350 day
This is an international day of action ahead of the Copenhagen Climate Summit in December, calling for agreements that will reduce carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere back to 350 parts per million, which is the maximum for continuing life as we know it (current level is 384).
In Long Ashton we will be collecting pledges of actions already done or in the future to reduce carbon footprints. We aim to collect 350 pledges!
In the evening we plan to show the film Age Of Stupid.
More information closer to the time.
Apple Evening
Jubilee Pavilion.
Bring along your surplus apples to share, and any unusual apples to be identified, and share recipes.
Grow It Group
In the Jubilee Pavilion. For anyone interested in growing and food, to share ideas and problems. The autumn/winter programme will be planned at this meeting. Phone Deryll on 392587 for more information.
Food Group open meeting
To discuss possibilities of Community Supported Agriculture in the village.
Jubilee Pavilion.
Run
Town and Country Harriers are running from the Bird in Hand next Thurs at 7pm, and we will be running on the land proposed for housing development as well as the new football stadium. We have forwarded details to all the running clubs in bristol, so you never know a crowd may turn up.
350 day planning
Saturday 24 October is international 350 day, to highlight the importance of returning atmospheric levels of CO2 to 350 parts per million – the most that scientists say is compatible with avoiding runaway catastrophic climate change. The date is planned to put pressure on politicians ahead of the crucial Copenhagen international climate talks in December.
We will be having an event in Long Ashton on that day, featuring as many variations on the number 350 as possible, eg 350 peals of the church bells.
If you can help in planning what will happen on the day and organising it, please let me know, and I’ll arrange a meeting. billroberts@blueyonder.co.uk
We also plan to show The Age Of Stupid in the week leading up to this day.
For a 4 minute video of the wonderful Bill McKibben, who is at the centre of the 350 movement, go to: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4nZNPnmZAo
Green Energy Open Doors
Help will be needed on the day to set up from 9 to 10 am at the community centre, to run the cafe and stalls and to clear away at 3pm.
Visits will be arranged to houses with renewable energy systems in the vicinity and advice will be available on home insulation, grants and renewable energy.
There will be children’s activities, a Grow It Group stall, bicycle repair advice and much more. Please all come, help if you can if only for an hour or so and make it a really good ‘Transition Day! Offers of help to Ian or Margaret on margerian@btinternet.com please.
Open Meeting at the Village Club (British Legion)
An opportunity to air anything you’d like to, and to find out more about what’s happening.
HOLA! picnic
Hands Off Long Ashton invites you to join together to celebrate the village as it is, and resist over development of the green belt. Bring along food, family, friends, games, instruments, and whatever else you need to have a good time! The picnic will be in a sloping meadow facing the village, across the railway bridge by Paulman Gardens and Perry Road – follow our direction signs by the railway bridge. This is the land under threat of development
There is only 200 yards of unpaved footpath to get to the field.
Public Meeting, Kingswood Civic Centre, 7 May
Click here for the Agenda, and here for the invitation
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