Like the previous workshop with the fire alarm half way through, we had problems again but the issues this time were more self-inflicted. Hopefully some of the attendees were able to walk away with at least half of the planned benefits and some greater understanding of why we are in this crisis and what people,…
Category: Organisation
June 4th Fresk Workshop
This time the workshop was disrupted by the fire alarms in the Angel Central shopping mall going off, which meant we had to evacuate half-way through and ended up doing the discussion phase in the pub around the corner, with cigarettes, alcohol, falling temperatures, the threat of rain and fire alarms in the background. The…
Earth Day Workshop Report 2024
We launched a new collaborative game-based workshop tentatively titled “Crisis Origins” that uses the same format as the Climate Fresk. By all accounts it went down well although there are still some rough edges. The game demands players to lay out the causes of the crisis by order of importance, according to the players’ opinions.…
Stroud Green Primary – Let’s Go Fresko
Stroud Green Primary in Finsbury Park agreed to draft me in with a team of Freskers to give their Year 6 pupils the Kids Climate Fresk workshop. There were 5 of us volunteers and 32 ten/eleven-year-olds, with their teacher Cheryl and their assistant teachers watching on the sidelines. Even these young kids can pick up…
Hugh Archibald White
Sadly Hugh died on Monday (27th March 2023), unexpectedly to most, although he had been recently diagnosed with a heart condition. As the chair of the trustees, he was always a steady hand and a great help when it came to running the charity and he’ll be sorely missed. He always seemed fond of his…
Finding the right type of Workshop
Engaging people is difficult. Everyone is so busy, or so uninterested, or so cynical. Just laying out the information and expecting people to pick up on it hasn’t been working to date so we’re investigating more interactive ways of generating participation. Islington Clean Air Parents ran a “public assembly” last month to see if they…
Monthly Meet-up in Finsbury Park, last Monday of the month
Come along to the EcoCounts meet-up every last Monday of the month at the Oak-N4 bar in Wells Terrace, Finsbury Park. Meet other like-minded people and discover what we’re all about. Monthly Meet-up Address 5-7 Wells Terrace,London N4 3JU Starting Mondays 7pm Drop us a line if you want to tell us you’re coming Phone…
The Lent Sessions at St Luke’s
EcoCounts’ Adam will be running 5 sessions at St Luke’s on how we can all live move sustainably, starting on Tuesday March 8th, the week after Shrove Tuesday. Lent is a period in the Christian calendar for fasting, contemplation and dealing with temptation, so what better undertaking can we do than tackle the temptations which…
RSA Islington Presentation Sept 2021
Thanks you for attending the first ever presentation from Carbon Counts, and thank you also to the RSA Islington for hosting us. This video contains the credits for the CO2 1-tonne bubble mountain graphic. Sign up to join in the discussions on our Flarum forum: https://forum.carbon-counts.org.uk/ The PDF of the slide deck can be downloaded…
Our Theory of Change
A graphic displaying how it is now to a community that EcoCounts seeks to create.