Ready, Steady, Green!
In this podcast we are discussing challenges and opportunities of turning climate awareness to climate action. The episodes from Ready, Steady, Green! aim to inspire everyone to step up and step out in their lives and in their community, to make sustainability sustainable.
Ready, Steady, Green!
Acting on sustainability with Ash Goddard
Our guest for today is Ash Goddard.
Ash is an experienced workshop facilitator and climate educator. He is Director of Climate Clarity whose mission is to raise awareness and empowerment around the climate and ecological crisis using mainly Climate Fresk workshops, and any other tools that effectively facilitate change.
Highlights and links of the episode:
3:30: One in every 25 participants at this COP 30 is actually a fossil fuel lobbyist: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/14/fossil-fuel-lobbyists-cop30
7:48: Recent Pew Research on notable dip of number of people concerned about climate change: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/08/19/global-climate-change-as-a-threat/
14:00: I find that when people come to these sorts of workshops, it can create quite a big shift in kind of culture or experience in ‘oh, I'm now a person who talks about climate change, I've had experience of a climate conversation.
18:28: Top climate action tips:
- Grantham Institute, Imperial: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/stories/climate-action/
- Take the Jump: https://takethejump.org/six-shifts-help
- Natural History Museum: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/galleries-and-museum-map/fixing-our-broken-planet.html
21:10: Personally, I have a big dream of engaging my neighbours on my street in a food cooperative where we're purchasing from a wholesaler nice organic food, at lower prices and then distributing on the street.
27:05: Sometimes there's a bit of a veil up between us and the organisation when working at this level, they might have a degree of secrecy or a level of keeping information private and not wanting to disclose too many secrets.
34:00: There were tears, there was guilt. There was a lot in the room of people wanting to have a living making the right thing and more. And I really appreciate that moment.
35:00: Rapid Fire Responses - letter ‘B’:
- Belém
- Banks
- Biodiversity
- Behaviour change
42:00: on green skills, sustainability skills and learning: https://www.isepglobal.org/sustainability-skills-map/#thirteencompetencies
43:40: on Axa Climate School
48:50 Taking the time to understand what are major risks in your area and sit down with family and friends and asking what is our plan here. Given everything that we know, are we actually acting at a proportionate level?
49:35: recent news about the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) where the UK might find sea ice down to Liverpool in the winter months: https://www.carbonbrief.org/ocean-current-collapse-could-trigger-profound-cooling-in-northern-europe-even-with-global-warming/
55:00: On the 27th of November, there's the National Emergency briefing in London aimed at high level decision makers, MPs and more. Briefing from 10 experts on climate security, and covering topics across energy, economics, food systems, climate, tipping points and more: https://www.nebriefing.org/
