Hi everyone,
I met a few of you at the Science and Society Workshop last year. I'm currently involved in a project called Pole to Paris (www.poletoparis.com) which is a public awareness campaign highlighting the importance of climate change to people across the world in the run up to the UN Climate Summit (COP21) in December this year, and we are looking for people to help organise some outreach events when the Northern Run part of the campaign reaches the UK in September and October. Read on if you might be interested in getting involved…..
The Pole to Paris campaign has two parts: the Southern Cycle from Brisbane, Australia to Paris, and the Northern Run from Tromsø, Norway to Paris, following 2 recent PhD graduates on their journey to COP21. The Southern Cycle has been under way for several months, and the Northern run started 2 weeks ago. Both have so far gained huge support in the countries they've visited, giving school presentations on climate, interviewing research institutions working with or influenced by climate change, and focusing on possibilities for a greener future (you can see what they've been up to here: https://www.facebook.com/poletoparis?fref=ts).
In October and November, the Northern Run will be passing through the United Kingdom having covered almost 2,000km in Norway. This section of the run will be a 27-day relay , commencing on October 17th in Edinburgh and finishing on November 13th/14th in London. The organising team is really keen to arrange some climate outreach, discussion sessions, question panels and school events at the major cities en-route to coincide with the run passing through. At the moment these include Edinburgh, Newcastle, Durham, York, Lincoln, Cambridge and London.
We are currently after contacts in any and all of these locations who might be interested in getting involved in hosting events to coincide with the run passing through. One of the areas we're particularly looking for contacts to organise something is Cambridge, so if anybody in that region might be interested in getting involved that would be great. Additionally we're also still on the look out for runners to take part in the relay, so if anyone wanted to get involved in that way as well or instead you would also be more than welcome.
If you're at all interested in getting involved in any way or have any questions, please get in touch with me on clare.howes@hotmail.co.uk and we can chat a bit more.
Many thanks,
Clare
