What is it? Show and Tells are an opportunity for you to learn about Transition-related topics. The first Show and Tell of 2011 will be about learning from other local Transition groups. We will be welcoming a member of a Transition group from outside of Cardiff to chat to us about their experiences. It’s a friendly, informal event where you can enjoy a drink and a chat with fellow Transitioners. Everyone is welcome – you don’t have to have had anything to do with Transition before!

There will be the opportunity to make a small donation (£2) on the door to help us cover the cost of hiring the room.

For those of you on facebook – we now have a page and you can access info about this event here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=185329491489419
It’s also on the CTP website too: http://cardifftransition.org.uk/whatson.php

New stuff: There is also a new group called CF Hub – is a real-life social network of groups and individuals involved in the environmental movement in Cardiff. It has a regular green drinks style meet up in the Milgi Yurt every month. Chat with them on Facebook at http://on.fb.me/cfhub or follow them on Twitter at http://twitter.com/cfhub

Feel free to circulate to your networks & hope to see you on the 17th!

Thanks
Cerys, Pat, Steve, Chris, Jess & Eva

– 7 til 9pm, Monday 9th March

- Dempseys Pub, opposite the castle

- £2 entry (to cover room hire)

Alan Gillard and Daniel Stollar from Gillard Associates, a Cardiff based firm of sustainable architects, will be presenting their ideas on community based housing and low carbon design and refurbishment.

Followed by an opportunity for questions and facilitated discussion.

Welsh designers are making a strong showing with show gardens designed by some of the country’s leading gardening talents. Confirmed show gardens include one from South Glamorgan-based Michele Fitzsimmons and Sara Bentley. ‘Eats Shoots and Leaves: A Permaculture Garden in April’ is a garden based on the main themes of permaculture: productivity, lower maintenance, multi-functionalism, use of local resources and biodiversity.

Last year’s Gold medal winner Anthea Guthrie will also be at the show with ‘Slugger Off’ – a garden resistant to slugs. Another highlight is a garden from a Category B local prison in Bridgend – HMP & YOI Parc. The prison’s horticulture team is designing a show garden called ‘Choices’ based on the choices made by individuals while incarcerated. A water feature using stepping stones will symbolise personal journeys and after the show the entire garden will be rebuilt within the internal grounds of the prison.

Doctor Who’s Tardis will also be touching down at the show, with the ‘Garden in Time’ garden featuring a time travel theme. Much of the BBC series has been filmed in Cardiff and this is the perfect chance for those who missed the garden’s debut at the world famous RHS Chelsea Flower Show to enjoy the garden.

Visitors can also sample the true taste of Wales in the Experience Wales marquee which will once again filled with the very best Welsh food, drink and crafts. Other highlights at the show include the Interactive Allotment which returns by popular demand. Nature trails, street entertainers and live music will also be on hand to keep the whole family entertained.

Feeding cities has a greater impact on us and our planet than anything else we do, yet few of us are aware of the process. Industrialisation has made it seem easy, but with peak oil looming and climate change upon us, that illusion is wearing off. We urgently need a new urban model – one that treats city and country as a single, organic whole.

Carolyn is an architect and prize-winning author. She has run successful design units at Cambridge University, London Metropolitan University and the London School of Economics, where she was inaugural studio director of the Cities Programme. She was Rome Scholar in 1995-6, researching the historical urban order of the Ghetto. She has presented on BBC TV’s One Foot in the Past, has written for Blueprint Magazine and is a regular columnist for Building Design. Her book Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives (2008), won the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-fiction and was recently featured on a special edition of Radio 4’s The Food Programme.

This FREE talk will take place on Tuesday 17 February 2009 at 7.00pm in the Cardiff Centre for Lifelong Learning, Senghennydd Road, Cardiff. Room E0.15. All welcome – no booking required.

On MONDAY 12TH JANUARY 2009, between 7 – 9pm,

@ DEMPSEYS PUB, on CASTLE STREET (CORNER WOMANBY STREET) CARDIFF.

Entry: £2 on the door (to cover cost of hiring room)

All welcome.

Speaker is… Molly Scott-Cato – Reader in Green Economics and Economics Speaker for the Green Party who will share her thinking about what transition means for the way we organise our economic life, and specifically in relation to trade and money. Followed by an opportunity for questions and a facilitated exercise/discussion

For further information, please contact info@cardifftransitionproject.org.uk

March from the American Embassy to the British Parliament

The Cardiff Campaign against Climate Change Bus is stopping at Cardiff Museum Steps at 8 am, Newport Bus Station at 8.30.

Tickets – £18 waged / £10 unwaged/student. Book your seat now! Or make a donation to pay for someone else to travel up!

Cardiff Campaign against Climate Change

Contact cardiffccc@hotmail.co.uk

Adam Johannes 07940 108 146

Tuesday 9th December at 7.30 pm Association Christmas get together with mead and honeycake. Llandaff Village Hall.

Tuesday 10th February at 7.30 pm Association AGM

December Newsletter for Cardiff Beekeepers is now available here

The planet needs it…

The people of Cardiff have demanded it…

Cardiff Green Drinks is to be a monthly event.

The first Cardiff Green Drinks in October was a resounding success with a room full of constructive networking and lively discussion. Particularly encouraging was the varied backgrounds of those who attended. Business, government, students, the voluntary and not-for-profit sectors, the police, architects, engineers and artists all declared their interest in green issues over a friendly drink or two.

The buffet laid on by Brains Brewery proved very popular and our thanks go to Nick, Agata and the team down at The Yard for looking after us.

As a result of this encouraging start the next Cardiff Green Drinks will take place on:

Wednesday 19th November

From 6pm onwards in the upstairs area at The Yard, 42-43 St Mary Street, Cardiff, CF10 1AD.

For further information please contact Alun Watkins Email alun.nicola@virgin.net

The Ferndale-based charity which is supported by Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council is one of three Welsh charities shortlisted as Community Recycler of the Year and volunteers are hoping plenty of local people will help them secure the first prize.

Who wins the award is down to a voting scheme which can be found on www.cylch.org or by writing to Jasmine Brown at Cylch, 113 Cathedral Road, Cardiff, CF11 9PH. Voting will close at 5pm on Friday October 19th and a presentation ceremony will be held at the Marriot Hotel, Cardiff on October 24th.

Sponsored by Novelis, the largest recycler of aluminum cans in Europe, the winner of the section will receive a top prize of £2,000.

Launched in 1995, toogoodtowaste is Rhondda Cynon Taf’s most effective furniture recycling and community regeneration charity which is committed to increasing reuse and recycling, relieving the effects of financial hardship and creating training and work experience opportunities.

Last year alone 75 people supported the charity in an unpaid capacity providing 19,558 hours of effort with 19 people leaving to start paid employment. The organisation also participated in 35 community events and arranged 18 furniture roadshows for more than 800 people in 13 different communities.

Rhondda Cynon Taf Council’s Anti-Litter Champion Cllr Ann Crimmings said she was delighted with the news: “Congratulations are certainly in store for toogoodtowaste for reaching the shortlist of this prestigious award. It goes without saying that their success story so far is testimony to the hard work and dedication of so many volunteers over the years.

“On behalf of all those people who have benefited from the organisation over the past 12 years, I wish them all continued success in the future.”

The next meeting of Friends of the Earth in Rhondda Cynon Taff takes places on Monday 8th October 2007, 7.30pm at Clwb Y Bont 85A Taff Street Pontypridd

Friends of the Earth in Rhondda Cynon Taff is an active group.

Membership costs only £3 per annum.

New members welcome.

Contact Bleddyn Lake for further enquiries email bleddyn.lake@foe.co.uk

Bleddyn Lake
Local Groups Development Officer Cymru
Friends of the Earth Cymru
33 Castle Arcade Balcony
Cardiff
Wales
CF10 1BY

Tel 029 2022 9577
Fax 029 2022 8775
E-mail bleddyn.lake@foe.co.uk
http://www.foecymru.co.uk