Spring is here! Or is it? The flowers and the bees certainly think so, even if the chilly wind says otherwise. No matter! We are in a joyful springy mood this weekend, as several members of BRACE head off to The Big One in London.
Category: Climate Responses
Community Energy Opportunities in Llanfyllin
Working with PAVO BRACE commissioned a report by Sharenergy into the feasibility of community energy projects in and around Llanfyllin. There is plenty of work happening behind the scenes to act on the information in the report and try to bring community energy projects in Llanfyllin to fruition, but in the meantime, you can download…
Future Ready Homes
Calling all homeowners! Severn Wye Energy Agency is providing free retrofit advice as part of a new pilot scheme to accelerate retrofits called Future Ready Homes.
Your Town – Your Call
BRACE invites you to complete a questionnaire to help us understand what residents need and want in terms of local facilities and services. It’s your chance to shape future developments in your community and beyond.
Volunteers needed for home energy audits
BRACE is looking for volunteers to carry out home energy audits as partof a new project from Powys Action on the Climate Emergency (PACE). Ideally, we need at least 3 volunteers to undetake half a day’s training and carry out home visits (which would take about 2 hours each). This is a great opportunity to…
Let’s Talk Crap! – recording
For those who were unable to attend. Link to the Recording from 10th March- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WN6vK1cuqtaInKbt2bUzXT5Ovj6XrZ7A/view?fbclid=IwAR0fgUd11UzbKGkJtKJNuXQdRxhQpd8n_fbp9lo2uaDXus8eWrcv6UrrgIk An online talk about the environmental and social benefits of recycling human excreta to land. University of Leeds PhD Researcher Katie Allen will discuss the role poo can play in reversing soil degradation, improving crop yields and mitigating climate change.The…
this is a very important lecture and an insight into the emerging new paradigm
So this is pre-covid and pre-2019 election, so it is dated in ways, but actually he makes the clear point, re: Covid, dont make predictions because know knows what is going to happen. There is a much longer arking story that is important which has remained consisntant over 150 – 200 years of modern forms…
New reality
Has it dawned on you yet? The world we took for granted no longer exists and is not coming back. The virus is not an anomaly in an otherwise healthy world it is the signal of the collapse of the globalized neo-liberal free market dream. It always was a fragile system, it doesn’t matter which…
A week of panic & uncertainty
We have known for years that our complex interconnected global community, with just in time delivery and lean stocking is vulnerable to significant disruption. As we continue to witness climate breakdown it has felt important for us to focus on developing a stronger local-food economy with more diversity and shorter supply lines. The Covid virus…
Llanfyllin institute garden wins national gardens scheme award
Its an underused space behind the institute building that previously they paid to have strimmed and trimmed year to keep it tidy. Now it is on its way to being a focal point for community growing for the Tanat & Cain valley community and is paying its own rent back to the institute instead of…