Monthly Archives: March 2010

New volunteers meeting

19 April 2010, 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Venue: Cambridge Carbon Footprint, Citylife Social Enterprise Centre, 182-190 Newmarket Road, Cambridge (entrance via Harvest Way).

Are you curious about the work of Cambridge Carbon Footprint? Would you like to get involved in encouraging carbon reduction in Cambridge? You are warmly invited to a new volunteers meeting. It is an opportunity to meet people, find out [...]

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Live the future today

21 June 2010, 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Venue: The Barn, St Barnabas Church, Mill Rd/St Barnabas Rd.CB1 2BD

Meet Cambridge Carbon Footprint and discover how we can prepare for a low-carbon future together. Find out how our award winning projects can help you: Carbon Conversation groups, Low-Carbon Network, Climate-Friendly Homes, Akashi, Eco-renovation club, Grow-Your-Own Group and more…Delicious low carbon snacks and drinks will [...]

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Wicken Fen and the Wicken Fen Vision

23 June 2010, 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Venue: Friends Meeting House, Jesus Lane.

Talk and slide show by Chris Soans of the National Trust. Wicken Fen NNR is one of Europe’s most important wetland sites for biodiversity. Chris Soans will explain the Wicken Vision; a hundred year project to safeguard the existing biodiversity of the site, help the reserve adapt to climate change [...]

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Eco-Renovation Question Time and launch of Open Eco Houses

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

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

Meet the experts, find out about our Open Eco House days and ask your questions about how to turn your house into a climate-friendly home. On the panel are:

Anne Cooper (sustainable architect)
Andy Brown (sustainable construction consultant)
Tim Acheson (green builder)
Justin Smith (Council Home Energy Officer and grants specialist)

and [...]

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Visit to the Green Backyard (Peterborough)

12 June 2010,

An opportunity to visit a truly inspiring project in a city less well-heeled than Cambridge.

Italian born eco-artist Rennie Antonelli is transforming 3 acres of derelict land in inner-city Peterborough into a green and productive oasis with fruit and vegetable beds , an orchard and a pond is planned. A shelter on the site is [...]

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