#10: Camp for Climate Action 2007

Low Carbon Show on August 23, 2007

I left the camp on Sunday evening convinced that a new political movement has been born – George Monbiot in The Guardian

We are armed … only with peer-reviewed science – banner from the Climate Camp

Interviews, recordings and reports from the amazing 2007 Camp for Climate Action near Heathrow Airport, London. Seven days of workshops, sustainable living and direct action on the root causes of climate change. The show covers:

• participatory education and consensus decision making with Alice of the Trapese Collective (editors of “Do It Yourself – a handbook for changing our world” published by Pluto Press)
• analysis of the media coverage in conversation with the media team
• a conversation with local residents about their views of the Camp
• other stuff

Resources and references:

• Camp for Climate Action
• Do It Yourself – A handbook for changing our world
  
• Indymedia UK coverage of 2007 Climate Camp
• George Monbiot on the Climate Camp
• John Harris in The Guardian