January 2012 newsletter: An active start for 2012 in January!

Posted on 6 January 2012 by admin

Cambridge Carbon Footprint is starting the year 2012 with an exciting program! This winter you can, for example, learn about seasonal cooking, get new clothes in an eco-friendly fashion or combine entertainment with climate change information with Danny Chivers, just book your place quickly as these events are very popular!

Our January eco-renovation tour is now fully booked (get in touch to join the waiting list), but we have another eco-renovation event taking place in February. Find our more below!

  1. Carbon Conversations starting in January
  2. New Year Resolution with a difference!
  3. The Work that Reconnects 7 January
  4. Cosy Cottenham 14 January
  5. Swishing Party! 28 January
  6. An evening with Danny Chivers – ‘Some good news about climate change’ 30 January
  7. The Economics of Happiness: film showing 7 February
  8. Winter Cookery Demo 8 February
  9. Behind-the-scenes on Building an Eco Home with Ian Collins 22 February
  10. Sustainable Materials – with both eyes open
  11. Politics & Homes
  12. Vital signs – new year essential reading
  13. Grow Your Own – Gardening in January
  14. Grow Your Own sessions
  15. Science spot: Turning down the heating helps you lose weight
  16. Argentina: hope in hard time 12 January
  17. Green Enterprise Community Meeting 23 January
  18. Seeds Sunday seed swap 29 January
  19. Wood Burning Stoves: Advice on choosing and operating 15 February
  20. Green Party Conference: Alternatives to Economic Growth 18 February

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December 2011 newsletter: Socials and stalls in December

Posted on 15 December 2011 by admin

 

We are very pleased to welcome Sally Fenn into the office. Sally has kindly agreed to help us out as a volunteer for the next few months, and we are sure she will be a real asset!

We have a stall at the Mill Road Winter Fair on Saturday 3 December. Don’t miss a chance to say hello and have a chat!

  1. Carbon Conversations in January
  2. Open Eco Homes 2012
  3. CCF Christmas Social 11 December
  4. Just Do It: a tale of modern day outlaws 14 December
  5. The Work that Reconnects 7 January
  6. Eco-Renovation in Progress! 16 January
  7. An evening with Danny Chivers – ‘Some good news about climate change’ 30 January
  8. Defeat and defeatism
  9. Mill Road Winter Fair and visit Romsey Community Garden with Transition Cambridge 3 December
  10. Transition Cafe – local Community Supported Agriculture schemes 8 December
  11. Greening the Green Deal free event 11 December
  12. Finding Common Cause – Residential workshop in February

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November 2011 newsletter: Exciting new opportunities in November!

Posted on 6 November 2011 by admin

Cambridge Carbon Footprint is looking to recruit, find more information below for your chance to join our great team of staff and volunteers!

Evenings are getting dark and days rainy, so now is a good time to crawl under a blanket and read a good book. Join the CCF reading group for ideas on what to read and a lively discussion afterwards. Or face new, low-carbon cooking challenges by joining the dairy-free group for six weeks.

  1. CCF is looking for a Volunteers and Events Organiser
  2. CCF is looking for an Admin Intern
  3. Ro Randall: ‘Behaviour change: solution or diversion?’ 23 November
  4. Underfloor Insulation 30 November
  5. Second CCF book group successfully launched! Join us!
  6. 6-week challenges – Dairy-Free Group
  7. Carbon Conversations for Transition Cambridge
  8. FEED-In Tariff changes
  9. Safe Spaces
  10. Cambridge Zero Carbon Society – Careers Showcase for a Low Carbon Economy: Corporate 7 November
  11. Transition Cafe: Forest Gardening – dvd and discussion 10 November
  12. Climate Change Supper 16 November
  13. Transition Cambridge Community Garden Day 19 November
  14. Reducing heat loss through your walls and windows 24 November
  15. Green Enterprise Community Meeting Monday: Tony Juniper: Working towards sustainability 28 November

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October 2011 newsletter: Trips and trainings in October!

Posted on 5 October 2011 by admin

We have moved again! We’re very pleased with our new office in the Future Business building behind the Westbrook Centre off Milton Road. Visitors welcome! Please ring first to check we’re in: 01223 659962 or 07837 183271.

Due to a lot of interest, we have added a third thermal camera training. You can also take part in one of our other popular trainings, come to our volunteer lunch or autumn seasonal meal, join us on an exciting visit or give a hand at our stall – plenty on offer this October!

  1. Climate Friendly Homes Training 18 October
  2. Volunteer Lunch 19 October
  3. Thermal Imaging Camera Training 20 October
  4. Autumn Seasonal Meal 23 October
  5. Stalls Training 24 October
  6. Tour of Peterborough MRF 26 October
  7. Rainwater Harvesting 27 October
  8. Opening of Smart Life – stall volunteers needed! 31 October
  9. Workshops and Presentations Training October-November
  10. Trip to BedZed 8 November
  11. Ro Randall on ‘Behaviour change: solution or diversion?’ 23 November
  12. Join our Eating Local blog!
  13. Carbon Conversations Revisited!
  14. Denial, culture and ideology
  15. Grow Your Own – Plan for drought in 2012
  16. Solar School initiative
  17. Climate Rush Rendezvous 9 October
  18. Cambridgeshire Renewables Infrastructure Framework (CRIF) – Community Event 18 October
  19. Transition Cambridge: The Turning Point 19 October
  20. Grow Your Own Session in Trumpington 29 October

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September 2011 newsletter: Carbon groups and climate activities!

Posted on 6 September 2011 by admin

It is testament to the excellence of Carbon Conversations that several years on it is still going strong and we continue to receive enquiries from all over the world.  If you haven’t done Carbon Conversations yet, we have three new groups starting this Autumn and the office is taking registrations now. Further details and information on how to sign up here.

For those who want to continue further, we are excited to introduce several new groups discussing climate change and carbon reduction from different perspectives. Read more on all the things we have to offer in September and October below.

CCF has to move office again – by the end of September, when the Focus building will be demolished. We hope our landlord, Future Business, will find us a suitable new home by then. Other suggestions welcome. We’ll announce our new location as soon as we know; please bear with us if normal service is a bit disrupted during the move.

  1. Help with CCF Stalls in September!
  2. Volunteers’ Lunch 13 September
  3. Home Energy Volunteers Meeting 14 September
  4. Grow Your Own – Autumn Workshop 19 September
  5. Fundraising Volunteers Meeting 22 September
  6. Carbon Conversations Revisited and Free From discussion groups
  7. Want to join the new CCF book group?
  8. Trip to BedZed October
  9. Autumn Seasonal Meal 23 October
  10. Tour of Peterborough MRF 26 October
  11. Workshops and Presentations Training October-November
  12. The many faces of climate change denial
  13. Grow Your Own – Time to prepare for next season!
  14. Local and global transport in the news
  15. Transition Cambridge Energy Group Social 8 September
  16. The Turning Point – film screening and discussion 14 September
  17. Alara Forest Garden and the Peoples Supermarket 24 September
  18. Green Enterprise Community Meeting 26 September
  19. Sustainability in Crisis 26-28 September
  20. Climate Rush Rendezvous 9 October
  21. Can you help with some research?
  22. Park that Bike initiative

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