The 3.5% Project: Reading Action Groups
F3 wants to make you aware of the 3.5% Project that has just been launched locally by Flagstaff College. Through a combination of reading a novel that focuses on climate change, in-person and virtual discussions with a small group of fellow participants, and renowned guest presenters, the 3.5% Project goal is to create a “small group of thoughtful, committed individuals” who, working together, make big changes.What if “the answer to climate change is organizing,” as Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org, recently said? And what if what we need is only 3.5% of the public actively engaged in making a change?
Flagstaff College is launching the Flagstaff 3.5% Project because of the belief that both of these things are true.
The first thing that will be done is organizing Reading-Action Groups. Instead of reading about environmental disruption by ourselves, each in our own rooms, sinking into despair, let’s read together, think together, and figure out how to act together. Global anything begins in our communities. It’s where we have the most power to shape public life. In-person & virtual options are available.
We will be reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future. While the novel is science fiction, it is based on so much truth regarding our current climate situation that it feels almost real.
Guest presenters for the 3.5% Project include Harvard professor Erica Chenoweth who came up with the “3.5% Rule” about social change, and national environmental writer-activist, Bill McKibben.
Kick off Zoom gathering Oct 26th at 5:30 pm.
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