Cardiff Transition Project are holding a TRANSITION CONVERSATION talk
On MONDAY 12TH JANUARY 2009, between 7 - 9pm,
@ DEMPSEYS PUB, on CASTLE STREET (CORNER WOMANBY STREET) CARDIFF.
Entry: £2 on the door (to cover cost of hiring room)
All welcome.
Speaker is… Molly Scott-Cato – Reader in Green Economics and Economics Speaker for the Green Party who will share her thinking about what transition means for the way we organise our economic life, and specifically in relation to trade and money. Followed by an opportunity for questions and a facilitated exercise/discussion
For further information, please contact......
Pontypridd’s plastic bag free day is almost here!
The popular shopping destination could be the first plastic bag free town in Wales if leading environmentalists in the county borough have their way.
Rhondda Cynon Taf Council is supporting Pontypridd Women’s Institute and Friends of the Earth in their campaign to make Pontypridd plastic-bag free with a special awareness day taking place this Friday.
Shopkeepers and market traders throughout the town are being encouraged to stop giving out plastic bags to shoppers in an effort to reduce the quantity sent to landfill. Pontypridd is the first town in Wales to date to launch such an exciting scheme.
Around 13 billion plastic bags are given free to UK shoppers every year. The bags can take between 400-1,000 years to break down, and like...
There are now only a Few Tickets Left for the Cardiff Campaign against Climate Change Bus Trip to London.…
March from the American Embassy to the British Parliament
The Cardiff Campaign against Climate Change Bus is stopping at Cardiff Museum Steps at 8 am, Newport Bus Station at 8.30.
Tickets - £18 waged / £10 unwaged/student. Book your seat now! Or make a donation to pay for someone else to travel up!
Cardiff Campaign against Climate Change
Contact cardiffccc@hotmail.co.uk
Adam Johannes 07940 108......
Cardiff Beekeepers remind members of the following dates for the end of 2008
Tuesday 9th December at 7.30 pm Association Christmas get together with mead and honeycake. Llandaff Village Hall.
Tuesday 10th February at 7.30 pm Association AGM
December Newsletter for Cardiff Beekeepers is now available......
Please find below details of Cardiff Transition Project’s next Speaker Event - taking place this coming Monday.
7 - 9pm, MONDAY 8TH DECEMBER
@ DEMPSEYS PUB
CASTLE STREET (CORNER OF WOMANBY STREET)
CARDIFF
Entry: £2 on the door (to cover cost of hiring room)
Bring an ‘Old Treasure’ for Bring and Show
Whether you’ve inherited something that you hold dear and still provides good use,
are the proud owner of a tattered ‘hand-me-down’ or
have purposefully set out to purchase recycled stuff -
bring it along and share the story about how it makes the world a better place.
This week the speakers are…
Frank O’Connor – Director of the Eco Design Centre Wales who will share the Eco Design Centre experience of working with companies on...
Our sister group Cardiff Green Drinks will be holding a meeting on:
Wednesday 19th November
From 6pm onwards in the upstairs area at The Yard, 42-43 St Mary Street, Cardiff, CF10 1AD.
For further information please contact Alun Watkins Email......
Residents of Hirwaun village near Aberdare are invited to attend a Council Planning Meeting to demonstrate that they want a say in the future of Hirwaun Village.
The Meeting is at 5pm on Thursday 9th October 2008 at Sobells Sports Centre, Aberdare.
At the Planning Meeting R.C.T. Councillors will be deciding on the Gloucesters/Ironworks site planning application which will have a huge effect on the village of Hirwaun.
A company called Piper Homes want to build 130 houses on the Hirwaun Gloucesters and old Ironworks site. This area is much valued and used by the community as an area for recreation and leisure and home to an abundance of wildlife and......
A Public Inquiry will be held by the National Assembly’s Planning Inspectorate into a planning application for a series of wind turbines at Hirwaun.
The application, submitted by Pennant Walters Ltd. is for the erection of nine wind turbines, an anemometer and associated infrastructure and buildings on land south of the A465 in Hirwaun at Hirwaun Common, Mynydd Cefn y Gyngon and Mynydd Bwllfa.
The turbines are 115 metres high and will generate up to 3MW each of renewable (wind generated) energy.
Rhondda Cynon Taf Council has objected to the proposed development on the grounds that it would have an unacceptably detrimental impact on the standards of amenity to occupiers of properties in the vicinity of the application site can reasonably expect to enjoy.
It also objected on the grounds...
Despite having their planning application rejected last year by the Local Council and losing an Appeal via the Welsh Assembly, developers continue in their attempt to over-develop at Hirwaun in Rhondda Cynon Taf.
A new Planning Application is being considered. A Site Meeting on 1st July 2008, see the full story here on Hirwaun......
Talented youngsters from throughout the county borough are taking part in a musical showcase to voice their commitment to recycling and improving the environment.
The second Enviro-Vision Song Quest will take place at the Muni Arts Centre, Pontypridd on Monday July 7th at 7.15pm and include bands from six comprehensive schools within Rhondda Cynon Taf.
Each of the bands will perform a song which has its very own “green theme”, including recycling, dog fouling, flytipping and graffiti. The shortlist of bands to perform in this special showcase has now been drawn up and groups from Y Pant, Hawthorn and Tonyrefail Comprehensive Schools along with Pontypridd High, Tonypandy Community College and Ysgol Gyfun Rhydywaun will take to the stage on the big night.
Each of the entrants will...
Get on track to the Royal Glamorgan Hospital this month for an event that aims to promote different forms of transport.
The partnership day has been organised to promote alternative transport means to residents, patients and staff and to raise awareness of the health benefits of “active travel”.
Taking place from 10am to 3.30pm on April 17 in the Atrium (main entrance) of the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, the day will feature information stands and talks in the lecture theatre.
Partners attending include:
· RCT Local Health Board
· PTI Cymru who will be promoting public transport information systems including Traveline text, online journey planner and bilingual call centre.
· Rhondda Cynon Taf Council promoting walking and cycling in the county.
· Rocky Mountain Cycles, a local firm...
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Green Events
The next Pontypridd Friends of the Earth meeting will be…
On Monday 14th April 7.30pm
At Clwb Y Bont, Pontypridd
Visit the Group’s official website for more......
Cynon Valley Ramblers Open Day will be held at Dare Valley Country Park on Saturday 19th April from 11am to 3pm.
Members of the local walking group will be manning stands providing a wealth of information, with details of walking holidays, programmes of local walks, leaflets on the health benefits of walking, details of local map reading and navigation courses and a programme of social activities.
A display of photographs will include ones showing the practical work carried out by group members in the Dare Valley Country Park, working with park rangers to build stiles and improve footpaths.
At 12.30pm a cheque will be presented by the group the Rhondda Cynon Taf Council Mayor Jane Ward, as a contribution to the costs of materials for their working group’s ongoing programme of footpath...
Rhondda Cynon Taf Council’s are holdindg an Open Day with an ‘eco’ flavour at the Muni in Pontypridd on Friday April 18.
Open from 10am to 2pm, the day will include experts who can provide advice, support and guidance, free samples of products that can save energy, details of grants that can help you think green and speeches from champions of the environmental cause.
Organised by the Council’s new Energy Team, which is working to cut fuel consumption, energy use and the carbon footprint of the authority and its residents, the day will feature:
· Information stands from organisations that are involved in sustainability, who will be offering guides, products and expert advice.
· Opening speech from Jane Davidson AM, the all-Wales environmental lead.
· Councillors and...
The next Pontypridd Friends of the Earth meeting will be…
On Monday 10th March 7.30pm
At Clwb Y Bont, Pontypridd
Visit the Group’s official website for more......
Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council’s Streetcare Team went along to Llanharan Primary School this week to judge an art competition based on their successful recycling initiatives.The older children were asked to design a special poster highlighting the importance of recycling to be printed and displayed in schools throughout the county borough. The younger pupils entered a colouring competition to brighten up an image of the council’s recycling champion mascot Rhys Cycle.
Llanharan Primary School held a Recycling Week to help promote ways of saving the environment in a way which not only educated the children but encouraged them to spread the importance of recycling to their families at home.
The competition marked the climax to a busy week of “green” theme events led by...
Rhondda Cynon Taf Council Mayor Jane Ward meets Rhys Cycle, the Council’s Recycling Champion at the Santa Parade in Aberdare.
It was difficult to move in Aberdare for the Santa Parade 2007 as people came from afar to see the reindeer parade, Scooby Doo and of course Santa.
Mayor Jane Ward was carried through Aberdare Town with Santa on a special carriage, and switched on the Christmas Lights at a brief ceremony below St Elvan’s Church,......
The countdown is underway for the chance of a share of £50million to improve cycling and walking routes in Treforest and Pontypridd.
Supporters will have the opportunity to vote via a website from Monday November 26th and on Friday December 7th a special telephone hotline will be available to the public.
The scheme has been included in the 79 community projects submitted from around the UK that make up sustainable transport charity Sustrans Connect2 bid for lottery funding, which has now reached the final four in a shortlist of applicants.
Connect2 is competing for a single £50million pound grant from the Big Lottery Fund’s Living Landmarks: The People’s £50 Million Lottery Giveaway. The winner will be decided by a public vote, live on ITV1, in December.
To raise the profile of the...
The next meeting of Friends of the Earth in Rhondda Cynon Taff takes places on Monday 12th November 2007, 7.30pm at Clwb Y Bont 85A Taff Street Pontypridd
Friends of the Earth in Rhondda Cynon Taff is an active group.
Membership costs only £3 per annum.
New members welcome.
Contact Bleddyn Lake for further enquiries email bleddyn.lake@foe.co.uk
Bleddyn Lake
Local Groups Development Officer Cymru
Friends of the Earth Cymru
33 Castle Arcade Balcony
Cardiff
Wales
CF10 1BY
Tel 029 2022 9577
Fax 029 2022 8775
E-mail bleddyn.lake@foe.co.uk......
Penderyn Community invite you to their Farmers and Craft Market on Sunday October 28th 2007.
The Farmers and Craft Market is held at Penderyn Community Centre, opposite the Welsh Whisky Company.
The market times are 10.00 am - 2.00 pm
Penderyn Farmers and Craft Market is now proudly run by Penderyn......
Friends of the Earth in Rhondda Cynon Taff invite you to a FREE showing of Oscar winning film, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH.
When - Thursday 25th October 2007, doors open at 5.15pm
Where - Learning Resource Centre at University of Glamorgan
Followed by a discussion of the issues arising from the film with Gordon James, Director of Friends of the Earth Cymru and Jane Davidson AM Welsh Assembly Government Minister for Sustainability and......
Action for Hirwaun, a grassroots group campaigning for the people of Hirwaun, confirm that a Public Inquiry is being held on behalf of the Welsh Assembly looking at the Gloucesters Housing Development proposal.
* * PUBLIC INQUIRY scheduled for 10 a.m. on TUESDAY 23rd OCTOBER at HIRWAUN COMMUNITY CENTRE * *
A planning application to build over one hundred homes on the Gloucesters site in Hirwaun was rejected by Rhondda Cynon Taff Council. The developer Piper Homes subsequently appealed against the decision. As result of this, the Welsh Assembly are holding a Public Inquiry.
According to Action for Hirwaun, “The Gloucesters site comprises an area of land in the centre of the village which is widely used by villagers for recreation walking, dog walking, horse riding, cycling etc....
