Imagine being 15 right now and being told that within a few short years the window of opportunity to prevent run away climate change will be shut forever. This the reality that the climate change generation are waking up to. When responses include stopping using plastic straws or other trivial measures that is when you…
Author: Steven Jones
Environment Wales Act 2016
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2016/3/pdfs/anaw_20160003_en.pdf Here is the link the act that the Llanfyllin Town Council will be discussing the implications of at their next meeting.
Economic Armageddon
This lecture may appear a bit dry and technical, that’s how finance people speak, but see past that to understand the key themes of what he is saying, this is dynamite. We all know that this is the case, we just probably haven’t fully admitted it to ourselves yet. Since the 2008 crash we have…
BRACE HORTICULTURE
BRACE horticulture group have so far agreed to meet each Tuesday behind the institute from 10 am. We are open and inclusive to anyone who wants to join and we are developing our ideas about the purposes of the garden, who its beneficiaries are and to firm up a design. We have so far decided…
rumblings in the garden
We are hugely excited to have been offered the space behind the public institute in Llanfyllin as a space to create a community growing hub. We are very inspired by the work in Newtown at the Cultivate centre and we want to use a similar process that was used to design and set that in…
Clive Faulkner from Montgomery Wildlife Trust
Momentum seems to be gathering at the BRACE meetings. We are currently holding 2 meetings per month, 2nd and 4th Thursday each month, usually one involves a speaker coming to inform us on a particular subject and the other we discuss general business then go into topic groups where we are working on several initiatives….
One School One Planet launch
We welcome any support and involvement from teh BRACE group for the launch event for Small and Slow Solutions. We really hope this publication can contribute to accelerating the responses to the climate crisis, the book is especially aimed at 165 years looking at an uncertain future and wondering how to react, but it is…
Extinction rebellion & deep adaption
Roger Hallam giving a talk in Penzance, Cornwall, speaking about Extinction Rebellion, the climate emergency and the ecological crisis all around the world. Let’s stop pretending and ACT NOW. If you believe we need to do something about the climate crisis join us in October for the international Rebellion. In October 2018, we declared The…
Yes it is an emergency!
Is it strong to be calling this an emergency? The question was raised by the Town Council. We discussed this at the BRACE meeting this week and the answer we came back with is yes.. emergency is absolutely the right term as immediate action is called for. Also Climate Emergency has been officially declared by…
Poster & next meeting
Its seems logical to follow on from Llanfyllin show with an open meeting and to invite new members to find out what BRACE is all about. We can also encourage any past attendees to come along as well and build some momentum. News includes the beginnings of a big conversation with RSPB who are going…