THinking & doing Low-Carbon
As a member of the Low-Carbon Research Methods Group, I’m finding my way to noticing carbon and working on how best to intervene to lower it.. Other people have told me they’re concerned, too. — But where to start…?
Below are three ways to begin. As director of Wayfinding for Restorative Methods, I facilitate workshops, office hours, and coordinate monthly Low-Carbon Conversations where carbon-concerned folks gather in virtual space to share suggestions and skills. Check out these options below and sign up.
**There is no cost to participate in the offerings below.
Join a Low-Carbon Conversation
Share your carbon concerns and carbon-lowering skills in a monthly virtual gathering space.
Each 90-minute session begins with 30 minutes of meet-up and discussion time, followed by 30–45 minutes of low-carbon doing & making.
Find the schedule below and SIGN UP HERE to receive updates..
Book a Wayfinding Office Hour
Come to a one-hour virtual guided reflection to consider how to disrupt everyday carbon norms.
Office Hours can be adapted for larger groups if you’re organizing a session for members of your community. Book HERE.
Office Hours are based on a model co-developed with Alexandra Lakind, a fellow low-carbon researcher and co-creator of the Low-Carbon Research Methods Summer Institute (Summer 2022)..
Book a Workshop
I offer a variety of virtual workshops that invite groups to consider carbon intensive realities and carbon-lowering approaches.
The workshop is usually 60–120 minutes, but timing and content can be tailored to suit the needs/goals of your group.
All groups are welcome!
Low-Carbon Conversations:
**To accommodate participants in different time zones, all conversations are offered twice. The doing/making content of sessions may vary depending on the availability of presenters/skill-sharers.
If you have a skill to share or a making/doing idea you’d like to see in a particular calendar slot, please reach out.
May 14 - Session #1 Time: 08:00 AM Eastern Time (New York)
09:30 (St. John’s, Nfld) / 10:00 (Rio de Janeiro) / 13:00 (London & Tunis) / 14:00 (Paris & Zagreb) / 15:00 (Cairo & Kyiv) / 19:00 (Jakarta) / 20:00 (Shanghai) / 21:00 (Seoul)
May 14 - Session #2 Time: 20:30 PM Eastern Time (New York)
14:30 (Honolulu) / 17:30 (Vancouver & San Francisco) / Following day (May 15): 07:30 (Jakarta) / 08:30 (Manila) / 09:30 (Tokyo) / 10:30 (Brisbane) / 12:30 (Rotorua) / 13:30 (Apia, Samoa)
2024 Session Descriptions & Links to Join
May 14 (May 15 for some Session #2 attendees)
“Ditching Datacenters, Building Community, and Reclaiming Our Online Lives”
Session #1 - Guest Speaker: Quentin Dufour (of Deuxfleurs.fr — See also: Garage)
Join Session #1 HERE ID: 824 6985 4207 Pwd: 801568
Session #2 - Guest Speaker: Forest Johnson (of cyberia.club)
Join Session #2 HERE ID: 840 4436 3814 Pwd: 091855
This session is open to everyone. No “techspertise” required. This is a continuation of the March Low-Carbon Conversation where Sam Butler invited us to think about what might be possible with distributed networks of “living room” servers.
Our guest speakers will show us what they’ve been working on, and invite interested potential server hosts to become involved.
If you’d like to connect with Forest and Sam prior to the sessions to receive more information, you can contact them HERE.
June 12 (June 13 for some Session #2 attendees)
Making/Doing & Skill-share — TBD
July 17 (July 18 for some Session #2 attendees)
Making/Doing & Skill-share — TBD
August 15 (August 16 for some Session #2 attendees)
Making/Doing & Skill-share — Workshop: ‘Choose-your-own-adventure’ method for low-carbon consideratons. **Takeaway materials for classroom activities and public engagement.
September 18 (September 19 for some Session #2 attendees)
Making/Doing & Skill-share — Creative ways to talk to family and friends about lowering carbon (in preparation for holiday dinner table conversations in the months to come)
October 17 (October 18 for some Session #2 attendees)
Making/Doing & Skill-share —TBD
November 19 (November 20 for some Session #2 attendees)
Making/Doing & Skill-share — TBA
December 18 (December 19 for some Session #2 attendees)
Making/Doing & Skill-share — TBA
PREVIOUS SESSIONS (2024)
April 18 (April 19 for some Session #2 attendees) ==> See this page for Session Notes
Session #1 - Post-doctoral Researcher Ashley Cahillane joins us to share:: Decarbonising Research Policy: Reflections on a Series of Events
Session #2 - Considerations for Creating a Low-Carbon CV and using it to disseminate ideas around low-carbon possibilities within academia and beyond
March 13 (March 14 for some Session #2 attendees)
Making/Doing & Skillshare — In Session #1, we discussed what a low-carbon CV might be and do. In Session #2, we learned about small scale distributed networks of community-hosted servers, and discussed how this type of system might be implemented within the communities where we work and live. This is a discussion to be continued at a future Low-Carbon Conversation. Stay tuned!
February 15 (Feb 16 for some Session #2 attendees)
Making/Doing & Skillshare — We discussed carbon concerns in our own work and lives, shared low-carbon wishes for our institutions and beyond, and suggested creative initiatives to encourage specific carbon-lowering shifts in our communities. We proposed collaborative possibilities for this space