| 16 May 2013 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
It’s been a great year for CCF, and our Annual General Meeting was a time to take a look back at what we’ve accomplished and where we’d like to go. We presented highlights from our annual report for 2012 and discussed with you how to make CCF’s work even better in the year to come.
Venue: St. Lukes Church, Victoria Road.
| 13 May 2013 |
Produce from farmers' market
Our week-long sustainable food challenge began on Monday May 13th.
Since Autumn 2011 Cambridge Carbon Footprint has run a number of successful food challenges, aimed at reducing our food footprints. Now we invite people to join us for a Sustainable Food Challenge, which brings together more aspects of how to reduce our foot footprints.
The challenge
We have a number of actions you can take – the first two are the ones that will make the most difference, really reducing your food footprint to well below average. You can pick just one item from the list or you can do all of them or any number in between. This becomes your personal challenge.
Cook from scratch with fresh, local, seasonal ingredients
No or less meat, dairy and eggs
Eat organic produce from the UK!
Vegan shared mealThere will be a shared meal on Friday 17th May and participants can email each other with questions and ideas.
Let us know how you got on!
All participants will have the opportunity to post on our Sustainable Food blog, although this is not compulsory. We can post your text for you if you prefer. Pictures are really welcome as they bring things to life! Have a look at previous posts on our website.
| 2 November 2013 | ||
| 10:30 am | to | 5:30 pm |
Ross Street Community Centre, CB1 3UZ
A home energy day for the Mill Road area, with:
• talks and workshops by home energy experts
• visits to local houses with energy-saving improvements
• videos of local homes with the householder & an energy expert
• stalls from reliable local suppliers and installers
• expert advice about your particular situation
• the latest information about the government’s Green Deal loans.
The main focus will be on the many pre-1920s houses in the area (and much of Cambridge) which have solid walls and are therefore more difficult and expensive to insulate (and how the Green Deal can help with this)
There will also be information about more recent housing,
a DIY workshop &
“How to get the best out of your house at no extra cost”,
- which are suitable for everyone.
Our Fundraising Auction was a great success, with a fabulous auctioner and lots of supporters, we raised over £1500! Scroll down for some photos from the event!
A thank-you goes out to all of the donors of our auction lots:
The Polar Museum at the Scott Polar Research Institute
The Cowshed accomodation in Waveney Valley
Cambridge University Botanic Gardens
The Parker Library at Corpus Christi College
Danielle and Danny Greene
Ursula Stubbings
Judy Norton
Teale Phelps Bondaroff
Stephanie Ferguson
Belinda Brooks Gordon
Alana Sinclair
Anne Miller at The Creativity Partnership
Brenda Purkiss
| 25 April 2013 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
These 2 workshops facilitated by Liz Serocold and Bev Sedley aimed to develop participants presentation and workshop skills with a view to putting these into practice helping CCF to increase other organisations’ understanding of climate change and carbon reduction.
The 2-hour sessions looked at workshops particularly from the point of view of climate change communication, and gave participants the opportunity to pair up and develop their own workshop to present to the group, giving them a safe option to try out their skills and receive constructive feedback in a supportive atmosphere.
Our outreach team ran 14 workshops for other organisations during 2012, from schools and colleges to businesses and the British Antarctic Survey. Would you like us to give a talk or a workshop for your organisation? Click here to find out more about what we offer.
| 17 April 2013 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
Carbon Conversations is a series of six practical and friendly evening meetings. Led by trained facilitators the meetings the group will explore the basic climate change problem, their responses to it, their ideas for a low-carbon future and the four key areas of the footprint – home energy, travel, food and other consumption. Most members make reductions of 1 tonne CO2 during the meetings and develop plans to halve their footprints over a longer period.
This group will meet fortnightly from April 17 to June 12 to discover low-carbon living together.
| 16 April 2013 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Climate Friendly Homes provides a free service to householders to help them make practical plans to reduce their carbon emissions.
This training session was run for a new group of Climate Friendly Homes volunteer surveyors to brief them on the project, and give them some training so that they can help others by:
| 13 April 2013 | ||
| 11:00 am | to | 3:00 pm |
Did you know that around 30% of clothing in UK wardrobes has not been worn for at least a year, most commonly because the clothes no longer fit? Extending the average life of clothes by just three months of active use would lead to a 5-10% reduction in each of the carbon, water and waste footprints made by clothing! Learning to alter and repair your own clothes is a vital skill that will allow you to bring new life to your clothes and cut down on waste.
Towards that end CCF organised a sewing workshop on 13th April focusing on both machine sewing and hand sewing. The workshop was led by expert sewers and clothing upcyclers Lesley Guebert and Fiona Riggall. The photo above features some of the participants with the new tote bags they just sewed, using reused fabric and ribbon found in charity shops.
| 15 March 2013 | ||
| 8:45 am | to | 5:30 pm |
Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street CB2 1PZ
The Cambridge Climate and Sustainability Forum had an exciting programme of talks and workshops on climate change, with the theme:
“Local Action. Global Change?”
Will technological breakthroughs lead us to a sustainable future?
Or will it be individual action that drives the change we need?
Jane Heal and Tom Bragg of CCF’s Outreach team ran a workshop on “Low Carbon Choices”
| 15 March 2013 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
Thanks to all who joined us for a glamorous evening dedicated to the release of a new photo collection produced by Cambridge Carbon Footprint, with funding from Wear it Love it Share it* and in collaboration with Catwalk Cambridge. The photos featured some of this year’s biggest fashion trends created entirely from second-hand clothing and accessories, a real demonstration of how great reusing and restyling clothing can be! The evening featured a fashion show of our amazing second-hand outfits and an extremley popular swishing! Our Second Hand Style project is still getting some great attention and if you missed the event itself, check out some of the photos, videos and media attention we’ve gotten below:
You can a video of the fashion show on YouTube here. Don’t forget to like it!
This slideshow features photos from the event (taken by Anna Kacprzyk):
Some of the photos from our fashion shoot and event are featured in this month’s Cambridge Style Magazine. Pick up a copy from shops and pubs around Cambridge or see it online here. We are featured on pages 34, 35 and 104.
Our event organiser Stephanie Ferguson went on the Cambridge 105 Breakfast Show to promote the event on 12th March, which you can listen to here.
She also joined Beverly Carpenter of Eco-Salon, another Wear it, Love it, Share it project on 1st April on the Rebel Arts Radio Show on Cambridge 105, a link will be posted soon on this page.
*Wear it Love it Share it Event is a campaign which aims to reduce the amount of textiles being sent to landfil through encouraging reuse and recycling. It has been developed by Camridgeshire and Peterborough Waste Partnership and is supported by AmeyCespa. Visit their facebook page at www.facebook.com/wearit.
We also couldn’t have made this event or project possible without Catwalk Cambridge. All of the models, hair, make-up and photographer at the event were provided by this local modelling agency: they even built a custom catwalk just for us! Visit them on facebook here.
| 19 February 2013 | ||
| 7:45 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
One of the most popular parts of our successful Warm Homes in Trumpington day on November 10th was the DIY workshop by Tom Bragg, which focused on straightforward ways we can reduce our carbon emissions and energy bills ourselves, through simple things such as fitting foil behind radiators, lagging hot water pipes and fitting draught excluders. Tom had already been invited to run this hands-on workshop in other places and Trumpington residents who missed the day were keen to have another chance. The workshop took place at the Trumpington Pavillion, Paget Road, CB2 9JF.
The event was very practical and interactive.
| 12 February 2013 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
Venue: Emmanuel United Reform Church, Trumpington Street.
Are you someone contributing to sustainable local food, or looking to be more involved?
This was an evening especially for local food leaders, producers, distributors, shop owners, and volunteers to get to know each other better and make connections to strengthen Cambridge’s local food system.
| 5 May 2013 | ||
| 9:30 am | to | 2:00 pm |
Cambridge Carbon Footprint is pleased to offer a tour of Mill Green Brewery in Suffolk this May. Our tour was originally scheduled for 20th April, but has been rescheduled for 5th May. The tour will begin at 2pm, so we will be carpooling from Cambridge at 12:30pm. The tour will cost £5, and you’re welcome to enjoy the Dark Ale Days beer festival on at the Edwardstone White Horse (right next to the brewery) with loads of real ales and live music!
If you would like to come, make a booking and carpool arrangements with Stephanie, stephanie@cambridgecarbonfootprint.org, as soon as possible! Payment can be made in cash on the day.
Mill Green Brewery is a multi award-winning forward-thinking, but traditional brewery, using green technologies and local resources in brewing their beer.
Check out some of Mill Green’s green credentials:
| 8 May 2013 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Following from our highly popular Burgers Delight and Super Salads workshops earlier this year, CCF is pleased to offer a workshop on Vegan Baking this May.
Our expert vegans, Oscar Gillespie and Tehnuka Ilanko will show you common substitutions and give you the chance to try out a couple recipes on the evening. Remember to bring a container to take home your baked goodies in!
We are switching venues to Parkside Community College (CB1 1EH). Materials will be included, but to cover the costs of these materials, we suggest a donation of £3-5, which can be paid in person on the night.
To register, please email info@cambridgecarbonfootprint.org. Space is limited and tends to fill up early, so register soon to avoid disappointment!
| 22 May 2013 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
There is carbon embodied in everything we buy, from shoes to a holiday trip. Energy has been used in extracting the materials, turning them into goods, transporting and selling them. Developed countries like the UK consume a lot – but do we really need to? Reducing the amount of stuff we buy and use is an important part of lowering our carbon footprints, but how do we do it when goods are so readily available and we are constantly encouraged to buy?
One year ago a group of volunteers at CCF decided to answer this question by attempting to live for one year with less stuff and blogging about it. Each of their challenges was personal: some of just reflected on our consumption, others pledged to buy nothing but essentials for the whole year. On 22nd May, we’ll take a look back at the year and what they learned, and welcome you to join in the discussion.
The evening will include a panel of our participants discussing their experiences and answering questions, a swap shop and stalls featuring examples and advice to help you live well with less stuff too, from tips for repair to how to start a tool library.
What’s a swap shop? Just bring in any item that is in good working condition that you no longer want or need. Someone else can take it home and put it to good use without buying something new they would have needed anyway. You can bring anything related to the kitchen, decorative items, magazines or books, office supplies, electronics, DVDs and CDs, for example, as long as they are in good condition. You never know what you have languishing at home that was just the thing someone else was looking for!
Booking is required for this event as space is limited, just email info@cambridgecarbonfootprint.org or call 01223 301842 to save a place!
The event will take place at St Andrew’s Street Baptist Church (43 St Andrew’s St, Cambridge, CB2 3AR). The event is in the main hall upstairs. When you enter, go straight, past the cafe which will be on your right, and up the stairs, the hall will be on your left.
