• What hope for cooks and forests dying in Africa?

    Digital , United Kingdom

    This will be a meeting held via Zoom.  Bill Powell  was to have spoken at our April meeting about the need for cleaner and more efficient cooking methods using farm and forestry waste in Uganda, including demonstrating a stove that he had seen used; but unfortunately the meeting couldn't go ahead because of the pandemic. 

  • Extinction Rebellion Conversation Evening

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    2G3S Conversation Evenings: Climate Change   Extinction Rebellion We are delighted to welcome Jenny and Derek Langley from Cambridge XR who will give their personal insight into what XR is all about, followed by a chance to ask questions 8 pm Monday 26 October 2020 A Zoom meeting: contact greengroupssss@gmail.com with the heading ‘XR talk’

  • Sustainable Dietary Choices Conversation Evening

    Digital , United Kingdom

      CONVERSATION EVENING: SUSTAINABLE DIETARY CHOICES Duncan Catchpole, founder of The Cambridge Organic Food Company and committee member of Cambridge Sustainable Food, will talk and answer questions about how the food system is contributing to climate change, and how we can make good dietary choices from an environmental perspective. He will also update us on

  • Local Planning

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    Why is the Local Plan so important to everyone in the District?  How can we influence its development and direction? A talk via zoom by Brian Milnes, District Councillor for Sawston and Lead Cabinet Member for Environmental Services and Licensing, followed by a Q and A session. A shortened regular 2G3S planning  meeting will follow

  • The Cambridge Nature Network

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      The Cambridge Nature Network Thursday 11 March 8  pm by Zoom* James Littlewood, CEO of Cambridge Past, Present and Future To reverse the local decline in biodiversity, our nature sites need to be better, bigger and more connected.  One way to achieve this is through a local nature recovery network and one is being proposed

  • How to pay for better bus services?

    Digital , United Kingdom

    A talk by Zoom (free) Edward Leigh from Smarter Cambridge Transport   Few people would disagree that we need better rural bus services. Franchising (re-regulation), which would make it easier to provide an integrated, consistent service, is now an option in Cambridgeshire.  But to expand service provision significantly will require additional money.  So, the key

  • Why all is not well with the River Cam

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      (photo by Felix Stigter) Thursday 8 July: 8 – 9.30 pm Zoom meeting (free) Talk by Stephen Tomkins of Cam Valley Forum   Cambridgeshire has nationally important chalk streams.

  • CamLETS 7 February 2022

    Cox's Close Community Centre Cox's Close, Stapleford, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Conversation Evening: CamLETS Monday 7 February 2022, 8.00 pm     Peter Pope from CamLETS will talk to us about Local Exchange Trading Schemes (LETS) which are a way for a local community to trade skills, services or goods without using money.  Cambridge has had a thriving scheme (CamLETS) since 1993.  People from all over