Transition Bristol September Neighbourhood Network Meeting

bristol | the environment | event notice Monday September 01, 2008 14:22 by Jane Buttigieg - Transition Bristol events at transitionbristol dot net

Everyone is invited

The Transition Bristol September Neighbourhood Network Meeting takes place on Tuesday 9th September at the Broadmead Baptist Church, Union Street, Broadmead from 7pm until 9.30pm.

This meeting will differ from previous meetings in that several people have suggested items for discussion in advance.

This by no means stops anyone from suggesting extra discussions and open space sessions at the meeting, so if these topics don’t inspire you, by all means come along and put forward your ideas for alternative discussions.

Future meetings may or may not have advance notice of topics to be discussed, but it is hoped that in doing things this way, people may feel inspired to attend and both contribute and learn on topics in which they are interested. It also means that if you have something you would like to discuss, you can put it forward in advance and hopefully bring in people with the same interests as you to the discussion.

The two sessions are:

1. Home Energy Reduction

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?

David Mowat is a successful community activist and musician. He started the East Bristol Jazz Club, hosted the King Cotton show which reached a few thousand people in Bristol, and he holds aSALT (Spiritual Activist Leadership Training) courses.

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 wares, see if you’re inspired and offer your ideas.

If you would like to find out more before the meeting, email us on events@transitionbristol.net