Forthcoming events Past events 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Mon, 31 December 01 Thu, 30 March 00 Thu, 1 January 70 Thu, 1 January 70