Healthy Planet, Healthy People Award!

Fixing for a Future is delighted to receive a Healthy Planet, Healthy People Award from the Royal Society of Edinburgh to research "How Green is Too Green?"

These awards encourage knowledge exchange and collaborative research practices amongst and between local communities. The resulting findings and outputs are often scalable, producing valuable insights that can be used by similar groups working in other areas of the country and beyond.

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Community: Fixing for a Future

Project: How green is too green?Location: East Lothian

Promoting climate action using a narrow ‘green’ or environmental frame can limit public support and engagement...

Fixing for a Future, a circular economy project initiated in 2020, runs a tool library, repair cafes and volunteer-led sewing skills workshops at schools and libraries across East Lothian.

This research will explore the motivations of volunteers, tutors and participants at Fixing for a Future to reveal the extent to which their ongoing involvement has been influenced by framing climate action as being about social and economic rather than explicitly environmental benefits: empowering people by teaching skills to repair belongings so they can save money; improving health and well-being by providing opportunities for people to work together towards shared goals: and delivering social events where people can expand support networks.

Through in-depth interviews and focus groups, this research will gain valuable insight into what motivates people towards and what puts people off climate action to determine ‘How Green is Too Green?’. Findings will inform the basis of a toolkit to be used by groups and organisations seeking to engage new audiences in climate action and contribute to amplified engagement and impact.