Local climate action & activism – Advisory committee members

Sat May 28 00:36:44 EDT 2022

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LOCAL CLIMATE ACTION
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Role: Climate Circles Advisory Committee Members
Type: volunteer
Project: Climate Circles 
Location: Wolfville / Annapolis Valley preferred, or anywhere in mainland Nova Scotia

Background

Climate Circles is a project of the Blomidon Naturalists Society designed to build foundational community in order to create and sustain local-level, citizen-drived climate action, projects and activism of all forms. In its simplest form, it is a weekly action meeting structured to support fun, effective, positive, and supportive meetings on the topics most relevant to those in attendance.

Here’s the thought-process behind Climate Circles: if we enjoy our meeting time together, we will meet for long enough to achieve our projects and goals. Our sense of collective accomplishment will drive us toward more, and more complex projects to address climate change. Together, we can achieve projects that no one person can do on their own, which might look like:
• Establish new community gardens
• Create programs to reduce food waste
• Establish a community solar garden
• Create a local energy utility
• Gather and demonstrate community support for better local transit and expanded biking infrastructure

In fact, people attending Climate Circles from January – March 2020 were working on these very things together every week until Covid hit.

Now we are ready to restart Climate Circles and we have a clearer idea of what is needed to make it a success, for its leaders, participant community members, and the projects themselves. Even though it’s simple in a way (let’s meet every week to do climate change-responsive projects), it’s actually like tossing a complex system up in the air and then trying to catch it as it unfurls and keep it from hitting the ground. That’s where we need an advisory committee. With more brains watching the system unfurl from different perspectives, we will be better able to adapt and respond to its needs to keep it up in the air- everything from participants’ emotional experiences of involvement to who is not in the room and why to project logistics.

Purpose of Advisory Committee
• To collect expertise relating to leading and administering the Climate Circles program
• To create clear structure and expectations for offering expertise
• To expand the capacity of the Blomidon Naturalists Society to lead and administer the Climate Circles program by recruiting individuals with specific skills, perspectives and time to offer support and expertise

Expertise desired
• Fundraising
• Human resources – law and best practices for helping employees feel supported
• Climate justice and relational organizing best practices
• Decolonial perspectives
• Facilitation experience
• Respectful communication skills such as non-violent communication
• Alternative governance knowledge such as sociocracy
• Community development experience
• Project management
• Financial management
• Municipal work environment experience
• Youth perspectives
• And others we haven’t thought of yet!

Tasks and Time Commitment

Up to six hours per month composed of the following activities
• Commit to one up to two hour meeting per month with advisory committee and eventual Climate Circles staff, in person with those willing and able, with hybrid option
• Be available for review of documents and processes up to two hours per month during preparing to relaunch period
• Attend one Climate Circles related event per month once relaunched, if possible, to stay involved and informed in the project itself
• One year commitment to be reassessed each year

Location

Ideally, committee members reside in the Annapolis Valley region of Nova Scotia, or at least close enough to attend in-person Climate Circle gatherings once per month.

Committee Size and Demographics
• At least five members and no more than eight members
• At least two members under the age of 30
• At least one cis-male identifying person but not more than 50% of membership
• Diverse experiences, perspectives and identities actively welcomed and encouraged

Values Required
• Relationships as the centre of changing-making work
• Collective action on climate change will require new ways of thinking and working together, and figuring that out is part of our work together; in other words process, rather than outcome oriented focus
• Climate change as a collective problem requiring a diverse array of interconnected collective solutions
• Collective action on climate change affords much needed opportunities for meaning-making, contribution, and social connection which can improve our personal and collective wellbeing

Benefits to Participation
• Opportunity for mutual learning in building structures of working together that are more relationally focused, enjoyable and effective
• Opportunity for building community
• Opportunity for a sense of unique, skilled and personal contribution on one of the most important issues facing us in a way that helps local people also experience the above benefits through Climate Circles

To Apply

Please write a short cover letter (1 page) detailing your interest in this volunteer opportunity, the ways in which you anticipate being able to offer some of the perspectives and insights articulated above as the project unfolds, and confirming your time availability, including willingness and ability to attend an event in person once per month once project is relaunched.

Please also include a short resume (1-2 pages) highlighting the ways you’ve come to hold the expertise and perspectives you’d like to contribute to the project. Send these via attached documents to emilyalegrand @ gmail.com by Friday June 17, 2022.

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