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 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 Jul 31st, 2008
What a week – we have just processed our 100th booking for the Low Carbon Communities Conference on 4th October in llangollen, completed 2 case study reports on low carbon communities in the North West, written two articles on low carbon communities, written a conference presentation, answered over 200 emails and still found time to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 4th, 2008
Finally home after two inspiring days at 2gether08, there’s lots of video footage and comments on the site about the presentations and what we all got up to, so go take a look. I’ll write more later, but before I attack an email inbox that’s not been touched for three days, just a quick thank [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 25th, 2008
Yesterday I went to Salford to run a workshop on “Motivators and Barriers in Your Community”.
The day didn’t start well due to trouble with the trains which meant I was late (but fortunately in time to hear Toby Blume from Urban Forum give a very entertaining presentation about Government policy on community engagement).
Then Straight into [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 11th, 2008
Ever since the launch of the Centre for Alternative Techology’s “Zero Carbon Britain” report it seems people keep sending me stuff about zero carbon projects. This website was new to me though – make your city carbon zero with Zerofootprint. A Canadian based company selling an array of personal and business offsets. If [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 5th, 2008
While I’m busy confirming bookings and speakers for this year’s low carbon communities conference I thought it might be worth sharing some of the highlights from 2007 with you all. Thanks to fellow blogger Sven Cahling we have a record of the presentation Mark Lynas made to the community groups who attended.
If you feel [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 4th, 2008
One of the nicest things about my job is hearing from all the newly established low carbon community / Transition groups as they emerge.
Stewkley Green near Milton Keynes recently featured on their local TV news in a feature about their aim to be carbon neutral within 10 years. Roger Crews , the group co-ordinator is [...]
