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Fun, Friendly, Factful Newsletter #268
Our article challenges whether ‘community’ actions are always quite as beneficial as those taking them think, and suggests better ways of acting local.
Our video is the top Short of the past week on the See Through Together YouTube channel. Turns out people want to save money on fuel.
Our podcast is a readers-only sneak listen to a work-in-progress addition to the See Through Together YouTube channel. Your feedback please!
Main Article
The Problem With ‘Community’: How To Act Local, Think Global forms part of the recent series of articles inspired by a climate journalist ‘Anti-Conference’.
Following Climate Journalists/Activists: How To Tell A Sneaky Hack From A Preachy Crusader and Why All News Is Climate News, And How To Join The Dots, this week’s article challenges the utility of ‘community’ action, so often the go-to for those disappointed, disilluioned or despairing at acting on a global scale.
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Video
Given the prices of fossil fuels following the closing of the Straits of Hormuz, it’s not surprising that Never Buying Another Drop of Kerosene Or Petrol was See Through Together’s most popular Short this week.
Replacing Little Pottle Cottage’s kerosene boiler with a heat pump and and battery, and petrol car with an EV, might reduce emissions, but See Through Together’s ‘property’ Playlist Room From A View never mentions this, or any other C-bomb (climate, carbon). It’s all about the money, you see…
The series follows a Wiltshire homeowner's inspired/deluded attempt to save money by building an extension the old way.
Is it really possible for a novice to build an extension for 1/3 of the cost local builders are quoting, by using materials he can see from his front door, and getting fellow-amateur friends, family and neighbours to lend a hand?
The only way to find out, is to subscribe, as episodes are uploaded in real time, and no one knows how it will turn out…
Please comment and share widely, and encourage others to do the same.
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Podcast
A work-in-progress sneak peek for newsletter readers only.
Close your eyes, settle back, with headphones if possible, and hear the remarkable, based-on-a-true-story, tale.
Ben and Sven, features See Through’s array of professional voice artists, supported by music donated by their professional composer and musician colleagues.
Hear the story of two tree seeds that germinated on the same day in different homes, who ended up on either side of a fence.
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