Transition Bath

Green Open Homes Weekend B&NES: 24 sustainable homes
2023-11-04 - 2023-11-05 | Somerset
During weekend of November 4th and 5th Green Open Homes B&NES 18 homes will be open to the public in Bath and further 6 homes in the Chew Valley. The homes will showcase a wide range of measures applied to Georgian listed, Victorian, modern and art deco homes, illustrating how you can make your home more sustainable, the measures include:

draughtproofing
secondary glazing
double glazing

triple glazing
mechanical ventilation and heat recovery
6 different types of internal wall insulation

heat pumps
solar PV
solar thermal

solar batteries
underfloor insulation
behaviour change

efficient hot water cylinders
vacuum glazing
passive solar gain

You can have a good look at the technology, ask the home owners about the installation , discuss options without talking to salespersons and find out much they’re really saving on their energy bills as a result.
The weekend is a partnership between BWCE, B&NES Buro Happold, Bath Preservation Trust, and Transition Bath. There will also be an associated talk programme before the weekend.
More information is available here: Home – Green Homes B&NES (greenopenhomesbanes.org) and booking will open soon – we will let you know as soon as it becomes available.

I-SEE: Public Lecture: Net zero and zero emissions
2023-10-31 16:30 - 17:30 (Europe/London) | Somerset
Professor Bill David FRS, Professor of Energy Materials Chemistry, University of Oxford, STFC Senior Fellow, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and CSO, Sunborne Systems Limited
Further details on I-SEE website: I-SEE Sustainable Energy & the Environment Webinars 2023 (bath.ac.uk)

Explore Nature's Bounty: Wild Food Foraging Adventure
2023-10-29 11:00 - 13:00 | Smallcombe Nuttery, Horseshoe Walk, Bath, BA2 6DD, United Kingdom
Join us for an interactive foraging foray where you’ll learn the art of safely identifying and preparing wild foods in the lush surroundings of Smallcombe Community Nuttery and the Bath Skyline Walk.
Event Highlights

Guided Foraging: Under the guidance of wild foods educator Ella Milburn, you’ll tap into the abundant world of wild foods and learn to identify, harvest, and prepare a range of edible plants, nuts, berries and hopefully mushrooms! Our expert instructor will provide you with insights into the nutritional value, cultural significance, and culinary uses of the wild plants you discover.
Idyllic Setting: Smallcombe Community Nuttery and the Bath Skyline Walk offer a tranquil backdrop of natural beauty.
Small Group Experience: As this event is limited to just 12 participants, you’ll have ample opportunities to ask questions and learn at your own pace.
Safety and Sustainability First: You’ll be taught how to distinguish between edible and inedible plants, as well as how to sustainably harvest wild foods without harming the environment.
Tickets: Limited spaces are available, so be sure to reserve your spot early.

What to Bring

Comfortable clothing and sturdy walking shoes – we recommend wearing long socks and trousers to offer protection against possible ticks in the long grass
A small basket or bag for collecting wild foods
Water
Notebook and pen for taking notes

For more information and ticket reservations, please visit the ticket website or contact us by email.
Come hungry for knowledge, and leave with a basket full of nature’s treasures! 🌱🌼
Look out for our “Winter Workshops” in December and February where we will be preparing for the foraging year ahead.
Book your place on the Wild Food Foraging Adventure here.

Unite to Survive South West
2023-10-28 08:00 - 17:00 | Victoria Park, Bath, Victoria Park, Bath
Come and join us for a day of diverse activities from speakers to stalls, performances to art activities…all FAMILY friendly.
XR south-west are the hosts but it will be attended from all organisations concerned about biodiversity loss, environmental devastation, climate change and global social injustice (often as a result of the latter).
The purpose of Bath is to build alliances, lobby MPs and find ways of working together moving forward to bring about significant change.
Accessible bus routes and parking to Victoria park is available.
Covered and indoor (weather friendly) spaces:

Performance and speeches
Workshop
Art space
Family space
Swallows space
Well-being, quiet area and first aid
Specific stands
Some refreshment on site

Bristol art blockers will be printing onto T shirts, bags, etc…bring them along!
Timeline:

8am: Start
10am: Spaces and activities used
10:30 – 12 noon: There will be a silent faith vigil outside Barclays (XR Buddhists, Christian Climate Action and other faith groups)
12 noon – 2pm: Preparing for the accessible non-disruptive march that avoids the big rugby match on the day! (XR have liaised with experienced and sympathetic police officers in advance.) Everyone is welcome to dress up if you’d like to in a theme that suits the day e.g. animals, fire or dirty water themes, etc… There may be a discobedience at some point…dancing and there will be a samba band to keep our spirits up!
2 – 5pm: Resume of workshops, performance, speeches, stalls, networking. There will be an inclusive community assembly.
5pm: Tidy up time

Dogs are allowed on a lead. If the weather is atrocious, there may be a last minute change of plans regarding the march.
Also needed are well-being (e.g. buddying) volunteers and stewards.
Please share this event and hope to see you there!

Mayor's visit to Transition Bath nuttery
2023-10-18 16:00 - 17:00 | Smallcombe Nuttery, Horseshoe Walk, Bath, BA2 6DD, United Kingdom

I-SEE Public Lecture: The role of policy for accelerating energy innovation to meet climate goals
2023-10-17 16:30 - 17:30 | Somerset
I-SEE Sustainable Energy & the Environment Webinar
The role of policy for accelerating energy innovation to meet climate goals
Professor Laura Diaz Anadon, Professor of Climate Change Policy Director, Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG), Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge
Innovation in clean-energy technologies is central to achieving a net-zero energy system. While the pace of innovation in some key energy technologies has exceeded expectations, faster progress in these and a wider range of technologies is necessary to meet climate goals. It has long been argued that, among other actions, governments should increase support for clean energy research and development and support early markets. There is, however, a more limited understanding of how to design these policies and institutions or what else may be needed. There is also growing recognition of that fostering a just transition is essential and not a given and an interest in the role of green industrial policy in many parts of the world. In this talk Prof Anadon shares key insights regarding what we have learnt over the past decade regarding how to foster a just energy transition, covering experiences from industrialized countries and emerging economies, as well as analysis of policies and institutions from R&D to deployment and finance.

Prof Anadon will summarize what we have learnt about the drivers of innovation in key energy technologies and the policy structures and processes that could help support efforts to build a net zero economy.
Professor Laura Diaz Anadon holds the chaired Professorship of Climate Change Policy at the University of Cambridge, where she directs the interdisciplinary Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG) (add hyperlink to CEENRG: https://www.ceenrg.landecon.cam.ac.uk/ ) at the Department of Land Economy. An engineer-economist by training, Professor Anadon is also a Fellow of St. John’s College and a long-standing Affiliate of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) at Harvard University. Her research on energy, climate and innovation policy assesses the drivers of technological change in key energy technologies, the impact of different policies on technological innovation, economic, and distributional outcomes, and the interaction between science and technology and policy making. She is a Lead Author of the latest Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Working Group III on Mitigating Climate Change. Among other roles, she serves as elected Vice-Chair of the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change and on the Board of Cambridge Enterprise. In June 2018 she was awarded the XVII Fundación Banco Sabadell Prize for Economic Research for the best young Spanish economics researcher, and in 2021 she was awarded a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Tsinghua University.
• I-SEE webinars are free and open for all to attend
• Eventbrite registration closes on 17 October at 15:30
• The ZOOM LINK to the event will be sent to you in an email on 17 October at 15:30

https://www.bath.ac.uk/campaigns/i-see-sustainable-energy-the-environment-webinars/

Sustainability Shorts
2023-10-16 18:00 - 20:00 | The Packhorse Community Pub, South Stoke, Bath, BA2 7DU, United Kingdom
An evening of 6 x 10 minute mini-lectures on all things eco:

18:00-18:45 – 3 x talks with time for questions:

James Levelle – Filmmaker and Adventurer, on Creative Community
Debby Skellern – Acting CEO of the Swindon and Wiltshire Local Enterprise Partnership, on Reaching Net Zero 2050: Hydrogen (An introduction to the production and uses of hydrogen)
Dr Lyn Barham – Transition Bath trustee and Food Group Convenor and John Ingham, ex professional gardener and a green activist, on Soil is Vital to Life on Earth

18:45-19:15 – break for food and drink
19:15- 20:00 – 3 x talks with time for questions:

Dr Rosie Jones – Ecological psychologist, facilitator, permaculturist, activist, on Honouring
our Pain for the World (How valuing, feeling and sharing our ecological grief can help us find our
power, motivation and wisdom)
Nick Abercrombie – Retired academic, interested in the relationship between social science
research and policy change, on The Social Mandate (The effective removal or mitigation of
climate risks will involve major changes to the way that we live our lives. How, then, can people be persuaded
to accept those changes?)
Alexander Coles – about to complete a Masters degree in Sustainability, interested in land,
food and what happens when you combine the two for positive change, on Connectivity and Systems
Thinking

20:00-21:00 – (optional) in the bar for networking and further discussion

Freshly cooked food will be available to purchase from Ninjō’s Street Food truck in the car park.
Contact us to book your place.

I-SEE Public Lecture: Harnessing The Oceans’ Energy
2023-10-03 16:30 - 17:30 | Somerset
Professor Deborah Greaves OBE, FREng FICE FRINA, Director of the Supergen ORE Hub, University of Plymouth
Offshore renewable energy (ORE) has long been recognised as having huge potential. The UK has the second-highest tidal range in the world and there are estimates that around 50% of Europe’s tidal energy resource and 35% of European wave resource lies in UK waters. The UK’s offshore wind infrastructure, contributed over 10% of the UK’s power in 2020 and the offshore wind capacity target is 50GW by 2030. The Crown Estate recently published plans to support Floating Offshore Wind (FOW) in the Celtic Sea to deliver 4GW by 2035, extending to 20GW by 2045. Professor Deborah Greaves will outline the key areas of research in developing our offshore renewable energy. She will introduce the Supergen ORE Hub highlights and future plans and will also present on a new initiative to support High End Computing in Wave Structure interaction.
Professor Deborah Greaves OBE
Deborah Greaves is a Professor of Ocean Engineering, was Head of the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics at the University of Plymouth, and is one of the UK’s leading offshore renewable energy researchers.
In a career spanning more than two decades, she has consistently pioneered the development of new technologies in offshore wind, wave and tidal power. This has included novel types of wave energy converter, analysis methods for offshore renewable energy farms and extreme wave-structure interactions.
In addition to her research, Professor Greaves has led high-profile national and international initiatives designed to ensure such technological advances can be applied in real-world scenarios to help meet the country’s future clean energy demands.
She was selected by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to head its £9million Supergen ORE Hub, has provided expert advice to organisations across industry and society, and is a strong advocate for women in STEM subjects.
Professor Greaves was made an OBE in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to Marine Renewable Energy, Equalities and Higher Education.
In 2020, she was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and listed by the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) among its Top 50 Women in Engineering: Sustainability. She was appointed as a Member of EPSRC Council in 2022.
• I-SEE webinars are free and open for all to attend
• Eventbrite registration closes on 3 October at 15:30
• The ZOOM LINK to the event will be sent to you in an email on 3 October at 15:30
https://www.bath.ac.uk/campaigns/i-see-sustainable-energy-the-environment-webinars/

Extraordinary Earth Day
2023-09-30 11:00 - 17:00 | Bath Abbbey, 9 Kingston Buildings, Bath, BA1 1LT, United Kingdom
From 18th September to 29th October, Luke Jerram’s ‘Gaia’ – a huge Earth – will be presented at Bath Abbey. The Abbey will use this awe-inspiring exhibit to promote B&NES eco-groups. Transition Bath will have a presence in the Abbey throughout the exhibiting period.
On 30th September, from 10:00 to 17:00, a showcase of local eco-groups will come together for Extraordinary Earth Day. Entrance is free for BA1 and BA2 residents with proof of address and Discovery Card holders.
There will be a series of inspirational talks during the day:
10:30 – Climate Challenges
11:30 – Neighbourhood Eco Groups
13:30 – Young People’s Voice
14:30 – Knowing Your Carbon Footprint
15:30 – The Conservation Challenge
This is in the spirit of Ecooperation; organised by the Abbey, CAFÉ B&NES, Transition Bath and Bath & West Community Energy with support from B&NES Council Climate Team. Come to hear how you can get involved.

Bathscape Walking Festival - Community Green Fingers Walk
2023-09-20 10:30 - 13:30 | Lansdown Park & Ride, Lansdown Park & Ride, Bath, BA1 9BJ, United Kingdom
As part of the Bathscape Walking Festival, Transition Bath will be leading a walk that explores community involvement in growing trees and crops.
From Lansdown P&R we take a level walk through fields with stunning views over Weston and the distant countryside, before dropping down through fields to Primrose Hill Community Woodland. We’ll meet one of the woodland volunteers who will give a brief history from the millennium planting, and take us on a ramble through the 14 acre woodland. The wood is rich with trees, undergrowth and wildlife, criss-crossed by paths and has useful information boards – a delight for people of all ages.
We anticipate spending about an hour exploring the woodland, then will walk on down through quiet private roads (with one very short, busy section) to visit a community garden in Park Street, and meet some gardeners. From there, we will walk through streets to end on the Gravel Walk, finishing near Queen Square, from where it is a short walk to the Milsom Street bus stop for those who need the bus back to Lansdown P&R.
Location: Starting at Lansdown Park and Ride, finishing near Queen Square.

Bathscape Walking Festival - Food on Our Plates Walk
2023-09-10 14:00 - 16:00 | Newbridge Park & Ride, Newbridge Park & Ride, Bath, BA1 3NB
As part of the Bathscape Walking Festival, Transition Bath is leading a walk that celebrates growing sites where local people tend crops to end up on their dinner plate.
The first visit is to the new Roots allotment site at Newbridge, where individual plot holders grow for their own use. After an introduction to this organic, no-dig site, we‘ll join the riverside path back to near the city centre, with a brief summary of points of historical interest along the way.
The second visit is to the well-established community garden of Bath Organic Group at the Lower Common site. Here people grow and share crops, as well as creating surpluses for the monthly Farmers’ Market stall.
Location: The walk is three miles, starting at Newbridge Park & Ride and finishing at the Lower Common site, on the Upper Bristol Road (where you can get the bus back to the P&R).

"My Extinction" - Green Screen at The Little Theatre Cinema
2023-09-04 18:15 - 21:00 | The Little Theatre, St Michael's Place, Bath, BA1 1SF, United Kingdom
‘Green Screen’ is a new strand at ‘The Little’ that aims to bring the best of environmentally conscious cinema to our screens, whilst encouraging conversation and connection between local environmental groups and individuals.
Green Screenings take the format of a screening of a film, followed by a half an hour Q&A with a local panel, leading onto an informal discussion of the film in ‘The Little’s’ event space.
The next Green Screen will be My Extinction on Mon 4th September.
Synopsis
What does it take for us to act on the climate crisis – especially if we’re the kind of person who should already be acting?
In this funny, relatable portrait, a concerned yet ineffectual dad finds the first step is letting those unbearable feelings of climate anxiety in, instead of pushing them aside.
But as he meets others like him, he discovers how oil-backed propagandists funded our denial and paralysis. They set out to unmask the vested interests responsible, helping raise a generation’s leading authors in vibrant chorus at the game-changing Tufton Street protest.
My Extinction is a revealingly honest account of how to feel your feelings, act on your privilege, and get active when threatened with extinction.
Book now

Community Picnic at Smallcombe Nuttery
2023-08-20 12:00 - 14:00 | Smallcombe Nuttery, Horseshoe Walk, Bath, BA2 6DD, United Kingdom
Here we picnic round the mulberry bush!
The mulberries will be ripe for picking, so come along and try some for yourself. There are also cobnuts, walnuts, almonds and sweet chestnuts and even a medlar tree. Cakes will also be available on the day!
Bring a picnic and enjoy the beautiful setting of the nuttery, planted on National Trust land, beside the Skyline Walk at Smallcombe.
The nuttery can only be reached on foot. See the map below for directions.
