Monthly Archives: December 2009

Grow your own with Keith Jordan: Time for horticultural action!

22 February 2010, 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Venue: Ross St Community Centre, CB1 3UZ.

Plans and preparations to increase your supply of fresh seasonal produce in 2010. Subjects to be convered: seeds, soil, compost, rotations etc. It’s time for starting some seeds off under cover and last chance to plant fruit bushes. Also lots of time for questions and discussion.

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Eco-renovation in practice – visit to AC Architects

11 February 2010, 6:00 pm,

Venue: AC Architects, Victoria Road, CB4 3BW.

In 2002 AC Architects took on he challenge of renovating the corner shop at the junction of Albert Street and Victoria Road as an exemplary low energy building for their own office use with residential accomodation above. This building visit allows you to see the results and listen to [...]

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Water: a practical workshop on conservation & sustainable drainage at home

15 February 2010, 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Venue:
St. Luke’s Centre, Victoria Road, CB4 3ED
Water: a practical workshop on conservation and sustainable drainage at home – Simon Bunn and Clare Palferman are Cambridge City Council’s Sustainable Drainage specialists and they will explain the best ways of making your home water-efficient.  Rainwater harvesting, water butts, rain gardens and the law about [...]

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Communication workshop: Creativity – Anne Miller

2 February 2010, 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Venue: St. Luke’s Centre, Victoria Road, CB4 3ED.

This workshop will teach you a powerful technique for being more creative when thinking about how to reduce carbon emissions (or anything else). It will be run by creativity expert Anne Miller, Director of the Creativity Partnership. Participants are invited to discuss and build on a carbon reduction [...]

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Say it with music with Helen Odell-Miller

26 January 2010, 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Venue: Music Therapy Clinic, Anglia Ruskin University.

Express your post-Copenhagen feelings through music. Music can help us access thoughts and feelings that are hard to put into words.  The workshop will use a variety of instruments, voice and listening and you do not need any musical skill to participate. 

Helen Odell-Miller is a music therapist and Professor [...]

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