This week’s episode is a great chat with Ric Casale from Carbon Copy, an online hub that connects local communities, councils and companies who share the goal of a carbon zero future. Their aim is to help more people in taking local climate action and collectively in building something better.

Now, I don’t know about you, but when I hear the words Climate Action, there’s a part of me that starts to shrink. A part of me that associates climate action with getting shouty with a placard, and that associates local climate action with dreary meetings in cold church halls where everyone has a good old whinge but nothing much actually happens. Thankfully this isn’t the case!

Climate action will mean different things to different people, and that’s ok.
Your climate action might be reducing your plastic, or your meat consumption, or your general consumption, or something else entirely. And local climate action can look different in different places, or even different action in the same place!

Local climate action is all about getting together with the people in your local area to take ACTION. And it’s that action that is important.
You could set up a Repair Café, of a secondhand school uniform service, or a plastic-free buying group. Or you could get involved with something more technical like a local energy co-operative. It doesn’t really matter what it it – what matters is thinking about your skill set and how you might be able to contribute towards to making something bigger happen.
There are so many benefits, as you’ll hear Ric and I discuss in this episode, and coming together with others is a great way not only to amplify your individual actions or take them to the next level, but also to meet others and to know that you’re not alone in your quest to make the world, both globally and locally, a better place.

Enjoy.

• Carbon Copy
  - Website
  - Facebook
  - Twitter
  - Instagram
  - Find out if your council has declared a climate emergency
  - Carbon Copy blog - The Audacity of Action
• The Library of Things
• Planting healthy air in schools
  
• Incredible Edible
• Filtered neighbourhoods
• Ric's book - Civic Revolution: A citizen's guide
• [032] - The introverts guide to going on a climate march (podcast)
• The introverts guide to climate marches (blog post)
• Repair Cafes
• How to run a Swish (blog post)
  
• Sustainable(ish) Facebook group

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