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January 24 @ 19:00 - 21:00
It’s time for Transition Bath’s second Sustainability Shorts event, following the first in October 2023. This event features six speakers talking for 10 minutes each on a sustainability topic. The timing ensures that the evening is lively and the ideas snappy; all the better to spark ideas and kindle enthusiasm for adopting sustainability behaviours which help to mitigate the climate crisis.
Our speakers for this sessions are:
Ant Simpson – The surprising impacts of our food choices
With an MSc in Renewable Energy and Sustainability, Anthony Simpson has worked in the fields of solar energy and the grid integration of electric vehicles, and has co-led a company’s environmental programme. A climate change campaigner and researcher, Anthony has compiled research across a broad range of topics to bring much greater clarity about the most important things we can do to respond to the growing threat of environmental collapse, including climate change.
Marieke Hammes – Sustainable business and carbon management
Passionate about sustainable business, packaging, the circular economy and how to use nature-based solutions to mitigate climate change and create a more sustainable future, Marieke has recently completed a Masters in Carbon Management with Distinction at the University of Edinburgh, in association with the Edinburgh Climate Change Institute.
Ella Milburn – Foraging for the future: A wild alternative to global food systems
Ella Milburn (Everyday Foraging) is a Bath-based wild foods educator and sustainability writer. She shares practical knowledge on harvesting wild food through holding local workshops and advocates for the adoption of responsible foraging as part of the localised, seasonal and sustainable food system of the future.
Helen Haddon – EcoTogether for Sustainability
After a lamentably unsustainable 20-year career working in international roles for a number of consultancies, Helen left her job in 2014 and moved from London to Bath. In 2017 she set up a business to prepare the recruitment sector for the GDPR. Having sold the GDPR business just before the pandemic, Helen has turned her attention to living a more sustainable and less hectic life.
Izzy Sturges – Peat bogs and Sustainability
Izzy Sturges recently finished her MSc in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology where she did ethnographic fieldwork with the Abbeyleix Bog Project, Ireland. She will share insights and stories from this research, talking about hope, intergenerational renewal and community in the face of the climate crisis.
Michael Malay – Sustainable Activism
A writer and teacher based in Bristol, Michael Malay spent his early years in Jakarta, Indonesia, before moving to Australia with his family at the age of ten. He is the author of Late Light, a book about migration, belonging and extinction, and is now working on a book about John Berger.
