From steve at coinet.org.uk Wed Sep 7 21:06:43 2011 From: steve at coinet.org.uk (Steve Gerrish) Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 19:06:43 -0000 Subject: [Oxford Events] September 2011 - Climate themed events Message-ID: *********************************************************** 1. NEST/NYTH design up for award. 2. Justice and Climate Change, Fri/Sat 9th/10th September. 3. Low-Carbon Living Programme ? starting September. 4. Moving Oxford away from coal, Saturday 24th September, 10am-5pm. 5. Climate Change: Lessons for our future from the distant past, Tuesday 27 September, 4pm 6. Green Drinks, Wednesday 28th September from 6.30pm. 7. Low Carbon Oxford North Apple Day, Saturday 1st October. *********************************************************** 1. NEST/NYTH DESIGN UP FOR AWARD. The Cardiff Design Festival has announced that ?Nest/Nyth - Making Wales Cosy? logo has been nominated for The Best of Welsh Design Awards. With COIN?s project partner Cynnal Cymru and designers Hoffi, we were commissioned by the Energy Saving Trust (EST) to develop a brand identity for the Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) funded ?New Fuel Poverty Scheme.? The scheme aims to target both ?hard to treat homes? and ?hard to reach? groups with a range of measures to bring individual low performance homes up to a significantly higher level (from Home Energy Check Rating F&G to C). See the logo at http://www.cardiffdesignfestival.org/2011/awards/submissions/chart (search the page for the word COIN) If you like what you see, please feel free to vote for it! *********************************************************** 2. JUSTICE AND CLIMATE CHANGE. A free two day conference funded by the ESRC at the Centre for the Study of Social Justice, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, Friday & Saturday 9th & 10th September. See http://social-justice.politics.ox.ac.uk/events/index.asp for full programme and registration contact. BOOK BEFORE FRIDAY. *********************************************************** 3. LOW CARBON LIVING PROGRAMME. The Low-Carbon Living Programme is a free, year long programme to help you reduce your carbon footprint. You?ll learn how different aspects of your life contribute to your household?s overall energy consumption, and be given practical support to enable you to make significant energy savings. Two groups are offering this programme starting this month (September) ? Low Carbon Oxford North, and Kidlington vs Climate Change. See: www.lcon.org.uk/activities/low-carbon-living-programme www.kvscc.org.uk *********************************************************** 4. MOVING OXFORD AWAY FROM COAL. Bike ride from Oxford to Didcot Power station on Saturday 24 September, 10am ? 5pm. Part of the 350.org Moving Planet worldwide rally to demand solutions to the climate crisis. See www.moving-planet.org/events/uk/oxford/438 for details. *********************************************************** 5. CLIMATE CHANGE: LESSONS FOR OUR FUTURE FROM THE DISTANT PAST. Tuesday 27 September, 4pm, at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford, Hayes House, 75 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2BQ. This event is open to all, and there is no need to register. Please arrive 10 minutes prior to the start of the seminar. Those arriving over 10 minutes late will not be admitted so not to disturb the seminar. Professor of Economics, Sir David Hendry, will be giving the seminar. Seminar Summary: We consider information from many sciences bearing on the causes and consequences of climate change, focusing on lessons from past mass extinctions of life on Earth. The increasing atmospheric levels of the main greenhouse gases are now established, as is their source in human activity. World-wide temperatures are rising on a high variance stochastic trend. Evidence from the past 500 million years provides a major warning: climate change is the main culprit in previous mass extinctions, with several different triggers?humanity is the latest trigger. The different approaches and sources of evidence across so many disciplines make a compelling case. Economic analysis offers a number of ideas, but the key problem is that distributions can shift, making action to avoid possible future shifts urgent. Adaptation ceases to be meaningful if food, water and land resources become inadequate, whereas the first mitigation steps are not costly and should stimulate innovation, creating opportunities as new technologies develop. See www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/climate-change-lessons-for-our-future-from-the-distant-past for full details. *********************************************************** 6. GREEN DRINKS ? Wednesday 28th September from 6.30pm, front room of the Kings Arms, 40 Holywell Road, Oxford. For map, see http://www.youngs.co.uk/pub-detail.asp?PubID=420&image=0 Green drinks is an informal networking and discussion event for anyone interested or working in environment, sustainability, climate change and any other related fields. The idea is to meet once a month over a few drinks to chat and exchange ideas with other environmentally like minded people. Green drinkers may come from many different walks of life, but with a common interest in environmental issues. This is part of a global initiative and more information can be found via http://www.greendrinks.org/Oxfordshire/list *********************************************************** 7. LOW CARBON OXFORD NORTH APPLE DAY. LCON?s sustainable food group is excited to announce plans for an Apple Day in North Oxford on Saturday 1 October. We will have use of a large apple press and pasteuriser, so you can bring your own apples (or scrump ours!) and take away bottles of fresh juice. We?ll also run a range of fun family activities including: * Toffee apples * Apple bobbing * Cider making * Apple identification by our experts * Mapping of local apple trees in our area See www.lcon.org.uk/2011/08/24/apple-day *********************************************************** If you would like your event to appear in this regular list, please send details to info at coinet.org.uk From steve at coinet.org.uk Fri Sep 30 20:27:30 2011 From: steve at coinet.org.uk (Steve Gerrish) Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:27:30 -0000 Subject: [Oxford Events] October 2011 - Climate themed events Message-ID: <3aa4494bb3c9cd29d6b785368feadc9c.squirrel@ecobytes.net> Apples, academia, alcohol, ... and some other things not beginning with A. *********************************************************** 1. Low Carbon Oxford North Apple Day, Saturday 1st October, 1-5pm. 2. Wolvercote Apple Day, Sunday 9th October, 2.00-4.30pm. 3. Low Carbon South Oxford's Carbon-busting Sessions, Wednesdays 5th, 12th & 19th October, 2nd, 9th, 16th November. 4. ECI Climate Lectures 2011, Mon-Fri 10-14 October, 4pm each day. 5. Green breakfast - Wednesday 12th October, 7.30 - 9.30am. 6. Expediency or Conviction? How to Engage People in a Common Cause, Saturday 15th October, 10.30am - 4.30pm. 7. Green Drinks, Wednesday 26th October from 6.30pm. *********************************************************** 1. LOW CARBON OXFORD NORTH APPLE DAY. LCON?s sustainable food group is excited to announce plans for an Apple Day in North Oxford on Saturday 1 October, 1-5pm. ?We will have use of a large apple press and pasteuriser, so you can bring your own apples (or scrump ours!) and take away bottles of fresh juice. We?ll also run a range of fun family activities including: * Toffee apples * Apple bobbing * Cider making * Apple identification by our experts * Mapping of local apple trees in our area? See www.lcon.org.uk/2011/08/24/apple-day *********************************************************** 2. WOLVERCOTE APPLE DAY. The Community Orchard, opposite The Trout, Sunday 9th October, 2.00-4.30pm. All things Apple-ey including pressing, apples galore, home produce, conker competition and other children's activities. Horns a Plenty will provide some music. See http://wolvercote.org/Calendar.htm *********************************************************** 3. LOW CARBON SOUTH OXFORD'S CARBON-BUSTING SESSIONS. 8pm ? 9.30pm in South Oxford Community Centre, Lake Street, during October and November. These topic-specific evening sessions will involve a brief talk, followed by an opportunity to have your specific queries answered by local experts on a variety of carbon-busting topics. Wed 5th Oct. - Lighting & Appliances Wed 12th Oct. - Heating & Insulation Wed 19th Oct. - Travel Wed 2nd Nov. - Stuff Wed 9th Nov. - Food & Cooking Wed 16th Nov. - Green Energy See http://www.cagoxfordshire.org.uk/news-archive *********************************************************** 4. ECI CLIMATE LECTURES 2011. The ECI Climate Lectures are a series of public lectures during Week one of Michaelmas Term. They form part of the Environmental Change Institute's MSc Environmental Change and Management Climate Week, where the students are given a week of intense lectures on a range of topics across the spectrum of climate change. This is the fourth year the ECI has invited the public to attend the 4pm slot, which in previous years has been very well attended. ** Mon. 10th - Economics of adaptation, Prof. Samuel Fankhauser. ** Tues. 11th - Ocean memory and prediction of climate, Prof. Carl Wunsch. ** Wed. 12th - Panel discussion; Prof. Myles Allen, Prof. Yadvinder Malhi, and Prof. Kathy Willis. ** Thurs. 13th - Climate change as a global shifting force, Prof. Sir David King. ** Fri. 14th - Designing and Delivering Climate Compatible Development, Sam Bickersteth. Full information at http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/events/climatelectures2011.php *********************************************************** 5. GREEN BREAKFAST Wednesday 12th October, 7.30am - 9.30am. Andrew Mitchell, Founder and Executive Director of the Global Canopy Programme will kick start Blake Lapthorn?s Autumn series of green breakfasts. Andrew will be looking at the role that this Oxford based organisation has played in the international arena and will also look at carbon and emerging financing mechanisms for forests. Not on website at time of writing, but details likely to be here: http://www.bllaw.co.uk/events.aspx or email events at bllaw.co.uk *********************************************************** 6. EXPEDIENCY OR CONVICTION? How to Engage People in a Common Cause. Saturday 15th October, 10.30am ? 4.30pm, Friends? Meeting House 43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW. Organised by the John Macmurray Fellowship. Speakers: Dr. Tom Crompton, WWF, Author of ?Common Cause ? The Case for Working with our Cultural Values? (www.valuesandframes.org) and, Dr. Richard Allen, Chairman of The Society for Post-Critical and Personalist Studies (SPCPS). Cost: ?12 (unwaged ?6) For lunch add ?6 (unwaged ?3) Bookings at http://johnmacmurray.org/news/conference-2011/ *********************************************************** 7. GREEN DRINKS ? Wednesday 26th October from 6.30pm, front room of the Kings Arms, 40 Holywell Road, Oxford. For map, see http://www.youngs.co.uk/pub-detail.asp?PubID=420&image=0 Green drinks is an informal networking and discussion event for anyone interested or working in environment, sustainability, climate change and any other related fields. Green Drinks books the front room of the pub for this, and this month?s Green Drinks will feature two or three discussion tables, each with a specific topic. Opportunities to drift from table to table, or wait until someone says ?all change?. It will be informal and light-touch. Details will be on the Oxford Green Drinks web page shortly before the evening ? see http://www.greendrinks.org/Oxfordshire/list *********************************************************** If you would like your event to appear in this regular list, please send details to info at coinet.org.uk