Resources

Climate Fresk has turned climate science into interactive workshops, with over 20,000 facilitators in 50 countries. We have a growing community of facilitators in York.

AimHi Earth provides really high quality, engaging and informative courses and ‘masterclasses’ in sustainability and communication. Their main audiences currently seem to be businesses, but periodically they run sessions open to individuals at affordable rates.

Emergency on Planet Earth is a fully referenced guide to the Climate and Ecological Emergency (CEE), compiled and reviewed by scientists. It was written in 2019 so could do with some updates, but the main concepts remain the same.

A detailed but accessible explainer by air quality scientist Pete Knapp is available via XR Scientists website. World-wide, real-time air quality monitoring data is publicly available.

Abi reflects on the factors that felt most important to running effective educational events during the first phase of this project in this post.

A Gift for Conversation is an interactive book by Dr Louis Keal, designed to get people talking about climate change. It explains the causes and impacts in simple, clear and emotive ways, with sections you can write yourself. It enables you to use the power of your own story to help communicate more effectively.

Britain Talks Climate is Climate Outreach’s “ evidence-based toolkit designed to support any organisation that wants to engage the British public on climate change”.

Green New Deal Rising is a youth-led campaign group, engaging with politicians to secure rapid and fair decarbonisation.

MP Watch is an emerging grassroots network of constituents, voters, locals, neighbours and friends banding together to insist on a new honesty in parliament and to galvanise and support our MPs so that we can work together as a society to tackle existential threats

People & Planet is the UK’s largest student-led campaigning organisation working to end poverty, defend human rights and protect the environment. Their Movement Building Action Guide has some helpful advice for organising campaigns on campus, but many of the principles can be readily applied to other contexts.

A York Friends of the Earth group has recently launched.

York Community Energy is a social enterprise whose aim is to reduce York’s carbon emissions by both saving energy and generating community-owned renewable energy.

The book Climate Jobs: Building a workforce for the climate emergency produced by the Campaign Against Climate Change Trade Union Group discusses the One Million Climate Jobs report, demonstrating that there are many more than a million good, well paid, skilled jobs that could be created if we get serious and urgently tackle the climate emergency, as the science demands.

We’ve found Max La Manna, Maya Lienenbach and James Wythe helpful sources of cooking inspiration when making the transition to an increasingly plant-based diet.

Stay Grounded has information on the impacts of aviation and advice on alternatives.

Climate cafés are safe, facilitated spaces to share your experiences and feelings, and to draw strength from knowing you’re not alone. Multiple people in the YorkCliConnect Community are trained to facilitate climate cafés