We would like to invite you for a friendly discussion on Tuesday 21st February 2012 at the Sunbeams Children Centre at Sun Hill School, Sun Lane ( Address - Sun Hill Junior School, Sun Lane, Alresford, SO24 9NB http://g.co/maps/d6wvm) from 7:30pm till 9pm. We want your ideas as to what the next Alresford Greening project could be:

To get you all thinking here are some ideas for projects you might think worthwhile:

• Carbon conversations. These are small groups of like-minded people getting together for a short course on low-carbon living. It doesn’t preach, tell you what to do or make you feel guilty. It asks stimulating questions, provides clear information, fun exercises and then helps you make your own decisions. Easy to organise because there are trained facilitators within WinACC able to run these for you.
• Swap Shop. Described as an immediate Freecycle or a Jumble Sale with no money changing hands. Lay on tea/coffee and they become very social events that have become regular fixtures with other green groups.
• Open Greenhouse. People are more likely to implement eco ideas if others have already done them before. Being able to discuss the problems and successes is very helpful. Find a handful of houses with eco technologies or energy saving gadgets round their house and open them for a couple of hours one afternoon. These have been successfully run by other local green groups.
• Energy monitoring Groups. Compare anonymously average household electricity and gas usage. Focus on a small area, like a single street, at a time. Doesn’t take a large amount of time and proved to be very useful in motivating people to take action.
• Electricity monitor loan scheme. Make it easy to see usage of individual appliances.
• Allotments gluts. Organise jam, chutney making sessions or simply get together to sell your overproduction.
• The Alresford Bioblitz. Very keen to repeat the success of last year’s project.
• Sustainable Fish Town. Campaign to make Alresford a sustainable fish town.
• Film nights. Something we have done before and can easily do again.
• Work with School. Instigate an environment week.
• Plastic bottle Greenhouse. Following on from the success of the cold frame we made last year lets highlight the amount of bottles Alresford throws away each year by creating a greenhouse out of them for the Sunhill Junior School Allotment.

These are just some ideas. You may have others. Come along and tell us about them.

To book a place please can you email us if you will be coming

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