Archive
The old Carbon Conversations project has been replaced by Living with the climate crisis. The Carbon Conversations project had a much narrower focus and its materials are now very out of date (the project started in 2007). The materials are available here in order to preserve the historical record and for use by anyone still interested.
Most of the Carbon Conversation materials are issued by the authors under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. This means that you are free to share, copy and use the materials non-commercially. You may not alter them, apart from the international versions, where you may translate the text and add country specific material. see “Guidance on using the International Version of In Time for Tomorrow? the International Carbon Conversations Handbook”.
Carbon Conversation Materials
In Time for Tomorrow? the Carbon Conversations Handbook by Rosemary Randall and Andy Brown. Guide to individual carbon reduction and how to go about it, including tackling the social, emotional and cultural conflicts. Each member of a Carbon Conversations group needs a copy.
You can download electronic copies of the book as a .pdf .
The book it self is out of print.
In Time for Tomorrow? the International Carbon Conversations Handbook by Rosemary Randall and Andy Brown. International version of the above, in both A4 and US/Canada print sizes, without the detailed UK information on carbon reduction and without the UK illustrative stories. Users will need to provide their own specific country data to accompany this version or incorporate within it, ( as allowed by the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ )
- ITFT international (A4) (58pp)
- ITFT international US-Canada.pdf (US Letter, 60pp)
The Carbon Conversations Facilitators’ Guide by Rosemary Randall. Detailed guidance on how to run a group, covering group process, the psychology of climate change, facilitation skills, group activities and outlines for each meeting.
- CC facilitators guide.pdf (A4, 67pp)
The Carbon Conversations Workbook by Rosemary Randall and Andy Brown. Workbook for monitoring and recording household carbon emissions. Each group member will need a copy of this.
- CC workbook.pdf (A4, 38pp)
Carbon Conversations Games. Three board games, one modelling home energy, one exploring travel dilemmas and one explaining the emissions from food. These were particularly useful for introducing difficult technical information (Low Carbon House game), discussing contentious policy issues (the Travel Dilemmas game) and explaining the complexity of embodied emissions (Food Footprints game)
Games boards
- CC House game board 390x840mm.pdf
- CC Travel game board 700x640mm.pdf
- CC Food game board 440x810mm.pdf
Games cards
Games instructions
Cards for the ‘Understanding the Numbers’ activity described in the Facilitator’s Guide
Star Ratings. Explanation of the methodology behind the star ratings used in Carbon Conversations.
Carbon Calculator and the Online Workbook, spreadsheets developed by Andy Brown and Peter Harper have not been archived here as they are out of date and are not being maintained. If you have any queries, please email Andy Brown