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August 2015 Meeting: Community Carbon Saving Schemes
Guest speaker: Alan Macnaughton, SevernWye Energy Agency
Tuesday 25th August from 7pm to 9pm
at the Herb Garden Café, Llandrindod
Alan's talk will explore the opportunities for Community Carbon Saving schemes in Landrindod Wells. In particular, he will be covering
- the support available for community carbon saving schemes from SevernWye Energy Agency
- the capacity needed within community organisations to take on small and large scale pojects
- opportunities for Llandrindod
Alan has extensive experience working with community groups elsewhere in the UK and will talk about some of succesful carbon saving schemes that community groups have run, including
- Zero Waste events
- Love Food - Hate Waste
- Waste audits and recycling
- Carbon Footprinting
- Thermal Imaging surveys
- Community Renewable Energy schemes
Are you interested in doing something practical to reduce our town's Carbon Footprint? Come along and share your ideas and contribute to the discussion.
Admission to the meeting is free. A donation will be requested to contribute to the costs of refreshments.
A poster to help promoted this meeting is available to download.
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July 2015 Social Meeting - A Forest Garden Year
Tuesday 28th July from 7pm to 9pm
at the Herb Garden Café, Llandrindod
With guest speaker Roz Brown
Update: Permaculture and Forest Garden Information sheets are now available.
Fifteen years ago Martin Crawford moved from conventional organic gardening to creating a forest garden from a bare field. Today Martin Crawford's garden is a fantastic example of what can be achieved with a minimum effort input to produce abundant crops of edible trees, plants, shrubs and ground cover. In this film he takes us through the seasons of his garden and shows the huge range of plants that can be grown.
The film will be introduced by Roz Brown who will also be talking after the film about the close links between Permaculture and Transition.
We've watched this film over again when we want something gentle and inspiring ... and every time we've come away having focused on something that escaped us before.
Amazon reviewer
Admission to the meeting is free. A donation will be requested to contribute to the costs of refreshments.
A poster to help promote this event is available. Please download and display.
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June 2015 Social Meeting: George Marshall - Why our brains are wired to ignore Climate Change
Tuesday 23rd June from 7pm to 9pm
at the Herb Garden Café, Llandrindod
We invite you to a very special meeting where George Marshall will be giving a talk based on his new best selling book:
Don't Even Think About It:
Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
The most important book published on climate change in the past few years
George Monbiot, The Guardian
George's book provides a witty, insightful, and groundbreaking take on one of the most urgent questions of our time: Why, despite overwhelming scientific evidence, do we still ignore climate change?
In his presentation George will talk about some of the many and varied reasons his research has uncovered for our inability to ignore this threat to our very existence. He will also provide answers to some of the other intriguing questions that his research has thrown up, including
- How will extreme weather events affect our attitude to climate change, and could they make us less concerned?
- Why have scientists, normally the most trusted professionals in our society, become distrusted, hated, and the targets for violent abuse?
- Why do the people who say climate change is too uncertain become more agitated about the threats of cell phones, meteorite strikes or alien invasion?
- Why does having children make people less concerned about climate change not more
Admission to this special meeting is free. A donation will be requested to contribute to the costs of refreshments.
A poster to help promote this event is available. Please download and display.
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Transition Storytelling Evening with Stephanie Bradley
Saturday 13th June in the Herb Garden Café, Llandrindod.
A special evening of food and storytelling organised by TLT.
The evening will start at 8 p.m. and will cost £10 per person.
The food will be curry, with both meat and vegetarian/vegan options.
Please prebook (by 5 p.m. Friday) by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or phoning the Herb Garden (01597) 823082
Stephanie Bradley is an author and freelance writer, performer, storyteller, poet, story writer, facilitator, teacher, and trainer. At present she is doing a storywalk along the Wye to Bardsey Island.
During the evening, Stephanie will tell some of her Transition stories, and will be looking to collect others.
Stephanie will also be visiting the Repair Café (at the Rock Park, Llandrindod) on Saturday afternoon.
More information about Stephanie and her work can be found at about.me/stephanie_bradley and www.storyweaving.co.uk.
All are welcome!
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