News
Monday, February 1st, 2010
Now that we don’t have Terry’s shop on Lower Redland Road you might like to try a regular home delivery of local seasonal organic veg. We’d recommend The Community Farm, which is a farm in Chew Magna that Sustainable Redland has a link with. It will be launching as a not-for profit ‘community supported agriculture’ venture later in the year, and in the meantime there is a box scheme through the Better Food Company. Delivery in Redland is Thursday’s before 8am. You can order online or you can telephone 0117 9351725
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Friday, January 29th, 2010
The site of the proposed third runway at Heathrow now has 65,000 people who own tiny ‘airplots’ on the land. A competition has been launched for the best design for some kind of eco-fortress to protect the plot should this become necessary.
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Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
Many of us are regular and longstanding customers of the Lower Redland Road ‘Redland Fruitery’ which is a family-run greengrocery that has served Redland for some 45 years. Sadly for us, Terry is retiring and the shop ceases trading on 27 January. We will all miss the shop enormously. Not only is it a shop where you can buy local and organic fruit and veg with zero packaging, it is also a place of conversation and friendship, like going into someones front room rather than facing them across a counter. Maybe a greengrocer will be re-established once the reburbishment is done – who knows. In the meantime, there is Earthbound on Abbotsford Road (just off Cotham Hill near the Launderette) which does local organic, there is a fruit and veg stall in Woollies market, and there is the fortnightly farmers market. Also, susred is part of a new venture called The Community Farm. So if you want to support local seasonal production then you might like to consider a regular veg box from The Community Farm – delivery is early on Thursday mornings to your house. The booking is currently via The Better Food Company – either online (its quite easy) or you can phone and speak to a human being.
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
In some carefully worded and lengthy documents issued on 8 December 2009, the Committee on Climate Change, chaired by Lord Turner, is basically saying that we can’t meet our carbon reduction targets AND let air travel carry on growing. This challenges the official government line, still enshrined in the aviation White Paper, which basically took a predict and provide approach. North Somerset Council needs to take note, because they are having to decide on whether to give planning approval to the Bristol Airport Expansion Plans.
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
The sustainability stuff that Bristol Uni students are doing is going from strength to strength. Check out the BUST website – and their 4 minute film clip about the Wave. Fifty-three students cycled to London for the Wave demo in December, and fifteen went to Copnhagen. With no international agreement we’re going to need all this local activism to try and get Bristol Sorted with or withour world leaders.
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Monday, December 14th, 2009
Great article about a study from New Economics Foundation – what is the real value to society from different types of work.
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Sunday, December 13th, 2009
Marcus has this blog packed with pictures that give you a flavour of the Copenhagen activities. Marcus works at UWE and NHS Bristol/Bristol City Council, and has cycled to Copenhagen.
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Sunday, December 13th, 2009
Heres a short interview with Franny Armstrong, director of Age of Stupid, asking Ed Milliband some questions at Copenhagen. Note here 10:10 logo on her necklace – NHS Bristol were in the founding 10 signatories for this campaign, and Bristol City Council joined not long after.
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Sunday, December 6th, 2009
There are fantastic Christmas presents to be found at the Whiteladies Farmers Market. Home-made christmas puddings, exotically decorated gift cakes, special gift-packs of chilli sauces (from Upton grown chillies), award winning cheeses, olive oil and herbs, and much more. There will also be carol singing at the Christmas market, on Saturday 19 December. See you there!
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Friday, December 4th, 2009
Great article here about Todmorden – can Bristol do the same at City-level?
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