Literally a gigantic list of climate action events & opportunities in June
Lowkey planning to uproot the system and build a better future, anyone wanna join?
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Why are you doing this to yourself?
You didn’t have to take the coach. You didn’t have to work until 10pm to write the last Green Fix in time. You didn’t have to lug around that cardboard for hours until you found a recycling bin. Don’t be so hard on yourself.
Yeah, I know. You don’t need to tell me. I tell myself the same thing.
But don’t you see - and I have written this out a hundred times like a mantra, in a notebook on a packed train, in a coach station in Lille at midnight, in the thirteenth hour of editing a blog I’m not sure anyone will read, because I need to hear it too - that it is these slow and awkward options that are turning the whole system on its head?
Why would I choose the faster, easier option? To get more done? To save myself time? Convenience and productivity are not the the deciding factors of my life choices anymore. My to-do list is being usurped by my to-be list.
We want to do many things, yes, what do we want to be? I want to be a good friend, a good neighbour, a volunteer, an engaged citizen. I want to be outside every day. I want to read for fun. I want to own my time, not give it to inboxes, calendars and alarm clocks.
Constant urgency is the best-selling manufactured product of capitalist economics.
I am finding my freedom in the so-called difficult choices, the Other, the sustainable path we must force out of a rigged system.
Long sleepless bus rides, trudging around town for a bamboo toothbrush I can afford, the rankling inequality of sacrificing income and sleep for a career ‘making a difference,’ the paralysis between two imperfect choices: all these things I can abide.
What I will not abide is being told that another way of being is somehow too costly, too complicated, too idealistic. In other words, I will not tolerate more corporate misinformation. The ways to be happy, sustainable and fair, they are already here - we have known them all along.
I often hear that as citizens we have little power to change the whole system. But the greatest tools of change are free. Simply saying I am not satisfied. What are we going to do about it? That’s the only spark you need for a revolution.
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What’s Going On?
The G7 group of rich countries have committed to a coal phase-out.
Useful: What is the G7?Influential PR firm is working with climate denial groups to oppose the UK’s net-zero target.
Useful: How to spot and stop climate misinformation.German judges travel to Peru to evaluate level of climate damage caused by company RWE in ground-breaking case launched by farmer.
Related: Why climate lawsuits are surging around the world.How mass shootings, the climate crisis and eco-fascism are tied together.
Useful: No, humanity is not ‘a disease’ and the problem is not overpopulation.Renewable energy could reach new peak in 2022 - and then drop, say the International Energy Agency.
Related: Here’s exactly how we get to net zero by 2050.Plastic packaging might be biodegradable after all, say Germany scientists.
Related: What are the solutions to plastic pollution?
We’re holding a drinks event in Brussels!
And you’re invited. Yes, that includes you.
Save the date for the 29 June 2022 after work in Kamilou Arts-Loi.
Registration not necessary but if you let us know you’re planning on coming, it helps us track numbers. You can let us know by replying to this email.
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[Also there’s no Q&A this edition because around the drinks and general life commitments, I lost control of my inbox and my calendar. It happens. But instead we have…]
Focus On… What’s On in Climate Action in June?
EVENTS
Join The Green Fix in conversation with The Something Club on the 22nd June at 13.30 CEST for a chat about what sustainable activism is.
(Tickets are £3 but there’s limited free spots, if you email casshebron@gmail.com. Plus, a special lifetime discount to the Something Club to all Green Fix readers - 25% off monthly or annual membership use the code FIXSOMETHING at checkout.)Learn the basics of environmental law in this workshop TODAY 8th Juneby Youth & Environment Europe.Join Generation Climate Europe for a chat on intergenerational discussions for sustainabilityTODAY at 17 CEST.Sign up for a Carbon Literacy training session with Sustainable(ish), starting from 6 June! [paid].
The York Festival of Ideas is streaming over 60 online talks from the 11th to the 24th June on every topic imaginable. Check them out here.
Join in the 3-day New European Bauhaus Festival in Brussels & online from 9-12th June for a series of events on shaping the landscape of the future.
Join Adam McKay (director of Don’t Look Up) for a webinar on mass civil disobedience for climate action on the 12th June.
How can businesses protect children’s rights? Find out in this webinar on the 15th June at 14 CEST.
Learn how to handle oppression and relationship building in activism in this Extinction Rebellion workshop on 16 June.
Join the PDCN Social Impact Career online pop-up event on the 16 June.
Tune into the livestream for the EU Sport Forum 16-17 June for two days of discussions on making sport more inclusive and sustainable.
Struggling with eco-anxiety? Join a climate sharing & listening session online on the 16th or 27th June.
Brussels: Join the Stop Ecocide demonstration in Place Luxembourg on the 19 June at 10 CEST.
Speaking of fair business, listen in to how the EU can safeguard living wages too, on this livestream on the 21st June at 13.30 CEST.
The European Development Days are back on the 21 - 22 June for two days of events around the theme of sustainable partnerships.
London Climate Action Week is a week of hybrid events around practical solutions to climate change, from 24 June - 1 July.
Be part of this hybrid research festival on achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals on the 24th June - 1st July by the University of Plymouth.
Learn about the state of global climate litigation in this report launch webinar on the 30th June at 19.30 CEST by the Grantham Institute.
You can catch up on the Hay Festival’s series of talks on their website.
OPPORTUNITIES
The European Youth Forum are accepting applications for their workshop on tackling the climate crisis and polarisation, until TODAY at midnight.
Become a bioeconomy youth ambassador for the EU! Deadline 13 June.
Applications for the Potsdam Summer School on Sustainable Development is open for students & anyone interested (fee of €850). Deadline 15 June.
Apply by the 15th June for a chance to be an SDG Coordinator as part of the UN for 2022-23.
Submit your video on diversity and positive social change to this UN competition for the change to win prizes. Deadline 17 June.
The 2050 Climate Group are recruiting for their Young Leaders Development Programme. If you’re based in Scotland, apply by 19 June.
Submit your photo showing what you want the world of the future to look like in the CIDSE photo competition. Deadline 22nd June.
Calling women entrepreneurs! Apply for an awesome month-long residential fellowship in Spain by the 26th June.
Activists and investigative journalists can now apply for the Bertha Foundation for a full-time fellowship focusing on one social justice issue. Deadline 26 June.
Apply to be a TED Fellow before 30 June.
Working on strengthening local democracy? You can apply to the Hurford Youth Fellowship until the 31 July.
18-35 years old? Apply for the 2022 Volunteer Programme at the Global Landscapes Forum.
Young impact entrepreneurs can apply to the Savvy Fellowship on a rolling basis for mentorship and incubation of an impact venture.
Fill in this plastics survey in the run-up to Plastic Free July to shape the campaign.
Generation Climate Europe have a range of volunteer opportunities for young people.
WAYS TO CHANGE THE SYSTEM
Remember the last edition about the campaign to stop a new fossil project in the UK? Well, the coal plant was approved. Here’s how you can still fight the decision.
Sign this petition to save the Ugandan shea nut tree from deforestation.
Tell KLM to end its misleading adverts about the climate impacts of flying.
Tell the EU to stop funding fake ‘green’ energy and invest in real renewables instead.
Join Eurogroup for Animal’s call to end fur farming in Europe.
[UK] Tell Boris Johnson to tackle the energy crisis and cut ties with Russian fuel.
[UK] Get energy giants to pay for the rising costs, not the people.
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