I hope this finds you well - here's an update for you all, plus some upcoming events. There's loads going on, but we'd like your help to get even more happening, and to reach out to a wider community. Below are some ideas, but we'd like to know what you'd like to do - so please get in contact.

Exploration budget!

We've got up to £100 each budgeted for explorers to help them get active locally. Some explorers have used this for publicity, some for putting towards cost screening an Inconvenient Truth, some for costs of an introductory event locally.

Wanted - explorer networkers

As the number of explorers grows, we need some help supporting the existing explorers, sharing ideas, and giving support. Would you like to help us support the explorers? What events would you like to see happening? Maybe an inspirational climate trip? Perhaps you've an idea to get the explorers together?

Thankyou

• Fred for organising the Merton Climate Forum - first event went well, next event coming up
• Wantage Green people for organising packed showing of An Inconvenient Truth
• Vrinda for getting a great climate video made - should be online soon
• Klara for getting out with a video camera to her school friends

Summer Festivals / open days / fetes

Your chance to spread the climate buzz. If you're able to do a stall / take leaflets and info please let me know.. and if it costs to get in , we could always help. In the meantime willing stall keepers are needed for:

Cowley Road carnival - 1^st July - come and be on the stall for an hour or two

• 7^th July Botanic Gardens - with Oxfordshire Rural Community Council
• 7th July Wantage Rock in the Park

Let me know  if you'd like to help out  - we'll give willing participants a suitable reward!

Live Earth  ...and Alive Earth

Coming to a screen and Wembley Stadium near you. Would you like to host a Live Earth party? You could focus on your community, interview people, make a video, or get people talking about what they could do locally. We've got materials, and some funding to help you generate the local live Earth Buzz... let the ideas roll.

http://www.aliveearth.org/

... an alternative concert is already underway, which welcomes all visitors and performers. The online concert is the brainwave of COIN, one of our partner organisations,  to support a wider range of voices on climate change. Visit, check it out and add your own performances!

 

How does your garden grow in the global greenhouse?

Any keen gardeners / allotment holders? Fancy hosting a Climate Change Gardeners Question time event? We've got speakers itching to talk - let me know. We also have some info about climate change and gardens if you're hosting an Open Gardens event - or know neighbours who are.

Upcoming ClimateXplorer events

Mon 25^th June - Screening of ‘The Power of Community' (53 min) Find out how

Described by someone who recently saw it as: ‘fantastic...an insight into the situation in Cuba..with examples  of how to adapt to lack of oil, and the changes they had successfully made to adapt to a very difficult situation. The roof gardens were wonderful, as was the resilience and positive attitude of the Cuban people.'

Light refreshments available. Catch up, tell us what you've been up to and find out what everyone else has been doing. Refreshments available from 6.30pm, film starts at 7pm, and networking from 8 - 8.30pm.

Please let me know in advance if you'd like to come.

Climate Creatives Thurs July 5th   6.30pm, OUCE

Are you an artist, musician or performer? Would you like see your climate visions created in art, sculpture, music? Come along to the Climate Creatives event - meet the ClimateX team, develop your ideas, and meet possible collaborators. We've got some seed funding to take your ideas further.

Please let me know in advance if you'd like to come - and please do forward to creative people you know.