Communiversity – Purposeful Panic
WE need action…
Stroud Communiversity 2019 brought together community activists and thought-leaders to discuss the pressing issue of moving from Protest to Project.
The brilliant Friday Climate Strike children, Extinction Rebellion, Earth Protectors and others have raised awareness of the perilous state of our planet – the only one we have.
We need now to find ways of harnessing that compelling energy to develop sustainable and realistic initiatives aimed at helping avoid breaching that critical 1.5°. We need action.
As Greta Thunberg put it at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2019,
“I want you to act as if our house is on fire. Because it is!” “We need to panic,” she says.
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Greta Thunberg “Our House is on Fire” 2019 World Economic Forum
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This online Dictionary of Community Actions, is a growing resource that will inspire those that want to both heal and future-proof their communities
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We need now to find ways of harnessing that compelling energy to develop sustainable and realistic initiatives
Stroud Communiversity 2019 aimed to create ways of panicking in a determined and planned way, by sharing and utilising the experience, skills and wisdom of those already addressing pressing problems in their communities.
The result is this online Dictionary of Community Actions, featuring participants’ and others’ projects, a growing resource that will reassure and inspire those for whom the world is becoming too complicated, too confusing and quite scary, and those too that want to both heal and future-proof their communities.
Dictionary of community action projects
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We’re inviting others to join, inform and inspire us by contributing their learning to the Dictionary
Along with Frome, Glastonbury and Totnes, Stroud is one of a number of small market towns in the South West known for doing things differently and for pioneering solutions to pressing problems. So, over the weekend of October 18 to 20, Stroud Communiversity 2019 hosted representatives from these four towns in a series of presentations, discussions and visits to cutting-edge projects in Stroud, as a preparation for the Dictionary.
Although Stroud Common Wealth, as the founding group of Stroud Communiversity, is proud of its many achievements, it recognises that now, more than ever, we all need to innovate, to give hope through example and to encourage, guide and nurture the inherent wisdom and ability in all of us. We cannot do this on our own; hence Stroud Communiversity 2019 and the Dictionary of Community Actions. And why we’re inviting others to join, inform and inspire us by contributing their learning to the Dictionary.
Max Comfort
Director, Stroud Common Wealth
Our project action areas include…
Renewable Energy
Ideas & projects for generating renewable energy
Housing
Addressing the need for quality homes
Climate
Action on climate change
Communities
Helping improve the quality of life
Agriculture & Food
Safe and sustainable production
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Stroud Communiversity 18–20 October 2019
18
Oct
Agreeing the Issues
Exhibition: What if…, introductions, presentations and discussions. Tour of Stroud Brewery, drinks, wood-fired pizza, networking. More Details
19
Oct
Sharing Possible Solutions
Presentations, discussions, refreshments. Visit Farmers’ Market, to Ruskin Mill, Working Dinner, To Lansdown Hall, Band – “Ken Wood & The Mixers”, dancing. More Details
20
Oct
Action Plans
Warm-up coffee etc “Looking back – Looking forward”. Tour of Springhill site. The future for Communiversity, press conference and wrap. More Details
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I want you to act as if our house is on fire.
Because it is!
We need to panic,
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