| 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
| 27 October 2011 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
Ross St Community Centre, Ross St, Cambridge CB1 3UZ
Hear Graham Cross of Halsted Rain, UK leaders in the collection and use of rainwater in the urban environment, talking about a new approach to the rainwater harvesting market with a focus on affordable, easy to install and visually discreet solutions that help reduce mains water consumption and manage sustainable drainage.
The aim of this workshop is to promote rainwater harvesting as a means of living more sustainably.
There is not enough fresh water to meet the demands of a growing population, changing climate will affect water availability.
There are many uses of water that do not require treated drinking water, such as irrigation, vehicle washing, and toilet flushing.
This workshop will introduce the participants to rainwater harvesting techniques and innovative prototypes being developed
To Book: Email info@cambridgecarbonfootprint.org, Tel: 01223 659962 or 07837 183271
Free event, though donations to cost of room hire always appreciated!
We strive to make our events open and accessible to all. Please contact the office if you have any special requirements and we will do our best to comply.
www.cambridgecarbonfootprint.org Registered Charity No. 1127376
| 24 October 2011 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
Facilitated by Bev Sedley and Beejal Parekh
Stalls at local events are a great chance for CCF to reach new people and they are a fun opportunity for volunteers to chat to locals and enjoy community events. The training is for new and old volunteers alike, a useful refresher for anyone that hasn’t been on a stall in a while, and a great introduction and confidence booster for those that have never done it before! Learn how to use our interactive activities for stalls, make suggestions for new ones, practice talking to the public through role play, and have a rummage through our stalls box!
We’ll be covering:
- How to set up the CCF stall
- How to use the Carbon Abacus Game and the Carbon Footprint Calculator and our activities
- How to engage members of the public to talk about climate change
- What being the ‘lead person’ on a stall involves
Venue: Cambridge Carbon Footprint, Future Business, Milton Rd, Cambridge CB4 1UY
To book a place on the training email info@cambridgecarbonfootprint.org
| 18 October 2011 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
http://cambridgecarbonfootprint.org/action/climate-friendly-homes-project/
Come to this training to become a surveyor for CCF’s Climate Friendly Homes Project:
The project provides a free service to householders to help them make practical plans to reduce their carbon emissions.
Surveyors will learn how to:
- Deliver an individualised report offering suggestions and advice about what can be done to cut the carbon footprint of a home, and save on bills.
- Help householders install an electricity monitor
- Provide information tailored to circumstances on grants, suppliers and discount
- Advice and support
If you would like to book a place on the training email info@cambridgecarbonfootprint.org
Venue: Cambridge Carbon Footprint, Future Business, Milton Rd, Cambridge CB4 1UY
We want our events to be as accessible as possible. Please contact us if you have any additional needs and we will do our best to accommodate them.
| 19 September 2011 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
Venue: Ross St Community Centre
As the growing year starts to wind down, come and review the year with fellow gardeners Keith Jordan, George Thorpe and Emeshe Gengeliczki
An informal workshop to discuss what has gone well, what has been eating or infecting your crops (and preventative methods), sowing green manures, storing crops for the winter, caring for fruit bushes after fruiting.
It’s also a good time of year to take on an overgrown garden or allotment.
Time for refreshments and talking to other participants.
Aimed at new gardeners and those wanting to learn some low-tech/cost tips and ways to extend.
Please book (numbers limited to 12 people): info@cambridgecarbonfootprint.org No cost but donations to cover room hire welcome.
| 23 October 2011 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 10:30 pm |
Come and join us for our autumnal seasonal meal.
Please bring food and drink to share, with as much of it local, seasonal and home-cooked as possible!
Let us know what is in your dish and where the ingredients came from with a tempting label! There will be a prize for the most local and delicious home-cooked dish!
The meal will be followed by games. Tell your friends and bring as many people as you can!
Venue: Ross Street Community Centre, Ross Street, Cambridge CB1 3UZ
Email: info@cambridgecarbonfootprint.org
Free event, though donations to cost of room hire are always appreciated.
| 1 October 2011 |
From Spring 2010 Rachel and her family have been building a 1.5 – 2 storey family home approx 200sqm with straw bale walls in Newmarket. Their aim has been to build a low impact, energy efficient, healthy home, with a garden designed around the production of fruit and vegetables. Once complete, they intend to measure the building’s performance. They are combining traditional materials like lime and clay; waste materials, such as recycled newspaper; natural materials, like straw; and modern technology, such as solar panels and a heat pump. In addition, they want to design the building to breathe, thus avoiding the use of moisture barriers, and minimise the use of materials with high embodied energy, such as concrete. They hope that the result will be a super insulated breathing building, that takes advantage of solar gains, encourages natural ventilation, and has a small environmental footprint. Follow their progress over the next 12-18months on their blog.
Their house is still under construction, and Rachel has been kind enough to offer CCF a tour of the site! If you’d like to come along please contact beejal@cambridgecarbonfootprint.org (booking necessary)
| 26 October 2011 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
| 2 November 2011 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
| 9 November 2011 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
We are offering a free three-session training course for people interested in running workshops and giving presentations, as part of CCF’s essential outreach.
The 2-hour sessions will be facilitated by Penny Henderson from 7.30-9.30pm on Wednesdays: 19th October, 2nd November and 9th November . During the first session, participants will choose a partner and together they will plan a session on a topic. Between sessions the pair will plan a 1-hour session on their topic for a particular audience of their choice. During the second and third sessions, each pair will have the opportunity to present 15 minutes of their session to the rest of the group, which will provide a safe option to try out one way to present their topic. The members will give and receive constructive feedback in this supportive atmosphere.
Participants will need to attend all three sessions. If you are interested but the dates are impossible for you, please let us know, we may change the dates or run the course at a different time. This will be a closed group for a maximum of 8 people. This is a great opportunity to develop your presentation and workshop skills, helping us to increase other organisations’ understanding of climate change and carbon reduction.
Venue: Cambridge Carbon Footprint office
Booking essential - email beejal@cambridgecarbonfootprint.org or call 01223 659962
| 20 September 2011 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
| 4 October 2011 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
| 20 October 2011 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
Thermal Imaging
Thermal imaging cameras detect radiation in the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum (roughly 9000–14,000 nanometers or 9–14 µm) and produce images of that radiation, called thermograms. Since infrared radiation is emitted by all objects above absolute zero according to the black body radiation law, thermography makes it possible to see one’s environment with or without visible illumination. The amount of radiation emitted by an object increases with temperature; therefore, thermography allows one to see variations in temperature. When viewed through a thermal imaging camera, warm objects stand out well against cooler backgrounds; humans and other warm-blooded animals become easily visible against the environment, day or night.
Alex Rice will be running three training sessions on how to use and interpret information from CCF’s thermal imaging camera on (you only need to attend one):
Tuesday 20th September FULL
Tuesday 4th October FULL
Thursday 20th October
7.30 – 9.30pm
Booking essential – email beejal@cambridgecarbonfootprint.org
Venue – CCF Office, Future Business, Milton Rd, CB4 1UY
After completing the training volunteers are able to book to use the camera, in the past volunteers have used the camera on their own house, neighbours, at local events, taken it into schools and workplaces etc.
Many of you may have seen Channel 4′s ‘Come Dine with Me’ – well CCF is organising it’s very own version, with the theme of ‘Sustainable Food’!
We’re looking for people with a pass
ion for cooking – and for the environment – to take part.
Over four evenings in September or October (one evening a week) participants will take turns to host a ‘sustainable dinner party’ for each other.
This is your chance to show off your culinary skills, enjoy three nights of dining out, meet some new local people, or just a creative way to get rid of surplus veg from your allotment!
So if you’d like to have dinner with a few Cambridge folk, and eat some seasonal, local, home-cooked food (or just to find out more), then get in touch…
To register an interest please email or phone in with your:
- Name, Address,Telephone and Email
- Any dietary requirements
| 21 July 2011 | ||
| 12:30 pm | to | 1:30 pm |
If you are a volunteer or would like to become one, then come along to this lunch to meet the CCF staff, trustees and other volunteers.
Find out what’s been happening and what’s coming up, and have your say too. We’ll be discussing our autumn events calendar, so bring along your ideas hat!
Booking necessary – email info@cambridgecarbonfootprint.org.uk and let us know of any dietary requirements.
Find out more about volunteering here or email beejal@cambridgecarbonfootprint.org
| 25 July 2011 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
Friend’s Meeting House, Jesus Lane
Follow the Manhattan-based Beavan family as they abandon their high consumption 5th Avenue lifestyle and try to live a year while making no net environmental impact.
Mornings at the Beavan household look pretty ordinary. The Beavans have breakfast, brush their teeth and get 2-year-old Isabella ready for day care.
But look a little closer: There’s no morning paper, no morning television and no coffee. Coffee isn’t grown locally, so it’s off-limits.
The film screening will be followed by discussion.
Donations welcome towards the cost of room hire
We are offering a free three-session training course for people interested in running workshops and giving presentations, as part of CCF’s essential outreach.
The 2-hour sessions will be facilitated by Penny Henderson from 7.30-9.30pm on Mondays June 27th, July 11th and July 18th. During the first session, participants will choose a partner and together they will plan a session on a topic. Between sessions the pair will plan a 1-hour session on their topic for a particular audience of their choice. During the second and third sessions, each pair will have the opportunity to present 15 minutes of their session to the rest of the group, which will provide a safe option to try out one way to present their topic. The members will give and receive constructive feedback in this supportive atmosphere.
Participants will need to attend all three sessions. If you are interested but the dates are impossible for you, please let us know, we may change the dates or run the course at a different time. This will be a closed group for a maximum of 8 people. This is a great opportunity to develop your presentation and workshop skills, helping us to increase other organisations’ understanding of climate change and carbon reduction.
Please contact Bev Sedley if you are interested.
| 30 June 2011 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
Venue: St Luke’s Centre, Victoria Road,
Cambridge CB4 3DZ
Following on from our revamp meeting, interested volunteers will be meeting to discuss and share ideas for eco-renovations events and start planning to make them happen!
If you’d like to get involved contact beejal@cambridgecarbonfootprint.org
| 26 May 2011 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
Changes are afoot! At this meeting we’ll be discussing the future of the Eco-ren and CFH projects, it will be after our AGM where we will be discussing the future of CCF as a much more volunteer-run organisation.
We’d love to get a bigger, more diverse, group organising these two projects, and have them working alongside each other more, so we’d like to invite YOU to come along to get involved.
Thursday 26th May
7.30 – 9.30pm
Venue – CB2 (Norfolk St) we’ll be upstairs!
Email beejal@cambridgecarbonfootprint if you think you might come along so we can get an idea of numbers!
This meeting will be a discussion meeting and ideas generating session for interested volunteers to find out more. It’s not a commitment and you don’t need to come with ideas (although it’s great if you do!) So come along and let the creativity flow!!
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As part of our Eco-Renovations project volunteers organise talks, workshops and trips. You don’t need to be an expert to get involved!
Examples of volunteer tasks include:
- Working with the eco-ren group to come up with new and fresh ideas for events
- Inviting and liasing with speakers
- Working with the office to book venues
- Working with the office to publicise events
- Organising places to visit for trips
- Organising transport for trips
- Setting up before events, meeting and greeting attendees, and making refreshments at events – Collecting donations after events
The Climate Friendly Homes Project provides a free service to householders to help them make practical plans to reduce your carbon emissions.
Volunteer surveyor training prepares volunteers so that they are able to offer:
We also train volunteers to use our thermal imaging camera. This detects infrared radiation and produces images like this one, enabling users to see the key areas where heat is being lost.
Once volunteers have been trained they are able to make bookings to borrow the camera.
