Everyone's talking about climate change ..... What about you?
... explore
... act
- meet in a small group:
- connect with others who are concerned
- explore climate change:
- how it will affect us; what we can do
- act in your own life:
- reduce your effect on climate change: learn what to do about home energy, travel and transport, food and water, consumption and waste
- Where and when:
- New groups start Jan/Feb 2008 in Cambridge, Histon and Cambourne.
They meet 5/6 times, fortnightly or monthly and are led by facilitators who have already completed a group themselves. There is also a special group for people who would like to be facilitators.
- Explore how to help people connect and act on carbon reduction
- Understand the barriers both psychological and practical to taking action
- Learn to deal with urban myths, truth and lies about climate change
- Keep your own energy and enthusiasm intact.
- Carbon Conversations. Led by Ro Randall. Thurs Nov 22nd 2007
How to talk about climate change to different kinds of people.
- Blocks, resistances and creative solutions. Led by Anne Miller and Ro
Randall. Thursday January 17th 2008
How to think creatively about climate change and carbon reduction
- Deep Ecology: moving beyond despair. Led by Anna McIvor. Sunday 10
February 2008
Introducing Joanna Macy's empowerment approach 'The Work That Reconnects'.
- Translating the technical. Andy Brown. Thursday March 6th 2008
Facts, figures, truth and lies about climate change and how to talk about them all!
- Drawing on diversity and heritage. Shilpa Shah Thursday May 8th
Exploring what we can learn about low-carbon life-styles from people who have lived them around the world and in the past.
Anyone who came to the Akashi festival will know that it was a
wonderful success – over 350 people enjoying an incredible afternoon of
multi-cultural climate-change workshops and stalls. Dance, meditation,
singing, cycling, face-painting, conversation circles, foot-printing,
composting, food and more…
Thank you to project worker Shilpa Shah and everyone who took part and helped.
Pictures and a report should be up on the Akashi website shortly, as soon as those involved have recovered.
We received a grant from the Lottery Fund to put on the festival as culmination of the Akashi Project and to take the exhibition to other venues around the region.
The winning school was Girton Glebe
who walked away with the £1000 prize to
spend on environmental initiatives. The winning poster was by Natalie Blake of
Newnham Croft School and is illustrated here.
The prizes were donated by Al-Amin Store on Mill Road.
There were hundreds of brilliant posters and te 50 winners can be seen on our website.
The exhibition was part of Cambridge City Council's Sustainable City environment festival 2007.
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Rosemary and Andy were presented the prize by Andy Brown, the chief exec. of Anglian Water. |
Cambridge Carbon Footprint has won the Environment Group award of
Cambridge Evening News Community Awards for the second year running.
The past year has been a whirlwind of Carbon Footprinting stalls, climate change talks, Carbon Challenge group meetings and other events. We are thrilled that the hard work contributed by all our volunteers has been recognised. |
If would like to know more, contact Rosemary Randall.
Andy Brown, 6 Nov 2007