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Transition Bristol September Neighbourhood Network Meeting
Everyone is welcome to attend the next Transition Bristol Neighbourhood Network Meeting on Tuesday 9th September. There will be two open space/workshop sessions at this meeting. These will be on the subjects of Home Energy Reduction and How we might use the Arts to get across the message of climate change and Peak Oil here in Bristol.
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Sep 09, 2008 from 07:00 pm to 09:30 pm |
| Where | Broadmead Baptist Church, Union Street, Broadmead |
| Contact Name | Jane Buttigieg |
| Contact Email | events@transitionbristol.net |
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The two open space sessions which have been proposed in advance are as follows:
A workshop/open space exploring how we might use our homes more efficiently
Are you worried about rising fuel prices? Are you feeling the pinch of ever increasing utility bills? Do you wish you knew what you could do to your house whether you rent or own it?
Transition Bristol is keen to explore these questions with you and hopefully has some answers to help.
Nobody tells you how to use your house and for many saving energy is a mystery. However most people can do minor things to their home, requiring little or no investment, that can save them money in the long run. Even if you rent, a few changes made early in the heating season can pay for themselves within a few months, ultimately saving you money and avoiding costly carbon being emitted as a result. These things take a short time to learn and are simple to do. And why stop there, after all everybody likes a friend who can save them money!
If you are interested to find out more before the meeting, email us on events@transitionbristol.net
2. Transition and the Arts
How might the arts be used to put across information about climate change and peak oil?
He has a vision and strategy to offer Transition Bristol, as partners -or even hosts- in a scheme which potentially could reach thousands and get us, the people, organisations and businesses of Bristol to both seriously reduce our carbon footprint and re-enforce community.
His style is to create skeletal structures which many can get involved in. It involves a dozen arts practitioners (story tellers, animators, dancers, drummers etc) working with local school-centred clusters of businesses, schools and community groups (e.g. a transition neighbourhood) to set and achieve specific carbon-footprint reducing goals, then to celebrate the work in a big ecoshow. Underpinning the whole is the spirituality of one of the world's fast-disappearing indigenous people. Calling political leaders to account is part of it.
A pipe dream? Hear him set out his wears, see if you're inspired and offer your ideas.
