climate action
Stories and images
Don McArthur’s website draws on PhD research at Monash University on the role of cultural power in the Australian climate movement. How do images and narratives feature in the climate movement’s work? How are stories and images important for achieving social...
Climate Resistance Handbook
If you’re wondering how to build a powerful, strategic movement that can make big wins for climate action, this is your guide. The Climate Resistance Handbook brings together a wealth of learnings from the climate justice movement. It starts with breaking social myths...
Enabling Emergence: The Bentley Blockade and the Struggle for a Gasfield Free Northern Rivers
Annie Kia and Aiden Ricketts’ latest article explores the movement-building and blockade phases of the emergence of Gasfield Free Northern Rivers, with specific reference to the use of principles derived from complexity theory and from David Snowden’s related...
It’s In Our Hands Now: Localizing Resistance to Fight Climate Change
Oakley Hill writes: “Failures and derelictions of governments around the world should send a clear message to average, everyday citizens: It is up to us to disrupt business as usual, decrease emissions, and keep temperature rises below 1.5ºC. Such a daunting...
Climate Justice Resources | Seed & AYCC
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have looked after this land sustainably for tens of thousands of years, this gives us hope that we can do it again. To find out more about Indigenous history and the struggles for justice, Seed and AYCC recommend you check...
NGO climate action strategies: A Ugandan case study
Kristen Lyons and Peter Westoby’s (2017) case study of NGO strategies to re-climate solutions. An analysis of selected NGO strategies in Uganda, based on the researchers’ long-term fieldwork and utilising Bill Moyers’ Movement Action Plan framework....
Comm Org fellow profile: Paul Gorrie and SEED mob
My name is Paul Gorrie, and I am Kurnai/Gunai man from the Krauatungalung clan, currently living on Wurundjeri Country. Seed is Australia’s first Indigenous youth climate network, connecting young people to protect country and fight for climate justice. “My...
Climate advocacy lab
Designed for climate practitioners—advocates, social scientists, data experts and funders—the Lab promotes effective tools and tactics for engaging Americans on climate change. The Interactive Tools provide easy access to helpful climate change information, while the...
What’s wrong with the radical critique of the People’s Climate March?
Last Sunday’s march was an important step toward building a popular movement for climate justice, which, in turn, is a necessary condition for more radical actions… Having the most radical-sounding solutions in the world is all for naught if those solutions are...
How alliances to stop climate change are possible, but require a radical rethinking of how we work together
Amanda Tattersall writes: A key concept in community organising is ‘self-interest’.’ Self-interest” is a frequently used phrase, and like “community organising”, it is an often misunderstood term. When community organisers use the...
Stopping the Australian Coal Export Boom
This campaign strategy received saturation media attention when it was leaked to the Australian media. It’s interesting to look at for several reasons. Its authors used ‘theory of change’ in a very practical way, building their tactics around a...
Six lessons from high impact climate campaigns
The Democracy Centre’s series of seven in-depth profiles on successful and ongoing climate campaigns taking place across the globe. We looked closely at the strategies they have employed and analyzed how and why they were effective.
Planning workshops: 350.org resources for climate campaigners
Are you interested in hosting a workshop to build the capacity of your local organizing group and fellow activists? We make our curriculum available for anyone to use with one caveat: organizing a workshop is tough work, and requires good facilitators and training....
Rising Tide popular education resource pack
Spring 2007 Rising Tide North America spent four months touring the US & Canada. This pdf contains step by step explanations of the popular education games, exercises, topics & many of the resources we used.
FiredUp Media: organising guide for the youth climate movement
This is an experiment! Let’s work together to build an awesome online organizing guide for the youth climate movement.
Australia’s Climate Action Summit
The 2014 Community Climate Action Summit is coming to Brisbane this August. Communities, businesses, schools, universities and industries all across Australia are looking past the political rhetoric to get on with the job of creating the kind of sustainable futures...
Power from the ground up
Michael Green’s article in The Age (13/12/08) discusses the rise and rise of Australia’s grassroots climate movement, including observations by the Change Agency’s James Whelan.