https://wiki.sustainablejustcities.eu/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=EmmaErwin&feedformat=atomUrban Arena Wiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T15:08:56ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.37.2https://wiki.sustainablejustcities.eu/index.php?title=User:EmmaErwin&diff=1810User:EmmaErwin2020-03-05T20:23:05Z<p>EmmaErwin: Created page with "= Vision on & relation to sustainable just cities = Originally from outside Belfast, I have lived in Stirling, Scotland, my whole adult life, having gone there to study Envir..."</p>
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<div>= Vision on & relation to sustainable just cities =<br />
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Originally from outside Belfast, I have lived in Stirling, Scotland, my whole adult life, having gone there to study Environmental Geography at university in 2006. I am really passionate about work that tackles both climate change and poverty simultaneously.<br />
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Since 2014 I have worked for environmental charities raising awareness about climate change. At RGU Go Green I organised events and activities to get students involved in our projects to help reduce their carbon footprints. At Forth Environment Link I organised a series of workshops to train individuals and community groups in all things orchard-related.<br />
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I began working with Transition Stirling in 2016 as Project Manager on our 'Share and Repair' project. This includes Scotland's second tool library, and first repair cafe events. We have a repair service and a wood reuse scheme to help volunteers increase skills in wood-working using waste wood. We deliver workshops on growing food, cooking food, foraging for food, sewing and mending textiles and furniture upcycling, and hold film screenings on different climate change related topics. We are involved in the delivery of establishing a reusable cup deposit scheme and a community fridge. Lastly, we are soon to begin a new project taking items discarded at our local recycling centre and repairing, redesigning and retailing them through a Reuse Hub.<br />
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= More about me =<br />
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During my time working with Transition Stirling, I studied an MSc in Strategic Sustainable Business at University of Stirling. I am also involved in my local Extinction Rebellion group and volunteer on the board of Tool Library Cumbernauld.<br />
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Transition Stirling: https://www.transitionstirling.org.uk<br />
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LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emma-erwin-57a55755/?originalSubdomain=uk<br />
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Pecha Kucha talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWa_tk7zHc0</div>EmmaErwinhttps://wiki.sustainablejustcities.eu/index.php?title=Talk:Financial_practices_and_instruments&diff=1386Talk:Financial practices and instruments2019-11-22T15:52:19Z<p>EmmaErwin: /* Question to Community of Practice */</p>
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<div>== Question to Community of Practice ==<br />
The information on financial practices and instruments that was found in the selected EU-funded projects was limited. Do you know of or have experience with examples of alternative financial practices or instruments? [[User:Karlijn Schipper|Karlijn Schipper]] ([[User talk:Karlijn Schipper|talk]]) 11:46, 18 October 2019 (UTC)<br />
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*Here is a nice example of a local currency: http://brixtonpound.org/ Possibly not relevant as they had no idea where the debt was that they were buying, but I really like this project where they bought debt at the kind of low prices banks do and wrote it off: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/23/hoe-street-central-bank-walthamstow-london-debt I appreciate it's nothing new but would credit unions be relevant here? [[User:Emma Erwin|EmmaErwin]] ([[User talk:EmmaErwin|talk]]) 15:50, 22 November 2019 (UTC)</div>EmmaErwinhttps://wiki.sustainablejustcities.eu/index.php?title=Talk:Financial_practices_and_instruments&diff=1385Talk:Financial practices and instruments2019-11-22T15:51:59Z<p>EmmaErwin: /* Question to Community of Practice */</p>
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<div>== Question to Community of Practice ==<br />
The information on financial practices and instruments that was found in the selected EU-funded projects was limited. Do you know of or have experience with examples of alternative financial practices or instruments? [[User:Karlijn Schipper|Karlijn Schipper]] ([[User talk:Karlijn Schipper|talk]]) 11:46, 18 October 2019 (UTC)<br />
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*Here is a nice example of a local currency: http://brixtonpound.org/<br />
Possibly not relevant as they had no idea where the debt was that they were buying, but I really like this project where they bought debt at the kind of low prices banks do and wrote it off: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/23/hoe-street-central-bank-walthamstow-london-debt<br />
I appreciate it's nothing new but would credit unions be relevant here? [[User:Emma Erwin|EmmaErwin]] ([[User talk:EmmaErwin|talk]]) 15:50, 22 November 2019 (UTC)</div>EmmaErwinhttps://wiki.sustainablejustcities.eu/index.php?title=Talk:Financial_practices_and_instruments&diff=1384Talk:Financial practices and instruments2019-11-22T15:51:44Z<p>EmmaErwin: /* Question to Community of Practice */</p>
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<div>== Question to Community of Practice ==<br />
The information on financial practices and instruments that was found in the selected EU-funded projects was limited. Do you know of or have experience with examples of alternative financial practices or instruments? [[User:Karlijn Schipper|Karlijn Schipper]] ([[User talk:Karlijn Schipper|talk]]) 11:46, 18 October 2019 (UTC)<br />
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*Here is a nice example of a local currency: http://brixtonpound.org/<br />
*Possibly not relevant as they had no idea where the debt was that they were buying, but I really like this project where they bought debt at the kind of low prices banks do and wrote it off: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/23/hoe-street-central-bank-walthamstow-london-debt<br />
*I appreciate it's nothing new but would credit unions be relevant here? [[User:Emma Erwin|EmmaErwin]] ([[User talk:EmmaErwin|talk]]) 15:50, 22 November 2019 (UTC)</div>EmmaErwinhttps://wiki.sustainablejustcities.eu/index.php?title=Talk:Financial_practices_and_instruments&diff=1383Talk:Financial practices and instruments2019-11-22T15:51:14Z<p>EmmaErwin: /* Question to Community of Practice */</p>
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<div>== Question to Community of Practice ==<br />
The information on financial practices and instruments that was found in the selected EU-funded projects was limited. Do you know of or have experience with examples of alternative financial practices or instruments? [[User:Karlijn Schipper|Karlijn Schipper]] ([[User talk:Karlijn Schipper|talk]]) 11:46, 18 October 2019 (UTC)<br />
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**Here is a nice example of a local currency:<br />
http://brixtonpound.org/<br />
**Possibly not relevant as they had no idea where the debt was that they were buying, but I really like this project where they bought debt at the kind of low prices banks do and wrote it off:<br />
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/23/hoe-street-central-bank-walthamstow-london-debt<br />
**I appreciate it's nothing new but would credit unions be relevant here? [[User:Emma Erwin|EmmaErwin]] ([[User talk:EmmaErwin|talk]]) 15:50, 22 November 2019 (UTC)</div>EmmaErwinhttps://wiki.sustainablejustcities.eu/index.php?title=Talk:Financial_practices_and_instruments&diff=1382Talk:Financial practices and instruments2019-11-22T15:50:20Z<p>EmmaErwin: /* Question to Community of Practice */</p>
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<div>== Question to Community of Practice ==<br />
The information on financial practices and instruments that was found in the selected EU-funded projects was limited. Do you know of or have experience with examples of alternative financial practices or instruments? [[User:Karlijn Schipper|Karlijn Schipper]] ([[User talk:Karlijn Schipper|talk]]) 11:46, 18 October 2019 (UTC)<br />
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Here is a nice example of a local currency:<br />
http://brixtonpound.org/<br />
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Possibly not relevant as they had no idea where the debt was that they were buying, but I really like this project where they bought debt at the kind of low prices banks do and wrote it off:<br />
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/23/hoe-street-central-bank-walthamstow-london-debt<br />
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I appreciate it's nothing new but would credit unions be relevant here? [[User:Emma Erwin|EmmaErwin]] ([[User talk:EmmaErwin|talk]]) 15:50, 22 November 2019 (UTC)</div>EmmaErwinhttps://wiki.sustainablejustcities.eu/index.php?title=Talk:Crowdsourcing&diff=1328Talk:Crowdsourcing2019-11-16T13:22:19Z<p>EmmaErwin: /* How to address class bias in crowdsourcing? */</p>
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<div>== How to address class bias in crowdsourcing? ==<br />
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I'm worried that often crowdsourcing is class blind and/or often draws in middle and upper middle classes. Does anyone know of any good examples/techniques to account for this? [[User:Ian Cook|Ian Cook]] ([[User talk:Ian Cook|talk]]) 12:42, 25 October 2019 (UTC)</div>EmmaErwinhttps://wiki.sustainablejustcities.eu/index.php?title=Talk:Crowdsourcing&diff=1327Talk:Crowdsourcing2019-11-16T13:22:05Z<p>EmmaErwin: /* How to address class bias in crowdsourcing? */</p>
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<div>== How to address class bias in crowdsourcing? ==<br />
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I'm worried that often crowdsourcing is class blind and/or often draws in middle and upper middle classes. Does anyone know of any good examples/techniques to account for this? [[User:Ian Cook|Ian Cook]] ([[User talk:Ian Cook|talk]]) 12:42, 25 October 2019 (UTC)<br />
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There's also a potential for it excluding people with language barriers if not managed well. [[User:EmmaErwin|EmmaErwin]] 13:20, 16 November 2019 (UTC)</div>EmmaErwinhttps://wiki.sustainablejustcities.eu/index.php?title=Talk:Crowdsourcing&diff=1326Talk:Crowdsourcing2019-11-16T13:21:25Z<p>EmmaErwin: /* How to address class bias in crowdsourcing? */</p>
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<div>== How to address class bias in crowdsourcing? ==<br />
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I'm worried that often crowdsourcing is class blind and/or often draws in middle and upper middle classes. Does anyone know of any good examples/techniques to account for this? [[User:Ian Cook|Ian Cook]] ([[User talk:Ian Cook|talk]]) 12:42, 25 October 2019 (UTC)<br />
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Yeah, I'd also worry it could exclude people with language barriers if not managed well. [[User:EmmaErwin|EmmaErwin]] 13:20, 16 November 2019 (UTC)</div>EmmaErwinhttps://wiki.sustainablejustcities.eu/index.php?title=Talk:Crowdsourcing&diff=1325Talk:Crowdsourcing2019-11-16T13:17:23Z<p>EmmaErwin: /* How to address class bias in crowdsourcing? */</p>
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<div>== How to address class bias in crowdsourcing? ==<br />
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I'm worried that often crowdsourcing is class blind and/or often draws in middle and upper middle classes. Does anyone know of any good examples/techniques to account for this? [[User:Ian Cook|Ian Cook]] ([[User talk:Ian Cook|talk]]) 12:42, 25 October 2019 (UTC)</div>EmmaErwinhttps://wiki.sustainablejustcities.eu/index.php?title=Talk:Crowdsourcing&diff=1324Talk:Crowdsourcing2019-11-16T13:17:12Z<p>EmmaErwin: /* How to address class bias in crowdsourcing? */</p>
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<div>== How to address class bias in crowdsourcing? ==<br />
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I'm worried that often crowdsourcing is class blind and/or often draws in middle and upper middle classes. Does anyone know of any good examples/techniques to account for this? [[User:Ian Cook|Ian Cook]] ([[User talk:Ian Cook|talk]]) 12:42, 25 October 2019 (UTC)<br />
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Could also mean people with language barriers excluded.</div>EmmaErwin