Spring is finally here after what seems like a perpetual November! Check out the fantastic upcoming events - including a lecture on 3rd April on Global Change and Rural Communities, launch of a poetry booklet in the Literary Festival, clowning and climate change workshops.. and Oxon's own Ideal Green Home show. Enjoy!

News

Imeasure - http://www.imeasure.org.uk/

imeasure - the carbon calculator developed here at Environmental Change Institute has been re-launched. Start using it online at http://www.imeasure.org.uk/ and help contribute to energy policy research as you compare your household emissions to your friends.

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**Climate Change Bill Week of Action: Sunday 30th March - Saturday 5th April**.

The Stop Climate Chaos coalition is calling for a week of action to put pressure on MPs to publicly pledge their support for a 'Climate Bill with Bite' See info at  http://www.icount.org.uk/ .

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New Publication: Re:versing the Damage - Notes from the Climate Journey

- a great new poetry booklet hot off the press produced by ClimateXchange and The Nail - Oxford's performance poetry magazine.

Copies cost £4 (including a CD), and are available from the Literary Festival bookshop, or direct from ClimateXchange. Please email info@climatex.org if you'd like a copy - or come to the launch event at the Literary Festival, 8pm on April 2^nd  (see events below).

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Red Redemption wins Prize for Climate change game

Red Redemption's Climate Challenge game has won the European Green Business IT Award 2008 for Best Green PR/Marketing Campaign. Developed by Red Redemption in association with BBC Science ad Nature and Oxford University, Climate Challenge has achieved over 2 million unique plays to date and is available to play for free at: http://www.makesyouthink.net/
This is a major achievement for a small independent serious games
company and another achievement for Oxford's growing green business
community. Congratulations Red Redemption!

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New Report from WWF: How Low report

This report builds upon the success of our One Million Sustainable Homes initiative and expands our focus to the entirety of the UK residential sector. To launch our new One Planet Homes campaign we are publishing this report which examines the low carbon potential of the UK's existing housing stock. See the report : http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000004937.asp

** Come to the Oxon Ideal Green Home Show - 17^th April - details below**

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Growing Old in a Changing Climate -Conference report

Jane Finnerty went to this conference at the end of March,  and has kindly written a report which you can see here: http://climatex.org/articles/news/growing-old-changing-climate/

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Art from statistics

http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php

Check out this website if you ever wanted to see what one million plastic cups..or two million plastic bottles (or even 32,000 Barbie dolls) looks like

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Tell us what you think - and win one of 6 £20 book tokens

We're nearing the end of our first round of funding so it's survey time again! Please fill in our Attitudes and Evaluation survey online - tell us what you've liked, what we could have done better, and give your thoughts on our future direction.  All here: http://survey.climatex.org/index.php?sid=93851 (or follow the link from our front page). Thankyou!.

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Upcoming Climate change events  -  April events

Full details available on www.climatex.org/events

 

Tuesday 1 April Film screening: Escape from suburbia
 7.45 at the Friends' Meeting House, Banbury
"Escape from suburbia" follows on from "The end of suburbia". It follows different people as they search for ways to change their lives in preparation for a post-peak oil world. From eco-villages to community-supported agriculture, it highlights the best way to start. Sue Jaiteh 01295 701144

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Thursday 3 April 6-6.45pm, Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford

Global Change and Rural Communities: is sustainable development still possible?

Dr Prabhu Pingali, Head of Agriculture, Policy and Statistics, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Public Lecture All welcome  - more info and poster  from: http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/events/gecafs-lecture0408.pdf  

Please publicise to your networks.

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Weds 2nd April, 8.00 pm

Launch of Re:versing The Damage - Notes From The Climate Journey

Festival Room 1, Christ Church. £7.50

This event will launch and showcase Oxfordshire poets featured in the new publication ‘Re:versing the damage'. Join us for a journey to engage in a refreshing and new way with climate change and our responses to it. Brought to you by Oxfordshire ClimateXchange http://www.climatex.org/   and Hammer and Tongue  http://www.hammerandtongue.co.uk/

Bookings: Call 0870 343 1001 / Oxford Playhouse, or see www.sundaytimes-oxfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/howtobook.htm for further booking details.

 

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Oxford Literary Festival Events - two for one offer on the events listed below at Christ Church, Oxford

LAST MINUTE SPECIAL OFFERS - TWO FOR ONE EVENTS - subject to availability for the adult and family events listed below only

Further details from http://www.sundaytimes-oxfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/  Offers to be booked only by telephoning 0870 343 1001  quoting "2for1 Special Offer". 

WEDNESDAY 2 APRIL

Event 12 - Sue Clifford - The Apple Source Book - £7

Event 245 - Val Bourne - The Natural Gardener - £7

FRIDAY 4 APRIL

Event 223 - Colin Tudge & Roger Lovegrove -  Feeding People is Easy & The Long Decline of a Nation's Wildlife £7.50

SUNDAY 6 APRIL

Event 164 - Dave & Andy Hamilton - The Self-sufficientish Bible  £7

Event 185 - Sarah Holden - Oceans in Crisis  - £7.50

 

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Thursday 3rd April Green DrinksFrom 6.30pm **please note change of venue**Kings Arms Pub, 40 Holywell Street, opposite Sheldonian Theatre.

**Thursday 3rd April The Youngest Arctic Explorer? 7pm, Kings Arm Pub.

Katie Walter will give a short 10minute summary of her coming expedition.  She is aiming to walk ‘The Last Degree' of the North Pole and at 16 she would be one of the youngest to achieve this. http://www.northpole2009.co.uk/pages/1/students-to-the-top-of-the-world

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Thursday, 10 April 2008, 4.30pm

Public lecture: The Bottom of the Barrel. Are oil supplies about to peak? If so, what are the implications? Lecture by George Monbiot (visiting professor)
Venue: Lloyd Lecture Theatre, Gypsy Lane Campus, Headington
Hosted by: Dept. of Planning (Oxford Brookes University)
Free - all welcome! Refreshments afterwards

 

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Thurs April 17^th  Oxon Ideal Green Home Show -

6-9pm Oxford Town Hall

follow up those eco-renovation New Years resolutions....

• Find the advice, products and installers to transform your home: 6-9pm
• Learn from people who have eco-renovated their homes. Presentations from 6.15 - 7pm and 8.15 - 9pm
• Link with others who want to take the next step with eco-renovation. Meet people in your area interested in eco-renovating their homes, share experiences and info: 7-8pm

 

Organised by COIN (www.coinet.org.uk) and ClimateXChange (http://www.climatex.org/)  £2 suggested donation on the door

Further info: http://www.ecovation.org.uk/ or call 01865 727 911

 

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Sundays April 13^th and 20^th Clowning and Climate Change - Personal responses to climate change through clowning.  

10.30am - 5pm, St Michaels Church Hall, Lonsdale Rd, Summertown (opp. Radio Oxford).

 

Led by Jonny Hoskins, local actor/director and theatre teacher.  Jonny has been teaching Clown at the Oxford School of Drama since 2004.  This is an exploration and expression of oneself through the medium of clown, taking a journey into the light-hearted and ridiculous sides of life.

Cost:  One Day  £25    Two Days  £45  (some 50% concessions available).

Places are limited, so please book in advance, and a.s.a.p. 

Further info/bookings/ enquiries for clown workshops call

Jonny 07703 368251 / 01993 810729

Red nose provided

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23rd April  LOW-CARBON HEADINGTON LAUNCH
7.30 p.m. on 23rd April, Headington Baptist Church, Old High Street

Speakers: Mark Lynas, activist, journalist and author who will speak and show film excerpts about how climate change will affect Oxford in the near future and Vicky Harris, from Low-Carbon Wolvercote who will talk about what they have achieved to date. Headington residents will have a chance to talk with their neighbours and contribute ideas towards lowering Headington's carbon footprint. Tea and coffee will be provided.

 

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Wednesday 23rd April, 7pm Gardening with global warming in mind

with Asher Minns,  Communications Manager at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. Come and find out:

 

• What are the impacts of climate change on gardens and allotments?
• How can allotment holders and gardeners cope with extreme and unpredictable weather?
• What will the garden of the future look like?

at Yarnton Nurseries Garden Centre Sandy Lane, Yarnton, KIDLINGTON, OX5 1PA  For further info call Eco-St: 01865 375 314

 

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