NB This is a draft list, and will change! If you want more information, please contact mcmonthly@gmail.com
Disclaimer and pre-emptive apology
This project is going to be big and complex and we will get bits of it wrong. We may even waste some of your time and effort occasionally through bad planning. We will make every effort to ensure that we don’t, but it could happen and we apologise in advance.
However, if you meet other interested people, and you develop new skills and knowledge while doing it, then everyone is ahead of the game!!
As to whether a job is “simple or complex, quick or slow” – this depends on who you are, what you can already do, how fast you can work, how big a chunk of it you take on!
| Job for individuals/groups of individuals | Skills needed/you would learn “on the job” | Simple or Complex, Quick or Slow* | Further info/comments, including deadlines for it to be useful etc |
| Lobbying councillors to get them “on board” with climate change, the citizens’ plan and the like. | Lobbying
Interviewing Reporting back |
Complex and Long | We will provide lobbying advice, talking points etc. And “training” if we can. |
| Doing surveys of your friends and neighbours | Networking
Typing up |
Simple, Long | We are devising a simple survey that shouldn’t take long. We will modify it based on the feedback you give us. |
| Researching what other GM authorities are doing | Research
Collating information |
Complex, long | There are 9 other local authorities. Each will have strengths and weaknesses… |
| Researching what other “Core Cities” are doing | Research
Collating information |
Complex, long | There are 7 other “core cities,” each with strengths and weaknesses… |
| Research what other comparable cities around the world are up to | Research
Collating information |
Complex, long | ICLEI, etc |
| Design a (series of) public events to encourage participation, gain people’s perspectives | Publicity
Meeting design |
Complex, long | As well as going to other groups’ meetings, it might be a good idea to stage a couple of our own… |
| Make a list of meetings on other subjects where we could ask organisers for a set amount of time to gather opinions from the attendees. | Networking | complex and quick/long | If you know of upcoming meetings where we can discuss the Citizens Climate Plan, let us know… |
| Make videos about the Citizens Climate Plan (with vox pops) | Video-making | complex and quick/long | A picture’s worth a thousand words… |
| Forward the fortnightly bulletins to likely allies | Networking | Simple and quick | There will be fortnightly progress bulletins. It would be lovely to see these widely disseminated. |
| Reading the original “Climate Change Action Plan” and its “refresh” (cough cough) | Research and Analysis | Complex and long and frustrating and boring | I know, I know, very exciting |
| Read Call to Real Action, pulling out ideas that have merit and should be revivified | Research and Analysis | 2009 is a LONG time ago… | |
| Read the Climate Plans for 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-3 for things that have been quietly dropped and for “the silences” | Research and Analysis | Ideally this would be a task for a group of people! | |
| Create/add to a list of groups we should be engaging with and asking the opinions of | Networking | Churches, mosques, trades unions, writing groups, sports groups, you name it… | |
| Identify events at which the “Citizens Climate Plan” could have a presence | Networking | See aboveThis work needs to be done between August and December 2013 | |
| Retweet/repost the “top trumps” when they come out on Tuesdays and Thursdays | Email, facebook, twitter | Simple and quick | |
| Come to the meetings of the Environmental Sustainability Sub-group in October and November | Physical availability | Simple and long | Weds October 2nd and Weds November 6th… |
| Have discussions with other people about what they think the council could and should do with their own emissions and also what the council could do to make it easier for individuals and groups to cut their own emissions | Network | We are producing a simple survey that people can fill in online or in print format. This work needs to be done between August and December 2013 | |
| Proof-read draft one or two | Proof-reading analysis | In January or February 2014 | |
| Publicise the launch event | Publicising | March/April 2014 |
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