Articles about sustainability

There is free support and cash available to support local businesses from the Business Link Resource Efficiency Programme. Check out the slideshow here for more information. It can support a range of measures that will bring carbon savings, like investments in lighting and boiler controls.  They gave out £1.5 million to businesses in the region last year!

WECC members Berwick Lodge, Hydrock and JBP Public Relations have all received grants.

Clearing the Air Together – Air Pollution and Infrastructure Development on Wednesday 29^th February 2012, 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm.

Venue:  Armada House, Telephone Avenue, Bristol BS1 4BQ

The Environmental Law Foundation invites you to a free publicinformation event and workshop. Read more…

Ever questioned how many hours you work?
What would you do if you had more free time?

This is an open discussion about how we use and value time and work. We will explore the potential for sharing work and income and the effects this could have on the environment, the structure of the economy, our wellbeing and relationships.

Come to a discussion on shorter working week at Hydra Books (34 Old Market Street) on 7.30pm 29th February 2012.

More information about the event.

More edible than a Facebook Share?

Sims Hill Shared Harvest has only 15 shares left this year.  Sims Hill provides VERY local and fresh organic vegetables, at competitive prices and has the aim to bring great organic food to people on a budget.  A full share (enough for a family of 4) is £42 a month (thats at least 4 boxes) and a half share (for 2 or one very hungry one!) is £24. Read more…

We were very lucky to be joined by Emma Powell for a month of work experience, culminating in her helping us with the write up of the week of Future City conversations. We asked her to reflect on the final session where we looked back at the week. Her notes are below.

In the meantime, we wish Emma good luck for the future and in particular for her studies in Business and Environment at Leeds University which she starts this summer after she has spent some time volunteering with a charity in India (and spent some time at the beach in various places around the world). Enjoy.

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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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