This pledge of the month is from a resident/staff member of a community based housing association. Recently held were two superbly engaging training sessions, using the CLP’s Social Housing Toolkit. At the end of the training, staff and residents submitted some excellent pledges. As a community housing provider, Phoenix CH prides itself in employing its …
Thousands of people contribute to a large organisation’s carbon emissions. That means there is a need to quickly scale decarbonisation engagement activities and bring as many stakeholders on board rapidly. Building internal trainer skills for disseminating of Carbon Literacy is a cost-effective way to drive progress in response to the climate emergency. The Scale of …
The second in our ongoing series of Carbon Literacy pledge examples. The pledge we’re sharing with you this month is a group pledge. You can take a look at last month’s example, which was an individual pledge here. Our intention is to provide you, the intrepid carbon-reduction pledge-maker with an array of our best pledges. …
Speak Carbon Collective is thrilled to have been invited to apply for, and awarded the title of Carbon Literacy Training Organisation (CLTO) by The Carbon Literacy Project (CLP). We are one of only seven current organisations to accredited CLTOs. What is a Carbon Literacy Training Organisation? Periodically the CLP will invite an exemplary Carbon Literate …
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What makes a good climate pledge? “Can you give us some examples of good Carbon Literacy pledges?” That’s something we’re frequently asked for during our pledge workshops at the culmination of their Carbon Literacy training. Whilst all individual and group pledges to reduce carbon emissions should be unique to each participant’s circumstances and life experience, …
We’re delighted to share with you the amazing number of people we’ve worked with to date, in the form of Speak Carbon’s first infographic. What better way to summarise what we’ve been up to since we registered Speak Carbon Collective as a Community Interest Company in 2021, than our achievements collated in a design inspired …
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Association for Citizenship Teaching Conference – 29th June Volunteering is an important aspect of spreading the word to raise awareness and motivate climate action. Our Carbon Literacy Trainer, Joey Coombs, a key member of Speak Carbon’s Education Circle, recently attended the ACT Teaching Conference. Here are Joey’s reflections on the day The theme of the …
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In March 2022 Speak Carbon was awarded Platinum Carbon Literate Organisation accreditation for our continued support of multiple organisations’ roll out of Carbon Literacy training programmes. This top level recognition by The Carbon Literacy Project is an acknowledgement of the high standard of climate awareness training all our trainers aspire to provide for the companies …
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Working closely with our training accreditation body, The Carbon Literacy Project keeps us up to speed with course updates, from the latest research to tweaks in strategy and improved activities to enhance participants’ experience. So when we were invited to celebrate the ten year anniversary of the CLP’s launch, on November 1st 2022, a typically …