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Sat, 11 September 10
| Food Preservation Event
Do you grow fruit and veg? Do you have gluts of crops? Do you want to know more about saving food to eat over winter? If yes, then this event is for you. It will look at both outdoor and indoor methods of preserving food crops. Clamping roots, plaiting onions, storing apples & pickling are a few of the things being covered with recipes and advice available for jams, chutneys and other indoor methods. The day will run in two parts, with indoor methods of preservation in the morning, in Llanidloes Community Centre, and outdoor methods in the afternoon, at Dol-Llys Allotments. A small charge will apply. Room for 30 participants, so contact LLES by email or 'phone 01686 411 131 to reserve a place. |
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Fri, 8 October 10
| Your Money or Your Life – How to survive the financial crisis.
We’re all aware of the financial trouble this country is in, but what is really happening? What is likely to happen – will our banks collapse, are our jobs and pensions safe, will the housing market collapse? This event is a one-day conference looking at the current situation and how we can address it and prepare our communities to survive the cuts. Leading economists Molly Scott-Cato (economist speaker for the Green Party) and Mary Mellor (author of The Future of Money) will be there, and watch this space for more details.
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Sat, 9 October 10
| Llanidloes Green Fair
It’s back again, the wonderful Llanidloes Green Fair, with inspiring speakers and workshops, trade stands, food, children’s activities, art and film. Full programme being developed and will be available shortly.
Venue: Llanidloes Community Centre |
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Sat, 3 April 10
| Llanidloes Market.
The April theme for the LLES 10:10 Campaign is ‘Eat Better’. Local, in-season food produces the least carbon emissions, and the less processed the better.
LLES are holding a market stall on Easter Saturday, 3rd April in Llanidloes Market to promote this theme, so come along if you can. We'll also be inviting ideas for saving carbon emissions through eating better, and the best idea will win £40.00 voucher from Llanidloes Building Supplies. There will be lots of information on the 10:10 campaign and saving energy generally, and the opportunity to sign up to borrow a Smart Meter to show electricity use in the home.
The Mid Wales Food and Land Trust (MWF<) are teaming up with LLES to promote local food on the stall. Come and taste a soup made with locally grown vegetables and compare it with a well known supermarket brand. Find out why buying local food can be better for your health, your purse, your community and the planet.
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Tue, 16 March 10
| The Bailey Room, Llanidloes Community Centre.
Public Meeting, all welcome.
‘Green’ Gas in Llanidloes - A talk by David Williams, Technical Manager, Potters Waste Management.
Making biogas from kitchen waste and feeding it into the gas main — groundbreaking new technology!
An exciting new project for Llanidloes, based at Bryn Posteg Landfill Site, to generate biogas for transport fuel, household use (heating and cooking) or to generate electricity. |  |
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Wed, 17 June 09
7.30pm | The Age of Stupid is the new film from Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel) and producer John Battsek (One Day In September). Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: “why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?”. He labels our reckless, self annihilating decades of consumerism and greed "The Age of Stupid".
This film moves on from the scientific explanations and graphs used in “The Inconvenient Truth” to focus on the lives of 7 real people around the world who provide the causes, effects and preventions of climate change.
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Sat, 28 February 09
Saturday & Sunday | Open House Day
Another chance to see houses locally of all ages and types where super insulation and renewable energy systems have been installed.
Learn from the home owners themselves about insulation, wood fuel boilers, solar heating, wind energy, water power and much more.
Find practical and inspiring ideas on how to make your own home warmer, brighter, healthier, cheaper to run and ready for the climate change century. |  |
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Fri, 6 February 09
| Visit to Rhayader to see a demonstration of the successful Lightfoot system used to coordinate household energy surveys. Please contact Andrew on 01686 412961 if you are interested in going. |
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Thu, 5 February 09
7.30 | A talk by George Monbiot ' Is there a conflict between local food and global justice?'
Thursday 5th February 2009
7.30pm at St. Idloes Church Hall , Llanidloes
Tickets £4.00 (£2.00 concessions, under 21s free)
Please ring 01686 412961 if the weather is bad. |
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Sat, 11 October 08
Saturday & Sunday | Llanidloes Green Fair over the whole weekend, focusing on Sustainable Lifestyles. Trade stands and demonstrations, talks from nationally known speakers,local food and cooking demonstrations, street market for local produce, children's activites, music, art and much more. |
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Sun, 25 May 08
2pm to 5pm | Open House Day
A chance to see houses locally of all ages and types where super insulation and renewable energy systems have been installed.
Learn from the home owners themselves about insulation, wood fuel boilers, solar heating, wind energy, water power and much more.
Find practical and inspiring ideas on how to make your own home warmer, brighter, healthier, cheaper to run and ready for the climate change century. |  |
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Fri, 25 April 08
7.30pm | CARBON DETOX- THE SHOW
Minerva Arts Centre
Great Oak Street
Llanidloes
Entrance: £3 or £2 concession.
George Marshall presents a fast moving, highly entertaining one man show based on his acclaimed book, Carbon Detox.
He will challenge your assumptions and help you to find fresh ways to deal with climate change..
....and not a graph in sight!
Carbon Detox argues that we must stop thinking about ‘saving the planet’ and ‘giving things up’. Instead let’s adopt a light-carbon lifestyle because it is the only smart, fun, healthy and modern way to live in the 21st century.
George Marshall is one of the most entertaining and inspirational environmental public speakers in Britain. He is founder of the charity the Climate Outreach and Information Network www.coinet.org.uk and appears regularly in newspapers and on television and radio . He has 20 years’ experience in environmental research and campaigning and lives in Llanidloes.
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Sat, 20 October 07
Saturday & Sunday | Llanidloes Green Fair over the whole weekend, focusing on Sustainable Lifestyles. Trade stands and demonstrations, talks from nationally known speakers,local food and cooking demonstrations, street market for local produce, children's activites, music, art and much more. |  |
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Mon, 12 March 07
7.30 pm | Climate change and the Worlds Poor
Benedict Southgate from the World Development Movement talked about the work of the WDM and its relation to the effects of climate change on developing countries. |
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Wed, 17 January 07
8.30 pm | Llanidloes Energy Solutions (LLES) held a meeting at the Minerva Centre on Wednesday 17th January where they viewed a DVD fom Greenpeace on local power generation. LLES aims to produce energy locally in Llanidloes. An interesting discussion followed on the topic.
Those crumbling dinosaurs, fossil fuel fired power stations which are our main source of energy, were built around half a century ago and contribute a major part of the UK's CO2 output.
Fed into the national grid, 32% of the power they generate gets wasted before it even reaches the homes and factories which use it, and an equally valuable product - heat - is not used at all, but is released by giant cooling towers into the atmosphere and into our rivers. |
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