Sami Grover’s article Why We’re All Hypocrites in the recent edition of Permaculture Magazine has some excellent tips for anyone caught in the debate between personal action and systemic change, and looking to make a difference in the climate and ecological crisis: What does your social network look like, and how can you have an…
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brace membership campaign
As we start to look forward to meeting up again, running events and expanding projects we need a reliable way to contact our our members, especially those in the local community who want to get more involved. We have created a membership database using mailchimp and it would be great if you could follow the…
Share-energy feedback
The recording of the Share-Energy Talk held back in December can be found on this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VpPncpoj_zINc-HWlO58MGbvlzmAJSke/view
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…
Community energy talk Wednesday December 9th 7.30pm
https://tinyurl.com/y6hosll3 Online talk by David Green of Sharenergy. Could we as a community get together to generate energy and income for the town?Dave will explain how Sharenergy works to make a contribution to green energy production.We’ll be online earlier for anyone who’d like a natter before the talk.
Open Food Network feedback
The webinar hosted by Nick Wier was a great success with familiar and new faces joining us to find out how we might be able to set up a scheme to link local producers with local customers. The session was recorded and can be found on the link below. (Nick was having problems with bandwidth,…
Special General meeting – 7pm 28th Oct
A sincere thanks to all members of the BRACE WhatsApp Group, our Facebook and Website followers for your support and encouragement as BRACE has evolved from a conversation between people concerned about climate change and conservation to become an organisation that is now an established part of our community. We have started some great initiatives…
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…
Share energy
Community owned and run energy schemes offer huge advantages, not least a chance for communities to invest in energy schemes that will enable sustainable ethical investment into infrastructure that we will all benefit from. It also decentralizes the planning a implementation of energy schemes, all good in terms of increasing resilience.