Forum:Climate change and the environment, UK citizens too

2009

• Great council websites aren’t enough. We need 1% for open data. 13 October 2009 ^[1]

• September 2009 32 per cent of respondents were involved (through membership or regular donations) with at least one of 15 selected major third sector organisations concerned with the environment, compared with 42 per cent in 2007. ^[2] A sizeable decline in a short time. Contrast this decline with the growth of alternatives which tend to be much more participatory, such as Transition towns or Project Dirt for example.

• July 10, 2009 Gov 2.0 documentary "Us Now" on telly, More4, 11.10pm, or online anytime. Highly recommended, Philralph @sca21 16:49, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

• Restore confidence in consultations first?: Restoring confidence in local democracy Communities and Local Government, July 2, 2009 / Twitter

• 19 ways to make the UK more sustainable. Sustainable Development Commission identifies 19 "Breakthrough ideas", including "Mobilising collective action – scaling up the active networks and organisations for change blossoming around the UK, including the Transition towns network, Green Voice, and South London’s Project Dirt", July 1 ^[3]

• Lipservice and localism, June 29 ^[4]

• Place Survey - based on more than 500,000 people's views and perceptions about where they live - demonstrates the importance of listening to local people and what they want for their local area, Communities Secretary John Denham, June 23 ^[5] Less than half of people say they are satisfied with their local council. Only a quarter of people feel they can influence local decisions, as many again would like to be more involved.

• "Another idea is to take the key themes of Transition towns - communities thinking about the future and taking action to deal with big issues - and apply this to the way central and local government work with communities. The role of government should not be to dictate ("I'm a bureaucrat and I know what's best for you") but to facilitate - to provide communities with resources and support" May 30 ^[6]. / Sounds like Local Agenda 21 before the government ditched it in favour of bureacrat dominated community planning? Philralph @sca21 17:15, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

• Wipe that tear, Hazel dear, from your eye, June 3 ^[7] / Comment on CLG action plan for community empowerment

• Please tweet for service, June 2 ^[8]

• Engage society in the transition, International Scientific Congress on Climate Change, March 2009 ^[9]

• Pushing policy instead of politics - and listening to the conversation, Local democracy. Paul Evans, argues for "policy discussion groups" ..." using collaborative filtering media to identify information of interest, isolate the useful data, and present it in a way that local councillors can use it" / BarcampUKGovweb09

2008

• "The best mechanism to confront the challenge of climate change are not market mechanisms, but conscious, motivated, and well organized human beings endowed with an identity of their own." Evo Morales Ayma, President of Bolivia, November 28, 2008

• "...his (Obama's) only real hope in dealing with the tremendous challenges the country (world) faces will be to harness the collective ingenuity of citizens on a massive scale. In other words, he must enlist a level of participation in generating and acting on innovative solutions that has no obvious parallel in history." Anthony D. Williams, wikinomics, November 7 2008 / topic, topic

• "People power can beat climate change", Lord David Puttnam, October 28 ^[10] topic, topic, forum

• A Wiki for the Planet: Clay Shirky on Open Source Environmentalism, wired.com, August 20, 2008

• "We're going to look at every place that a reader or a listener or a viewer or a user has been locked out, has been served up passive or a fixed or a canned experience, and ask ourselves, "If we carve out a little bit of the cognitive surplus and deploy it here, could we make a good thing happen?" And I'm betting the answer is yes." Clay Shirky at a Web 2.0 conference, April 23, 2008. / Inspiring Quotes 2, topic

2007

• "Government must do more to help people take green action", FoE, August 24 ^[11]

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