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February 2018
Reading Hydro CBS AGM
Monday 19th Feb 7:30 to 9:30 Come along to Reading Hydro's 2nd AGM, hear updates, get involved, celebrate the progress we have made! We’ll be sharing where we’re up to with the project and reflect what we have done towards our objectives. Then carry on building on this together. If you are not already a member you are more than welcome to join us as well and if you want can also join there. Just £1 to join our community…
Find out more »Talk: Reading art and culture – past, present and future
Part of Place and Environment, the Reading 2050 Public Lecture Series. Free Admission. For more details and to book, visit https://www.reading.ac.uk/architecture/architecture-public-lectures.aspx
Find out more »Reading Hydro AGM – All Welcome
Come along to Reading Hydro’s 2nd AGM, hear updates, get involved, celebrate the progress we have made! We’ll be sharing where we’re up to with the project and reflect what we have done towards our objectives. Then carry on building on this together. If you are not already a member you are more than welcome to join us as well and if you want can also join there. Just £1 to join our community co-op (we are a Community Benefit…
Find out more »Fairtrade Fortnight 2018
Fairtrade Fortnight aims to put a spotlight on trade. When trade is fair it has the potential to improve the lives of the farmers and workers who grow our food. When trade is fair, it can make the world a better place. Together we have that power, so get involved and be part of the difference. Find out what is happening in Reading at https://www.readingfairtrade.co.uk
Find out more »March 2018
Waste Week 2018
The focus for the 2018 national waste saving campaign will be food waste and packaging, with a range of NEW curriculum linked resources to support the activity. The Pod is EDF Energy’s award winning digital schools programme. It was launched in September 2008 and has become the largest programme of its type. The Pod's national campaigns - Switch-Off Fortnight, Waste Week, What’s under your feet and Helping Hands - help the whole school, parents and the local community to engage with…
Find out more »The Great Debate: Engineering better food systems
Today’s global food system uses a lot of resources: fuel and fossil-derived fertilisers on the farm, fuel for transport, plastics for packaging and electricity for refrigeration with wastage at each stage. What can engineering do to improve sustainability of food production and distribution as the world population increases? There will be four short talks on the topics set out below followed by an opportunity for the audience to raise questions and views to a panel consisting of the four speakers.…
Find out more »WWF Earth Hour 2018
Hundreds of millions of people around the planet take part in WWF’s Earth Hour every year. Last year around 9 million took part in the UK alone. People do a wide range of things around the hour to show they care about our planet’s future. Millions choose to mark Earth Hour by going ‘lights out’ for 60 minutes at 8.30pm – a symbolic show of solidarity for the planet. #EarthHourUK
Find out more »April 2018
Earth Day 2018: A world without plastic pollution
Close to 48 years ago, on 22 April 1970, millions of people took to the streets to protest the negative impacts of 150 years of industrial development. Earth Day is now a global event each year, with more than 1 billion people in 192 countries taking part in what is believed to be the largest civic-focused day of action in the world. The theme of this year's Earth Day is 'A world without plastic pollution'. From poisoning and injuring marine…
Find out more »July 2018
Reading Fringe – Climate Symposium: “A world without …”
BBC Radio 3 Presenter and Festival guest curator Fiona Talkington hosts a lively lunchtime debate with special guests who have an interest in ice, climate change, silence, darkness and beyond, in the inspiring and historic surroundings of The MERL, at the University of Reading. Includes ice musician Terje Isungset, photographer, broadcaster and writer Emile Holba. Free event, but booking requested.
Find out more »September 2018
Reading on Thames Festival 2018
The inaugural Reading-on-Thames Festival took place in, on and around Reading’s wonderful waterways between 9 and 17 September 2017. Plans are now in progress for the 2018 festival. Details of the 2018 programme will be published shortly: http://readingplaceofculture.org/reading-on-thames-festival/
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