The Green Village News for the ‘Events and Courses’ Category
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
The National Self Build & Renovation Centre in Swindon will be hosting the Big Green Home Show this weekend, 23rd-25th October. The green event will be the second Big Green Home Show held at the venue and will feature a wide range of activities including seminars, live building demonstrations and a large number of experts on site throughout the weekend.
Whatever your green building needs, from finding an environmentally responsible trades person to help you carry out renovation work in your home, to attending one of the many seminars being delivered over the weekend, there’s plenty to keep you busy. Alternative Build Live will be held to provide on the day demonstrations of green building techniques such as straw bale building and offering visitors the opportunity to have a go at clay plastering. The Build Live! Demonstrations will provide information and guides to installing solar panels, insulation, heat pumps and solar water heating.
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Tags: big green home show, Eco Home, eco retrofit, green building, green building techniques, green event, green home, green renovation, insulation, low carbon, national self build and renovation centre, self build, straw bale building
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
Brixton will be taking a step in the direction of market towns Stroud, Totnes and Lewes with the launch of the Brixton Pound on Thursday 17th September. As the economy is still in the throes of recession, the concept of transition towns is being looked at as a model that could help ease the economic tensions by encouraging communities to become more self-supporting, as well as helping combat the problems of peak oil and climate change added to by transportation of goods from around the world.
It is hoped the launch of the new currency, which will not replace pounds sterling in Brixton but will be available as an alternative for customers, who will be offered their change in Brixton pound notes, will help keep money within the local economy. The currency will be available in £1, £5, £10 and £20 notes and a large number of businesses in the area have bought into the idea, agreeing to accept payment for goods or services in the local currency, either solely in Brixton pounds or in conjunction with sterling.
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Tags: brixton, brixton pound, buy local, climate change, community, economy, peak oil, sterling, transition towns
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Climate change film ‘The Age of Stupid’ will see Pete Postlethwaite posing the question of why we didn’t do something to save ourselves to Australia and New Zealand at tomorrow’s premiere. The premiere will be the follow on from the low carbon example set by the UK premiere in March which set a Guiness world record for the largest simultaneous film premiere with people watching the live link-up with London from cinemas across the UK.
The premiere will see the return of the green carpet for celebrities to walk up, and will have a number of guest speakers including the head of Greenpeace in Australia, a Senator and there is even the chance that the Australian Prime Minister may join the event by telephone. In addition to this, there will be a satellite link to a boat in the Arctic where explorer Eric Phillips will be on board waiting to join in discussions, a video message from some children in Copenhagen will pass on their message to world leaders, and viewers will be able to send text messages to question the director and producer team, Franny Armstrong and Lizzie Gillett after the film.
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Tags: age of stupid, australia, climate change, film, film premiere, franny armstrong, lizzie gillett, new zealand, solar cinema
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
It’s National Allotment Week and across the UK different events have been taking place to spread the word about growing your own. From open days at allotment gardens across the UK to a scarecrow competition launched by an Elvis impersonating scarecrow at the Eden Project in Cornwall, and plenty more to come before the week is out.
As well as enjoying a family day out at one of the events taking place, it is the ideal time to get some last minute gardening in before the end of the season. There are still plenty of different vegetables you can try your hand at, including radishes, carrots, turnips and beetroot, and, there are varieties of cabbage and lettuce that can be grown all year round.
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Tags: allotment, fruit, herbs, vegetable plot, vegetables
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Last week the shocking news that the threat of an injunction against the Big Green Gathering 2009 forced directors to cancel the event 3 days before it was due to begin shocked the green community. All is not lost however, as ticket holders have a number of options available following the cancellation.
A number of other festivals that will be taking place during the summer and early in 2010 have come to the rescue and have agreed to accept tickets for the Big Green Gathering to enable people to still enjoy some summer festivities. Although all the details have not yet been finalised, they should be available within the next week with ticket swap options including the Family Yoga Camp and The Big Chill which starts on Thursday for a £20 upgrade; an event that is usually sold out before the event begins.
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Tags: big green gathering, big green gathering 2009, festival, green festival, mendip district council, tickets
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Sunday, July 26th, 2009
Flagship green event, The Big Green Gathering was threatened with High Court injunction proceedings if they were unable to satisfy a number of concerns that Mendip District Council had. In a statement released today, Directors of The Big Green Gathering have been forced to cancel the 2009 festival, surrendering their license for the event.
The much loved and well attended family friendly green festival, which attracts around 20,000 visitors, caters for most tastes and covers many aspects of sustainability and environmental concerns. Activities on site would have included arts and crafts fields, a healing area where people can try alternative therapies and treatments, a children’s area and campaigns fields, as well as providing a range of eating and entertainment experiences for those attending, including music presented in tents powered by renewable energy.
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Tags: council, green event, green festival, mendip district council, the big green gathering
Posted in Events and Courses, Green Family, Green Leisure and Tourism, Green Living | 11 Comments
Saturday, July 4th, 2009
At an event organised by nine organisations looking to make people’s feelings about the importance of acting against climate change known, more than 1000 people joined hands to make a ‘Mili-band’ around Kingsnorth power station.
Organisations responsible for making the event a success include Oxfam, RSPB, NUS, People and Plant and Greenpeace, and it is hoped that both Climate Secretary Ed Miliband and owners of the Kingsnorth power station, E-on, will heed the call from those making their protest against the proposal for a new coal fired power plant at the site, as Ed Miliband will shortly be making the decision about whether to allow the new development to go ahead.
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Tags: coal, coal fired power stations, coal power station, ed miliband, greenpeace, kingsnorth, mili-band, oxfam
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Saturday, June 27th, 2009
Animal welfare organisation Compassion in World Farming have organised the Bake With Compassion week to promote baking with free range eggs and help campaign against caged and battery production. The weeklong campaign will take place between 6th and 12th July and aims to raise money through fundraising events to help promote the chickens’ cause.
The fundraising campaign will coincide with CIWF’s Good Egg Awards, which celebrate companies and organisations that switch to using free range eggs in their businesses and products and calls on budding cooks and home bakers to put on their pinnies and make some homemade goodies to promote the importance of using free range eggs.
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Tags: bake with compassion, baking, battery hens, caged hens, ciwf, compassion in world farming, free range, free range eggs, good egg awards, homemade cakes
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Saturday, June 6th, 2009
There have been many stories over the last couple of decades warning of fish stock depletion due to over fishing of the world’s oceans, especially with cod. But the reality is that if current practices continue to be used, and at the rate presently seen, one day there will be no fish left in the sea.
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Tags: charles clover, film, fish, movie, overfishing, the end of the line, unsustainable fishing, world oceans day
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Friday, June 5th, 2009
Next week, 8th-14th June, is the RSPB’s ‘Make Your Nature Count’ week, where nature lovers up and down the UK are being asked to monitor the wildlife visiting their garden over a one hour period during the week.
The week-long survey is a follow up to the ‘Big Garden Bird Watch’ that takes place in January and helps the RSPB monitor and identify trends among wintering bird populations. It is hoped that ‘Make Your Nature Count’ will help provide insights into the amount of wildlife passing through Britain’s gardens, and to celebrate the important role wildlife plays.
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Tags: badgers, big garden bird watch, birds, frogs, hedgehogs, make your nature count, RSPB, squirrels, toads, wildlife monitoring
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