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Beyond Green

9/3/2022

Dedicated to helping organisations become more sustainable. The organisation inspires action and support organisations through the challenges towards a sustainable future, focusing on what’s important to the business: profitability, managing risks and gaining reputation from green credentials.

Beyond Green and Surefoot collaborate on various environmental projects. This has included collaborating in local energy plans on the Coben Project and helping SMEs move to Net Zero in their operations.

Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland

9/3/2022

The issues around Climate change cannot be resolved without a link to social justice and in particular climate justice.

The Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland’s ‘vision is of a Scotland where every person’s right to live in a healthy environment is fully realised.’

And their aim is ‘to support individuals and communities to use their rights to protect the environment, tackle climate change, and improve local biodiversity and greenspaces for health and wellbeing.’

Carbon Conversations

8/3/2022

Carbon Conversations was started by Rosemary Randall, a psychotherapist, and Andy Brown, an engineer.

Drawing on Rosemary’s therapeutic experience with groups and Andy’s technical expertise they created a unique psycho-social project that addresses the practicalities of carbon reduction while taking account of the complex emotions and social pressures that make this difficult.

Mary Robertson Foundation

4/3/2022

The Mary Robertson Foundation - Climate Justice: is ‘a centre for thought leadership, education and advocacy on the struggle to secure global justice for those people vulnerable to the impacts of climate change who are usually forgotten - the poor, the disempowered and the marginalised across the world.

It is a platform for solidarity, partnership and shared engagement for all who care about global justice, whether as individuals and communities suffering injustice or as advocates for fairness in resource-rich societies.
The Foundation provides a space for facilitating action on climate justice to empower the poorest people and countries in their efforts to achieve sustainable and people-centered development.’

Please also see our Climate Justice workshop.

Seeding our Future

1/3/2022

Seeding our Future (SOF) is a non-profit initiative, started in 2017. The founder and main funder is Alan Heeks, a social entrepreneur and writer.

Alan has been exploring resilience for many years: he has led numerous workshops on this theme, and set up Hazel Hill Wood, a residential centre showing how to learn resilience from natural ecosystems.

Surefoot collaborates with Seeding our Future to offer Future Conversations workshops as well as others around resilience and well-being.

Edinburgh Climate Change Institute

1/3/2022

The ECCI brings low carbon leaders and practitioners from business, finance and the public sector together to turn good ideas into reality.

The ECCI joins up forward thinkers to accelerate & catalyse large-scale low carbon projects. And use their network to help companies drive innovation into their supply chains and create new kinds of low carbon products and services.

They collaborate with government, enterprise and academics to help craft smart climate and energy policy.

The ECCI also helped Pam get the Innovation Award from The Melting Pot that got Surefoot set up as a community interest company.

PIRC

28/2/2022

The Public Interest Research Centre (PIRC) is an independent charity developing participatory approaches to researching, communicating and connecting around cultural stories for a more democratic, equitable and sustainable society.

PIRC has a 40-year record of catalytic research, championing the public interest and informing public policy, and a more recent history of championing the vital role of cultural stories and movement-building in social change. Surefoot has contributed to values training and other work led by PIRC.

Framing Climate Justice is a project coordinated by PIRC, 350.org and NEON seeking to bring justice firmly to the centre of climate change communications.

Common Cause Foundation

25/2/2022

The Common Cause Foundation a common set of values, which we call compassionate values, underpin such social and environmental concern. Everyone holds these values to some extent – indeed the majority of people privilege these values above all others.

Strengthening and giving voice to these values will help to create responses to a wide range of social and environmental challenges – from climate change to social exclusion. Indeed, it is difficult to foresee long-lasting and adequate responses to some of today’s most pressing challenges emerging without working to promote these values.

Common Cause is a network of people working to rebalance cultural values, creating a more equitable, sustainable and democratic society. This work, drawing on extensive collaboration with some of the world’s leading social psychologists, is establishing key principles and insights to achieve this.’

Surefoot and several of our associates are part of this network and we have been applying the Common Cause approach in our work for many years - including designing and delivering the UNESCO awarding Action Learning Programme ‘Communities with a Common Cause”

Surefoot supports learning about, and implementation of, Common Cause principles and practice on the ground in Scotland. We integrate Common Cause principles into much of our work and training, as well as offering workshops specifically on values.