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Beyond Awareness, to Action
Back when I was a high school environmental activist, I used to think that if everyone knew about the problems in the world, they would of course work together to solve them. If only people understood...
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Campaign Case Study: Sydney Uni Campus Clean Energy
I wrote this case study in the hope that it will be of use to current student activists. It will be part of the content of the Centre for Sustainability’s “Leadership Rewired” online training course....
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Movement Growth & Strategic Capacity
One of the key things I’m researching while I’m overseas doing my Churchill fellowship is movement growth. What does it take for a movement, especially a grassroots “real world” movement to grow,...
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The Best of the Rest of Boston
After my meeting with Marshall Ganz, I had a long list of other amazing people to meet. First I went to meet Josh Lynch, an old friend from the US youth climate movement who helped start the Energy...
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Five Principles of Transformational Activism
I started writing this post in the lush green surroundings of Vermont in late spring, and haven’t been able to finish it until now, on a rainy morning six weeks later in the middle of Sydney’s chilly...
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What I’m Doing for the Next Six Weeks
Yesterday I had a conversation with a friend about how to create a bigger pool of people taking action to make the world a better place. ‘What makes a person move from wanting action on one issue, to...
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A MAP for When Things Feel Overwhelming
At my birthday party the other night, one of my best friends was talking about the difference between ‘real activism’ and communications-centred campaigning (especially online organising) that doesn’t...
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Join me in a bigger dream for 2013?
This is the text from an ad placed by Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton one hundred years ago. Rumour has it that Shackleton received 5000 applications. What is it that drives people to rise to a...
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Change Management for Campaigners: Six Secrets to Success
The late Ray Anderson, Founder & CEO of one of the world’s largest makers of carpets, Interface, said he used to be a typical industrialist – a ‘plunderer of the Earth’. In 1994 he was asked by a...
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