What is a Climate Café?
Change Starts with conversations!
It is called a Climate Café because it is an informal meeting that takes place on a monthly basis and is open to everyone of any age whether they are familiar with climate change or not but who are interested in its effects on the environment
Change Starts with conversations!
It is called a Climate Café because it is an informal meeting that takes place on a monthly basis and is open to everyone of any age whether they are familiar with climate change or not but who are interested in its effects on the environment
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People are welcome to come along, have a coffee or tea and chat to others about any concerns they have regarding issues with climate change. They can also support in whatever way they are comfortable: some people want to act, others want to help through group discussions, advice and information gathering
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It is all about empowering and enabling people through the Climate Cafes to feel supported and encouraged to work together to make the changes needed to live more sustainable lifestyles. One person can make a difference - think of Greta Thunberg and the children and student's Climate Strikes - so imagine what we could achieve if lots of individuals came together to work on climate change issues
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There are a few Climate Cafés now, Dunkeld and Birnam, Blairgowrie, Aberfeldy, Aberdeen, and the network continues to expand, the next one could be Perth, There are even some established in Australia and the USA. The Climate Café groups come together regularly for meetings and presentations too
Jess Pepper - a climate advocate and Climate Reality Mentor who is actively involved in community action on climate change, and worked for environmental NGO's incIuding WWF Scotland - is founder of the Climate Café movement and organised the world's first Climate Café about 5 years ago in Dunkeld and Birnam which is still going strong today
Carol Aitken
Some of the Climate Cafe group helped out with recycling rubbish the New year Street Party - Read More
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Looking for more information on Climate Change?
Climate Reality have produced this useful introduction 
The Anthropocene website has interesting articles |
We have organised presentations and chats with the presenters about different issues in regards to the four main areas that need to be addressed: Energy; Food, Waste and Transport
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We have invited speakers to talk about:
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Topics we have discussed amongst ourself include:
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You will find ideas for activities without a car on our Car Free Pitlochry page
Everyone is very welcome to come along and join us and to pick up and share ideas
