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| building the climate movement |action research project | |
Climate change is the highest priority for most environmental and social justice non-government organisations in Australia. With a high level of community and political attention to the dangers of run-away climate change, the climate movement is growing rapidly in size and power. What kind of social movement will be necessary to bring about a climate-conscious society and avoid catastrophic climate change? How will this movement be built and sustained? What will it take?
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Our team initiated this action research project to:
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 | strengthen the Australian climate movement | |
draw lessons and insights from climate change organising since the 1980s | |
facilitate dialogue, reflection and relationship building | |
bridge the gaps between grassroots and NGO activists, between environmentalists and other citizens concerned about climate change, and between the rebels, reformers, citizens and change agents in this crucial people's movement. |
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As the project evolves, we'll post updates on this page. The links below take you to pages with detailed accounts of the stages of the project to date.
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| | action research project overview
In mid-2006, the Change Agency team developed an outline for this action research project (download below). 
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| | action research starts with reflection
Action research is essentially a series of cycles of reflection, planning and action.
Twenty years of accumulated campaign experience represents...
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| | mapping the movement
Reflection involves analysis. And action research begins with reflection.
As this action research project kicked off, we did some preliminary...
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| | supporting local climate action groups
The climate movement is a large, diverse and powerful social movement.
Many newly-formed climate action groups are developing innovative...
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| | community organising for climate action
During 2007, the Change Agency collaborated with the Queensland Conservation Council to support and energise...
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| | building the climate movement online (mid 2008)
How effectively does the climate movement utilise tools for online campaigning, organising and communication? To what extent should the movement rely...
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| | climate movement strategy (March 2009
Towards a movement strategy: reflections on grassroots climate change campaigning
James Whelan & the Change Agency collective
January...
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| | sustaining climate activism
It takes courage and emotional strength to focus consistently on the looming global crisis of climate change. Many people are pouring their heart and...
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| | funding the climate movement (May 2009)
What kind of climate movement will help Australia play its part in averting dangerous climate change? What will it take to create this movement? How can the progressive philanthropic community support this movement? A discussion starter, arguing the case for three short-term...
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| | charting the steps to climate justice (June 2009)
Often our assumptions about how change is likely to be brought about are unstated. Without a map to guide our actions as we work to address a problem as urgent, universal and overwhelming as climate change, it’s possible that any path of action can seem either attractive or futile. In May 2009, we...
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| | anticipating and avoiding demoblisation (June/July 2009)
The Australian grassroots climate movement, like its counterparts in other parts of the world, risks a period of serious and substantial de-mobilisation of energy, resources, momentum and strategic direction following the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in December 2009.
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