|
Written by Administrator
|
|
Monday, 24 May 2010 08:00 |
Earthcasts next event is an interactive web event on Creating Sustainable Communities:
- Develop the skills to tackle sustainability issues in your local area
- Learn how to organise and run planning events in your community
- Get advice on how to utilise local skills and ideas
Monday 24 May 2010
17:00 BST, 12:00 EDT, 9:00 PDT
This Earthcast will present practical guidance for people who want to help make their communities more pleasant and sustainable places in which to live. The speakers are all authors in our Tools for Community Planning series, and will focus on ways to improve communities through improved communication and the effective implementation of local ideas and skills.
The Speakers:
Nick Wates is the author of The Community Planning Handbook and The Community Planning Event Manual. He is director of the community planning consultancy Nick Wates Associates and site editor of www.communityplanning.net
Wendy Sarkissian is the author of Kitchen Table Sustainability, SpeakOut and Creative Community Planning. She is a speaker, planning practitioner, academic and workshop facilitator.
Nabeel Hamdi is the author of The Placemaker's Guide to Building Community and Small Change and is currently Professor Emeritus at Oxford Brookes University. In 1997 Nabeel won the UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour for his work on Community Action Planning
Clicke here for more information
|
|
|
Written by David Browning
|
|
Monday, 25 January 2010 20:09 |
|
Kirklees Environment Partnership
Annual General Meeting 2010
Food and Waste: International Issues of Local Importance in the context of global warming and peak oil
Date: Friday 29th January 2010
Venue: National Children’s Centre, Upper St George’s Square Huddersfield – above the train station – near the bus station
Room: Lower Ground Floor - Main Hall
Registration: The AGM is an open meeting. Secure your place now with Joan Vevers on 01484 223567 or Jane Fowden on 01484 223573
Stalls, displays, exhibitions: All member organisations are invited to set up a stall, exhibition or display of outcomes from their 2009 work. Book a stall with Joan Vevers on 01484 223567. Set up time from 11.30am on the day. There will be an exhibition of the Art work developed by Batley Girls’ High School for the July 2009 International Convention on Climate Change.
Lunch: 12.30– 1pm: Provided by Alimento Catering local trader sourcing most food locally - http://www.alimentocatering.co.uk/
Outline programme:
|
|
Last Updated on Monday, 15 February 2010 10:22 |
|
Read more...
|
|
Written by David Browning
|
|
Friday, 16 October 2009 08:40 |
|
Sailing through woods towards a calm walled garden: KEP Swillington Organic Farm Visit – 2nd October 2009: Introduction: Eight Members and associates of KEP visited Swillington Organic Farm near Leeds on a very windy but fine afternoon. A vaguely ramshackle entrance hid an astonishing community enterprise of great scope and depth. By the time we left, laden with organic meat and vegetable produce bought from the farm shop, we were in awe of their achievements over five years and grateful that we’d made the connection for the sake of our own ideas and emerging plans in Kirklees. Kirstin Glendinning was our host, at first a slight and unassuming young person who quickly impressed with her knowledge and experience of, and commitment to, the farm and its aims. After studying Chinese at University, she ‘could not bear to work indoors’ and instead ‘took this farm job’ and had been there ever since. Now she’s the region’s Soil Association’s Regional Development Coordinator - we were most fortunate to have her as our guide for the day. Swillington Farm is 160 acres incorporating a large network of well-stocked fishing lakes (£6 a day – no barbed hooks allowed) adjoining the 71 mile long River Aire – part of which is canalised as the Aire & Calder Canal. The land had clearly benefited from the presence of the river as we were later to learn. A 25lb catch – the record stands at 115lb! |
|
Last Updated on Friday, 16 October 2009 09:01 |
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Written by Administrator
|
|
Monday, 16 November 2009 10:18 |
|
Transition Network News currently features an interesting article on local food strategies. "Our love affair with food is so beautifully captured in Tamzin Pinkerton’s recently launched Local Food handbook: what an amazingly inspiring celebration of the collective genius and passion we hold around food. What’s more, what a fantastic testament to our collaborative power and determination to transform our food system to nourish our bodies, minds and souls." Read more at: http://transitionnetworknews.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/a-transition-food-strategy/ |
|
Last Updated on Monday, 16 November 2009 15:07 |
|
Written by Administrator
|
|
Monday, 02 March 2009 10:51 |
The Environment Partnership has a membership representing over 60 public, private and voluntary bodies and provides an independent voice for the environemnt in Kirklees. It was formed in 2002, evolving from the Kirklees Agenda 21 Partnership, and continues to work for positive environmental change.
Aims of the Partnership
The Environment Partnership aims to:
- develop a coherent environmental agenda which integrates environmental, social and economic development aspirations at a strategic level
- influence and give advice to the Kirklees Partnership and others
- support and enable a co-ordinated approach to environmental projects across Kirklees
- promote a further environmental education and training in its widest sense and promote the sharing of information and good practice between environmental organisations
|
|
Last Updated on Thursday, 26 March 2009 10:10 |
|
Read more...
|
|
|
