Local Events
Sustainable Brampton. Global Warming & Cosmic Rays, 7.30 pm Tuesday 2nd March 2010
Community Lecture at William Howard School
Lecture Theatre, Brampton: Professor Terry Sloan, Dept of Physics,
Lancaster University. The UN International Panel on Climate Change has
concluded that the temperature rise that the earth is currently experiencing
is very likely to be due to human activities. Prof Sloan has looked for
other possibilities than human activity. He will discuss these and where
there is room for people to be skeptical about the conclusions. Free
admission.
Kendal in a Low Carbon World, 7.15-9.30pm, Shakespeare Centre, Kendal. Thursday 3rd March 2010
Open Meeting and Transition Town
Announcement:
SLACC Towards Transition are holding an open meeting at
the Shakespeare Centre, Kendal on 3rd March. The meeting is an important
one in the development of our group. We are hoping to have a
speaker from another transition town to introduce the meeting and to
celebrate our official recognition as a transition initiative.
This will
be followed by an opportunity for all at the meeting to contribute to our
thinking on Kendal in a low carbon world. In addition to
existing groups focussing on Energy, Transport, Food and Events there will
be opportunities to form new interests in the impacts of low carbon futures
on, for example Children, Values, Resources, Health and Business.
Ideas for other groups will be welcome at the meeting.
Sustainable Brampton. Make Do and Mend, 10 am-1pm, Saturday 6th March 2010
The Hut, Brampton Community Centre: A workshop for all levels, you will bring your own clothes to mend or transform.Please telephone Adult Education Carlisle to book a place on this course 01228 403555.
Tetra Pak Creations: United Reformed Church, Kendal 7pm - 9pm Tuesday 9th March 2010
£3. Learn the basics of tetrapak weaving and other clever ideas of what to do with leftover juice cartons. Bring as many empty, clean tetrapaks as possible.
Penrith Action on Community Transition (PACT) Social Event: 7.30 pm, Tues 16th March 2010
Hunter Hall School in Penrith: Join a 'bring and share' supper, films and transition talks.
Launch of Transition City Lancaster: 7pm, 0 April, 2010
St. Thomas Church, Marton St. Lancaster 2 Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition Town Movement is speaking. Tickets £5 on the door or contact 01524 844162.
Sustainable Brampton. Energy Day, 11 am-4pm, Saturday 24th April 2010
Brampton Community Centre: An event showcasing renewable energy options for Brampton households, with examples of currently installed systems and expert help and advice.
Making a Bike Trailer - by everyone! United Reformed Church, Kendal, 7pm – 9pm,Tuesday 11th May 2010
£3. Learn how to make a bike trailer from mainly recycled materials. A practical workshop which should result in a working trailer, so come on your bike and you can give it a spin!
Ask the Climate Change Question! 2010 General Election
With the failure of Copenhagen to reach a
global deal on climate change, the upcoming general election is our next
opportunity to put climate change on the agenda.
Our voices are our
most powerful campaigning tool, especially at election time when politicians
from all parties are keen to hear from voters about the issues that matter.
But nothing will happen if we remain silent.
Tearfund is asking you
to do one thing this election: To use your voice to ask the climate
question. Find out more about how you can use your voice this election
by visiting live link to:
www.tearfund.org/election Climate change can be tackled. The
UK can be put on the path to a green economy with thousands of new green
jobs. But only if politicians know that there is public support for action.
In the UK, a General Election is the opportunity to give that message loud
and clear.
That's why we've joined with Christian Aid, Oxfam, RSPB,
CAFOD, WWF-UK and others on this crucial issue to ask all our supporters to
do one thing: Ask the Climate Question.
Special Message for CCACC Viewers in Westmorland and Lonsdale Constituency:
Westmorland and Lonsdale is a marginal
constituency one of a few seats around the country that a party needs to win
if it's to form the next government. That means in the coming months
politicians will be paying meticulous attention to the feedback they're
getting from voters in your area.
Our ask is simple. Whenever a
representative of a political party, the media or a polling company asks you
about the issues that will matter to you at the election you include climate
change.
Together with thousands of others in Westmorland and Lonsdale
we can get climate change up the agenda and show there is public support for
fair and ambitious action.
You can find out more about the
campaign,and ideas about how you can pray at live link to:
www.tearfund.org/election
Significant Events
Join the 'Big Swap' -
Fairtrade Fortnight: 22nd February - 7th March
2010
For this year's Fairtrade Fortnight we're asking the nation to join us in The Big Swap. For two whole weeks we'll be asking you to swap your usual stuff for Fairtrade stuff. Your usual bananas for Fairtrade bananas, your usual cotton socks for Fairtrade cotton socks, and your usual cuppa for a Fairtrade cuppa. This means that every time you go shopping, you can use your wallet to make a stand. To Find out more click here
Register your individual or Church action here
Other UK Events
Carbon Fast (Lent) 17th February - 3rd April, 2010
This provides simple prayers and practical actions to help people respond to climate change by reducing their emissions and focusing on poor people hit hardest by the changing climate. It's a great way for people to start responding to the issue of climate change as many of the actions are very simple and may well be things they are already doing. This will be the third year of the Carbon Fast for Tearfund. It was created by Bishop James Jones, the Bishop of Liverpool who first ran it in his diocese in 2007. See 'Impossible to Ignore' - a range of very brief, thought provoking videos.
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