Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 3rd, 2009
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The Low Carbon Communities Network has a new volunteer, she’s a bit of a whizz on the internet and has set up a twitter account for the LCCN and added twitter updates to the LCCN facebook page so now it’s even easier to keep in touch. Both of these are [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 17th, 2009
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 17th, 2009
Yesterday I went to London, a day full of meetings and catching up. It was lovely to spend some time with Tessy Britton who sometimes lets me blog about non climate change things on Thriving Too and the Stop Climate Chaos AGM was thought provoking and exciting as well as an opportunity to catch up [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 14th, 2009
Those of you who know me have probably already heard of Colalife and why I support it, but for those of you who don’t. This week you have a unique opportunity to find out more – and choose to support it for yourself.
ColaLife is a campaign to get Coca-Cola to open up its distribution channels [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 30th, 2009
Welcome to Hopenhagen.
On December 7, 2009, leaders from 192 countries will gather at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark to determine the fate of our planet. Let’s turn Copenhagen into Hopenhagen. Hopenhagen is a movement, a moment and a chance at a new beginning. The hope that we can create a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 19th, 2009
I have to admit to being stupidly excited about going to Birmingham tomorrow for LocalGovCamp, which has been organised by Dave Briggs and a host of his contacts:
“LocalGovCamp is an unconference for local government. Taking place on 20 June 2009, at the Fazeley Studios in Birmingham, it will be a gathering of people interested in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 19th, 2009
Over the past few months my life seems to have been taken over by climate change related events and the blossoming of the Low Carbon Communities Network. Life – and writing this blog – seems to have been “on hold”. Apart from the essentials such as planting out the veg, feeding the family and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 20th, 2009
Today I’m at Trafford Hall in Cheshire running a workshop for North West Together We Can Partnership. This is event is for community volunteers in all sectors, not just environmental projects. One of the big issues that we’ve been discussing today is “What is a Community Activist”?
There has been quite a debate and it seems [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 21st, 2009
It’s been a hectic few weeks leading up to the cinema release of the new British Climate Change Documentary Age of Stupid. Starting with the Premiere on 15th March, where low carbon community volunteers spoke on over 40 locations to share their stories about how grass roots communities are working to reduce our consumption of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 7th, 2008
Possibly because I’m incapable of keeping my moth shut I’ve found myself following the online debate about the Government’s new initiative to create “Digital Mentors”. On a personal level it’s something I’m quite excited about, until a few months ago I had never posted a comment on a forum let alone designed and written my [...]
