KSP
World
Café:
Sunday
September 16th, 2007
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Background information and materials from the Café Organizing Group—the Keweenaw Sustainability Project
Location:To get to the Marsin Retreat Center: From M-26 in Houghton, turn west
onto the Houghton Canal Road. Go 6.3 miles, past Oskar Bay, to Red
Brick Road. Turn right and go 0.7 miles. At the fork where pavement
ends, go right. The drive into Marsin Retreat will be on your left.
Carpooling: Park and ride together from the Verna Mize parking lot in Houghton
Biking update [8/8/07]: paving work, but not
white-line painting, is complete up to Schmidt's Corner. Just past
Schmidt's Corner new paving is beginning this week. Check back here for
details. RSVP and contact info: Michael Moore (906) 370-0206, mmoore@mtu.edu
Marsin
Center info,
via the Keweenaw Land Trust
More about World Cafés:
The World Café invites people to participate in a collaborative conversation to coevolve the futures they want rather than settle for the futures they get. It is based on something we all know how to do—engage in a good conversation—and assumes that people already have within them the wisdom and creativity to effectively address their most important challenges and opportunities.
In a World Café, people sit at a café-style table or in a small conversation cluster to explore a question or issue that matters to their community or organization. Other participants seated at nearby tables or in conversation clusters explore similar questions. As they talk, participants are encouraged to write ideas on large cards or sketch them on paper tablecloths.
After an initial 20- to 30-minute round of conversation in these small groups, participants change tables. They carry key ideas and insights from their previous conversation into the new group. One “table host” stays at each table to share with new arrivals the key images, insights, and questions that emerged from the prior dialogue at that table. This process is repeated for two or three rounds and is followed by all participants participating in a whole-group conversation, contributing to gathering or “harvesting” the actionable ideas and recommendations.
More about climate change:
Good books include
The Rough Guide to Climate Change
by Robert Henson
The Weather Makers
by Tim Flannery
Thin Ice
by Mark Bowen
With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change
by Fred Pearce
Stormy Weather: 101 Solutions to Global Climate Change
by Guy Dauncey
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Why Bother?: Getting a Life in a Locked-Down Land
by Sam Smith
The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook: Community Solutions to a Global Crisis
by Greg Pahl
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
by Bill McKibben
The World Without Us (World Without Us Multimedia)
by Alan Weisman
Sustaining Our World, Our Communities, Ourselves: Resources for Earth-Friendly Living, prepared by the Madison (WI) public library.
Websites
Katie Alvord's three-part series on climate change in local contexts: "Lake Superior warming fast"; Lake Superior Basin feeling heat"; and "Businesses feel the heat." Via KeweenawNow.com.
Union of Concerned Scientists
NPR & National Geographic: Climate Connections
(Global Journey map and issues)
The Nation: Global Warming & Climate Change
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): Working Group Report
