Articles about Community

In an attempt to recognise all the amazing green activities and groups in Bristol, we tried to get all of them together in one document. We would appreciate your help in making it even more complete, so if your group or a group you know is not on there, let us know.

You can access and edit the file here or you can drop us an email at green.capital@bristolgreencapital.org

The Bristol Seed Swap 2012 offers a huge diversity of rare and interesting seed varieties, plus live music, stalls, talks, workshops, plant sales, films, tea, cake and lunch, and lots of fun!

Saturday 10th March
12 – 4pm
Easton Community Centre,
Kilburn St, Easton, BS5 6AW

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Last week, a further five Bristol-based community energy projects won funding from DECC’s Local Energy Assessment Funds bringing the total number of Bristol projects to nine.

The next BEN (Bristol Energy Network) meeting will be on Thursday 23rd February 7pm at Hamilton House, which will include updates from these winning community groups on what they plan to do with this funding. By then, it will be over half way through the time allowed for the projects so it should be very interesting meeting indeed.

Please register here.

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Last Thursday the fifth floor of Hamilton House was buzzing with ideas on how to make Bristol better and greener. This was a follow-up event to the week of Future City conversations and was a good opportunity to see some outcomes of the intensive thinking process that took place during week and suggest even more ideas and, most importantly, ways of actually bringing them to life.

Thanks to all who have made it to Hamilton House!

Photos from the event

We believe that Bristol should be a city-region that is living within environmental limits (one planet living). There are many different ways of achieving this, but we seem to be spending lots of time talking about how to do it. Inertia, differences of opinion, lack of understanding and acknowledgement about the size of the problem, vested interests, political disagreement and many other factors combine to slow down the pace of change. We believe that the imperative is so strong that there is a pressing need for a city-wide proposition that we can all get behind.

There will always be a tension between a truly democratic process during which everyone can feel a part and the ability to progress beyond talking to action. It is our intention to start 2012 by involving as many people as we can, but to also see 2012 as the year where we initiate a process of change that will accelerate our progress towards one planet living.

Click on the links below to find out more about what happened.

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‘Your Green Futures’ needs you! They require mentors and exhibitors to get involved in the upcoming event- ‘All Jobs Change Workshop.’ Read more…