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To help educate the local community about what's available to them solar panels heating SharedMobility etc a fun educational way of getting everyone involved.

Also to strengthen social fabric so that people are better able to respond to climate-related challenges, including impacts.

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Could we all pull together a comprehensive list ( online) of what has been done, talk to the folks involved, the lessons learned to showcase Climate Adaptation approaches. We could also develop playbooks, open source tools and knowledge sharing forum for Councils and citizens?

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How to bring nature into the built environment to help regulate heat, reduce flooding, improve air quality and this could include reintroducing beavers in rivers. So be good to trial living walls and roofs in urban areas

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How to bring nature into the built environment to help regulate heat, reduce flooding, improve air quality and this could include reintroducing beavers in rivers. So be good to trial living walls and roofs in urban areas

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We have existing flood warden networks and community outreach but feels like we could do more to bring people together for community resilience and share info about flood risk, how to make your home more resilient (overheating etc) via these networks or other events (also without scaring people) maybe more of a peer led approach?

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Showing people how they could garden in a different way to adapt to a changing climate e.g. drought resistant plants, water conservation methods, pollinator friendly plants and other ecological methods.

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Promoting and increasing take up of Severe Weather Impacts Monitoring System (SWIMS)

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Promoting and increasing take up of Severe Weather Impacts Monitoring System (SWIMS)

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Maybe this isn't a new innovation but lots of benefit in rolling this out further: https://www.swimsportal.co.uk/account/login?ReturnUrl=%2F

https://www.swimsportal.co.uk/assets/docs/swims-user-guide-standard.pdf

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Trial a scheme where a street can ask for one or more trees, if there is space for them.

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We already working with parents of disabled children and young people, should be able to develop a conversation around climate change.

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Improve the accessibility of our platform

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Improve the accessibility of our platform

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Employ a consultant to identify opportunities to improve the accessibility of our platform. We have multiple translations but no easy-read version. This would help us empower more people in this community to have a voice on climate action

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Hire in a consultant with lived experience

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Hire in a consultant with lived experience

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This person could advise on messaging, where to place that messaging, which communities require help, and what type of help. Paying them a good wage relieves the burden that comes with being an expert on their own communities.

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Create a digital toolkit for people to organise their own events (online and real world)

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Create a digital toolkit for people to organise their own events (online and real world)

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At Wilsome we have been helping our community to connect and engage around the challenges of the climate and nature crisis.  We are seeing a significant appetite for self-organised events and opportunities to exchange ideas. There is a gap in support for these from local authorities.

One of the barriers is that people often lack the basic tools / structure to make events happen and so it can feel like an overwhelming task. The value that Wilsome has been able to bring to the process is, obviously, our time and perhaps just as importantly our understanding of how to make a simple event plan, contact key stakeholders, engage them with a straighforward ask that is easy for them to say yes to, organise logistics using simple digital documents, make use of collaborative digital communication platforms like Zoom and Google Docs, and ensure that everyone knows what is happening when and what their role is.

We want to find a partner to test and develop a very simple digital  "toolkit" and "how to" resource which could be shared with people in other communities to help them organise events of this kind where they are.
More information in this short set of slides here

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1STdlv35qT2cc7xq1BkzfRurKIK1uBus2Y4S4TcIibbo/edit?usp=sharing

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Create a 'smart' mobile partner planted moss and ivy wall for assessing evidenced particulate matter collection, improvements in air quality and heating/cooling effects. Wide engagement with schools, colleges and members of the public.

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Create a 'smart' mobile partner planted moss and ivy wall for assessing evidenced particulate matter collection, improvements in air quality and heating/cooling effects. Wide engagement with schools, colleges and members of the public.

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It's an app that tells you the carbon intensity of the UK grid, allows users to log actions (washing machine etc) what ever they have used during the cleanest times and see how many grams of carbon they have saved. It is free to download, and could be structured as a community engagement project.

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Rewarding, connecting and engaging citizens with activities and a marketplace around the circular economy (re-using, repairing , renting). 

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Rewarding, connecting and engaging citizens with activities and a marketplace around the circular economy (re-using, repairing , renting). 

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Only note is that it is something we are discussing with the Mayor in Liverpool, on how we could launch a pilot around this.

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(sorry, had to leave the call) We've prototyped a process for disabled people to suggest more inclusive versions of plans for low carbon services/products/environments along journeys ... the plan is to use collective imagination of entire future journeys to tell stories and create a vision of what people will need/want - to help designers, policy makers, innovators etc.

The process could be used to build a local vision but principles and stories would be more widely/nationally applicable. It can broaden the conversation from transport decarbonisation (current focus on tech) to enabling everyone to get out and about - from 'encouraging' behaviour change to enabling it. We need to design for decarbonisation in context and based on human experience.

If anyone would like to explore this you can find me on twitter @upstreamscot

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"Accessible Transport" often focuses on physical accessibility - infrastructure, ramps and surfaces. This is important but it's only part of the story and transport is only part of our journey. Our work invites people to think about each step of an entire journey including the experiences, products, services and environments before, between and after the transport. This is why we talk about Inclusive Journeys.

And as we respond to the climate emergency, many aspects of our journeys will be redesigned to lower their energy use and emissions - vehicles, of course, but also other experiences, products, services and environments that we encounter along the way. Transport is only part of our journey and decarbonising transport is only part of the story.

Changing our travel behaviours is one of the most effective climate-positive actions we can take so we need to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to choose to take part. If we simply focus on replacing polluting vehicles with cleaner versions we won't fix all the different barriers and inequalities that we already know are built into our journeys. If we can't understand the timetable or walk safely to the bus stop or find a suitable toilet at the station, we probably won't choose to use the bus ... even if it is electric.

So, how do we ensure that we redesign low carbon experiences, products, services and environments, that work for everyone?

By creating a vision of what inclusive low carbon journeys could and should look like - learning about plans and designs for a low carbon world and applying our experiences of exclusion to them, imagining more inclusive and sustainable future.

We're doing this by working with disabled people:

learning about plans for low carbon products, services and environments throughout a journey

viewing these plans through our lens of accessibility and inclusion, using our own expertise and experience

imagining and develop ideas for future products, services and environments that are low carbon and inclusive

creating stories that visualise entire inclusive low carbon journeys (including but not exclusively focussing on low carbon transport)

sharing these stories with policy makers, manufacturers, inventors, designers, disability activists, climate activists...

continuing to learn and develop our stories with new inputs and imagining.

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Inclusive Low Carbon Journeys - Go Upstream

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"Accessible Transport" often focuses on physical accessibility - infrastructure, ramps and surfaces. This is important but it's only part of the story and transport is only part of our journey. Our work invites people to think about each step of an entire journey including the experiences, products, services and environments before, between and after the transport.

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Energy Saving Forums for Minority Communities

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Energy Saving Forums for Minority Communities

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Trialing the delivery of existing energy efficiency drop in sessions but including translators (e.g. Ukranian, BSL etc).

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Podcast-style birdsong lessons, shared ‘dawn chorus’ calls on Zoom, WhatsApp groups and real-world events -  for people to learn how to identify birds by sound and connect with changing seasons, habitats and climate.

Born out of Covid lockdowns, we experimented with listening to the dawn chorus together over Zoom, for mutual support and connection with nature.

This evolved into an online course for identifying common resident and migratory birds, with live practice sessions and WhatsApp groups.

Real-world guided ‘walkshops’ and birdsong surveys for local community projects followed.

Climate change comes up naturally as part of the conversation around why different birds are getting scarcer, or more common, or are changing their behaviours.

Solutions to climate change are discussed, such as rewilding, local community actions and nature-friendly farming

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I'm interested in a way of using the data that we have access to to build up pictures of climate vulnerability and footprint in communities so we can use this to take decisions and help communities to understand why and how they might want to act

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Scaling up climate engagement and community action

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Scaling up climate engagement and community action

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Vocaleyes and Swansea Council are keen to partner to scale up the idea of using a digital platform to engage citizens on their ideas to mitigate climate change. Using the success and lessons learned from the Pennard case study, Swansea Council aspire to scale up to the whole county, providing learning outcomes and an example of best practice fro not only engaging the community in climate discussions but taking that forward into community-led actions which may be replicable across the UK and beyond.