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Events (all events are free unless otherwise stated)

Saturday 6 Feb 2010: Training Course: Climate Change Condensed

9:30am - 12:30pm in Kidlington, Oxfordshire. Individuals £10. Charities and Local Authorities £24. Businesses £35.
In partnership with Kidlington vs Climate Change. Booking enquiries to kidlingtonvsclimatechange@yahoo.co.uk or call Steve on 01865 379913.


Saturday 27 March 2010, 8.30pm: Earth Hour in Oxford

Councils, individuals and organisations turn off their lights between 8-9pm to raise awareness of climate change. See www.earthhour.org

 

March-November 2010: Permaculture Course

Barracks Lane Community Garden.

Visit www.oxfordpermaculture.org for details .

 

Saturday 12 - Sunday 20 June 2010: Oxford Bike Week

Oxford is joining towns, villages and cities across the UK to host cycling events with the theme of ‘Get more out of life; live local, get cycling,’ during Bike Week. See www.bikeweek.org.uk


Thurs 19 - Sun 12 Sept 2010: Oxfordshire Eco-Buildings Open Days

To empower and inspire members of the public to make environmental changes to their own homes through seeing what practical steps other people have taken in their homes.

 

Sat 18 - Sun 19 Sept 2010: Car Free Day / Oxford Open Streets

Car Free Day is held each year to celebrate our streets as valuable spaces for everyone to enjoy, especially pedestrians, cyclists and bus passengers.

 

Mon 19- Sun 25 October 2010: Energy Saving Week

If you would like more information on how to save energy in the home then call our Energy Saving Trust advice centre on 0800 512 012.

 

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Past Events

Saturday 16 June: Festival of Cycling & National Bike Week

Saturday 16 June: COIN Speaker Training (£35)

Tuesday 26 June: Local Policy Action Group ‘Match-making’ Event

Saturday 7 & Sunday 8 July: Wantage 'Rock in the Park'

Saturday 14 July: Orinoco Scrapstore Swapshop

Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 July: Children's Food Festival, Northmoor Trust

Monday 16 July: . Eco/Co-Housing Meeting

Thursday 21 July: West Oxford Fun Day

Monday 23 - Wednesday 25th July:  Residential Course "Changing the World. Climate Change: the most urgent issue of our time."

Saturday 11 August: Orinoco Scrapstore Swapshop

Friday 17 August: Deadline for Sustainable Buildings Award Applications

Wednesday 22 & Thursday 23 August: Bike Maintenance Sessions

Thursday 23 August, 8pm: Introduction to Permaculture Lecture

Saturday 8 September: Orinoco Scrapstore Swapshop

Saturday 22 September: "Streets for People" Day

Friday 28 Sept, 8pm: "An Inconvenient Truth" film showing

Saturday 29 Sept, 10:30am- 3:30pm: 'Living Green Exhibition'

Tuesday 2 October, 7pm: 'Climate Change, Food and Agriculture'

Friday 5 October, 12-2pm: The 38% House Open Day

Monday 8 October, 7pm: Screening of 'The Power of Community – How Cuba Survived Peak Oil’

Wednesday 10 October, 5pm: Climate Change Condensed

Saturday 13 October: Orinoco Scrapstore Swapshop

Sunday 14 October, 2007, 2-4pm: 'Living Lightly' LOAF Fayre

Monday 15 October, 7pm: Screening 'Art from a Changing Climate'

Tuesday 16 October, 7pm: 'UK and Domestic Energy Transformations'

Wednesday 24 October, 7pm: "An Inconvenient Truth" Screening

Wednesday 24 October, 7pm: 'Carbon Detox' Book Launch

Wednesday 31 October, 9am - 1:30pm: A changing climate: business opportunity or economic nightmare?

Sunday 4 November, 10am: Climate change workshop for artists / writers

Wednesday 7 November, 7pm: 'Climate Change - a global injustice' talk by George Monbiot

Saturday 10 November: Orinoco Scrapstore Swapshop

Monday 12 November, 7pm: 'Is there a green movement in Britain today?' talk by Ann Pettifor

Monday 20 November, 7pm: "Who owns the sky?" talk by Peter Barnes

Wednesday 21 November : ‘Making It Happen’ Training Oxford

Thursday 22 November, 7pm: 'Growing local in a changing climate: impacts and adaptations on allotments'

Thurs 29 November, 7pm: ‘Planning for Life After Oil - the Transition
Concept’

Wednesday 5 December, 7pm: Climate change creative writing workshop

Saturday 8 December: Orinoco Scrapstore Swapshop

Saturday 8 December: National Climate March and Global Action Day

Saturday 23 Feb: Oxford Climate Science Fair

Saturday 28 Feb: Cutteslowe School Tree Planting Event

Saturday 8 March: Friends of Cutteslowe Park & Transition Oxford Tree Planting Event

Monday 17 March: Transition Oxford Visioning Event

Saturday 29 March: Caring For Creation: Justice Peace & Sustainability

Saturday 29 March: Fox FM's LIGHTS OUT! & Earth Hour

Sun 30 March- Sat 5th April: 'I Count' Climate Change Bill Week of Action

Tuesday 1 April: TEMPESTUOUS TIMES Truth in the mouth of a Fool - A Writing Workshop

Wednesday 2nd April: Launch of Re:versing The Damage - Notes From The Climate Journey

Thursday 17 April: Oxon Ideal Green Home Show

Tuesday 22 April: The 39th Earth Day ' A Call for Climate'

Wednesday 23 April: Low-Carbon Headington Launch

Saturday 26th April: NCT Nearly New Sale

Monday, April 28 The Cork in the Bottle: The Changing Climate of U.S. Politics

Wednesday 30 April: Transition Oxford Gathering

Saturday 10 May: Operation Noah General Meeting

Monday 12 May: University of the Third Age talk: 'Climate Change - Does it Matter'

Wednesday 14 May: Wolfson Film Society & Transition Oxford present: The End of Suburbia

Monday 19 May: “Reasons for Hope”, lecture by Dr. Jane Goodall

Tuesday 20 May: Flood Planning for Beginners! - A workshop on flood planning for householders or business owners .

Wednesday 21 May: Wolfson Film Society & Transition Oxford present: The Power of Community

Thursday 22 May: Renewables in the UK: Why we are so far behind the rest of the EU?

Monday 26 May: Lord Mayor's Parade & Picnic

Wednesday 4 June: Deadline for the 'Design a Meal' Competition

Thursday 5 June: World Environment Day: 'Kick the Habit!'

Monday 9th June: National liftshare Day (NLSD)

Mon 16 – Sun 22 June: National Bike Week. FREE bike rides – all welcome

Thursday 19 June: ECHO (Energy Conservation for Homes in Oxford) Training

Fri 20th June: Critical Mass Bike Ride and Film: 'Cyclovía in Bogotá'

Sat 21st June: Ecobikes, Ecowalks, Ecofarms, Ecobutties, Ecowind and Ecoworld

Sat 21st June: Oxfordshire Goes Wild!

Weds 25th June: Transition Oxford Gathering.

Tuesday 24 June: "Design a Meal" Finals

Tues 22nd July: Sneak Preview Screening of 'The Age of Stupid'

Thurs 11- Sun 14 Sept: Oxfordshire Eco-Homes Open Days

Thurs 18 Sept: Blackwells Climate Change Debate

Wed 1 Oct: Peak Oil, Oil Price Expectations and Climate Change

Sat 4 October: Nearly New Children's Clothes, Toys and Equipment Sale

Wed 15 October 2008: Community Development & Climate Change Meeting

Tues 14 October: The Psychology of Inspired Action

Sat 18 October: Decide how you are going to provide energy for a 2026 South Oxfordshire community.

Wed 22 October: Tackling climate change through technology

Wed 29 October: A Global Solution for the Climate Change Crisis?

Thurs 6 November: 'Earth from the Air - the long view on sustainability' Creative writing workshop

Wed 12 November: 'A Future Without Fossil Fuels'

Tues 18 November: Heart & Hand

Sept– Dec 2008: Planet Earth Season, Oxfordshire

Saturday 28 Feb: Renewable Energy Exhibition, Oxford Town Hall

On-going: The Earth from the Air Exhibition

Wednesday 25 Mar, 7.30 - 9.30pm: Utopia or apocalypse - What does the future hold?

Wednesday 25 & Thursday 26 Mar: Age of Stupid

Saturday 28 March 2009, 8.30pm: Earth Hour in Oxford

Saturday and Sunday 28/29 Mar , 14.00 to 17.30, What does the future hold?

Friday 17 April: Community Website Testing in Harwell

Thursday 23rd Apr (1-4 and 6-8pm): Transition Oxford Transport Event

Friday 8 May - Sunday 10 May: Greenshoots Weekend

Friday 15 - Sunday 17 May: The 2nd WOOD festival

Friday 5 June, 7.30pm: Age of Stupid Screening

Friday 12 June: Oxford Energy Futures- A Day of Talks and Discussions on Cutting Edge Energy Topics

Saturday 13 - Sunday 21 June: Oxford Bike Week

Wednesday 17 June, 8:30am: Active Oxford Breakfasts

Wednesday 17 June, 12:00-2:00pm: Fitter Travel Fair

Monday 15 June, 6pm,: GO Active Adults Social Cycle

Saturday 20 June, 11am: GO Active Family Social Cycle

Saturday 13 June: North Leigh & Kidlington Vs Climate Change Sustainability events

Fri 14 - Sun 16 Aug 2009: The Ark Not Stupid Family Camp at Braziers Park

Sat 1 Aug 2009: COIN & SEED-Group Kitchens Workshop

Thurs 10 - Sun 13 Sept 2009: Oxfordshire Eco-Buildings Open Days

Sat 12 Sept 2009 – Climate Rush event near Oxford

Sat 12 Sept 2009: 'Big If' Campaign Card Signing

Sat 19 - Sun 20 Sept 2009: Car Free Day / Oxford Open Streets

Tues 22 Sept 2009: Streets for People, Headington

Wed 23 Sept 2009: Low Carbon West Oxford Share Offer Launch

Tues 29 Sept 2009: Screening of ‘A Time Comes’

Tues 29 Sept 2009: Profit From Carbon Footprinting & Sustainable Design

Wed 30 Sept 2009: The Age of Stupid (Film, 12A)

Sat 17 Oct 2009: Thriving Sustainably Day

Saturday 17 October: Climate Change Day of Action

Saturday 24 October: CLIMATE CHANGE RALLY

Mon 19- Sun 25 October 2009: Energy Saving Week

Wed 21 Oct 2009: Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air - David McKay (Talk)

Sat 24 Oct 2009: 350 international day of climate action event

Friday 30 October 2009: Construction Breakfast: The Future's Green

Friday 6 November: Community-Owned Farming - Illustrated talk with the book “The Fight for Fordhall Farm” & shares for sale

Sunday 8 Nov 2009: THERE'S A COMMUNITY FOREST THAT NEEDS YOUR HELP!

Wed 11 November 2009: Green Breakfast: WRAP: what we are, what we do and why

Wed 25 November 2009: Green Breakfast: The Carbon Reduction Commitment: what you need to know

Sat 5 Dec 2009: Come Together to Stop Climate Chaos, London,


Wednesday 9 December 2009: Green Breakfast: The state of the environment Presentation, The Environment Agency  


Wednesday 16 December 2009: Green Breakfast: Green leadership panel

Fri 29 Jan (4-7pm) & Sat 30 Jan (10am-4pm) 2010: Oxfordshire Ideal Green Home Show

 

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Oxford City CouncilThe Midcounties Co-operative