small and slow solutions
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…
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…
events 11th aND 12TH SEPT:
Conferences happening next week in Moelyci Farm, Bangor , Gwynedd. 11th Sept – Innovative BIOMASS conference – Biochar & Biomass Resource use for Resilient Rural Communities also looking at aerobic digestion. http://www.moelyci.org/enterprises/ 12th Sept – Practical Responses to the Climate Emergency – there is an expert from Holland coming to speak about his car club…
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…