Local Events
Riversmeet Network (Cockermouth) Events
(Website - www.riversmeet.org/events)
September 2010
2nd Digital
Future Network
16th Spadework Community Food Growing Association’s
meeting
25th Homeworkers Network meeting
Cumbria Green
Build Festival: 11th - 26th September 2010
Welcome to the 5th Cumbria Green Build
Festival – an event that raises awareness of the opportunities for all of us
to create a more sustainable future in Cumbria through the clever use of our
buildings, through prudent energy use and low carbon energy generation. The
Festival serves to recognise and celebrate the many businesses, services,
organizations and products that are based in Cumbria that enable this
essential change to happen. Sprinkle in some inspirational thinking and
cutting edge architecture, and we hope you’ll enjoy the event as much as
you’ll learn from it!
This year’s festival takes place 11-26 September,
but we also have an on-going programme of events through the year – just
check the calendar.
New events are added all the time – so please keep on
checking the
website! 
Ambleside Allotments AGM: 7.30 pm Wesley Room, Parish Centre, Ambleside, 13th September, 2010
This new organisation has 53 people interested in allotments in the Ambleside area. The group are currently negotiating for suitable sites. Read their latest newsletter
Windermere Big Green Event Three week Food Challenge 29th August - Sunday 19th September
3 Weeks of awareness focussed around what
we're putting in our trolleys – and in our bodies - and the carbon miles
involved in getting it there!
Week 1 (29th Aug-4th Sept) – Reduce
plastic packaging
Week 2 (5th – 11th) – Eat locally grown, fair trade or
organic
Week 3 –(12th -19th) Eat what you have grown, foraged or
exchanged with your neighbours
There will be a “bring and share”
shared meal on Sunday 29th Aug and Sunday 12th Sept at Brambles Café in
Windermere, with the final meal at the Ladyholme centre near Windermere on
the 19th September. An opportuntiy to share tips, techniques, ideas (and
recipes!).
For further details, please contact Morag on 07727 000 608 or
morag@energymedicinefoundation.co.uk
Sustainable Brampton Events:
*Supporter Workshop: Community Centre,
6.30 pm, Wed 22 September, 2010
* Harvest Market:11.00 –
16.00 Sun 3 October, 2010
* Waste Action Group event at the Moot Hall in Brampton.
Sat 23 October, 2010
Low Carbon Hill Farming in the shadow of Helvellyn 2pm to 4.30pm Glencoyne Farm: Thursday 23rd September 2010
Join a short guided walk around Glencoyne Farm to look at low carbon farming methods. 1 mile. Book a place on 01539 733187
Damson Jam making and Fruit Bottling 7pm to 9pm Lyth Valley: Tuesday 12th October 2010
Have a go at making Lyth Valley damson jam and preserving fruit in the traditional way. Book a place on 01539 822165
Hawthorne Fruit Leather - 12 noon to 3pm, Kendal: Sunday 17th October 2010
Learn how to make a tasty dried fruit leather, a dried fruit snack, after collecting the hawthorne berries from around Kendal. Book a place on 01539 740694
Significant Events
Volunteering At Greenbelt Green Zone': 28th-30th August, 2010
CEL will be part of a new ‘green zone’ which brings together all the environmental organisations featured in the G Source exhibition tent. CEL is taking the lead in this area which we will have a display alongside them, A Rocha, Ecocongregation, the Quakers, and others. If could you spare us some time to help staff it you can sign up for just one two-hour slot, but if you can spare more it would be a great help. Please let Paul Bodenham know if you can help:
Creation Time, 1st
September - 2nd Sunday in October, 2010
Flourishing – a time for celebration
and care Observe a time for creation, between 1 September and 4
October, for the protection of God’s creation and the promotion of
sustainable lifestyles. Churches Together in Britain and Ireland has put
together a programme of resources to encourage and assist churches to
observe a Time for Creation in 2010. Our theme this year is Creation
Flourishing – A time for Celebration and Care, linking into the United
Nations International Year of Biodiversity. Creation time is between
the 1st September and Second Sunday in October - but you can celebrate it
any time in autumn! You can help publicise it by downloading and
printing their leaflet.
Resources include:
here.
Sermon notes based on the Lectionary readings for the 5 Sundays by Rev
Keith Innes; - including translations in Irish and in Welsh
A keynote
sermon - by David Bookless
Sermon by Dr Rowan Williams
Sermon
by Dr Andrew Goslar
Prayers of intercession
Resources for
children's groups and schools
Group study ideas
Biodiversity FAQs -
for churches - by Nigel Cooper
A range of other liturgical material
Stand Up Against Poverty Weekend - 'We Will Not be Silent': 17th-19th September 2010
17 million people stood up against poverty in 2009 . Will you join us in 2010? When world leaders gather at the United Nations for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Review Summit in September, the voices of their citizens will follow them, telling them, loudly and clearly: “We will no longer stay seated or silent in the face of poverty and the broken promises to end it!’ To find out more or register your event click here.
Car Free Sunday: 19th Sept 2010
European Mobility week: 16th - 22nd Sept 2010
Europe European Car Free Day: 22nd Sept 2010
National Demonstration against Agrofuels 25th Sept 2010
At the site of the proposed new palm-oil
burning, agrofuel power station at Portland in Dorset. Transport will
be organised from London and possibly other places. - Camping/crash
space will be available overnight. The demonstration will be organised
together with Biofuelwatch , Food not Fuel and
NOPE (No Palm Oil
Energy) live link to
The application for an agrofuel power station
in Portland was approved in January (after the initial rejection
was overturned on appeal by the company making the proposal, W4B). The power
station will burn palm oil and increase by one third the volume of palm oil
currently being imported to this country for energy usage. .
A Global Day of Doing: 10th October 2010
10 Oct 10:10:10 is a global day of doing -with thousands of practical carbon-cutting activities all over the world. The 10:10 campaign has teamed up with 350.org to co-ordinate 10:10:10 to be the biggest-ever day of positive action on climate change. On October 10, 2010, thousands of individuals, families, schools, businesses and other organisations all over the world will take simple steps to save energy and reduce emissions. These ordinary actions, combined with a series of bold, iconic stunts, will make an extraordinary difference. Not only will they cut carbon directly; they will also send a powerful message to world leaders that people and organisations everywhere are ready to tackle climate change.
Micah Challenge
Sunday - What's Your Promise?: 10th
October 2010
Micah Sunday is an occasion for the church in
the UK to come together to consider its role in alleviating poverty
worldwide. It gives your church to connect-in to the work being done
to alleviate poverty by people just like you around the world. And the
chance to reflect on the part you are playing and can play in this great
project. Micah Challenge uses Micah Sunday as a chance to feature the
work of its partners. And Micah Sunday is a global event so in marking it
you'll be standing together with local churches right around the world.
Micah Challenge will provide simple instructions and creative ideas that
make it easy for you and your church to get involved.
People are
already making their promises, will you join them? You can watch the film,
make your promise, and tell your friends about it or register your church
event... Follow the link to
www.whatsyourpromise.org.uk and get promising!
One World Week - Peacing Together One World 17th-24th October, 2010
If you are planning an event this week, you could make it a One World Week event too, and advertise it on their website.
Other UK Events
End Domestic Flights Now! London and Manchester, 4 September, 2010
Click here for more information
Camas Centre, Mull Exploring Creation: 11-17 September 2010
: Click here for more information
The World Faiths and the Environment Theddingworth, Leicestershire, LE17 6QX: 10.00am to 4.30pm, 15th September 2010
Organised by Christians Aware.
Growing Organically – Conference on Using Church Land as a Model for Environmental Change: 10m -4.40 pm, Carrs Lane Church Centre Birmingham, 18th September 2010
This conference will cover the importance of
church land management. It will also give practical examples of projects and
open up opportunities to see what conservation potential church land may
hold. The main speakers will be Professor Sir Ghillean Prance and Bishop
James Jones, followed by informative and interactive workshops:
Environmental Management Plan
-How to attract wildlife
-Alternative uses of church land
-How to use church land to engage with
the wider community.
-Theology of creation care
-Practical case
studies
If you are interested in nature conservation, involved in
church leadership or church land management, or want to see church land put
to good use, please book as soon as possible as places are limited. Prices:
£10, £5 Concessions.
Bell Ringing for Biodiversity: 22nd September, 2010
Plants, animals and life as we know it are all linked and the loss of one species can affect many others. The Church of England as an official supporter of IYB-UK has been invited by the UN to encourage its churches to ring bells between 12noon and 2pm on 22 Sept. The aim is to remind people throughout the country of the crisis but also to celebrate the church and church people's role in celebrating and recording the biodiversity contained in its 12,000 churchyards. IYB-UK will provide local biodiversity experts who can provide information and be available for local interviews.
Oil Fast -
Operation Noah: 3 October 2010
Click
here for
more information.
Join Operation Noah's Oil Fast on Sunday the 3rd of
October. Book the date in your church diaries now and take the first steps
on our journey away from carbon dependence, the 'Carbon Exodus' by leading
in your community and taking part in ON's 'Oil Fast'.
CEL Retreat - Ringsfield, Suffolk: 15th-17th October 2010
Click here for more information.
If you want your forthcoming event listed, please contact us before the 12th of the previous month