low carbon

Alresford Greening Campaign's Low Carbon Living Fair will have environmental stalls, speeches, films and debates on 27 February at Perin's School. Other activities in Alresford in 2010 include 6 March - Alresford Greening Campaign AGM - 10-11am  followed by a seedy saturday seed/seedling swap at Long Barn Plant Nursery, Long Barn - The Old Sheep Fair, Bishops Sutton Road, Alresford SO24 9EJ. www.alresfordgreening.org 

The journey starts here...

I have been thinking about reducing my personal carbon footprint for a while now. I have signed up to the 10:10 campaign. I will be signing up for the 20:12 campaign by WinAcc.

My current carbon footprint (household) is over 9 tonnes per year. I have an energy monitor which is currently displaying the greenhouse gass emissions of our local library which has a display of our up and coming events related to our low carbon living project - see www.alresfordgreening.org for more details.

It's been a considerable time since I last blogged here on WinAcc. Other commitments seem to have a habit of taking over from writing blog posts here and generally being green. What with work, other blogs, magazine editing, a new startup business and family life I've barely had time to think about anything green.

And that's often the problem with many people who are trying to reduce their carbon footprint. Other things get in the way. Time is short or life just gets in the way.

Almost 200 people came to one or both days of this stimulating event to learn about how we can create and pay for alternatives to runaway climate change.The output is now online at http://lowc.transitionsouthampton.org/.

A new film aimed at encouraging small and medium-sized enterprises to seize the opportunities presented by addressing climate change has been launched.

Winchester played host to discussion of hot global issues at the weekend, with over
130 people attending an inspirational climate change conference at the Discovery
Centre. "The Transition to Low Carbon " was organised by Cap and Share UK,
Southampton University and Winchester Action on Climate Change.