Transition Bristol

From the peoplefunding website:

We are a Bristol based energy project aiming to engage and excite people about energy issues. We also aim to increase access to affordable clean power by getting DIY skills into low income households!

 What Is This Project?
The project will be a collaboration that will provide a functioning energy system to the Edible [...]

From the Bristol Green Capital website:
Earlier this month we found out that we have made it through to the final of the 2014 European Green Capital Award. Its a bit like competing to host the Olympics – we now have to go to Brussels on 8th June with the other two finalists, Frankfurt and Copenhagen, [...]

From the Bristol Energy Cooperative:
We are today opening our share offer, with equal parts delight and exhaustion – forgive us if we keep this brief!
In our starter share offer, we are looking to raise just almost £90,000, to buy 20kW of the already-installed solar panels on the roof of Hamilton House, and install a 19kW [...]

This coming May the Bristol Pound will be the first city-wide local currency in the country. Following a hugely successful media launch, where we announced the opening of our design competition, we have been receiving hundreds of emails from both national and international supporters. The competition invites anyone from around the city to enter a [...]

Food events a-plenty will be bursting forth over the next couple of months (which is probably more than can be said for my carrots, which have no doubt been washed away by wash-out April). Most exciting for the Bristol Food Network is the concentrated spurt of 9–11 June, where 2 days of open food-growing gardens, [...]

[ June 9, 2012; June 17, 2012; ] From the Bristol Big Green Week website:

The BIG Green Week festival programme features one hundred events over nine days in Bristol, from Saturday 9th to Sunday 17th June.

All tickets are now on sale for these inspiring comedy, music, film, poetry, art and ideas events. Around half the events are free of charge.

Check out our daily [...]

[ April 7, 2012; May 19, 2012; ] This is the title of an exhibition opening in the Create Centre on April 7th and running until 19th May.
It is the brainchild of Older Woman for World Change (OWWCh!), a small group of Bristol women who went together to the Big Event in the Council House back in 2008. On that day the [...]

[ July 4, 2012; ] Plans are underway for a celebration of Bristol’s Independent Traders on 4 July. Help make this a success! If you have experience of marketing, PR, campaigning, events organising, e-communicating, or retail – or if you just love your local high street – then we’d love to hear from you. Work on the campaign will involve [...]

[ June 9, 2012; June 10, 2012; ] Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 June
Opening times vary from garden to garden. Please check back here or the Trail leaflet for individual site details. A google map showing the location of the participating projects will be appearing soon.
Bristol’s secret vegetable growers are opening their garden gates and community plots for the 2nd Get Growing Garden [...]

[ June 11, 2012; 9:30 am to 3:00 pm. ] From the newly launched Bristol Food Policy Council website:
11 June: 9:30 to 3:00, Brunel’s Old Station, Clock Tower Yard, Temple Meads, Bristol, BS1 6QH
Free event but advance booking is required so we know how many to cater for. Please go to here (link) to book.
The theme of this year’s Bristol Food Conference is “Signing up [...]

[ June 13, 2012; 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm. ] Triodos Bank, Deanery Road Bristol, BS1 5AS, Tickets £4.50 (see below for ticketing information)

Hear from Rob Hopkins, co-founder of the Transition movement, about the amazing impact Transition is having globally on building enterprising communities beyond oil dependency and inspiring bottom-up change. Rob will illustrate the discussion with clips from the new film ‘In Transition [...]

[ June 13, 2012; 6:00 pm; ] From the Colston Hall website:

Regeneration for real, On the Ground and in Your Mind

6 pm | @t-Bristol | Tickets £8 | Book tickets

All the Schumacher evenings offer a 25% discount for both Green Passes and concessions.

Speakers
Kevin McCloud (Channel 4’s Grand Designs)
Rob Hopkins (Transition Towns Co-founder)
Tim Smit (Founder of the Eden Project)

All three of tonight’s speakers [...]

[ May 19, 2012; ] Come join us on North Street on Saturday 19th May to celebrate good living in BS3.

North Street will be closed to traffic between the Tobacco Factory and the Hen and Chicken and will be open to the community for a day of fun, family activities and a celebration of everything local.

Come to relax, to enjoy [...]

[ May 24, 2012; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] The Green Room, The Tobacco Factory theatre, 24th May 7-9pm.

Bristol Energy Network (BEN) is a umbrella organisation for all grassroots initiatives broadly engaged in energy and sustainability issues within Bristol and the surrounding area.

We are delighted to announce that Bedminster Energy Group (link) will be hosting the next BEN event. The theme of this event [...]

[ June 13, 2012; June 16, 2012; ] Bristol Pound, Public Interest Research Centre and WWF-UK have teamed up to run a series of workshops under the Common Cause umbrella. These will enable you to explore the importance of cultural values in shaping responses to the social and environmental problems that we confront. What determines what matters to us? Why is there [...]