If you enjoy this site, find it useful
Tell your friends and family
Share it on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc Slap up as guest post (but please keep the url back to the original).
Tell me when
a) I got things wrong (from typos to dates, names, events)
b) there’s more to the story than I am telling, especially on the ‘what happened next’)
c) there is a key date that should be covered
[This is a MAJOR thing – because of what I studied for my PhD (Australia), where I live (the UK) and who the elephant in the room is (USA), unless I – with help from others – make a major effort, then after a year this will be a somewhat boring and crushingly white/Western tale of what some old white man said to some other old white men on such and such a date. The world is made up of more colours than pale white, so help us out with dates of significant events from BEYOND Europe.]
- Leave comments (constructive, can be critical.)
- Invite me on your podcast to talk about the project, or do an email interview if you don’t yet have a podcast?)
- Write a guest post (it has to be about a date that hasn’t come along yet)
- Be interviewed about the project and your work
- Get me a book deal with your publisher friend. And a TV gig off the back of that.
If you are a social movement organisation and you want someone to help with strategy around recruiting and retaining, that is what I am most interested in. Please get in touch.
Whatever happens to us – and it almost certainly is not going to be pleasant, we are going to need to know how to co-ordinate, collaborate and work under difficult and dispiriting circumstances. That takes practice, and it is therefore a good idea to start now.
All Our Yesterdays “Getting involved”
Divided into
- Simple and quick
- Simple and long
- Complex and quick
- Complex and long
Of course, this is arbitrary, and simple/complex depends on what skills you have.
By quick I mean can be done in, say, 20 minutes to half an hour. By long I mean requires lots of 20 or 30 minute bursts.
I am very keen to hear additional suggestions
Simple and Quick
- Referring to posts at the beginning of talks and presentations – “Thanks for having me. Before we’d begin, I’d like to point to something(s) that happened on this day around climate change. Firstly xxx , then yyy. We’ve been making the same mistakes for a long time, and it’s well past time we made some NEW mistakes.”
- Suggesting dates (especially for events that happened in countries that aren’t UK, US and Australia!)
- Proofreading/critiquing a small number of posts before they go up
- Spotting typos and other errors in posts or small groups of posts that have gone up
Simple and Long
- Proofreading/critiquing a month’s worth of number of posts before they go up (be quick though, because there’s only four months of new posts left before I knock new posts of the “on this day” variety on the head)
Complex and Quick
- Turning a post into a Bsky thread (with your own interpretation/top-spin (don’t forget to tag me)
- Drafting a script for a short video about a specific post
Complex and Long
- Go through a bit of the site and figure out what are the under-written topics, the possible synergies
- Come up with new ways of publicising the existence of the site.
- Videos Draft a script for a short video about a specific topic (carbon capture, emissions trading, carbon taxes, the smugosphere etc)