Dear Lisa,
 
Thanks for the reminder of last year's SWCP network environmental and climate change topic and the suggestions of contributors (hello Steph and Rachel!) and your offer to pass information round your network.
 
To bring you up to date: the conference is moving much more slowly than I had hoped but is still on the road. The BPS College of Fellows (of which I am a member and which organised a day conference last year in London on Community Psychology) started organising it but it got taken over by bigger / higher interest groups within the Society and is now being organised by the BPS. It will take place in 2008 and, on behalf of the CoF I have agreed to serve on the organising committee which is due to start meeting early in the new year. Needless to say I have been working to ensure that the conference considers critical psychology issues and does not just default to problematic individualistic & psychologistic assumptions such as that individual psychological change is the key to preventing climate change and I have received some assurances in that regard. Key aspects of the conference are still to be decided but I will certainly pass your suggestions forward and lobby for them when the time is right.  I will also consult as and when possible and will circulate more information when I can. I would really value support for a radical agenda at the conference from members of this list.
 
Merry Criticalmas one and all
 
David

From: The UK Community Psychology Discussion List on behalf of Thorne Lisa (DEVON PCT)
Sent: Fri 12/21/2007 16:15
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Subject: Climate change day

Dear David (Fryer)

I noticed that you mentioned your involvement in organising a BPS? day regarding climate change in a mailing some time ago. Unfortunately it's taken me a while to catch up with all the discussions that have been going on.

You may remember that the South West Community Psychology network had environmental issues and climate change as its overarching topic last year and we built up several interesting links with non-psychologists as well as our usual group of attendees.  Those at Great Yarmouth's conference may remember the fantastic workshop facilitated by Steph & Racchel from Green Roots, in which we were encouraged to think about how different fields of psychology could contribute to an understanding of, and possibly changing, people's behaviour and attitudes towards the environment.
I am wondering whether there will be an opportunity for people to offer their knowledge and skills to the day that you are organising (e.g. offer to run a session or speak), and would be keen to send any further details on to the network of people we built up last year.

Thanks, and festive greetings to all!

Lisa


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