The Scaling Up of a Social Movement

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This is the simple, little, one activest step that two high school students could easily do to go convince the local store to shift away from single used plastic facts. If it makes those two high school student students feel powerful instead of power less,. It has the effect of bonding the two students into a a module, and that they can share their plan with other high school students even in other cities or other countries. That's truly beautiful. And hopefully you develop an emergent property of sharing of are s success, and rise to the level of developing a growing number of activists.

How can we use the leading edge of design thinking to create climate activism that really works? Dave Johnson is a lawyer, teacher, writer and design thinker who is bringing his breadth of understanding to bear on the climate and ecological emergency.

Dave Johnson began his career as a trial lawyer in the courtrooms of Miami. After a decade, he came to Stanford to study design, tech and environmental law. He has worked for several Silicon Valley companies, with an increasing focus on teaching, first at Stanford Law School and then the Hasso Plattner Institute for Design at Stanford (a/k/a the d.school). His most recent articles are Design for Legal Systems, to be published by the Singapore Academy of Law, Mar/Apr 2021, and Designing Online Mediation: Does “Just Add Tech” Undermine Mediation’s Ownmost Aim?, published in 2019 by FGV Direito, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Dave is currently working on a book entitled: Climate Activism by Design, bringing design principles to bear on citizen activists responding to corporate and governmental inaction on this immediate, existential crisis facing all of humanity.

In this episode, we discuss the foundations of his book - how a trial lawyer shifted to design principles and thence to the design concepts behind climate activism: what it is and how to frame it such that we can find the best possible modes of action as the emergency becomes ever greater.

Dave's website and blog
https://climate-activist.com/designing-a-greenprint-elements-for-a-personal-eco-philosophy/
Battle for Seattle - wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Seattle_WTO_protests
Freya Mathews books
http://www.freyamathews.net/books