Links I’ve liked 03.03.2023

With a view to sharing links that might support my colleagues (and others working in similar areas) better than a drip-drip feed through Slack, and making sure everyone has space to focus, here are some links I’ve liked in the last fortnight. Thank you to the brilliant Radar newsletter from Koreo for several of these.

Urban greening and practical projects

• Cloud gardener — Manchester-based garden communicator: https://www.youtube.com/@CloudGardenerUK/videos

Emergent tech

• Upcoming Mozilla fest session (suggestions for others welcome the schedule is pretty overwhelming). Sustainability, justice, and socio-ecological dimensions of AI transparency https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/UX8N3S-1
• Very good explanatory post from the World Economic Forum on Regenerative Finance and Web 3: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/09/regenerative-finance-web3-climate-change/. Links to ReFi platforms Eco Labs and Aeternals
• Huddlecraft also shared this comprehensive piece from the Alternative: https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/2021/11/28/guide-to-web3-bartlett
• They are planning a brilliant immersion for Web3 charity futures: https://enrol-yourself.notion.site/Applications-Open-Web3-Charity-Futures-Immersion-4727b3f4eb9b44e4bc3ff196f60a9e43

Governance and team stuff

• An interesting example of an advisory board for a design agency https://www.linkedin.com/posts/impact-amplified_youth-advisory-board-activity-7029375583004360704-ooOB?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
• Lean coffee — how to have better conversations with your colleagues online: https://psychsafety.co.uk/psychological-safety-93-lean-coffee/

Change-making

• Upcoming series of Huddlecraft events, starting next week (Tuesday) https://enrol-yourself.notion.site/EVENT-SERIES-Could-we-create-a-surge-of-peer-to-peer-learning-to-amplify-the-impact-of-movements-f-2f9be2675d7d41e2b7f76f4aa43ba156
• Event: Imagination Infrastructuring no. 002: a Time between Worlds. Themes this year are “The Unimaginable, The Ecological Imagination, Civic and Political Imagination and an exploration into the fields of Possibility Studies and the Pluriverse.” https://www.jrf.org.uk/event/imagination-infrastructuring-no-002-time-between-worlds
• This blog post from JRF about the community around collective imagination really stuck with me too — and how this work has felt like ‘grief work’: “it is telling that much of the session was spent collectively grieving — for personal losses and bereavements, for projects not materialising in the way people had hoped, for the failing optimism which many had felt during the upheaval of Covid, and for the fact that resources for this deep cultural work are so sparse”. Als in exploring the tension between imagination a tool for innovation, and as a tactic for liberation. https://www.jrf.org.uk/blog/reflecting-community-collective-imagination. It also includes this brilliant quote from adrienne maree brown:

Covid and climate catastrophe aren’t the only things we are surviving as the systems we’ve been socialized into become obsolete and explicitly regressive all around us. How can we move through this period of endings, this anthropocene, with grace, rigour, and curiosity?

• Community action tool from WWF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16B2XCYox5xLh2UaW8FFhYHEtKanaCGb4/view

Futures-thinking

• A podcast with an impressive back catalogue https://www.futurepod.org/episodes
• The thing from the future game — creative facilitation: https://situationlab.org/project/the-thing-from-the-future/
• These both came from this very interesting article about putting regenerative thinking into practice from the RSA: https://www.thersa.org/blog/2022/10/a-regenerative-design-approach-to-shaping-a-just-transition-in-scotland

Climate action and psychology

I’ve been thinking a little bit about the challenge of pluralistic ignorance, and wondering about the evidence base.

• Climate of silence: Pluralistic ignorance as a barrier to climate change discussion. Explores how “inaccurate perceptions of others’ opinions (i.e. pluralistic ignorance) contribute to self-silencing among those concerned about climate change” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S027249441630038X?via%3Dihub
• This article from Nature also explored pluralistic ignorance in a post-Covid context. Losses, hopes, and expectations for sustainable futures after COVID: “irrespective of political leanings, people consider a return to normal more likely than a progressive future. People also mistakenly believe that others want the progressive scenarios less, and the return to normal more, than they actually do.”
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