This is a timely and much needed report with recommendations from a citizens’ panel of homeowners on home energy decarbonisation, Great to be part of the facilitation team with Shared Future CIC working alongside @CI_Citizens and Climate Change Committee Sortition Foundation

Great to see this follow-up on the Kendal citizens’ jury. May others follow! Shared Future CIC inv0lve Democratic Society Sortition Foundation

cracking read here - particularly like this line the real question is not “growth or not?”, but “growth of what?”

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A #GlobalAssembly 🧵 ahead of #COP27 A year ago, we ran the worlds first global citizens assembly. 100 sortition chosen people, making a snapshot of the human population, met for 68 hours over 11 weeks. Perhaps it holds a key to breaking the dead lock on crises affecting us all?

A provocative 🧵 How would #COP27 be different if the decision makers were a snapshot of the global population chosen by #Sortition? 50% women, 10% no formal education, 70% living on $10 or less a day, 17% from India, 13% white? This is what we did with the 2021 #GlobalAssembly

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How the world’s faiths are mobilising to protect our planet | Latest episode by earthrise Amazing contributions by @LiviJGraham Operation Noah Bahu Trust EcoIslam Young Christian Climate Network FaithInvest & other inspirational people Watch the full doc here youtube.com/watch?v=DHC5m4…

Interested in whether citizens’ assemblies can be designed to grapple with systemic aspects of the polycrisis? Iswe Foundation's Claire Mellier and CAST's Dr Stuart Capstick to explore with the @KNOCA_eu community, May 23rd knoca.eu/event/workshop…

It was such an honour to share some reflections about Global Assembly at the launch of the evaluation report. 2 key concepts I explored in relation to #GlobalAssembly: #power #trauma. The recording will follow soon. In the meantime, check out the report researchsystem.canberra.edu.au/ws/portalfiles…

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We were also delighted to be able to join our enabler lunch with Liz Goold discussing the rise of deliberative democracy.

Liz Goold We all learnt more about citizens’ assemblies & juries, their purpose and potential, as well as the learning that Liz has gathered from her experiences facilitating them. Thank you for such a thought-provoking session, Liz!

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“We need a system that actually delivers the Government that people vote for” Liberal Democrat Layla Moran 🔶🕊️ calls for electoral reform to improve trust in politics, arguing it would increase the diversity of views in Parliament #Peston

The likeness is uncanny- Haven’t laughed like that for ages! 😂 Glad we finally got to celebrate our big birthdays @suepritch 🎉

This is really good. I mean REALLY good. Warm, kind, powerful, inspiring. Keep going like this and Trump is toast.