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WordPress Wizard Wanted!
CCF is looking for someone who knows their way around WordPress to help us update our Open Eco Homes website to the 2012 version and to generally help us tidy and revamp our whole CCF website.
The Open Eco Homes website will include added features, and more content – ie 25 venues where there were [...]
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Annual General Meeting
25 April 2012, 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
It’s been a lively and challenging year for Cambridge Carbon Footprint: there’s a good buzz with lots of volunteer enthusiasm. We’ll follow the AGM with a meeting to discuss our successes and challenges – and how best to develop the charity further. We hope you can come and contribute your views over a [...]
February 2012 newsletter: Films and footprinting in February!
Six CCF supporters are spending six weeks just eating local food to find out how it works for them – and to cut their carbon. They now feature in Cambridge News and are blogging here about their experiences, with tips for delicious local food – even in the middle of winter!
Come to see the Economics of Happiness showing next [...]
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Additional Screening of The Economics of Happiness
19 February 2012, 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm
Our first screening of “The Economics of Happiness” was so popular and some people didn’t get the chance to see it, Cambridge Carbon Footprint, Transition Cambridge and the Arts Picturehouse are delighted to offer another screening on 19th Feb.
The “Economics of Happiness” by Helena Norbert-Hodge is an informative and inspiring film about [...]
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Gardening in February – Excellent interest rates available…..at the ‘seed bank’
Keith Jordan
During these financially-hard times and when interest rates are low, where can you get good returns on your savings, assuming you have any? Fortunately gardeners can still get an excellent return – percentage rates you could only dream about at your local bank or building society!Take a packet of lettuces containing [...]
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Carbon Conversations Facilitator Training
21 April 2012, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Are you enthusiastic about Carbon Conversations? Would you like to co-facilitate a group of your own? Or maybe you’re an existing facilitator and want to improve your skills?
Penny Henderson and Liz Serocold will be running this one-day facilitator training for those who have already taken part in a Carbon Conversations group.
Numbers limited to 10, booking [...]
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The Sharing Economy – An Introduction to Collaborative Consumption
12 April 2012, 7:30 am to 9:30 am
Venue: St. Andrew’s Hall, St Andrew’s Rd, Cambridge (CB41DH)
Could something as simple as sharing be a key remedy to hyper consumption and waste while building community at the same time? As the authors of “What’s Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption” argue, traditional sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting and swapping, redefined through [...]
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Events Promoter Wanted
We are looking for someone who can work in our office one afternoon a week over the next few months to help us promote our fantastic calendar of events. Preferably this day would be a Tuesday or Wednesday afternoon, but this is not necessary if you’re the right person for the job.
This would involve working [...]
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Alternatives to Economic Growth Conference
18 February 2012, 10:00 am to 5:15 pm
The Cambridge Green Party has organised a conference on one of the hot topics of our time: how we can move away from the current model of economic growth which lies behind our disastrous overuse of resources and excessive carbon emissions. With leading speakers Tony Juniper, Molly Scott-Cato, Rupert Read and Miriam Kennett, the day will [...]
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Behind-the-scenes on Building an Eco Home with Ian Collins
22 February 2012, 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
An exciting chance to go behind the scenes on a
newly constructed Eco House in Cambridge.
Join the owner in his new home for the complete story of the building of a house in the back garden of his former home (dating from 1930), complete with comparison energy bills, graphs showing savings, thermal imaging photos. A tour [...]
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Advanced Recycling Workshop
1 March 2012, 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
So you recycle paper, aluminium and glass – now what?
Mark Buckton, Recycling Champions Coordinator with Cambridge City Council, will give advice and insights for experienced recyclers wanting to know more about the world of recycling. Key topics covered will include:
How to sort and recycle electronics, clothing or household items,
What happens to your recyclables once they [...]
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Recycle your Read at the CCF Book Swap
10 March 2012, 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
If you love books and the planet, you’ll love a good book swap! Just bring one or more previously loved books to swap. Leave your book on the appropriately labelled table (eg. science fiction, biography, etc), then feel free to browse, chat and find some new books to take home with you. You’ll have a chance [...]
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Story of Stuff and Discussion
14 March 2012, 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
CCF is screening The Story of Stuff on Wednesday March 14th at 7.30pm at the Friends Meeting House. The Story of Stuff is one of the most watched environmental-themed online film of all time. It is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The [...]
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Carbon Conversations Taster Session
13 March 2012, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Curious about Carbon Conversations but don’t want to commit to a group? As part of the Cambridge Science Festival 2012, we’ll be offering a Carbon Conversations taster session. We’ll calculate your Carbon Footprint, and take you through some sample activities. Come along to find out more!
Venue: Wesley Church, Octagon Room
Numbers limited, pre-booking essential: email info@cambridgecarbonfootprint.org.
You [...]
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Talking About Climate Change
21 March 2012, 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Cambridge Carbon Footprint has a unique approach to personal decision-making about carbon reduction. We use group work and conversations at stalls to explore and share the challenges of making sustained and sustainable behaviour change.
In this interactive workshop we will explore some key ideas, and invite discussion around common mechanisms such as making excuses or not [...]
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