Meetings on key areas of your carbon footprint: we hope to be social, share knowledge and support each other on the road to a low-carbon future. You’ll get most out of these meetings if you’ve already completed a carbon footprint group, but they are open to all.

The First 20%, Ceilidh and Homeless Soon

Posted on 27 March 2011 by admin

March 2011 Newsletter

This month brings an opportunity to learn how to knock the first 20% off your home’s footprint and save cash, to get fit and have fun at our Ceilidh and to help us find a
new home and office space – plus piles of exciting CCF Events and Related Events.

  1. March 2011 Newsletter
  2. CCF Events
    1. CCF at Feast East
    2. The First 20% – Eco Renovation
    3. Ceilidh – with Moon Carrot & Daisy Black
    4. Facing Power and Privilege Within
    5. Sustainable ‘Come Dine with Me’
    6. Akashi Inter-Faith: Making the Most of Food
    7. CCF at the Science festival
    8. Grow Your Own – Spring Jobs
    9. Why We Resist the Truth – AGM
  3. CCF News
    1. We’ll be homeless soon – Can you help?
    2. CCF seeks a Newsletter Compiler…
    3. Transport Futures
    4. Giving and receiving bad news
    5. Do we need a ventilator? – ‘Ask Andy’
    6. March – a time of optimism – and work!
  4. Related Events and News
    1. Passivhaus – 20 Years Low Energy Buildings
    2. Gardening Workshops – all FREE!
    3. Green & Ethical Marketing – Saint or Sinner?
    4. Turned Out Nice?
    5. Energy Efficiency for Green Entrepreneurs
    6. From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience
    7. Onion CropShare Pilot Project
    8. Old Home Superhome Open Days
    9. Research on Homeowners and PV
    10. Climate of Opinion – in The Media

Continue reading →

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March 2011 Newsletter: The First 20%, Ceilidh and Homeless Soon

Posted on 4 March 2011 by admin

This month brings an opportunity to learn how to knock the first 20% off your home’s footprint and save cash, to get fit and have fun at our Ceilidh and to help us find a
new home and office space – plus piles of exciting CCF Events and Related Events.

  2. CCF Events
    1. CCF at Feast East
    2. The First 20% – Eco Renovation
    3. Ceilidh – with Moon Carrot & Daisy Black
    4. Facing Power and Privilege Within
    5. Sustainable ‘Come Dine with Me’
    6. Akashi Inter-Faith: Making the Most of Food
    7. CCF at the Science festival
    8. Grow Your Own – Spring Jobs
    9. Why We Resist the Truth – AGM
  3. CCF News
    1. We’ll be homeless soon – Can you help?
    2. CCF seeks a Newsletter Compiler…
    3. Transport Futures
    4. Giving and receiving bad news
    5. Do we need a ventilator? – ‘Ask Andy’
    6. March – a time of optimism – and work!
  4. Related Events and News
    1. Passivhaus – 20 Years Low Energy Buildings
    2. Gardening Workshops – all FREE!
    3. Green & Ethical Marketing – Saint or Sinner?
    4. Turned Out Nice?
    5. Energy Efficiency for Green Entrepreneurs
    6. From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience
    7. Onion CropShare Pilot Project
    8. Old Home Superhome Open Days
    9. Research on Homeowners and PV
    10. Climate of Opinion – in The Media

Continue reading →

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Do we need a ventilator? – ‘Ask Andy’

Posted on 3 March 2011 by admin

Our builders are insisting that we install a ventilator in the living room, as we have an open fire.

We don’t want more draughts.
What should we do? Continue reading →

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March – a time of optimism – and work!

Posted on 3 March 2011 by admin

Keith Jordan

With daylight lengthening, birds nest building and weeds beginning to grow it’s time for action for gardeners. After months of relative dormancy, it’s a time of optimism – like the Continue reading →

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Garden Workshops – all FREE!

Posted on 2 March 2011 by admin

At Cambridge Community Centres
Check out the Continue reading →

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CCF at Feast East

Posted on 24 February 2011 by admin
4 March 2011
5 March 2011
11:00 amto5:00 pm

Chilford Hall, Balsham Rd, Linton, Cambs CB21 4LE

CCF and Cambridge Sustainable Food Alliance…

We’ll be at Feast East – Taste of Anglia’s annual regional food festival – with a stall and two presentations

Both presentations will be at 11am in the cookery demonstration marquee – on Friday and Saturday.

Public Health nutritionist Marie-Ann Ha will be presenting ‘Making the Most of Food’

Come along and visit us! And if you’d like to get involved
email Beejal Parekh or call her on 01223 971353.

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Sustainable Come Dine with Me

Posted on 10 February 2011 by admin

If you’d like to join in the fun please
email Beejal or call 01223 971353
by Friday 11th March – at latest! :)

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 passion for Continue reading →

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ZeroCarbon, The Green House & ‘Dine with Me’

Posted on 3 February 2011 by admin

February 2011 Newsletter

Next week brings our ZeroCarbon Britain 2030 event with the Centre for Alternative Technology – we do hope you can make it!

Beyond that we’re organising a visit

to The Green House Project two weeks later, and looking for people with a passion for cooking – and having fun – to take part in our Sustainable ‘Come Dine with Me’.

  1. February 2011 Newsletter
  2. CCF News and Events
    1. ZeroCarbon Britain 2030
    2. Thermal Camera Training
    3. Grow Your Own – Time for Action!
    4. Eco Renovation of Post-War Housing
    5. Visit to The Green House Project
    6. Ceilidh – with Moon Carrot & Daisy Black
    7. Sustainable ‘Come Dine with Me’
    8. Volunteering with CCF
    9. Climate scepticism – why info doesn’t work
    10. Clive Hamilton – AGM guest speaker
    11. Carbon Conversations – sign up now for April!
  3. Related News and Events
    1. Beach Garbage Hotel
    2. Close the Door!
    3. How Green Legislation really happens

Continue reading →

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Carbon Footprinting Training

Posted on 20 January 2011 by admin
23 February 2011
7:30 pmto9:30 pm

CCF office, Social Enterprise Centre, 182-190 Newmarket Road, Cambridge CB5 8HE

- communicating with the public
- how to use the Carbon Footprint Calculator (a computer progmramme designed by CAT to calculate individual’s carbon footprints).

The training is for new and old volunteers alike, a useful refresher for anyone that hasn’t used the calculator in a while, and a great introduction and confidence booster for those that have never done it  before.

Facilitators: Tom Bragg and Peter Cook

Contact beejal.parekh@cambridgecarbonfootprint.org if you’d like to attend

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Ceilidh – with Moon Carrot & Daisy Black

Posted on 20 January 2011 by admin
12 March 2011
7:00 pmto10:00 pm

St Lukes Centre, Victoria Road,
Camb CB4 3DZ

7.00pm – Bring food and drink to share
8.00pm – Live Ceilidh band and dancing! Continue reading →

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