Ecojam Bristol: Discussions
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Refurbishment Research
2010-09-09T09:02:27Z
Have you carried out any refurbishment on your house over the last 5 years? For my Masters thesis, I am looking at how you predict the energy savings that will be made through refurbishment. For this I need a number of case study houses that have undergone refurbishment and I would like to hear from anyone who would be willing to get involved. This will involve a short assessment of your house, recording meter readings, and a short interview/questionnaire. The only pre-requisite to taking part is that I need historical energy data over at least one winter (e.g. Oct - Dec or similar) before the refurbishment was carried out (either in the form of energy bills (from actual readings, not predicted) or meter readings). Please contact me if you are interested on steph.wetherell@gmail.com, and I will let you know more information about what is involved.Wanted: Street/pavement artist
2010-08-31T13:56:14Z
Does anyone know a pavement artist who may be able to do some work with Oxfam in Bristol on an up-coming climate campaign? Please email fremnant@oxfam.org.uk Thanks!Still available: Barn/office to rent
2010-08-18T08:23:52Z
Alastair Sawday has a small, newly converted, barn for rent as offices at the Old Farmyard near Long Ashton. Room for 6 - 10 people, lovely views, next door to ALASTAIR SAWDAY PUBLISHING. Looking for tenants who are likely to bike. Rent about £15 per sq ft. Contact: Annie@sawdays.co.uk .Re: External wall insulation
2010-08-12T12:06:07Z
Dear Hilary Have a look at the Green Register for possible contractors. www.greenregister.org.uk/ You may also like to visit some homes in the Green Doors programme in September - see link on right hand menu. www.bristolgreendoors.org Regards Alex MinshullRe: External wall insulation
2010-08-12T11:36:02Z
Footprint Builders in Clifton have done external and internal solid wall insultation jobs locally, including currently a cottage in Thornbury locally as part of Refit West ( www.refitwest.com ). There is also a firm doing some solid wall work in Bath with CSE ( www.cse.org.uk ) who might be able to help too. Two good places to start, plus maybe other homeoweners in next month's Bristol Green Doors weekend who have done similar works and could offer advice? Paul R - Forum for the Future.External wall insulation
2010-08-07T11:05:33Z
I need to rerender a north east facing external wall and think that it would make sense to insulate it externally at the same time. I have heard that you can do this quite easily if you are doing the render anyway but that it is not that common in Britain, and most of the builders I have asked have not actually done it themselves. Does anyone have any experience of this, of whether it is worth doing, what products work best, know builders who have experience of the process, etc? Thank you, HilaryWelcome to our new newsletter subscribers
2010-08-04T20:48:12Z
Thank you to everyone who came to see us at the Harbour Festival. We had a great time and spoke to lots of people who signed up for our newsletter. For those of you new to Ecojam, this discussion board can be used to raise the issues that you want to talk about. If you have a question, dilemma, comment or suggestion. this space can be used to share your thoughts. Congratulations to Rachel Ginham who won the eco goody bag. Enjoy!Cardiff University Climate Change Survey
2010-07-16T15:19:00Z
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} I am a postgraduate student in the School of Psychology, Cardiff University. As part of my degree I am carrying out a study on attitudes to climate change, looking particularly at the views of people who are taking action on this issue. I am contacting you to ask if you would be interested in completing a short online survey. The project, entitled ‘Understanding public attitudes to climate change problems and solutions’ aims to explore the patterns of attitudes and values which are present in individuals who are taking action on climate change. This project is being supervised by Professor Nick Pidgeon, who is a Professor in School of Psychology and has been approved by the Ethics Committee of the School of Psychology, Cardiff University. As part of the study I have prepared a short questionnaire which assesses general values, beliefs about climate change and what kind of behaviours individuals are currently, or would like to engage in to combat climate change. As I am particularly interested in finding out the views of individuals who are actively involved in climate change related behaviours I am inviting individuals who are members of mailing lists such as you to take part. The survey will be carried out entirely anonymously through this website https://www.surveys.cardiff.ac.uk/climatesurvey , and should take approximately 15 minutes to complete. All data will be stored and used anonymously and securely. If you are interested in completing the survey please follow this link https://www.surveys.cardiff.ac.uk/climatesurvey . Also if you can think of anyone else who is actively involved in climate change action and might be willing to complete this survey it would be much appreciated if you could pass on this email for their consideration. If you have any further questions please feel free to contact myself, or my supervisor, using the contact details below. Ms Lucy Green School of Psychology, Cardiff University 51a Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT 029 208 70837 GreenLM2@cardiff.ac.uk Professor Nick Pidgeon School of Psychology, Cardiff University Tower Building Park Place CF10 3AT 029 208 74567 PidgeonN@Cardiff.ac.ukAre you looking for a barn/office to rent?
2010-07-16T10:52:17Z
Alastair Sawday has a small, newly converted, barn for rent as offices at the Old Farmyard near Long Ashton. Room for 6 - 10 people, lovely views, next door to ALASTAIR SAWDAY PUBLISHING. Looking for tenants who are likely to bike. Rent about £15 per sq ft. Contact: Annie@sawdays.co.uk .Festivals
2010-07-14T14:33:15Z
Which Bristol festivals do you know about? 'Bristol - A City Guide to Good Living' would love to put the festivals you enjoy in this guide to good living that is being published in November 2010 by Alastair Sawday Publishing. This book will detail all the amazing things that happen across Bristol communities. If there are festivals that you think everyone should know about email them to us at bristolgoodliving@gmail.com For more information about this book visit www.bristolgoodliving.org.ukJob vacancy
2010-06-17T10:50:04Z
This job is on Ecojam already, but if you'd like to work as a Senior Administrator in an ethically driven organisation, have a look at http://www.betterfood.co.uk/contact2.html for details. We're seeing it as a really key role at a very exciting time for us - spread the word to anyone you know who might be interested.Re: Big Café 2007
2010-06-17T08:06:33Z
Hi Steve, Yes these Cafe's forged the way to help create Bristol's sustainability charter, Bristol's Green Capital Initiative and some of Bristol City Council's commitment to becoming Britain's Green Capital. http://www.bristolgreencapital.org/ http://www.bristolgreencapital.org/about Vala Ragnarsdottir will be back this month (who led the original cafes) to help with the Zero Carbon Bristol event at the Watershed on Tuesday 29th June http://www.zerocarbonbristol.net/ Cheers EmilyBig Café 2007
2010-06-10T15:25:06Z
Hi, Some time ago there was a lot of energy put into the Big Café projects, up to 2007. There was much excitement about what could be achieved. Did any actions result from these meetings? The discussions seemed very positive at the time. http://groups.google.co.uk/group/brsn/browse_thread/thread/56326f36f4fdfbb1#Reminder: Saving Species Tickets Still Available
2010-05-12T20:28:56Z
Ecojam exclusive: Tickets to a one-off live edition of the BBC Natural History Unit and BBC Radio 4’s landmark series “Saving Species". For further information see last week's Festival of Nature news feature .Get involved with the CONVERGE project :)
2010-05-04T16:11:54Z
It involves 2 Bristol Dons: The University of Bristol and The Schumacher Institute and of course we'd like it to invovle YOU too. So please take a look at the website and see how you could contribute to the CONVERGE project. http://www.convergeproject.org/node/53 I'm keen to know what you think of this whole open researching idea, so comments / discussion invited!!! All the best Alice
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