Energy Week Two by Kelli Fleming https://padlet.com/kellifleming1/n9heltmpfk43ldsh en-us 2020-04-28 18:33:58 UTC 2026-01-30 19:46:50 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4a1.png Appalachian Women of Action https://padlet.com/kellifleming1/n9heltmpfk43ldsh/wish/544676251 I am already involved in this group and it is always helpful to do more observation and analysis. And I really think it may be the most important work I am doing right now of all of the groups I am involved in.  I think this is especially relevant to energy because we need to change policies and we need to vote in folks who believe is new alternative energy policies and use policies etc.

]]> 2020-05-01 18:41:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kellifleming1/n9heltmpfk43ldsh/wish/544676251 Voting Access https://padlet.com/kellifleming1/n9heltmpfk43ldsh/wish/544678695 2020-05-01 18:42:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kellifleming1/n9heltmpfk43ldsh/wish/544678695 Spend time researching the local issue of voting barriers, speak with folks who are more expert than I am on this topic, which are many on this. Continue to be involved in weekly meetings, online fb presence etc. https://padlet.com/kellifleming1/n9heltmpfk43ldsh/wish/544679212 2020-05-01 18:43:14 UTC https://padlet.com/kellifleming1/n9heltmpfk43ldsh/wish/544679212 policiy changes - including structural supports along with grass roots movements/efforts, impact the ways of thinking. https://padlet.com/kellifleming1/n9heltmpfk43ldsh/wish/544688422 2020-05-01 18:48:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kellifleming1/n9heltmpfk43ldsh/wish/544688422 I have a few ideas/options for a "community" to act with, but I think it's best to settle on the problem to be addresses before building the community. https://padlet.com/kellifleming1/n9heltmpfk43ldsh/wish/550596353 2020-05-04 21:29:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kellifleming1/n9heltmpfk43ldsh/wish/550596353 Jiminy - my ideas are not nearly as good as Madame Anonymous's. I may be tempted to be copy cat ! Upon revisiting the Moodle guide, I will invite a Community to address Xenophobia. That is something I think any individual can do in their own locale, although it will may be somewhat more difficult while we are self-isolating. . . https://padlet.com/kellifleming1/n9heltmpfk43ldsh/wish/550598141 2020-05-04 21:30:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kellifleming1/n9heltmpfk43ldsh/wish/550598141 https://padlet.com/kellifleming1/n9heltmpfk43ldsh/wish/550599836 Compile lists of readings and poetry, Bible verses and excerpts from the text of other faiths that parallel one another.  Collect facts on the great achievements in historical diplomacy that have advanced mankind in general, as opposed to the interests of a nominal group of elites.  Find places where open exchange between people of different cultural origins can be promoted by those in our own community.  Invite people of other cultural origins into our circle to help clear away negative assumptions on their part (about us).  Find ways, even if only on social media, to celebrate the amazing accomplishments of foreign-born children within our educational system.  Celebrate the proven value of cross-cultural ideas in technological and medical advancement, as well as in music, the arts, you name it.  Have each member of our own “community” find a way to engage one mildly xenophobic friend with a foreign-born person living in America in a triad that rewards all three in some way.
Try any number of ways to explore how phobic people feel and perhaps read up on the psychology of that - from both extremes of the po]]> 2020-05-04 21:32:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kellifleming1/n9heltmpfk43ldsh/wish/550599836 I suppose "free riders" are universal in any place, any era. To motivate the sideliners to become participants, it might at times be possible to find & show ways in which consequences do fall more at their doorstep than they previously understood (on the theory that such people are always looking at "what's in it for me"). We are all sideliners sometime, I suspect. We may feel protected but in fact may have a false sense of security that can be demonstrated in community discussions to be surprisingly upside down. Regarding voter registration, it may be possible to show statistical correlations that relate high voter participation to general prosperity in some facets of life that interest specific individuals. Or to show focused advantages to certain individuals directly. Regarding voter participation, new voter registration activities comes to mind, as does legislative advocacy to undo egregious gerrymandering. Town halls can be sponsored, preferably with candidates invited, and there are many other ways to support candidates at any level of government. I love the Copenhagen story of when/how/why bicycles gained so much commuter prominence in Denmark. Now that Americans may not be traveling abroad at the same clip, our "communities" can look for readings,videos, and other ways of sharing various inspiring stories of that same nature with others and trigger some shift of dialog from a pattern of tedious complaint to hopeful and inspiring example. https://padlet.com/kellifleming1/n9heltmpfk43ldsh/wish/550605087 2020-05-04 21:35:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kellifleming1/n9heltmpfk43ldsh/wish/550605087