Sustainable(ish)

If you were to google 'how to be more sustainable' you would get a slew of posts sharing 'ten top things to do to cut your carbon footprint' or similar.Very few (if any) mention the huge potential influence that we can all have, by sharing the things that we're doing, talking to other people, voting etc etc.

Which is why when I first came across a paper called 'Choices for climate action: a review of the multiple roles individuals play', and it included these very things, I was super excited, and promptly used it as a framework for diving into climate action in my Carbon Literacy courses.

I was delighted to be able to dive into this in more detail with one of the paper's authors, Dr Sam Hampton, who is an academic at not one, but two universities, Bath and Oxford! We discuss not only the paper I mention above, but a new paper that has just been published about the role of hairdressers as 'everyday influencers' - a phrase I absolutely love! We are ALL everyday influencers, and our choices matter and shape the decisions of those around us. I find this hugely empowering, and I hope you do too!

Sam Hampton



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USEFUL LINKS:

Sam Hampton
- Website
- Linked In
Choices for climate action: a review of the multiple roles individuals play
[188] - Money, money, money with Lisa Stanley-Mann
Household contributions to global greenhouse gas emissions
- This paper says 60%
- This paper says 72%
Katharine Hayhoe
- Saving Us (book)
- Katharine on the Sustainababble podcast
- TED talk
Globally representative evidence on the actual and perceived support for climate action
Experimental evidence for tipping points in social convention
[118] - A beginners guide to COP26 (I reference this episode with Laura on the podcast)
Hairdressers as 'everyday influencers' on climate change and sustainability
Green Salon Collective
[154] - Leading by example, does it work? With Steve Westlake
Green and Healthy Frome
[185] - Is it all b*llocks?
Outrage and Optimism podcast episode with Lorraine Whitmarsh
Ipsos Perils of perception study
Oxford University Climate Leadership Research Centre
Larger Us - Lets Talk Climate project
Sustainable(ish) Clubhouse - doors opening again soon!
Carbon Literacy
- Carbon Literacy with me!

Pie chart showing the six domains for individual action on climate change



I'd love to hear your thoughts on 'everyday influencers' , and if this episode has helped you to think more broadly about the impact we can all have.
Let me know!

If you were to google 'how to be more sustainable' you would get a slew of posts sharing 'ten top things to do to cut your carbon footprint' or similar.Very few (if any) mention the huge potential influence that we can all have, by sharing the things that we're doing, talking to other people, voting etc etc.

Which is why when I first came across a paper called 'Choices for climate action: a review of the multiple roles individuals play', and it included these very things, I was super excited, and promptly used it as a framework for diving into climate action in my Carbon Literacy courses.

I was delighted to be able to dive into this in more detail with one of the paper's authors, Dr Sam Hampton, who is an academic at not one, but two universities, Bath and Oxford! We discuss not only the paper I mention above, but a new paper that has just been published about the role of hairdressers as 'everyday influencers' - a phrase I absolutely love! We are ALL everyday influencers, and our choices matter and shape the decisions of those around us. I find this hugely empowering, and I hope you do too!

Sam Hampton



LISTEN...



USEFUL LINKS:

Sam Hampton
- Website
- Linked In
Choices for climate action: a review of the multiple roles individuals play
[188] - Money, money, money with Lisa Stanley-Mann
Household contributions to global greenhouse gas emissions
- This paper says 60%
- This paper says 72%
Katharine Hayhoe
- Saving Us (book)
- Katharine on the Sustainababble podcast
- TED talk
Globally representative evidence on the actual and perceived support for climate action
Experimental evidence for tipping points in social convention
[118] - A beginners guide to COP26 (I reference this episode with Laura on the podcast)
Hairdressers as 'everyday influencers' on climate change and sustainability
Green Salon Collective
[154] - Leading by example, does it work? With Steve Westlake
Green and Healthy Frome
[185] - Is it all b*llocks?
Outrage and Optimism podcast episode with Lorraine Whitmarsh
Ipsos Perils of perception study
Oxford University Climate Leadership Research Centre
Larger Us - Lets Talk Climate project
Sustainable(ish) Clubhouse - doors opening again soon!
Carbon Literacy
- Carbon Literacy with me!

Pie chart showing the six domains for individual action on climate change



I'd love to hear your thoughts on 'everyday influencers' , and if this episode has helped you to think more broadly about the impact we can all have.
Let me know!

Football and sport don't perhaps at first glance seem like a natural 'in' for climate action. But did you know..?
- Over 100,000 grassroots football matches are cancelled every year due to bad weather such as flooding
- Over 80% of football fans want are concerned about climate change
- 65% of football fans want their clubs to take more climate action

It was such a joy to get the opportunity to chat to Katie Cross all about Pledgeball - an award winning sports sustainability charity who do an amazing job of empowering sports fans to take action for climate and nature, often framing it around the idea of 'protecting where we play'.
I wouldn't count myself as a football fan, but I took so much inspiration away from this episode and from Katie. So many clever ways of taking something that people are passionate about and using it as a way in to talk about climate and how it's impacting on that thing that they love, and then harnessing the power of the community that they are already involved in to take action, and to see how their one action contributes to a much greater impact.

Even if you're not a football fan, I think there will be lots to take away from this episode - some way to take a little bit of the work that Plegdeball are doing with football, and in sport more widely, and apply it to the communities that you're already a part of.

Katie Cross



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USEFUL LINKS:

Katie Cross
- Linked In
Pledgeball
- Website
- Instagram
- Linked In
- Facebook
- You Tube
- The Pledgeball podcast
- Add your club (or school, or workplace etc)
- Sustainable Travel Charter
Ep 154 - Leading by example - does it matter? With Steve Westlake (podcast ep)
David Wheeler
Climate Outreach
- Britain Talks Climate and Nature
EFL Green Clubs
Carbon Literacy
- Carbon Literacy with me!
Ep 175 - Climate Play (including Lego Serious Play) - podcast with Lisa Hawthorne
Ep 193 - The power of swapping with Sam Drury Shore

Reading FC's kit with the warming stripes on the sleeve



I'd love to hear if you get your local club signed up, or get your kids school involved, or start something at work around this - do let me know!

To change the world, you've got to throw a better party than those destroying it".
This is a quote from Louisa Ziane at Toast ale, and is one of my faves, and something I try and keep front of mind.
'Sustainability' has an image problem and is very often seem as something that is dull and dry and bleak, and for the keen greenies over there wearing lots of hemp, or for the lone Sustainability Manager at a company.
It's not really something we'd bring up in conversation down the pub. Or is it..?

Adam Bastock is the founder of People, Planet, Pint - a simple concept of getting like-minded people together 'down the pub' for a chat. From a What's App message at COP26 asking if anyone fancied a pint, People, Planet, Pint now hosts around 80 events every month, in 120 locations around the world! It's such a brilliantly simple idea - one of the things that many of us struggle with is feeling like we're on our own, at the same time perhaps as feeling like the more traditional forms of 'activism' aren't really for us or feel out of our comfort zone. People, Planet, Pint is a great way to connect with other people locally, and to recognise that it's not just you, and that you're not on your own, and who knows what might come of a conversation over a pint (or glass of wine/diet coke/insert other drink choice here!) down the pub.



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USEFUL LINKS:

Adam Bastock
- Linked In
Small 99
- Small business carbon footprint estimator
- Digital emissions calculator
- Action Box
- Pub mini-game
- Linked In
People Planet Pint
- Find an event
- Become a host
- Wine Tastings
- Linked In
- Instagram
Carbon Literacy
- Carbon Literacy with me!
Ep 175 - Climate Play (including Lego Serious Play) - podcast with Lisa Hawthorne
Ep 193 - The power of swapping with Sam Drury Shore

The People Planet Pint map!



Do let me know if you have been to your local People, Planet, Pint event, if you're a host,
or if you're now thinking about finding an event local to you,
or perhaps even finding out more about hosting!
If you've enjoyed this episode, please do leave a rating and a review
wherever you listen, and tell all your friends!

I can't wait for you to dive into this week's episode with Samantha Drury Shore who is the Chair of Sustainable Devizes, not too far from me in Wiltshire, and who has spear-headed their brilliant swap events that now run on a regular basis. Sam shares with us how they got started with their first event and shares her experiences of what works for these kind of events, and the nitty gritty of the logistics and organising.
It's another wonderful example of, in the words of listener Tamasin, "perfectly normal people discovering they can change things". I found it really inspiring and despite being someone who really isn't good at, or particularly enjoys, organising events, it's really got me fired up and thinking about whether I can persuade a couple of friends to help me organise something locally!

Samantha Drury Shore



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USEFUL LINKS:

Samantha Drury Shore
- Website
- Substack
- Instagram
- Linked In
- Swap Shops Toolkit
Sustainable Devizes
- Links
- Facebook page
Fires and Facism film
Nothing New in '22
Clothes piling up in Atacama Desert
Chippenham Uniform Exchange
[187] - No Crap Parties with Charlotte Mason-Curl