Caroline Lucas MP will join HASL (Hanover Action for Sustainable Living) for a short film and a debate on “Is Growth the Answer to our Economic Troubles?”
Come along, hear Britain’s first Green MP and have your say.
7.30pm, Friday 3 February 2012
Hanover Community Centre
Free Entry (donations welcome)
We have adopted a new Environmental Policy that establishes a few principles and sets out some of the issues we need to deal with. The policy was developed with the help of HASL.
We plan to revisit this policy as we begin to see where we are going.
Join Hanover Action for Sustainable Living and the 10:10 Campaign to find out more about how you can save money – AND get paid – for producing solar energy!
Catching the Sun (on Friday January 21st at 7.30pm) is an “energy extravaganza” at the Hanover Centre to cover three topics:
We’ll be joined by solar energy installation experts, representatives from the Brighton Energy Co-operative, and local people with experience of solar installations and renewable electricity deals. You’ll get the chance to ask questions directly, so come along and pick the brains of experts and people in Hanover who have already make the first steps on the way to more sustainable energy.
Refreshments provided.
Catch the Sun in 2011 – and reduce your carbon footprint!
The Hanover Centre will be the hub for Brighton’s 10:10:10 day of action with information and advice to help you cut your carbon emissions. This is part of 10:10, an international, UK and city campaign to encourage people to sign up in 2010 to cutting their carbon emissions by 10% within a year.
Doors open upstairs at the community centre at 3pm. Then at 4pm “Connected†is a new show by local outfit Moving Sounds that presents some of the causes and consequences of climate change and broader ecological issues in a fun and entertaining way, followed by a workshop on the issues raised, using discussion, mind-mapping, music and performance.
And the date ….. 10th October 2010, of course.
Feel like an early start? Rise with the birds on Saturday 8th May at 5:30am!
The Friends of Queens Park, Kim the Park Ranger and RSPB for Brighton invite you to join them on a guided walk and bird survey in Queens Park, to celebrate International Dawn Chorus Day 2010 (one week late, but who’s counting).
Meet at the southern end of Queens Park Pond.
Hot drinks will be provided. Dress warm, bring binoculars if you have them. Everyone welcome!
Children and dogs have had their own separate areas in Queens Park for 30 years.
This amicable arrangement has allowed fair use of the park by everyone, but now there is a risk of it failing because the council forgot to renew the relevant order last year.
There is a petition on the council web site asking them to put it right. If you want to keep things as they are in Queens Park, please sign the petition.
On 17th March Josie Jeffrey will be at the Hanover Centre to show grown-ups how to make seed bombs. Come along and make a seed bomb with an edible salad mix for your own garden or window box – or make one that will attract bees when it flowers and try a spot of guerrilla gardening!
The cost is £2.50 per person and the workshop runs from 6pm to 8pm.
This is one of a series of workshops run by Brighton & Hove Food Partnership, some of which are suitable for children. For more information call 01273 431700 or email Roberta@bhfood.org.uk. Click here to see a flyer for the workshops.
Adults only. Booking recommended.
While we were tidying up the Hanover Centre garden last autumn we decided to make a bug hotel to help our creepy-crawlies through the winter. It may not look that brilliant, but we’re hoping that from a bug’s eye view it’s as impressive as the Grand.
We made our hotel from some old pallets we had lying around, with hollow-stemmed prunings, leaves, rocks and tiles.
Here are some others made from brick & plywood, chicken wire, and a very exciting construction starting with willow.
You can get one started any time of the year, but bugs will have already found their shelter for this winter. Why not make a bug hotel one of your summer projects?
Many of us will have plump 10-12mm female Garden Spiders (Araneus
diedematus) hanging head-down in the centre of enormous orb webs in our gardens at this time of the year. This spider can be identified easily by its size (although the males are only half as big) and the white blotches arranged roughly in a cross on the abdomen. It is one of our largest spiders and entirely harmless.
As our house was being repainted we decided to put up a nest box while there were ladders about. The ideal place seemed to be under the protection of the eaves on the front of the house. The back wall is less protected from rain and is in the sun most of the day. Maybe it would be a good place for a bat box?
We decided on a sparrow terrace from the RSPB. After a bit of thought we screwed two wedge-shaped pieces of wood above the sloping roof of the box so that the top of the wedges was horizontal. We drilled a hole through each wedge about half way along. Then we drilled holes through the underside of the eaves about the same distance out from the wall (the painter did this from his ladder). From inside the roof I threaded thin nylon ropes down through the holes to the pavement. This was the only difficult part of the job – it was cramped, hot and dusty down in the corner of the loft. The ends of the ropes were threaded through the holes in the wedges and securely knotted. Then it was a simple matter to pull the nest box tightly up into the angle between wall and eaves and tie the ropes off to cleats screwed to the rafters.
In the photo you can see the wide ends of the two wedges that hold the nest box square to the eaves and the wall. I think it looks pretty good, and after the nesting season it will be easy to lower the box, clean it out and sterilise it with boiling water.
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