|
|
|
|
Welcome to the Living Green Experience web page
| Fair Trade
Cafe Earth Rover Food Home Transport Clothing and Fashion Waste and Recycling Links More events with a living green theme |
This autumn, St Margaret's Church is
launching a
major event 'Living Green' Sponsored by St Margaret's PCC; The North Area Committee, Oxford City Council; Grundon Waste Management Ltd On Friday 28th September at 8.00 pm in the Church Baptistry there will be a showing of the film 'An Inconvenient Truth' Poster The Living Green Exhibition will be held on Saturday 29th September between 10.30 am and 3.30 pm and will be opened by Dr Evan Harris MP and The Lord Lieutenant, Mr Hugo Brunner Come and join us for this exciting event which raises awareness of climate change and encourages an environmentally-friendly life style. Enjoyable and interesting activities for all ages Work out your Carbon Footprint 7.30 pm Lieder Concert by Benjamin Thompson - Franz Schubert: Schwanengesang |
Measure your Carbon Footprint
What did your last holiday cost in carbon emissions?
What does your home emit?
Visit the Fair Trade Café
| Refresh yourself at our
Fair trade and largely organic café |
can you tell
the difference between Clipper and café direct? |
 |
| Organic Fair Trade Coffee | Fair Trade herbal and roibisch tea | |
| locally sourced organic apple juice | yummy FT biscuits |
Why is Fair Trade so important? Come and find out more about how the purchases you make can really make a difference, not just too individual farmers, but to whole communities, and even countries. Discover one of the most powerful ways you can contribute.
act now or it may come to this...
Find out about ways to sustain the earth's resources
plus
Pedal Power Station for children
Food
the following food stalls will be outside the church
| The Soupery Delicious homemade soups using only the freshest, tastiest produce available and where possible, sourced within a 30-mile radius from accredited local farmers. |
Christian Ecology
Link's L Locally produced O Organically grown A Animal friendly F Fairly traded |
| The Oxford Cheese
Company Ltd Purveyors of local, farmhouse and artisan cheeses |
|
| 'Home-baked'
Bread This will also be provided by the Oxford Cheese Company |
|
| Squisito Ice
Cream Squisito brings you real home made Italian style gelato ice cream using local organic milk and cream, our own rare breed eggs and seasonal fruits. We pride ourselves on the provenance and quality of our ingredients which you can taste in our range of delicious gelato ice cream. |
|
Home
Worried about your fuel bills and the amount of C02 leaking out of your house?
Advice about energy audits - find out where all the energy in your house is used and how to reduce it from Energize Oxford
Renewable energy systems advice from TV Energy
plus more general advice and information about home energy.
Can you push up the pledgeometer? - come and see.
Transport
Bikes, buses, walking
Come and see a Prius, and talk to its owners
Clothing and Fashion
Why are clothes so cheap?
Why does it matter?
Find out what your clothes really cost in human and environmental terms,
and what you can do to make a difference.
A selection of Fairtrade clothes and accessories will be on sale.
Waste and Recycling
how to reduce, re-use and recycle |
| see the display of waste recycling products and systems |
| Displays by Oxford City
Council's recycling team Bookstall and more by Wolvercote Community Action Group Display by Grundon Waste Management Ltd Talk to members of the Canalside Community Action Group |
Supporting Events in the following week include:
| Sunday 30th September |
10.30 am |
Special Environmental Eucharist Preacher: Margot Hodson, environmentalist & Chaplain at Jesus College |
| .. |
6.00 pm |
Choral Evensong |
| Sunday 7th October |
10.30 am |
Harvest Festival - 'Feast or
Famine' |
| .. |
7.00 pm |
A
Celebration in Poetry &
Music |