| 12 May 2012 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 5:00 pm |
The first day of Open Eco Homes, an annual eco renovation event organised by Cambridge Carbon Footprint.
25 low energy venues in Cambridge and the surrounding villages - ranging from Victorian eco-refits to 1960s conversions and custom builds – open their doors for guided tours. Continue reading
| 2 May 2012 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 10:30 pm |
We’re celebrating Open Eco Homes with an exciting Eco Renovation Question Time event chaired by Energy Editor of The Guardian, Terry MacAlister. Continue reading
| 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 cup of tea and slice of cake. Continue reading
| 23 April 2012 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
Following on the success and high demand of our Eco-Renovation in Progress tour in January on Hills Road, we’re offering a new eco-renovation tour in north Cambridge off Histon Road. Continue reading
| 18 April 2012 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
If you’ve never grown your own food but would like to start this year, this is the workshop for you! Join expert grower Keith Jordan in this workshop that will teach you what will grow best in your particular space – no matter what that space is and tips on how to do it. You’ll come away from the workshop with a plan for your new garden, allotment or patio filled with containers and growbags, plus, ideas for what food crops will best suit both your kitchen and your plot. Continue reading
| 12 April 2012 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
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 technology and peer communities, is transforming business, consumerism and the way we live. Continue reading
| 5 April 2012 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Is it possible to ‘eat local’ for six weeks? Helen Karapandzic and Ann Mitchell were up for a challenge when they signed up for this project with Cambridge Carbon Footprint in January. During this Transiton Café evening, they’ll talk about how they got on and what they learned about the local food system and its resilience. Continue reading
| 27 May 2012 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 5:00 pm |
The fourth day of Open Eco Homes
, an annual eco renovation event organised by Cambridge Carbon Footprint.
25 low energy venues in Cambridge and the surrounding villages - ranging from Victorian eco-refits to 1960s conversions and custom builds – open their doors for guided tours.
New this year: Information centres – drop-in to find out how the new Green Deal, to be launched in the Autumn, will offer you help to pay for low energy measures in your home.
Key dates
| 13 May 2012 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 5:00 pm |
The second day of Open Eco Homes
, an annual eco renovation event organised by Cambridge Carbon Footprint.
25 low energy venues in Cambridge and the surrounding villages - ranging from Victorian eco-refits to 1960s conversions and custom builds – open their doors for guided tours.
New this year: Information centres – drop-in to find out how the new Green Deal, to be launched in the Autumn, will offer you help to pay for low energy measures in your home.
Key dates
| 24 March 2012 | ||
| 1:00 pm | to | 5:00 pm |
Visit our interactive stall at the Cambridge Science Festival. Hands-on activities for all the family including calculating your carbon footprint, colouring your carbon footprint, and upcycling some tetrapacks into fun wallets. Also, find out more about Carbon Conversations and the Climate Friendly Homes Project. Continue reading
| 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. Continue reading
| 14 March 2012 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Ever wondered about the environmental costs of the stuff we buy? CCF will be screening The Story of Stuff, 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 Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. Continue reading
| 18 September 2012 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
Who is this for? Anyone who facilitates Carbon Conversations groups.
When and where: Central Cambridge, 7.30 to 9.30pm on Sept 18th, Oct 16th, Nov 13th and Dec 11th . Booking essential, places limited to 12
Conveners: Dan Jones and Penny Henderson
Aims: to encourage members to become more confident about responding to feelings in groups, through the experience of being in one and reflecting on it. We will also provide some teaching about being in groups. The provisional themes are as follows:
Session 1, September 18th: Patterns of relating, systemic thinking and the complexity of groups – without being overwhelmed.
Session 2, October 16th: The feelings that are brought up in and by group interaction: Is what’s yours also mine? Being comfortable enough to engage with discomfort.
Session 3, November 13th: “Dynamic administration” – The contextual and practical stuff that enables a good group experience. How can a space be provided for something natural to happen?
Session 4 December 11th: Feeling responsible and being responsive. Where is the authority?
About Penny and Dan:
Dan Jones is a group therapist trained at the Institute of Group Analysis, who has worked over the past 30 years in the NHS, voluntary sector, and currently in private practice in psychotherapy, training, supervision and consultancy. He has been a participant in a Carbon Conversations group, and has supported Penny in training facilitator trainings.
Penny Henderson has been a group worker for over 40 years, doing a mixture of training groups, supervision groups, parenting groups with couples and infants, and, more recently, Carbon Conversations groups.
| 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. Continue reading
| 18 May 2012 6:30 pm | to | 20 May 2012 6:30 pm |
Back for its second year, the UK Green Film Festival is the UK’s annual environmental film 
festival. Over a single weekend, up and down the country, the festival screens some of the very best films out there, from around the world, exploring some of the big environmental issues of the day.
Here in Cambridge the Arts Picturehouse will be screening three films:
