 --> 00:24:16.200 Joolz | Community Climate Action: because all of those institutions that form a community that I mentioned, our schools, our churches, our congregations, our town and parish councils, our our pubs, and our sports clubs, all have an audience
179 00:24:16.670 --> 00:24:20.610 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and form the bedrock of our community. So we can. We can talk to them
180 00:24:20.750 --> 00:24:31.359 Joolz | Community Climate Action: on larger scale. There are things like community municipal investment bonds. There's self invested personal pensions, self administered pension schemes, community shares
181 00:24:32.050 --> 00:24:35.850 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and public works. Loan Board, borrowing from parish councils.
182 00:24:36.647 --> 00:24:47.409 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And there's precedent for that where a local Parish council in Suffolk Elmswell have used Public Works loan Board, borrowing to buy their local pub as a community pub and to invest in social housing.
183 00:24:48.100 --> 00:25:05.880 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Ultimately this forms blended finance and really is helpful in terms of community wealth building, keeping that benefit local, and also, as I say, providing community benefit in terms of funding things like traffic calming, or Var for our town and parish councils.
184 00:25:07.320 --> 00:25:09.130 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So where do we start? Well.
185 00:25:10.100 --> 00:25:13.099 Joolz | Community Climate Action: we're here. We're the innovators. We're 2 and a half percent.
186 00:25:13.340 --> 00:25:41.320 Joolz | Community Climate Action: But this is the diffusion of innovation. Bell curve, and any new kind of product, launch or innovation follows this trajectory. And it's the same for an iphone. You know, it's the same for any new technology, not everyone. When an iphone is launched, not everyone goes out and buys it. The innovators do. They're queuing up. Then the early adopters follow them. Once a few bugs have been ironed out, and once all of the early adopters have got it, and everybody says how great it is. Of course. Then the early majority follow them.
187 00:25:41.610 --> 00:25:44.880 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and the late majority follow the early majority.
188 00:25:47.040 --> 00:26:00.690 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and the laggards. Well, probably they won't ever jump on board. They're the climate deniers. We don't want to spend our time there. We really want to focus on the left hand side of this curve the innovators. And that's key to
189 00:26:00.730 --> 00:26:17.099 Joolz | Community Climate Action: our community climate action planning. So what's great with the pre-meetings and the group that we've gathered so far for Wendover and villages is we had over 20 people, 2025 people on the initial kickoff. Zoom!
190 00:26:17.150 --> 00:26:20.169 Joolz | Community Climate Action: We've got a capacity for the workshop of about 60.
191 00:26:20.340 --> 00:26:34.920 Joolz | Community Climate Action: That would be success. And we're inviting Hs to mitigation. We've got the Rugby Club, which is actually Aylesby Rugby Town Football Club on board, which is slightly outside of the area, but their pitch is in Western Turville.
192 00:26:35.090 --> 00:26:50.109 Joolz | Community Climate Action: We're contacting the Slcc and the Bucking Bucks and Milton Keynes Association of Local Councils. Schools will be joining us. We already had several representatives from an Eco. Church on the call.
193 00:26:50.240 --> 00:27:09.439 Joolz | Community Climate Action: We'll be working with Bucks. Resilience Forum, who are the 1st responders responsible. Our fire Brigade, our Paramedics, and our police. They're responsible for our community risk register. So we'll also be looking at our emergency planning in relation to climate risks.
194 00:27:10.581 --> 00:27:14.230 Joolz | Community Climate Action: We're inviting the farming, Wildlife Advisory Group.
195 00:27:14.470 --> 00:27:19.739 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and we had representatives on the call from Food Resilience Group, Nature-based Recovery Groups.
196 00:27:19.870 --> 00:27:40.259 Joolz | Community Climate Action: We've already had a representative from Taylor Wimpy book on the call. And again, as town and parish councillors, we understand how much housing and development there is going on, and we really need early stage conversations with those housing developers. An outcome of our work in Essex is, we're now having conversations with Tarmac
197 00:27:40.790 --> 00:27:46.379 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Tarmac are the Uk's 5, th largest landowner with lots of Ex
198 00:27:46.860 --> 00:27:53.879 Joolz | Community Climate Action: landfill and or quarries where aggregate's been extracted, and they're already in conversation about
199 00:27:54.010 --> 00:28:18.820 Joolz | Community Climate Action: plans for rewilding those kind of sites. We're going to be talking to them about renewable energy and biodiversity increase. And persimmon, for instance, are the Uk's largest housing developer with 3 billion turnover. And in Essex we're looking at a development of around 600 homes. That is pre-planning. So it gives you a flavour of the kind of people we're gathering.
200 00:28:18.980 --> 00:28:30.089 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And you know, friend, get a friend. If each of those people bring one person to the next call, we can grow exponentially. So we're the innovators, and we'll soon be joined by the early adopters. We don't need everybody.
201 00:28:30.630 --> 00:28:38.509 Joolz | Community Climate Action: you know. We just need those willing to take action now, and I had a conversation with a friend who's part of a congregation of a Catholic church.
202 00:28:38.920 --> 00:28:46.849 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and she said, Well, I'm really lonely. I'm probably the only climate voice in a congregation, and I said, Well, how many people are in the congregation.
203 00:28:47.070 --> 00:28:48.899 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And she said, there's about a hundred.
204 00:28:49.100 --> 00:29:10.869 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and that made the maths easy, and I was like, Well, you need one and a half other people, you know, obviously don't get a half but but you can get one or 2 other people, and that's the innovators. And you'll you know the Pope's already on board, you know. I'm sure your pastor or your vicar will be on board. You'll have the support of the institution, so go and find the others. So that's how we start
205 00:29:12.800 --> 00:29:15.730 Joolz | Community Climate Action: town and parish councils can support this activity.
206 00:29:16.110 --> 00:29:21.889 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Provision of allotments in terms of food resilience. We have a statutory biodiversity duty.
207 00:29:22.170 --> 00:29:25.379 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and as the great collaboration we recently sent out a survey
208 00:29:25.580 --> 00:29:35.619 Joolz | Community Climate Action: to Via Alcs and Socc branches throughout East Anglia with, I don't know, Andrew, how many did we get in total 70, plus maybe up to 100.
209 00:29:35.620 --> 00:29:37.589 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: We've got 82 so far. Yeah.
210 00:29:37.590 --> 00:29:45.489 Joolz | Community Climate Action: 82 somewhere in the middle. And you know what support? We asked the question, what support do town and parish councillors need?
211 00:29:45.750 --> 00:29:50.740 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And you know, community climate action planning was high on the list. But biodiversity was top.
212 00:29:51.200 --> 00:29:54.240 Joolz | Community Climate Action: You know, our strategy biodiversity. Gt, how do we measure?
213 00:29:54.480 --> 00:29:56.790 Joolz | Community Climate Action: How do we audit. And how do we improve?
214 00:29:57.050 --> 00:30:03.070 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And so those are some of the conversations we'll we'll be having throughout this process with Wendovern villages
215 00:30:03.370 --> 00:30:13.279 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and our emergency planning. And how does that dovetail with the community risk register? Because we don't really want our fire brigade and our ambulance and our police, busy with climate
216 00:30:13.560 --> 00:30:20.040 Joolz | Community Climate Action: related outcomes in terms of extreme weather, like flooding or wildfires, we want them available to look after us.
217 00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:25.479 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So you know, what emergency plans do we have in place for extreme heat.
218 00:30:25.960 --> 00:30:38.059 Joolz | Community Climate Action: you know, for food, shortages, or water shortages, even, you know, which have happened before those that might be old enough, or, you know, remember summers where we had standing pipes and water deliveries.
219 00:30:38.540 --> 00:30:46.320 Joolz | Community Climate Action: but also the town and parish councils can support and facilitate community energy and other climate action.
220 00:30:47.260 --> 00:30:48.060 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And
221 00:30:48.170 --> 00:31:05.560 Joolz | Community Climate Action: in this process. We're innovating because and certainly the Parish councils involved are innovating because they've just decided to. They've voted. They've discussed it is on the agenda, discussed it in a public vote to fund this activity from their reserves.
222 00:31:07.469 --> 00:31:08.120 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Which
223 00:31:08.634 --> 00:31:19.780 Joolz | Community Climate Action: is, you know, really important in terms of how we, the priority that we place on this activity that funding has then been match funded by the national lottery.
224 00:31:20.330 --> 00:31:26.610 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So it's something we can all do, and it's a bit like writing a neighbourhood plan. You know. We can write it. We can
225 00:31:26.930 --> 00:31:31.879 Joolz | Community Climate Action: make sure it's public and visible. Publish it, and then we can all join in.
226 00:31:34.220 --> 00:31:43.690 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and Professor Tim O'riordan, who's Chair of Norfolk Association of Local Councils, said, there's real scope for Norfolk, Llc. To explore the lessons being learnt by community climate action
227 00:31:43.990 --> 00:31:50.359 Joolz | Community Climate Action: in forms of management, financing, recruitment, and widespread improvement of local livelihoods.
228 00:31:50.870 --> 00:31:54.909 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and this should be connected to county-based devolution at an early stage.
229 00:31:55.310 --> 00:32:00.389 Joolz | Community Climate Action: so certainly in East Anglia, Suffolk, and Norfolk. We're going through a devolution deal. We'll have a mayor.
230 00:32:00.500 --> 00:32:14.490 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and we'll have combined unitary authorities, and in that process town and parish councils will have greater responsibilities, and will really be more at the coal face in terms of representing our local authorities at a local level.
231 00:32:15.450 --> 00:32:24.200 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And this is one of my favorite quotes from Sir James Bevan, who's chief executive of the Environment Agency in 2019, he said. Climate change plus growth
232 00:32:24.670 --> 00:32:27.489 Joolz | Community Climate Action: is an existential threat to our economy.
233 00:32:27.620 --> 00:32:32.510 Joolz | Community Climate Action: our environment, our security, our happiness, and our way of life.
234 00:32:34.090 --> 00:32:36.350 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And we can choose to ignore this problem.
235 00:32:37.040 --> 00:32:38.829 Joolz | Community Climate Action: or we can choose to tackle it.
236 00:32:38.960 --> 00:32:44.669 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and I'm betting that you're all in this room because you think the second approach is preferable to the first, st
237 00:32:47.130 --> 00:32:57.139 Joolz | Community Climate Action: so I would encourage you to walk with the dreamers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their head in the clouds and their feet on the ground.
238 00:32:57.440 --> 00:33:03.999 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it.
239 00:33:05.890 --> 00:33:08.700 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So. Part of this process we create
240 00:33:10.860 --> 00:33:17.059 Joolz | Community Climate Action: eventbrite pages. We produce a marketing plan and a community engagement plan.
241 00:33:17.510 --> 00:33:25.380 Joolz | Community Climate Action: We create the, as I say, the event listing Facebook listing, we provide flyers and posters
242 00:33:25.490 --> 00:33:29.090 Joolz | Community Climate Action: with relevant respective QR. Codes for marketing.
243 00:33:29.320 --> 00:33:40.079 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and within the process, with the great collaboration we are working with our associations of local councils, and we have content and delivery partners.
244 00:33:42.680 --> 00:33:46.336 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and our our Cbs in
245 00:33:47.320 --> 00:33:50.319 Joolz | Community Climate Action: in Suffolk. We've invested in a farm
246 00:33:51.030 --> 00:33:58.630 Joolz | Community Climate Action: where we cleared lots of rubbish, and we've also bought our local pub, which ultimately will be a power station.
247 00:33:58.990 --> 00:34:01.840 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So that's some of the things that we can potentially achieve.
248 00:34:02.842 --> 00:34:05.920 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And I'll just pause there and stop screen sharing.
249 00:34:09.230 --> 00:34:14.770 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So where we are is at the start of this process for Wendover and villages
250 00:34:15.290 --> 00:34:22.930 Joolz | Community Climate Action: we are having 2 more zooms before we actually have our in-person workshop.
251 00:34:23.814 --> 00:34:42.429 Joolz | Community Climate Action: I would like to extend an open invitation for anyone that wants to observe the process. Be a witness. Come and join the zooms and see who's there, see what's happening, and see how it might work, or how it might fit in your area, and how we might scale from
252 00:34:42.889 --> 00:34:53.050 Joolz | Community Climate Action: being innovators to early adopters, and then to the early majority, where it just becomes normal and the late majority follow, and then everybody everybody's doing it.
253 00:34:53.730 --> 00:35:21.260 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So you can learn you can participate if you want to help support. If you're interested in joining in. If you're interested in learning more about how to do it in your community, then we'd really value that that volunteer effort, that help and support. And we can treat it as some continued professional development and essentially train the trainer activity as we look to broaden this activity throughout other communities.
254 00:35:23.170 --> 00:35:39.310 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Further, to the Essex workshop, the outcome of those series of 3 workshops funded by Essex County Council to support communities in Essex is school project in Malden with Empower, the local Community Energy Company.
255 00:35:39.630 --> 00:36:03.089 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Molden Academy, Molden Plume Academy. And that's beautiful because it's a student led project. We had 2 students, Ollie and Zoe attend our workshop. They did a desktop feasibility study. We do some learning by doing. We've got software where we can identify the solar potential for rooftops. And where can we put a wind turbine and we can download planning constraints and all that helps feed into grant applications.
256 00:36:03.510 --> 00:36:07.219 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and Ollie and Zoe have now done a presentation to their headteacher
257 00:36:07.660 --> 00:36:12.229 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and the faculty have come back and said, Yes, this is something we're interested in taking forward.
258 00:36:12.440 --> 00:36:23.080 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So we're having now having follow-up meetings with the head teacher and the chief financial officer for a very large academy with the students and the local Community Energy Group, to see how we might make that a reality
259 00:36:23.200 --> 00:36:24.779 Joolz | Community Climate Action: at the start of next term
260 00:36:25.580 --> 00:36:29.999 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and other for Colchester in the local area and
261 00:36:30.200 --> 00:36:38.500 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Great Demo. I know Stuart's on the call, and Stuart's looking at Solar on the Town Hall that's gone through a feasibility study
262 00:36:38.630 --> 00:36:46.929 Joolz | Community Climate Action: various quotes and a procurement process, and we're just looking at how we might fund that with the resilience fund that I mentioned earlier.
263 00:36:47.320 --> 00:36:51.419 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And we've got 2 or 3 wind turbine projects that we're looking at for
264 00:36:51.630 --> 00:36:59.969 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Colchester and the local area. And the outcome of that is, we've also had a meeting with Stanway 5 ways primary school
265 00:37:00.190 --> 00:37:07.369 Joolz | Community Climate Action: who are part of a network of 15 other schools. And we're going to have further conversations. We've we're talking to Tarmac.
266 00:37:07.790 --> 00:37:11.419 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and I'm sure Tarmac will have an opposite number wherever you are.
267 00:37:12.050 --> 00:37:24.610 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and we'll have land available. So let's facilitate those conversations throughout this process with Wendover villages. And in Essex we're now talking to Persimmon and Taylor Wimpy, who are national organizations.
268 00:37:25.186 --> 00:37:32.330 Joolz | Community Climate Action: I neglected to mention that also the local holiday inn has registered for our community climate action planning event.
269 00:37:32.740 --> 00:37:43.689 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Again, as a local and national business, I'd be really interested to understand their sustainability policy where they buy their energy from, but also where they buy how they procure their food
270 00:37:44.630 --> 00:37:48.019 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and how we can connect up our local farming community?
271 00:37:49.746 --> 00:37:52.949 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So lots of positive outcomes. And I'm very excited
272 00:37:53.440 --> 00:38:04.870 Joolz | Community Climate Action: about this process. And, as I say, we're looking to both record and document the process as we go. And you're now part of that experience.
273 00:38:05.100 --> 00:38:07.449 Joolz | Community Climate Action: But also, as I say, extending an offer.
274 00:38:07.570 --> 00:38:14.149 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and for those that might want to observe or or get involved.
275 00:38:14.590 --> 00:38:19.530 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And you will know that as the great collaboration, we've got a website with a toolkit.
276 00:38:19.640 --> 00:38:22.210 Joolz | Community Climate Action: We're developing those services. Further.
277 00:38:22.900 --> 00:38:37.049 Joolz | Community Climate Action: our Dev team are just looking at about how we launch our forum, so we can all get on board and chat, and we can access all of these kind of documents, recordings, best practice, and methodologies through our knowledge base.
278 00:38:37.450 --> 00:38:48.520 Joolz | Community Climate Action: where we record, you know not not just myself as Graham's glamorous assistant, but also all the other amazing speakers that we have on specialist topics that assist us in this journey.
279 00:38:50.050 --> 00:38:53.830 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So there there we go. That's a sort of update
280 00:38:53.980 --> 00:38:57.079 Joolz | Community Climate Action: on our community climate action planning.
281 00:38:57.330 --> 00:39:02.929 Joolz | Community Climate Action: We've also got a group in Broms Grove that just incorporated as Broms Grove community action
282 00:39:04.590 --> 00:39:18.689 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and spreading throughout the country so happy to answer any questions, queries. You've got my contact details, and you know we'd be delighted to come and help you support you
283 00:39:18.850 --> 00:39:22.380 Joolz | Community Climate Action: in your area to write your community Climate Action plan.
284 00:39:23.710 --> 00:39:26.160 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And most importantly, we'll also be following up
285 00:39:26.580 --> 00:39:43.860 Joolz | Community Climate Action: on the creation and publishing of the plan to support Wendovern villages in their grant applications for the at-risk money, the capital, over a period of 9 months following our in person workshop, to make sure that we enact
286 00:39:44.820 --> 00:39:49.339 Joolz | Community Climate Action: all well and good. You know, planning is essential. Plans are useless unless we go. Do
287 00:39:49.850 --> 00:39:52.410 Joolz | Community Climate Action: so walk with the dreamers, and let's go. Do.
288 00:39:52.850 --> 00:40:17.236 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Thanks. One of my old bosses used to say, failing to plan, is planning to fail. So we, as you say, people in the present company are are obviously ready to get get involved in that. I've put the link to your 1st wend over online session in the chat. Does that? I have to confess I haven't looked through it myself yet. Does that?
289 00:40:17.860 --> 00:40:29.300 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Obviously, when the event is happening on 11th of October people will be actually going through a climate action planning process. Is there some of that in that recording as well?
290 00:40:29.750 --> 00:40:31.900 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Is that true people getting together.
291 00:40:31.900 --> 00:41:00.339 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yes, so those that might have might have seen me present before. Please accept my apologies that some of the information I presented will be a repeat, the obviously the zoom, the Wendroven villages. Zoom has a very similar presentation. So you know, you can obviously skip through that. But if you want, but if you want to watch, it is there most importantly, though, are links to register for the upcoming zooms, the preparatory zooms
292 00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:09.209 Joolz | Community Climate Action: so very similar to a banter session click to register. Leave your name and email address and then you'll get an automatic email invitation.
293 00:41:09.420 --> 00:41:36.080 Joolz | Community Climate Action: The zooms are at 7 o'clock 7 Pm. And they're on Wednesday, the 20, th and I think Monday, the 15th of September. So please do register for those. And yes, you can see both the transcript. You know the action points and all of this kind of thing, the outcomes of those meetings in the link that Andrew's just shared. And there is also a link to the eventbrite page. If you just want to have a look and see.
294 00:41:36.230 --> 00:41:56.259 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And you know all of our stuff is kind of creative Commons in terms of copyright. Please do copy, crib, use, repurpose, anything you like, and we do prefer it. If you give us a nod, and you know and name check community climate action. If you do reuse it, you reuse any of our material. But yes, it's all on that link.
295 00:41:56.880 --> 00:41:59.870 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and you know we'd be delighted to share progress with you.
296 00:42:00.030 --> 00:42:02.609 Joolz | Community Climate Action: so we can all replicate success.
297 00:42:04.010 --> 00:42:17.986 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Thank you very much. I've got one or 2 things I might say as well, but is anybody would like to start a conversation, either by waving at us or putting your hand up in the chat in the using the system. Raising your hand.
298 00:42:18.881 --> 00:42:22.248 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: okay, Becky, the the message with the link.
299 00:42:22.860 --> 00:42:29.220 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: is it says it says, wend over. It's in the chat wend over, and villages the great collaboration knowledge base.
300 00:42:30.057 --> 00:42:31.292 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Hopefully. That's
301 00:42:31.910 --> 00:42:40.199 Becky Lovegrove: I can't see anything in the chat apart from a message from Claire saying, sorry my laptop checked me out.
302 00:42:40.680 --> 00:42:44.679 Becky Lovegrove: Well, I put in the messages. Before I'll put it in again, and
303 00:42:44.680 --> 00:42:47.360 Becky Lovegrove: it might just be my system.
304 00:42:49.210 --> 00:42:52.369 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Right, Amanda, you've got your hand up. Go for it.
305 00:42:52.370 --> 00:43:07.395 Amanda Davis: Thank you. Thank you very much. I think this is what I've been missing. This is like a missing link. Thank you. So 1st of all, I've just looked up the 15th and the 20, th and they don't seem to be a Friday and a and a Wednesday. So
306 00:43:07.690 --> 00:43:10.329 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Might have got the days wrong, but the dates are right, so.
307 00:43:10.690 --> 00:43:14.080 Amanda Davis: 20th and the 15.th Thank you.
308 00:43:14.080 --> 00:43:19.740 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Let me just have a quick look. Yeah. So Wednesday, the 20th of August.
309 00:43:20.160 --> 00:43:23.369 Amanda Davis: Oh, August, sorry I do apologize. I thought you said September.
310 00:43:23.370 --> 00:43:26.120 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And Monday, the 15th of September.
311 00:43:26.990 --> 00:43:32.799 Amanda Davis: So Monday is the September 1. 20th is the August one. Thank you very much.
312 00:43:33.130 --> 00:43:39.070 Amanda Davis: And then the next is I want. Is it okay to go on to more
313 00:43:39.280 --> 00:43:41.400 Amanda Davis: more general questions at this point.
314 00:43:41.600 --> 00:43:42.280 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Sure.
315 00:43:42.710 --> 00:43:46.750 Amanda Davis: Thank you. So I saw the bell curve.
316 00:43:47.040 --> 00:43:56.160 Amanda Davis: and I'm wondering in a parish. My Parish council probably has a greater urgency
317 00:43:56.270 --> 00:44:06.979 Amanda Davis: to its sort of over tourism or a special, you know, specific focus of its looking at the drivers of climate change for us.
318 00:44:07.380 --> 00:44:11.160 Amanda Davis: and what makes community happiness or resilience.
319 00:44:11.520 --> 00:44:14.750 Amanda Davis: But I'm I'm probably in that
320 00:44:15.090 --> 00:44:24.670 Amanda Davis: 1% at the start. Now, my question is, do I accept that? I'm I've got to find my others that make up the 1% and still drive ahead anyway?
321 00:44:25.110 --> 00:44:31.740 Amanda Davis: Or would you say, pick out the things that are in common with what your community priorities are
322 00:44:31.910 --> 00:44:40.930 Amanda Davis: such as, for example, the food and drink, the transport, the parking, the waste, those elements and work on
323 00:44:41.120 --> 00:44:42.420 Amanda Davis: on that.
324 00:44:42.550 --> 00:44:50.749 Amanda Davis: So in other words, if you're an early adopter of part of it. But you're a later adopter as a parish of other bits of it.
325 00:44:51.380 --> 00:44:54.170 Amanda Davis: What lessons should we take from today's session.
326 00:44:55.090 --> 00:44:57.644 Joolz | Community Climate Action: That's good. That's a good question.
327 00:44:58.910 --> 00:45:02.270 Joolz | Community Climate Action: so the 1st part of that is, should should you wait?
328 00:45:02.380 --> 00:45:05.500 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And I would, I would say, absolutely. Don't wait. Act now.
329 00:45:08.240 --> 00:45:12.339 Joolz | Community Climate Action: As long as this process is is public.
330 00:45:14.240 --> 00:45:17.090 Joolz | Community Climate Action: It's visible, and everybody's invited.
331 00:45:17.670 --> 00:45:25.180 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Those that choose to participate have a mandate for action very much like an election.
332 00:45:25.370 --> 00:45:35.550 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Those that turn out and vote have a say. Those that don't vote aren't. So. If people come and participate and come to a meeting. They're part of the process.
333 00:45:36.350 --> 00:45:40.589 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And in terms of priorities, I would suggest the process
334 00:45:40.980 --> 00:45:44.579 Joolz | Community Climate Action: solicits those priorities from those that are involved.
335 00:45:44.850 --> 00:45:57.969 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So yeah, you mentioned a few things traffic food parking. The what's what's important to the community will be decided in the process. And it is really important is participatory and democratic.
336 00:45:58.865 --> 00:46:01.959 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yeah, I would really, really encourage
337 00:46:02.500 --> 00:46:15.069 Joolz | Community Climate Action: quick wins and quick wins from my perspective are probably mitigating things. Mitigation like installing renewable energy in community assets.
338 00:46:15.320 --> 00:46:36.949 Joolz | Community Climate Action: It's just as it's fundable. It's a quick win. It's demonstrable. It provides an example for others and also gets an anchor institution involved, and you can then talk to their community, so I'd be strongly in favour of that. But you know what if people show up and what's most pressing on their mind is traffic calming, and they want to be able to cycle and walk and want a day.
339 00:46:36.950 --> 00:46:37.779 Carey Bennett: A day.
340 00:46:37.780 --> 00:46:42.339 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Closure. Then, you know, that's that's the thing to to focus on where the energy is.
341 00:46:43.120 --> 00:47:08.690 Amanda Davis: So, if I may come back just to conclude to see whether I've understood this correctly. It's not so much where your Parish Council is, or where your individual counselors are, if you're looking at leadership coming from Parish Council, but rather it's where the parish residents or the community is when it turns up and you work with those that are the early majority. The half.
342 00:47:08.690 --> 00:47:14.039 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yes, that's right. Yeah. So the innovators or the early adopters, whoever you, whoever we can gather in a room
343 00:47:14.170 --> 00:47:29.509 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and the town or parish. Our town or parish council is one of a number of different anchor institutions with an audience, and our audience is our constituents, and we are representative of those.
344 00:47:30.278 --> 00:47:35.930 Joolz | Community Climate Action: But this isn't necessarily town or Parish Council activity
345 00:47:36.770 --> 00:47:44.540 Joolz | Community Climate Action: person. It can be facilitated by the town of Parish Council, can be a nexus in this instance it's funded.
346 00:47:45.180 --> 00:47:51.969 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and it's much easier if obviously, if we have the support of our respective town and parish councillors, I wouldn't like to do it without that.
347 00:47:52.140 --> 00:47:59.109 Joolz | Community Climate Action: But it is very much community based. So actually, what we're bringing to the Town and Parish council, we're bringing capacity.
348 00:47:59.350 --> 00:48:16.849 Joolz | Community Climate Action: We're bringing potential funding. And we're potentially solving some of the. Some of our respective councils challenges like biodiversity duty, because we all know we haven't got much budget. We're lacking capacity. And there's few of us. So we need to broaden the activities that very much community, very much community climate action planning.
349 00:48:17.140 --> 00:48:20.400 Amanda Davis: So just I don't want to hog the whole debate, but
350 00:48:20.610 --> 00:48:45.360 Amanda Davis: in effect, what we're doing is lots of piecemeal parts of that. But we haven't got a strategic envelope that it fits within. So we're doing our community planning. We're engaging with our wildlife trust to look at a biodiversity audit. We've got allotments. We're doing bits, but I don't think we understand where each bit fits, and we haven't got the community driving it in the way that
351 00:48:45.400 --> 00:48:50.850 Amanda Davis: this does so. Thank you very much. Been really, really helpful. And I think I know where we're
352 00:48:51.150 --> 00:48:53.819 Amanda Davis: where we need to aim next. Thank you.
353 00:48:54.090 --> 00:48:57.639 Joolz | Community Climate Action: I'm glad it was helpful, Amanda. I'm not sure who's next. Lots of hands.
354 00:48:58.058 --> 00:48:59.730 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Next, yeah. David's next.
355 00:48:59.730 --> 00:49:00.340 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Okay.
356 00:49:04.840 --> 00:49:05.490 David newman (Blackbird Leys): Right.
357 00:49:08.910 --> 00:49:15.319 David newman (Blackbird Leys): There's 3 things you talked about that I want to find out more about. Not necessarily today.
358 00:49:17.210 --> 00:49:26.390 David newman (Blackbird Leys): They're to do with engagement plans with finance sources and with
359 00:49:26.730 --> 00:49:30.809 David newman (Blackbird Leys): training of a working group. But I'll explain the context.
360 00:49:31.640 --> 00:49:36.410 David newman (Blackbird Leys): Last night we had 40 people turn up to our Parish council meeting.
361 00:49:37.480 --> 00:49:42.690 David newman (Blackbird Leys): They came because there's a crisis in funding for an adventure playground
362 00:49:42.930 --> 00:49:45.889 David newman (Blackbird Leys): that might have to stop in September.
363 00:49:47.150 --> 00:49:55.740 David newman (Blackbird Leys): and the connection here is one of the things that they're treasure would hope was.
364 00:49:56.750 --> 00:50:02.230 David newman (Blackbird Leys): can we save our huge electricity bills by getting solar panels put in?
365 00:50:03.180 --> 00:50:07.050 David newman (Blackbird Leys): And what can people in the community
366 00:50:07.620 --> 00:50:12.649 David newman (Blackbird Leys): do about it, and what can the Parish Council do about it?
367 00:50:13.770 --> 00:50:25.779 David newman (Blackbird Leys): And there seems there's a connection between crises that affect the community and the climate crisis.
368 00:50:26.500 --> 00:50:27.060 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yeah.
369 00:50:27.540 --> 00:50:33.240 David newman (Blackbird Leys): At the same time. We were, of course, talking about our neighborhood plan.
370 00:50:33.850 --> 00:50:37.810 David newman (Blackbird Leys): Where now hang on? Where's my picture? There we are.
371 00:50:37.810 --> 00:50:38.300 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yeah, please.
372 00:50:38.300 --> 00:50:48.780 David newman (Blackbird Leys): Is the level of engagement we have at the moment at a couple of festivals, and yes, leak.
373 00:50:49.050 --> 00:50:55.269 David newman (Blackbird Leys): So I wanted to find out more about how you do an engagement plan to actually make it work.
374 00:50:56.340 --> 00:51:03.330 David newman (Blackbird Leys): We've got people in the Parish Council who sort of
375 00:51:04.320 --> 00:51:23.429 David newman (Blackbird Leys): have individual connection with the community, but not organized. Bring it together like you're doing for your climate action plan. So I was wondering how we could improve that. And does that mean training, or someone coming to speak to us, or all heading off to Buckinghamshire to have a look.
376 00:51:23.540 --> 00:51:28.500 David newman (Blackbird Leys): And of course I haven't actually heard of any of these different funders.
377 00:51:29.250 --> 00:51:32.210 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Okay? Sure. Well, the 1st thing is, you're here today, brilliant.
378 00:51:32.740 --> 00:51:44.839 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And you know. So that's you're one of the innovators. I would encourage you to get your fellow cohorts in your group, either your town parish council, or any climate group to also come along.
379 00:51:45.546 --> 00:51:52.729 Joolz | Community Climate Action: There's a few things in your in your kind of question. So I'm just going to start with. I think it was a playground at risk of closing
380 00:51:53.289 --> 00:52:02.560 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and yes, the 1st thing to do. The 1st thing I would do is look at installing community or renewable energy to reduce your bills to reduce the cost.
381 00:52:03.200 --> 00:52:15.260 Joolz | Community Climate Action: The second thing, which is longer term is identify some community renewable energy that might be able to fund that as a community benefit, moving forward to making itself sustainable.
382 00:52:15.920 --> 00:52:21.740 Joolz | Community Climate Action: What you may choose to do. If you have sensible plans for
383 00:52:21.920 --> 00:52:32.119 Joolz | Community Climate Action: some community, renewable energy, or at the point, you know you've got feasibility. Study done is you may choose to borrow money under the Public Works Loan Board for
384 00:52:33.046 --> 00:52:36.879 Joolz | Community Climate Action: bridge finance, bridging, finance for
385 00:52:37.427 --> 00:52:44.370 Joolz | Community Climate Action: the playground, while the community renewable energy is built and the community. Renewable energy would then pay back that borrow.
386 00:52:44.820 --> 00:52:48.952 Joolz | Community Climate Action: so that that would be a clear path to funding for that particular
387 00:52:49.430 --> 00:53:13.759 Joolz | Community Climate Action: challenge in terms of community engagement. This is exactly the process that we're involved in right. Now, please do come to the zooms on the 20th of August and 15th of September we'll be going into some detail. We've got a published plan for how to contact those anchor institutions and those anchor institutions. The point, the point really is, as long as there's 1 person
388 00:53:13.860 --> 00:53:23.700 Joolz | Community Climate Action: interested. They. And if you put your hand up and say I'm going to form a sustainability group, you'll be surprised at how many people join, or at least one or 2
389 00:53:24.520 --> 00:53:30.619 Joolz | Community Climate Action: on the basis that 60% of people want to take action on the climate, but don't know what to do.
390 00:53:31.040 --> 00:53:33.880 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And then each and then you suddenly have an audience.
391 00:53:34.100 --> 00:53:36.239 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and a movement needs to be public.
392 00:53:36.838 --> 00:53:43.280 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So once that activity starts at, say, the Rugby Club, the school. Other people will join in.
393 00:53:43.710 --> 00:53:51.520 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Bill Bowman, the Chair of world. Rugby has recently written a report on the State of World Rugby in a 2 degree world, and it's not pretty.
394 00:53:51.810 --> 00:53:58.689 Joolz | Community Climate Action: The Australian National team had to travel 400 kilometers away from their training ground, due to wildfires.
395 00:53:59.320 --> 00:54:09.740 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So if we love playing Rugby, and we like being active, and you know we have a sport that we enjoy if we want to protect that and ensure it thrives for future generations. We'll act.
396 00:54:10.300 --> 00:54:16.400 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and similarly with Eco. Churches and the Church of England and Schools, the Department for Education of
397 00:54:16.560 --> 00:54:20.579 Joolz | Community Climate Action: issued advice that every school should have a climate action plan by the end of this year.
398 00:54:21.420 --> 00:54:31.249 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and schools need help and support. With that. They don't have capacity. They don't have budget. But I tell you what, the children, our students, and our kids are terrified
399 00:54:31.500 --> 00:54:36.879 Joolz | Community Climate Action: of climate change and are super keen to understand what they can do.
400 00:54:37.190 --> 00:55:05.179 Joolz | Community Climate Action: how they can participate, what they can learn, because every in the future every job is going to be a climate job. So there's a real good reason for each of these institutions to act for their members to act, and the kind of marketing, if you like. Part of the community engagement. That's a well trodden path. We're not reinventing the wheel, you know. It's a bit of a bit of flying bit of social media, a bit of telephone tele sales and that kind of thing. But we've got. We've got a
401 00:55:05.690 --> 00:55:10.709 Joolz | Community Climate Action: a documented plan or a document outlining all of that
402 00:55:11.557 --> 00:55:16.490 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and so it becomes a thing, and it becomes our plan.
403 00:55:16.730 --> 00:55:29.850 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Having written by the community, it's owned by the community. So they've got a greater stake in its delivery. So I hope that answers some of your questions, David. I'll be really happy to have further conversations, or talk about what we could do in your area.
404 00:55:31.150 --> 00:55:42.640 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Thanks, Jules. If if there's an online link to that plan, if you could submit into that, I'll put your community climate action website link in the chat. Stuart was next, then Frank, after Stuart, Stuart.
405 00:55:42.840 --> 00:55:48.020 Cllr Dr.Stuart Withington, Great Dunmow TC, Essex: Oh, thanks and thanks, Jules, for a very interesting presentation.
406 00:55:48.893 --> 00:55:55.749 Cllr Dr.Stuart Withington, Great Dunmow TC, Essex: Now, a company called Thrive Renewables have just purchased quite a large Solar Farm in Dunmo.
407 00:55:56.120 --> 00:56:05.799 Cllr Dr.Stuart Withington, Great Dunmow TC, Essex: and they are looking for community buy-in. I I think that they want to sell off 10% of their investment to the community.
408 00:56:06.410 --> 00:56:10.189 Cllr Dr.Stuart Withington, Great Dunmow TC, Essex: There has been some I wouldn't say revolt.
409 00:56:10.380 --> 00:56:18.890 Cllr Dr.Stuart Withington, Great Dunmow TC, Essex: but a lot of the community people are saying we shouldn't be putting solar Pv. On agricultural land.
410 00:56:19.390 --> 00:56:22.239 Cllr Dr.Stuart Withington, Great Dunmow TC, Essex: so they're unlikely to sort of buy in.
411 00:56:22.380 --> 00:56:29.790 Cllr Dr.Stuart Withington, Great Dunmow TC, Essex: I was just wondering how the Agrievoltaics work out, so I'm sure that there would be a lot less opposition to those.
412 00:56:29.950 --> 00:56:33.180 Cllr Dr.Stuart Withington, Great Dunmow TC, Essex: But how does it work out for the landowner.
413 00:56:33.430 --> 00:56:40.580 Cllr Dr.Stuart Withington, Great Dunmow TC, Essex: and what crops can actually grow? I presume it's a lot more labor intensive, because you can't get all the usual machinery in there.
414 00:56:40.740 --> 00:56:43.509 Cllr Dr.Stuart Withington, Great Dunmow TC, Essex: So how does it work out.
415 00:56:45.750 --> 00:56:48.000 Joolz | Community Climate Action: No, it's not more labor intensive.
416 00:56:51.150 --> 00:56:53.980 Joolz | Community Climate Action: You can still use the same
417 00:56:54.230 --> 00:57:21.089 Joolz | Community Climate Action: tractors combines. You can have what's called bifacial panels, which are like fences. They are east to west, facing, and they're in rows, and it's very much like agriforestry, and you'll have your combine down one row and your tractor and trailer in the other row, collecting the wheat as it's harvested, or you can have solar on stilts, and it can be big enough to fit fit your machinery underneath. So a combine underneath. And lots of plants actually like shade
418 00:57:21.970 --> 00:57:44.989 Joolz | Community Climate Action: or partial shade and dapple shade, particularly in weather that's hot like this, because our farmers have just in their barley, and their wheat actually sit actually scorched and shrunken by the heat. There's all sorts of other crops and horticultural things that like shade like Brassica cauliflower, you know, broccoli, what have you?
419 00:57:45.240 --> 00:57:59.499 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And having some cover, aids or inhibits evapotranspiration, which is the moisture in the soil, disappearing up into the sky as it evaporates
420 00:58:00.163 --> 00:58:09.360 Joolz | Community Climate Action: actually, in Italy you're not allowed to put solar panels on farmland, and it's a legislation now that Solar farm has to be agri-voltaic.
421 00:58:09.510 --> 00:58:18.390 Joolz | Community Climate Action: We're very much behind the curve in the Uk. In that. They're already doing this in Germany, in France, in Italy, in America.
422 00:58:18.550 --> 00:58:20.570 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and you can have livestock
423 00:58:20.930 --> 00:58:47.360 Joolz | Community Climate Action: on the fields, you know, sheep and grazing animals with deep pasture and roots for a very healthy soil and increased biodiversity, or you can grow the same kind of traditional crops that you might grow cereal crops, hops, barley. We're kind of keen to maybe look at growing hops or barley predominantly for brewing beer. But no, it'd be exactly the same. And yes, of course it takes away the objection
424 00:58:47.430 --> 00:58:53.529 Joolz | Community Climate Action: of, you know, productive agricultural land being turned over to a Solar Farm.
425 00:58:54.310 --> 00:58:59.599 Joolz | Community Climate Action: It won't stop objections from the community in terms of a view.
426 00:59:00.030 --> 00:59:05.190 Joolz | Community Climate Action: you know. Don't want to be staring at solar panels, because again, it's either solar on stilts or
427 00:59:05.420 --> 00:59:21.019 Joolz | Community Climate Action: panels in rows. But you know we've got plenty of industrial infrastructure for farming that people have to look at and smells, you know, if you live in the country, it stinks, you know, when it's muck spreading season. These are just things you need to be used to. And
428 00:59:21.330 --> 00:59:25.940 Joolz | Community Climate Action: you know we're wind rich and solar and sun rich in East Anglia. So we need to farm
429 00:59:26.330 --> 00:59:27.550 Joolz | Community Climate Action: far more energy.
430 00:59:29.000 --> 00:59:37.000 Joolz | Community Climate Action: In facing a lot of objections right now, but very.
431 00:59:37.000 --> 00:59:38.199 Carey Bennett: So I didn't get 2 seconds.
432 00:59:38.200 --> 00:59:57.740 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Very large scale solar. We've got 47,000 acres under planning in Norfolk. Most of those are very large scale, nationally significant infrastructure projects. Certainly some of the villages where I am are going to be literally surrounded. So it's very top of mind, in terms of door knocking and talking to constituents.
433 00:59:57.980 --> 01:00:04.700 Joolz | Community Climate Action: you know about the so about the solar on one particular farm is going to be 700 megawatts, which is massive.
434 01:00:05.060 --> 01:00:15.700 Joolz | Community Climate Action: powering 2 million homes, and all of that energy is going to go to London with no community benefits. So one of the key things, I think, is to actually explain
435 01:00:16.110 --> 01:00:24.560 Joolz | Community Climate Action: the benefit it will return to the community. Be that in cheaper energy prices, or a financial
436 01:00:25.170 --> 01:00:29.120 Joolz | Community Climate Action: or a financial contribution, via a surplus.
437 01:00:29.120 --> 01:00:29.780 Cllr Dr.Stuart Withington, Great Dunmow TC, Essex: Hmm.
438 01:00:30.230 --> 01:00:32.929 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So yes, I can understand
439 01:00:33.150 --> 01:00:42.700 Joolz | Community Climate Action: what the objections are. There'll always be objections, but perhaps a couple of things I've mentioned might soften that blow somewhat, and actually encourage more people to be in favour than our
440 01:00:42.830 --> 01:00:45.150 Joolz | Community Climate Action: then might object.
441 01:00:45.450 --> 01:00:54.100 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And if you're interested with thrive and around Great Dunmo, I'd be really happy to help support you with a with a share offer.
442 01:00:55.370 --> 01:01:00.179 Joolz | Community Climate Action: You know, to actually ensure that that 1020% is owned by the community.
443 01:01:01.290 --> 01:01:02.430 Cllr Dr.Stuart Withington, Great Dunmow TC, Essex: Great. Thank you.
444 01:01:02.680 --> 01:01:03.270 Joolz | Community Climate Action: You're welcome.
445 01:01:03.270 --> 01:01:06.490 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: We've got Frank. And then Becky, Frank.
446 01:01:06.750 --> 01:01:10.937 frank deas, south west stirling climate action network: Thanks very much. Really, really good chat. Jules isn't very, very interesting.
447 01:01:11.520 --> 01:01:29.890 frank deas, south west stirling climate action network: on the education side. One of the things that we're trying to do is use what we're calling learning hubs. We've got a high school with 8 primary schools in neighbouring villages, and we're trying to work with the Eco Club in the high school, that when they're doing a particular theme and uncovering that they go back to the primary schools they came from
448 01:01:29.890 --> 01:01:50.199 frank deas, south west stirling climate action network: and speak to them because they've got sapiential authority within their primary. They've now grown up, and they've left the primary. But they've got that sort of thing. And then link into the village groups. So you're getting it from parents, from primary school kids and from high school kids and linking that together the village groups. I don't know. That's something that when you talk about engaging education, you're managing to do.
449 01:01:50.240 --> 01:02:03.610 frank deas, south west stirling climate action network: The the other one was just out of interest. Your 5 themes, I think all of us kind of cut the themes slightly differently depending what we're doing. You've got energy and housing for us. Energy includes
450 01:02:03.700 --> 01:02:18.660 frank deas, south west stirling climate action network: energy, retrofit for housing and and individual Pv. And battery rays, and so on. So we kind of folded those 2 together. What's housing? Or is housing really housing energy? And then there's wider community and generation energy.
451 01:02:20.185 --> 01:02:23.430 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Wow! I'm really impressed to hear what you're doing with schools.
452 01:02:23.730 --> 01:02:40.449 Joolz | Community Climate Action: That's pretty much the kind of model that we're proposing. Or, you know we're just talking to more, more anchor institutions, because, you know, if you're at school, you probably play Rugby that kind of thing. You might might well go to the church. So you know, we're we're handing glove like that.
453 01:02:41.111 --> 01:02:52.360 Joolz | Community Climate Action: But yeah, that's fantastic. I've just. We've had a new governor, or we have a governor at the primary school I went to, and he's now joining our Parish Council. I had a chat with him about the primary school. I went to
454 01:02:53.240 --> 01:03:03.589 Joolz | Community Climate Action: that kind of thing, you know, alumni, and I think it would be a marvellous thing for kids students to be able to point to solar or a wind turbine and say, that was my school project. I did that.
455 01:03:04.472 --> 01:03:06.637 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So that's that's super cool.
456 01:03:07.810 --> 01:03:17.040 Joolz | Community Climate Action: in terms of energy or housing energy. We're looking at generation and housing, we're looking at
457 01:03:17.280 --> 01:03:22.090 Joolz | Community Climate Action: reduction. So that would be the energy efficiency.
458 01:03:22.650 --> 01:03:26.290 Joolz | Community Climate Action: But also in terms of housing. We're looking at new builds.
459 01:03:26.730 --> 01:03:30.890 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So actually, you know, the the property, actually, property development.
460 01:03:32.020 --> 01:03:39.909 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and some of that might encompass regenerative settlements and social housing in perpetuity that we create
461 01:03:40.020 --> 01:03:45.200 Joolz | Community Climate Action: as community land trusts to meet the housing needs of our parish.
462 01:03:45.810 --> 01:03:50.020 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So that's that's why we've put housing and energy slightly, separately.
463 01:03:50.020 --> 01:04:06.369 frank deas, south west stirling climate action network: That makes sense, and the one that I I couldn't spot. And again, it may be tucked under one of the others. Is our 15 rather than housing is resource. So, looking at reuse, repair cafes reduction and overall and and recycling is that
464 01:04:06.700 --> 01:04:09.339 frank deas, south west stirling climate action network: does that fit under one of your other headings, or how do you.
465 01:04:09.410 --> 01:04:24.289 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yes, to a degree, I mean, certainly in terms of food. Food waste is one of the key things we look at in terms of food that produces an awful lot of methane while potentially not composting correctly in landfill.
466 01:04:25.262 --> 01:04:28.377 Joolz | Community Climate Action: You know. But yes,
467 01:04:29.600 --> 01:04:35.540 Joolz | Community Climate Action: I think I mean our 5 themes actually came out of our original community action planning. We voted on. So it's a process.
468 01:04:35.540 --> 01:04:36.240 frank deas, south west stirling climate action network: There's no.
469 01:04:36.240 --> 01:04:46.499 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Deliberative democracy. But yes, I mean, that's certainly activity that we need to talk about, although it might fit into
470 01:04:47.040 --> 01:04:52.679 Joolz | Community Climate Action: under each. Each one might have its own repurpose, reuse, recycle, or waste category.
471 01:04:53.240 --> 01:05:05.940 frank deas, south west stirling climate action network: No, that's that's been really helpful. Again, that the innovation curve is a great way of thinking. I haven't used that. I think that's going to be definitely on my, my next to do list to to engage with people and try and get that those early adopters so thanks very much.
472 01:05:06.140 --> 01:05:06.790 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Thank you.
473 01:05:07.140 --> 01:05:22.849 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yeah, thanks. Yeah, we've got it. We have got an extensive taxonomy for our developing knowledge base. But it is searchable by topic. So if you put in things like recycling, or retrofit or renewable energy, then you'll find things quite readily that way, Becky. Not in.
474 01:05:25.880 --> 01:05:26.260 Carey Bennett: Oh,
475 01:05:29.910 --> 01:05:31.710 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: You're still muted. There you go!
476 01:05:31.710 --> 01:05:51.199 Becky Lovegrove: Yeah, sorry. Yeah. I tend to forget what I was going to say. Actually, when I have to wait. But I think it was about in prune we've got. We've had a had a massive event, actually, with 120 people came to look at climate, adaptation, planning, and it was hosted by the Wildlife Trust. So it's quite a lot of emphasis on kind of
477 01:05:51.350 --> 01:05:56.980 Becky Lovegrove: biodiversity and nature recovery. And I was just interested in Joe's perspective on kind of
478 01:05:57.200 --> 01:06:09.529 Becky Lovegrove: obviously adaptation is, is could be really terrifying for some people who haven't swallowed the pill? And do you have any thoughts on, how do you frame
479 01:06:09.798 --> 01:06:27.799 Becky Lovegrove: adaptation versus mitigation, or does it? Or do you just try? And you know, do you just try and go with what the community, the strengths of the community and kind of build from there. I realize it's kind of a technical question, but I think it's been coming up quite a lot for me about when we talk about climate action planning. What do we mean.
480 01:06:27.800 --> 01:06:33.569 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Sure it's a really good. It is a really good question. Ultimately, we're looking at building resilience.
481 01:06:34.370 --> 01:06:47.139 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and that incorporates adaptation, emergency planning, and adapting to the change that is here. I mean it is here. Turkey's on fire. Greece is on fire.
482 01:06:47.230 --> 01:07:08.650 Joolz | Community Climate Action: The subway in New York is flooding. They've got heat bubbles and massive heat waves across America at the moment, you know, millions are starving throughout the world. The changes, the changes here, and it's only going to get worse. We are in the Uk. Somewhat insulated from that change at the moment, although we are seeing the outcomes. But it is just going to get worse. The empty shelves, I've shown
483 01:07:08.710 --> 01:07:19.430 Joolz | Community Climate Action: will get worse. We are already suffering, rationing on occasion in our supermarkets you might not have noticed, but it will say one lettuce head per customer.
484 01:07:20.250 --> 01:07:24.620 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and because there's a lack of supply, and those kind of things are going to bite
485 01:07:25.080 --> 01:07:27.699 Joolz | Community Climate Action: in the next decade, they will get severe.
486 01:07:28.220 --> 01:07:35.030 Joolz | Community Climate Action: how severe is a matter for a matter of opinion, and some opinions are that it will be very, very, very severe.
487 01:07:35.150 --> 01:07:53.769 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and we need to adapt to that. So there's a couple of things in your question. One is mitigation versus adaptation. If we were to put renewable energy on our Rugby Club, we are both mitigating and adapting. We're adapting to geopolitical shocks and the consequences of further
488 01:07:53.930 --> 01:08:03.819 Joolz | Community Climate Action: conflict throughout the world that might spike energy prices. We're mitigating our output of Co 2, and we're building resilience. So we're adapting as well.
489 01:08:05.410 --> 01:08:15.089 Joolz | Community Climate Action: equally improving. Biodiversity is is mitigation, but also adaptation in terms of producing our own food or understanding where our water comes from.
490 01:08:15.729 --> 01:08:23.540 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So it's kind of hand in glove. The climate majority project have just launched a strategy called safer, and they talk a lot
491 01:08:23.700 --> 01:08:26.329 Joolz | Community Climate Action: about adaptation, about how it's too late
492 01:08:26.600 --> 01:08:39.450 Joolz | Community Climate Action: for to, you know, hit one and a half degrees, or stay below one and a half degrees, which I definitely agree that that's that we're transgressing that safe upper limit.
493 01:08:41.120 --> 01:08:58.559 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and it can be quite a shock, as you say, for someone who hasn't taken the pill and really understood our impact on our environment and suffered the natural grief that ensues. When that happens, you know, when we really understand both our predicament and risks. We are taking
494 01:08:58.770 --> 01:09:02.809 Joolz | Community Climate Action: for our communities, ourselves, our families, our planet.
495 01:09:03.370 --> 01:09:14.359 Joolz | Community Climate Action: It can hit really hard, and that the same question came up in the Wendover villages planning, how do we? How do we support and help those and hold those that it might be a shock
496 01:09:14.560 --> 01:09:18.720 Joolz | Community Climate Action: in terms of mental health in terms of grief.
497 01:09:19.000 --> 01:09:27.670 Joolz | Community Climate Action: in terms of anxiety which affects really probably the majority of our young people. You know, climate anxiety, and the
498 01:09:27.920 --> 01:09:50.479 Joolz | Community Climate Action: disempowerment that it's not theirs. It's adults that should be taking responsibility for fixing fixing this. So we're looking to engage with mind. The mental health, charity and Norfolk and Waveney mind already holds climate cafes and the practice that discuss and talk about anxiety and grief and practice active hope.
499 01:09:50.770 --> 01:09:57.679 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So we're we acknowledge that. And we're thinking about it. And we're we're considering how we might provide
500 01:09:57.790 --> 01:10:00.249 Joolz | Community Climate Action: a safety, a safety net, because
501 01:10:00.580 --> 01:10:04.190 Joolz | Community Climate Action: the presentation I've just done I do that frequently.
502 01:10:04.650 --> 01:10:11.619 Joolz | Community Climate Action: My colleague Alex describes it as taking taking an audience to a dark place, and then rescuing them.
503 01:10:12.440 --> 01:10:13.150 Becky Lovegrove: Okay.
504 01:10:13.150 --> 01:10:18.180 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Because we are in such a predicament.
505 01:10:18.600 --> 01:10:21.390 Becky Lovegrove: Exactly, and it is terrifying.
506 01:10:22.200 --> 01:10:27.869 Joolz | Community Climate Action: But we need, we need that agency and that empowerment and that active, that active hope.
507 01:10:28.070 --> 01:10:30.260 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and to be able to do something about it.
508 01:10:30.530 --> 01:10:40.980 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So you know, I hope that answers the question. Let's let's build some resilience together because we're stronger together. And we we learned through Covid that the best way to cope is through mutual aid.
509 01:10:41.450 --> 01:10:58.000 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yeah. And communication is the is the big thing at the moment, isn't it? And it's it's the way you tell them, as the Irish community used to say, can I bring in Linda here because she's put something in the chat about things that you're doing? And I know, Linda, you've given us talks on, on climate, anxiety, and so forth. Do you want to add something else in here?
510 01:10:58.200 --> 01:11:26.360 Linda Aspey Climate Psychol Alliance: Thank you. Yeah, just to say, we've been very fortunate. We're teaming up with the Climate majority project, and we've got a project called Icro, which I've just mentioned in the Chat with the Mindfulness Alliance as well. The Mindfulness Institute rather, and we've received 1.5 million of government of lottery funding to actually develop in a climate response. Because how we deal psychologically and emotionally with this is, of course, as important as how we manage our physical lives and our infrastructure
511 01:11:26.360 --> 01:11:36.210 Linda Aspey Climate Psychol Alliance: that's just getting off the ground. Now, in the meantime, should anybody feel they want to start organizing climate cafe listening circles, for example in their community.
512 01:11:36.210 --> 01:11:42.200 Linda Aspey Climate Psychol Alliance: We trained Norfolk and Waveney mind to do those and supervise them. And we offer all of that kind of stuff.
513 01:11:42.240 --> 01:12:09.829 Linda Aspey Climate Psychol Alliance: So we're a registered charity. We're not making profits. We're not here for that. So do feel free. Anyone to contact me, or just, you know, go direct to the Cpa. I lead on the climate cafe, listening circle work and the talks and the trainings, so do feel free to contact us. We've got lots of ways we can help locally and individually and in communities. So if I put my email there, do feel free just to reach out.
514 01:12:09.830 --> 01:12:11.420 Joolz | Community Climate Action: That's fantastic.
515 01:12:11.420 --> 01:12:17.510 Joolz | Community Climate Action: thanks, Linda, and very timely, because we absolutely need to do that for our window over and villages planning.
516 01:12:17.750 --> 01:12:34.689 Joolz | Community Climate Action: And one of our participants actually mentioned that hence I brought up Norfolk and Waverley mine. So it's something we can do now. We can act straight away on that and incorporate it into our methodology and planning. So again, what a great outcome from today! Thank you for that.
517 01:12:35.970 --> 01:12:36.640 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: I haven't.
518 01:12:36.640 --> 01:12:37.050 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Given this.
519 01:12:37.427 --> 01:12:38.560 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Sorry juice. Yeah.
520 01:12:38.560 --> 01:12:43.619 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Very, very quickly before we before we end, because I know we're sort of 10 min over time. But there's 2 things.
521 01:12:44.228 --> 01:12:50.850 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Also, we've been contacted by Kizzy, and I'm just going to name check her and her organization as well.
522 01:12:51.010 --> 01:12:55.180 Joolz | Community Climate Action: She's previously, I think, done a banter session, and she does pupils profit.
523 01:12:55.610 --> 01:13:11.590 Joolz | Community Climate Action: which is an enterprise for pupils to be entrepreneurial in their schools, to have a healthy tuck shop and eco refill shops, which is activity that students can get involved in. So I promised I would name check that
524 01:13:11.790 --> 01:13:25.430 Joolz | Community Climate Action: I did invite today to maybe have a 5 min cameo, but I'll just pop that in the chat. So again, that's the kind of thing that you know. Again, we don't want to reinvent the wheel. We are facilitating, planning for other people.
525 01:13:25.540 --> 01:13:40.019 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So again, Frank, you know, if you've got some details on the activity that you're doing in your school this kind of thing, the whole purpose of these meetings, and the great collaboration is to replicate other people's best practice and great ideas.
526 01:13:41.002 --> 01:13:44.260 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So I'm going to very briefly share my screen
527 01:13:44.430 --> 01:13:55.020 Joolz | Community Climate Action: just to close, I'd still be happy to answer any questions, but just to close with a short video of how to start a movement in 3 min.
528 01:13:55.680 --> 01:13:56.770 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: It's fine.
529 01:13:57.140 --> 01:13:57.869 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Bear with me.
530 01:13:57.870 --> 01:14:00.480 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Time starting from now. Yes, yeah.
531 01:14:03.770 --> 01:14:04.630 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Sorry.
532 01:14:05.110 --> 01:14:09.270 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Okay, hopefully, that should share. Okay, yeah, there we go.
533 01:14:38.200 --> 01:14:40.049 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So, ladies and gentlemen, at Ted we talk a.
534 01:14:40.050 --> 01:14:53.640 Laila Azure-Marxen: Lot about leadership and how to make a movement. So let's watch a movement happen. Start to finish in under 3 min and dissect some lessons from it first.st Of course, you know, a leader needs the guts to stand out and be ridiculed.
535 01:14:54.950 --> 01:15:17.759 Laila Azure-Marxen: but what he's doing is so easy to follow. So here's his 1st follower with a crucial role he's going to show everyone else how to follow. Now notice that the leader embraces him as an equal. So now it's not about the leader anymore. It's about them plural. Now there he is, calling to his friends. Now, if you notice that the 1st follower is actually an underestimated form of leadership in itself it takes guts to stand out like that.
536 01:15:17.900 --> 01:15:22.759 Laila Azure-Marxen: The 1st follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.
537 01:15:27.850 --> 01:15:53.469 Laila Azure-Marxen: and here comes a second follower. Now it's not a lone nut, it's not 2 nuts. 3 is a crowd, and a crowd is news, so a movement must be public. It's important to show, not just the leader, but the followers, because you find that new followers emulate the followers, not the leader. Now here come 2 more people, and immediately after 3 more people. Now we've got momentum. This is the tipping point. Now we've got a movement.
538 01:15:53.910 --> 01:16:08.880 Laila Azure-Marxen: So notice that as more people join in, it's less risky. So those that were sitting on the fence before now have no reason not to. They won't stand out. They won't be ridiculed, but they will be part of the in crowd if they hurry so
539 01:16:10.030 --> 01:16:22.780 Laila Azure-Marxen: over the next minute you'll see all of those that prefer to stick with the crowd, because eventually they would be ridiculed for not joining in. And that's how you make a movement. But let's recap some lessons from this.
540 01:16:22.860 --> 01:16:44.699 Laila Azure-Marxen: So first, st if you are the type like the shirtless dancing guy that is standing alone, remember the importance of nurturing your 1st few followers as equals. So it's clearly about the movement. Not you. Okay. But we might have missed the real lesson here. The biggest lesson, if you noticed, did you catch it? Is that leadership is over. Glorified
541 01:16:45.000 --> 01:17:13.149 Laila Azure-Marxen: that? Yes, it was the shirtless guy was first, st and he'll get all the credit. But it was really the 1st follower that transformed the lone nut into a leader. So as we're told that we should all be leaders, that would be really ineffective if you really care about starting a movement, have the courage to follow and show others how to follow, and when you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts to be the 1st one to stand up and join in. And what a perfect place to do that, Ted, thanks.
542 01:17:30.920 --> 01:17:37.530 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So there we go. There's a very elegant demonstration of the diffusion of innovation.
543 01:17:38.800 --> 01:17:41.819 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and how the early majority will follow
544 01:17:42.040 --> 01:17:45.900 Joolz | Community Climate Action: the innovator and the the innovators and the early adopters.
545 01:17:46.170 --> 01:17:48.220 Joolz | Community Climate Action: and then the late majority will follow them
546 01:17:48.340 --> 01:17:49.869 Joolz | Community Climate Action: because they don't want to be left out.
547 01:17:50.440 --> 01:17:51.889 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So thank you very much.
548 01:17:52.240 --> 01:17:53.529 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: That's brilliant juice. Thank you.
549 01:17:55.320 --> 01:17:57.367 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Find out. That's amazing.
550 01:17:58.290 --> 01:18:00.939 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Oh, it's an Oldie, but it is Cla, absolutely classic and.
551 01:18:00.940 --> 01:18:04.810 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yeah, yeah. I wonder what the soundtrack was they were dancing to. But it doesn't really matter.
552 01:18:04.810 --> 01:18:06.439 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yeah, I'm totally curious.
553 01:18:06.440 --> 01:18:12.890 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Well, I think you and I got something in problem. We we used to be. We used to be a standalone nuts, but we've we've improved since then.
554 01:18:14.540 --> 01:18:16.307 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Well, at least that's our opinion. Yeah.
555 01:18:16.880 --> 01:18:17.200 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yeah.
556 01:18:17.200 --> 01:18:31.209 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Any other points. I mean, Linda, you're enjoying that as well. Any other points or questions people like to have about how we get going. Obviously, if people want to talk some more about how to get going, do please get in touch with us. Get in touch with Jules, because we're here to help.
557 01:18:33.530 --> 01:18:36.649 Linda Aspey Climate Psychol Alliance: Yeah, I do have a question if there is time, but there probably isn't.
558 01:18:37.060 --> 01:18:37.790 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: At least.
559 01:18:37.790 --> 01:18:38.629 Joolz | Community Climate Action: He's doing. Yeah.
560 01:18:39.170 --> 01:19:06.950 Linda Aspey Climate Psychol Alliance: Yeah, I just wondered, because there are people who are passionate about this. Some people want to go off and do their own thing a lot, and they don't often think who's already doing this. How can I collaborate? And I'm seeing a lot of fragmentation. And I'm wondering how you kind of overcame some of that where someone said, We're already doing this. Thank you very much. We don't want to join with you because of personal characteristics or just a personal passion for their project and not for others.
561 01:19:08.500 --> 01:19:13.250 Linda Aspey Climate Psychol Alliance: Well, Jules is frozen so clearly. My questions flawed everyone.
562 01:19:13.250 --> 01:19:30.789 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: No, it's all right. Yeah. There's always. There's always good reasons for not doing anything. I think that's right. Sometimes, if we're going talking, perhaps about Parish Council. If you've got people that are wanting to do their own things, happy to always do it. If you wanted to get people to come together more.
563 01:19:30.890 --> 01:19:37.379 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Sometimes you have to deal with people sort of individually, sometimes we're not the best people to do it.
564 01:19:37.720 --> 01:19:43.510 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Sometimes you might think, oh, actually, you know I needed to speak to this person or get them on side or persuade them differently.
565 01:19:43.946 --> 01:19:56.299 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: But there may be. It may be a question. Maybe our leadership role is to find somebody else that they can speak to, that will speak to them and get on their wavelength. So that's that's a technique that
566 01:19:56.520 --> 01:20:08.419 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: that that might be useful to people. There are people who can be very strong about things and want to go things in a different way. There are some Parish Council chairmen who still deny that climate change is happening.
567 01:20:08.864 --> 01:20:25.420 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Hurrah! But so there! There is a whole separate exercise of dealing with objectives dealing with people being difficult. But Jules is back now. I mean, I think we were saying there are difficult people to deal with, Jules, but it's good to start with the people that are on side.
568 01:20:27.720 --> 01:20:34.909 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Perhaps you didn't hear Linda's question, which is about, how do we deal with somebody who says Thank you for inviting me to your crowd, but I want to go and be in another crowd.
569 01:20:35.670 --> 01:20:37.919 Linda Aspey Climate Psychol Alliance: Or I want to do this my way, not your way.
570 01:20:37.920 --> 01:20:39.539 Linda Aspey Climate Psychol Alliance: Yes, indeed.
571 01:20:42.400 --> 01:20:43.559 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yes, they're going to be.
572 01:20:43.560 --> 01:20:44.330 Joolz Thompson: Sure
573 01:20:45.100 --> 01:20:46.539 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Jules carry on. Yeah.
574 01:20:47.550 --> 01:20:59.749 Joolz Thompson: Yeah, sure. You know, this is a a methodology. And I'm just going outside because it will help with the Wi-fi signal. My, my computer just crashed, which is comedy timing. So I'm now on my phone.
575 01:21:00.610 --> 01:21:03.960 Joolz Thompson: Yeah, I mean, there's loads of great activity happening already.
576 01:21:04.540 --> 01:21:14.319 Joolz Thompson: We're not aiming to reinvent the wheel or duplicate, or you know, we're aiming to support, lift, and lift up and copy best and share best practice.
577 01:21:15.360 --> 01:21:39.049 Joolz Thompson: And yes, of course, people are already doing great things. There's lots of community renewable energy. There's nature-based recovery projects. I think few people are writing that as a plan, a holistic plan like a neighborhood development plan. And I think there are a few people that are connecting the community together with their anchor institutions. So you know, I think we're doing. We're very much delivering on that
578 01:21:39.285 --> 01:21:50.129 Joolz Thompson: and the things, you know. I was in the eye of the storm with extinction, rebellion. For a number of years. I was in the Ops team, you know. I was there right at the start at the Climate Majority project. I was at the Press
579 01:21:50.903 --> 01:22:12.539 Joolz Thompson: press conference when we launched. The climate majority project. I've got a chapter in the climate majority project book with Rupert about and you know I've got a chapter in the Transformative Adaptation book, as well, you know, and it will take all of us, and it will take a community. You know. So
580 01:22:13.167 --> 01:22:17.960 Joolz Thompson: if and if so, people people do have those specialist syndrome. And if they just want to focus on that bit great.
581 01:22:18.170 --> 01:22:22.969 Joolz Thompson: and if they and also, if they don't want to participate great, I mean or not great.
582 01:22:23.510 --> 01:22:31.190 Joolz Thompson: we'd love people to participate. But it's but it's okay. Similarly, with the video we just watched, and not everyone's going to be the shirtless guy.
583 01:22:31.250 --> 01:22:54.570 Joolz Thompson: not everyone's going to be his mates, or even indeed, those that run in there will still be some sitting on the ground, and that is literally the diffusion of innovation. Obviously, we all have our own, our own choices to make. I, personally, I feel we're stronger together, and I really like to do it as a community, as a participatory process, and utilize our tools in terms of deliberative democracy.
584 01:22:55.680 --> 01:22:59.399 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Okay, this is Frank. You've got your hand up for.
585 01:22:59.400 --> 01:23:09.439 frank deas, south west stirling climate action network: Say, building on that I had to learn not to be precise and try and have exact co-termus boundaries for the actual network. Up in in Scotland.
586 01:23:09.590 --> 01:23:28.679 frank deas, south west stirling climate action network: We had to accept that on active travel paths. There were a couple of villages that weren't wanting to join in. There are a couple of villages that weren't in our network they didn't want to join in. So that's a subgroup that we support, we amplify. We give a guidance to, but they run themselves their way because it makes more sense. So I think there was a learning curve for me to actually understand
587 01:23:28.800 --> 01:23:39.459 frank deas, south west stirling climate action network: you. Whatever module you might set out on paper won't stand the the reality of good people doing good stuff. If you can build that into your plan and let them get on with it. Then that's a good result.
588 01:23:40.310 --> 01:23:54.730 Joolz Thompson: Yeah, thanks, Frank. I mean, the other thing as well. I just wanted to mention is that this is a methodology, and we're not prescriptive, and we're not. I have to bite my tongue and sit on my hands. We provide a blank piece of paper for the community to write their plan.
589 01:23:55.290 --> 01:23:58.540 Joolz Thompson: and we are there to advise and consult and provide advice.
590 01:23:58.700 --> 01:24:06.659 Joolz Thompson: And you know, we like examples from other communities where stuff. But we don't. We don't actually write. The plan, you know, absolutely has to come from the community.
591 01:24:08.450 --> 01:24:13.929 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Well said, well, said, great any more for any more today.
592 01:24:15.290 --> 01:24:22.290 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: I think we've been through a lot of the card tonight, Jules, which has been great lots of links in the chat, thanks to a way that's been doing that.
593 01:24:23.690 --> 01:24:24.870 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: We've got
594 01:24:26.066 --> 01:24:32.003 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: the just have a look and see what might be happening next week. I don't think we've got that
595 01:24:32.680 --> 01:25:01.759 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: lined up just yet, but obviously these events will continue, and if there's anybody present that would like to come in and give a talk about a particular aspect of what we're talking about, or give a presentation on the action. Things they're doing in their area. Maybe you know, Frank, talking about how you work to the network being presumably some kind of a chairman of a network in your area. How that operated. I think this is all part of sharing good practice and sharing our experiences.
596 01:25:02.560 --> 01:25:03.030 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: And
597 01:25:03.500 --> 01:25:08.189 Joolz Thompson: I. I also wonder, Andrew, if and Linda, if yes, I can't see if you're still on the corks on that one.
598 01:25:08.190 --> 01:25:09.190 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yeah, she is. But.
599 01:25:09.190 --> 01:25:21.919 Joolz Thompson: Oh, great you know whether or not you'd like to come and come on a band session and and talk more about the climate, psychology alliance. I think it is, and the training that you offer for people like Mind and others, because that that is fascinating.
600 01:25:22.190 --> 01:25:24.109 Linda Aspey Climate Psychol Alliance: Yeah, very pleased to. Delighted to.
601 01:25:24.110 --> 01:25:24.610 Joolz Thompson: I wish it.
602 01:25:24.610 --> 01:25:30.940 Linda Aspey Climate Psychol Alliance: In touch. I was also going to say, if you need some help on the Wendover event. I'm a facilitator. I do assemblies as well. So.
603 01:25:30.940 --> 01:25:31.770 Joolz Thompson: Wow. Okay.
604 01:25:31.770 --> 01:25:34.820 Linda Aspey Climate Psychol Alliance: If you need some hands on help, you know. Let's have a chat.
605 01:25:35.250 --> 01:25:38.670 Joolz Thompson: Yeah, I'd love to love to. I put my email in the chat for.
606 01:25:38.670 --> 01:25:50.249 Linda Aspey Climate Psychol Alliance: Yeah, we we met in. We met in Aylesbury, not in Aylesbury. We met at stratford on Avon the session. Claudine Steven. Yeah. So yeah, so yeah, yeah, let's touch base. That'd be good.
607 01:25:51.050 --> 01:25:51.840 Joolz Thompson: That's it. Thank you.
608 01:25:51.840 --> 01:26:17.270 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yeah, I mean, there's an element of what we're aiming to do, what we call train the trainer, because the more people we know that can go out and facilitate and support the deliberative democracy that Jules is so well described, the better. We can't do it all ourselves. There are 10,000 Town and Parish councils in England alone. I think Jules will be looking as old as I am, if not older by the time he gets around. So you know.
609 01:26:17.270 --> 01:26:17.910 Joolz Thompson: Clear.
610 01:26:17.910 --> 01:26:25.033 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Let's thank you very much. Yeah. So we'll get more and more people engaged. So we're we're very alert to that as well.
611 01:26:25.330 --> 01:26:25.820 Joolz Thompson: Yeah.
612 01:26:26.110 --> 01:26:27.050 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Indeed
613 01:26:27.770 --> 01:26:48.979 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: great. Okay, well, we'll obviously, I believe, the way these sessions work. The once people have logged in your contact, details are captured by Graham with these at the moment, and so we will keep in touch. But, as I say, I have the link in the chat to future sessions, and do keep, do keep, do keep going.
614 01:26:49.770 --> 01:26:57.759 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Let us go forward together, as I say every time. Never surrender. Thank you very much. Everybody see you all very soon. Cheers Jules. Thanks.
615 01:26:58.550 --> 01:26:59.350 Joolz Thompson: Bye, bye.
616 01:27:05.950 --> 01:27:06.520 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Good.
617 01:27:15.040 --> 01:27:18.769 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: but it was turning on your head just now, Jules, but I think it's a trick of the mobile phone.
618 01:27:19.525 --> 01:27:20.160 Amanda Davis: Oh!
619 01:27:20.160 --> 01:27:21.110 Joolz Thompson: Yeah, probably.
620 01:27:22.000 --> 01:27:35.769 Amanda Davis: I haven't forgotten that a couple of sessions ago Graham was asking about whether there was any farm experts on regenerative agriculture or similar. So I'm still working on my contacts. There.
621 01:27:35.770 --> 01:27:41.629 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Fantastic. Yeah, I mean, I think farming and food security for me is like the elephant in the room at the moment.
622 01:27:41.780 --> 01:27:44.642 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: and more people to be alert to it.
623 01:27:45.000 --> 01:27:45.910 Amanda Davis: 2 connections.
624 01:27:45.910 --> 01:27:48.039 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Not least, Angela, right now. Sorry. Carry on.
625 01:27:48.950 --> 01:28:05.799 Amanda Davis: One is that you know I'm a director with mid counties cooperative, that regularly win awards and just have done on sustainability, and are making sure that the supplies that we stock in our shops are very much with a mind to
626 01:28:05.930 --> 01:28:25.219 Amanda Davis: what footprint it's had in its creation, and how resilient it is so, you know, there's that side, but also with cotsword, national landscape. There's the side of you know. What are we? What are we doing as a national landscape with our farming leaders, not least of which Royal Agricultural University
627 01:28:25.360 --> 01:28:41.450 Amanda Davis: and you know the way forward there, and whether there are, you know, it's kind of not like this is the Holy Grail. But you could go this way. You could go that way. The argument for the arguments against so we can better understand. That was what I was proposing.
628 01:28:42.130 --> 01:29:02.229 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yeah, no. And if if we can offer people a selection of pathways that reach the same end, why not the things we're doing in East Anglia. We're going to have an entirely different outcome for each of the 4 counties, which is something I'm quite pleased about, because then we could say to all the other 36 counties? Well, look, you know there's different ways. You can do this.
629 01:29:02.230 --> 01:29:05.910 Amanda Davis: Different lands and different lands need different approaches.
630 01:29:05.910 --> 01:29:08.689 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yeah, different strokes for different folks. Yeah, that's it.
631 01:29:08.690 --> 01:29:13.389 Amanda Davis: Anyway, I must go, because my phone's telling me I'm on 2%. So.
632 01:29:13.540 --> 01:29:14.170 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Okay.
633 01:29:14.170 --> 01:29:16.780 Amanda Davis: Thank you, both of you. Thank you very much.
634 01:29:16.780 --> 01:29:19.709 Amanda Davis: Okay, madam, take care we'll see you soon. Bye-bye.
635 01:29:19.870 --> 01:29:22.460 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: 5, good.
636 01:29:25.150 --> 01:29:26.100 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Wow!
637 01:29:26.100 --> 01:29:31.840 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Andrew and and my computer crashed just as I finished the video. So that was perfect.
638 01:29:31.840 --> 01:29:34.200 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: That was a great video. I'll tell you.
639 01:29:34.200 --> 01:29:35.370 Joolz | Community Climate Action: On my computer.
640 01:29:35.600 --> 01:29:39.070 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yeah. Yeah. Share- share that one. By all means. Yeah.
641 01:29:39.721 --> 01:29:50.788 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yeah. I think I booked him to go to one of your window. The zoom. So that'd be sound. What a great offer from Linda, wasn't it to? That was a pleasant to work, I'm surprised, wasn't it?
642 01:29:51.260 --> 01:29:53.760 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: yeah, she lives near Buckinghamshire. Do you know.
643 01:29:54.871 --> 01:30:02.500 Joolz | Community Climate Action: She's well, I I saw her at the Claudine Stratford, and then.
644 01:30:02.850 --> 01:30:04.570 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Oh, right? Okay. Right?
645 01:30:05.140 --> 01:30:05.940 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Sure.
646 01:30:06.565 --> 01:30:10.280 Joolz | Community Climate Action: So kind of that way, I guess you know. So
647 01:30:12.930 --> 01:30:22.250 Joolz | Community Climate Action: probably the other side of the other side. It's probably possibly equally as far from me. But yes, that kind of way, so.
648 01:30:22.930 --> 01:30:50.250 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Yeah, one of the things I'm trying to do. Obviously, we've got lots of very practical stuff we're doing in front of us. But try and find at least a bit of my brain what's left of it to try and step back in the big picture. Remember some of the other things around it that might make things easier in the future. I mean train. The train is one of them. But to have a concept about what is the bigger picture around farming and food security. I know we've had people speaking about it from Shropshire and so forth.
649 01:30:50.703 --> 01:30:59.429 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: We've already decided as a as an organization not to be campaigning ourselves. But somewhere along the line there had there has to be an an overarching
650 01:30:59.660 --> 01:31:02.565 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: concept in a number of these things.
651 01:31:03.140 --> 01:31:12.100 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: and to try and pick out from that. Where can we go next? What speakers can we get involved? You know. Where? What wisdom do we need to think about. What connections do we need to make?
652 01:31:12.760 --> 01:31:16.389 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: I don't. I'll never manage it all, mate, but I mean I'll try try.
653 01:31:16.390 --> 01:31:17.050 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Not quite.
654 01:31:17.050 --> 01:31:20.760 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Try and remember to run over my head over it at least once a week.
655 01:31:22.200 --> 01:31:23.020 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yeah.
656 01:31:23.330 --> 01:31:26.437 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: Okay, I'm gonna try and sign off. I've been trying to.
657 01:31:28.250 --> 01:31:35.529 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Yeah, my mouse seems to have frozen as well. So yeah. Oh, there we go somewhere.
658 01:31:35.900 --> 01:31:39.019 Andrew Maliphant Great Collaboration: I'm speaking to Acre this afternoon, so we'll see how that goes as well.
659 01:31:39.020 --> 01:31:41.539 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Okay, Grand, we'll speak soon, Andrew. Thanks.
660 01:31:41.540 --> 01:31:42.459 Joolz | Community Climate Action: Take care, my man.
661 01:31:42.460 --> 01:31:42.840 Joolz | Community Climate Action: See it.
.md version of the presentation for AI search engine:
# The Great Collaboration – Community Climate Action (May 2025)
## iFarm – Empowering Schools for Climate Action
- Delivered workshops at the Sustainability in Education Conference (St Joseph’s College, Ipswich)
- Helping schools understand their role as anchor institutions in climate action
- Empowering students and teachers to take action beyond the classroom
- Supporting DfE Climate Action Plan delivery for schools by 2025
- 8 School sign-ups for Great Collaboration peer-to-peer learning Climate Forum
[Read more here](https://www.communityclimateaction.uk/news/sustainability-in-education)
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## iFarm – Essex: Community Renewable Energy Planning
- Workshops across Essex in partnership with Essex County Council
- Engaged residents, councils, and community groups in community-led energy planning
- Facilitated a live solar feasibility project with Plume Academy and eMpower Maldon
- Used VR and gamification tools to bring projects to life for students and community members
[Read more here](https://www.communityclimateaction.uk/news/workshop-maldon)
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## iFarm – Diss Rugby Club (#TackleClimateChange)
- Completing energy audit and carbon footprint baseline
- Supporting community engagement across the club’s 600+ members
- Designed a live Sustainability Dashboard to track energy use and carbon reduction
- Empowering sports clubs to act on climate while saving on bills
- Writing Case Study with Stratford upon Avon RUFC (who have already installed renewable energy and sustainability measures)
- Commencing engagement & work with Aylesbury RUFC, linked with CCA planning for Wendover & Villages (5 x Parish Councils)
[Stratford RUFC](https://www.stratforduponavonrugbyclub.co.uk/) | [Aylesbury RUFC](https://www.aylesburyrfc.co.uk/)
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## iFarm – Rural Community Council Essex (Town & Parish Councils)
- Designed workshops and engaged councils across Essex on:
- Who can we influence?
- What are the barriers?
- What support is needed?
- Emergency Planning and integration with local Resilience Forums
- Biodiversity Duty and Community Climate Action Planning
- Upcoming workshop on 2nd July with RCCE for Town & Parish Councils, Essex
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## iFarm – Farming Wildlife Advisory Group (FWAG) | Rural Energy Network
- Encouraging & supporting Norfolk and Suffolk farmers to join a Rural Energy Network
- Connecting farms to trade renewable energy locally through peer-to-peer energy platforms
- Supporting rollout of agri-PV, small wind, and energy storage across rural areas
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## iFarm – The White Horse (Community Pub)
- Community-owned pub supporting local climate action and social resilience
- Completed Energy Audit
- Planned retrofit (subject to grant funding) with solar PV and heat pump installation
- A model for how community venues can lead by example in the net-zero transition
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## Community Climate Action – Theory of Change
- Newly published Theory of Change
- Communities are made up of people and their institutions (Schools, Faith Groups, Clubs, Councils, Venues)
- Empower each anchor to act on their buildings, operations, and audiences
- Bring the community together to create a shared Climate Action Plan
- Support delivery with coaching, training, data tools, and participatory engagement
- Build capacity for lasting, community-led action — creating a virtuous cycle of change
[Theory of Change](https://www.communityclimateaction.uk/theory-of-change)
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