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A wide range of events are already up on Eventbrite for the Reading Climate Festival in June. It ranges from energy efficiency drop-in weekends through a Community Lunch to a paddleboarding litter pick!
As usual, finding anything on eventbrite is both long and incomprehensibly complicated, so please bookmark the site collection using the url below, and go back to it over the next couple of weeks for updates!
If you are not involved in an event already, please offer your services to Reading Hydro to help with the energy efficiency drop-in weekend 20/21 June at the bicycle hub in the town centre. Energy advisors are welcome of course, but even more help is needed with IT, marketing, shunting furniture, refreshments ..... contact Austin if you could spare some time (it doesn't have to be two days!) on reading.hydro.innovation@gmail.com
Read more >>Some of you have come across the National Emergency Briefings given to over 1,200 politicians and leaders from business, culture, faith, sport, and the media last November.
Each speaker gave a ten-minute presentation and explained in detail the risks the climate and nature crises pose to the UK, including impacts on food security, infrastructure, public health, the economy, national security and more. They also spoke of the actions and solutions needed to reduce those risks. The presentations can be seen at https://www.nebriefing.org/
A 45-minute documentary called The People’s Emergency Briefing covers the key points of the briefing. The film followed immediately by a discussion, will be available for community screenings across the UK from 7 April, to inform and stimulate discussion and action so that there is public support for the many positive, science-led solutions to the climate and nature crises, which are accelerating.
If you want to know more and/or be involved, including hosting a community film screening, links are below.
https://www.nebriefing.org/aims
https://www.nebriefing.org/the-film