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Fundraising success: £1641 raised on 14 May
15 May 2012 – Cambridge Carbon Footprint would like to say a huge thank you to all our supporters who gave so generously yesterday as part LocalGiving May Match Fund. Together we raised £1641 (including fund matching and gift aid)
Your committment to helping us work together to build a more sustainable future is greatly appreciated. CCF’s core funding from [...]
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Open Eco Homes in the Telegraph
15 May 2012 – Open Eco Homes participant and climate scientist Andrew Rankin talks to Sarah Lonsdale of the Telegraph about life off-grid on a narrowboat and some of the low energy measures he has implemented. Click here to read the full article.
This year’s Open Eco Homes event will take place over two weekends: 12/13 May and [...]
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Open Eco Homes on Cambridge 105 radio
5 May 2012 – Eco homeowner and architect Jeremy Ashworth and Helen Karapandzic of Cambridge Carbon Footprint talk to Roger Frost of Cambridge 105 radio about Open Eco Homes. Click here to listen to / download the podcast
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Open Eco Homes off to a flying start
4 May 2012 – Open Eco Homes got off to a flying start on Wednesday with a highly successful eco renovation question time launch event, chaired by Terry Macalister, Energy Editor of The Guardian.
A panel of professionals and eco-householders discussed a wide range of questions from an enthusiastic audience, from DIY under-floor insulation, improving windows and grey [...]
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‘Eating Local’ on Cambridge 105 radio
17 April 2012 – Helen Karapandzic of Cambridge Carbon Footprint talks to Cambridge 105′s Flavour show about the benefits of buying local and about the Eating Local spring food challenge. Click here to listen to / download the podcast.
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A chance to double your donation to CCF at no extra cost!
On Monday 14th May from 1pm, LocalGiving in Cambridgeshire is offering to double the value of any donation to CCF (and other Cambridge charities) made via their website on that day. If you were thinking about making a one-off donation to CCF, however small the amount, May 14th is the day to do it!
The offer [...]
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Helen: Closing the hungry gap
Spring is often associated with plenty, regrowth and renewal. And with a wide range of imported produce from warmer climes, the ‘hungry gap’ (the period in April-May when the winter vegetables like roots and cabbage are finishing and the abundance of summer is not yet upon us) is for many people a thing of the past. However, as one of a number of [...]
Posted in Eating Local - Spring 2012
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Helen: Exactly how much stuff do we consume in a lifetime?
Currently showing at the Barbican is an installation by Chinese conceptual artist Song Dong entitled “Waste Not” consisting of over 10,000 household possessions collected by his late mother Zhao Xiang Yuan over five decades. Somewhat disturbingly, critics’ reviews tend to centre on family, grief and memory, and even issues around compulsive hoarding, rather than using [...]
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Tagged consumption, recycle, rubbish, stuff, waste
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Helen: celebrating winter soups
One lunch item I just can’t seem to get enough of is carrot and corriander soup. It’s really delicious, and, at approx. 25p per portion, it’s perfect for anyone looking to feed hungry mouths on a budget!
Like all my favourite dishes, it’s got to be quick and simple to prepare and this one ticks the [...]
Posted in Eating Well on a Budget
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Helen: Easy-peasy homemade bread
Following two disasterous attempts at making bread, I have now discovered a foolproof way to make delicious, hearty homemade bread using local ingredients for under £1 per loaf!
Mix the muesli, flour, salt in a bowl
The ingredients are really simple:
200g muesli base (UK; £1.99/1kg) – mine contains porrige oats, wheat flakes, barley flakes, large oats [...]
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Helen: Forward planning
The Eating Well on a Budget project kicks off on Sunday and I have already begun eating into my Week 1 budget! Not literally of course (I have cleared out a cupboard in which i am stashing today’s purchases in preparation for the start of the challenge), but I have spent more than a quarter [...]
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Helen: Eating local, sharing local
As we approach the end of our six-week Eating Local Winter 2011/2012 project, some of us (Ann, Bev, Penny and I) met over lunch to take stock and to share experiences and tips.
Each of us had prepared a local dish to celebrate the occasion:
Bev: a delicious winter vegetable soup
Helen: a colourful salad, including grated [...]
Posted in Eating Local - Winter 2011/2012
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Helen: thinking about food security
With half of Heathrow flights grounded and hazardous driving conditions across Europe due to heavy snowfall, I started thinking about food security and how communities who rely more on local foodstuffs and less on imported goods are likely to be more resistant to disruptions.
In Cambridge, despite the wintry conditions, Simon, who runs an organic vegetable [...]
Posted in Eating Local - Winter 2011/2012
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Helen: simply delicious carrot and artichoke soup
As I mentioned in a previous post, I was lucky enough to find some straight-out-of-the-ground-fresh artichokes at Burwash Manor. What I forgot to mention, was that – on seeing me staring somewhat blankly at said artichokes – the kind folks at The Larder also supplied me with a recipe for carrot [...]
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Helen: contemplating the upsides of eating local
Probably not unlike many women (and indeed many men), I am prone to occasional moments of weakness in which – try as I might – I invariably give in to chocolate cravings.
Well, as a localite foodie (unless you are very naughty and include chocolate/cocoa as one of your five ‘can’t-live-without’ non-local items!), chocolate is off [...]
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