Saturday 27th February 2010 is Love Your Home day
Neighbourhood climate change groups are holding events to raise awareness about what we can do to reduce our carbon footprint. Across Winchester district there will be discussions and films on climate change; information stalls on energy efficiency; renewable energy vendors; local food workshops; programs for sustainable transport; introductions to community greening activities, and more!
Opportunities to get involved, ask questions, meet like-minded neighbours, and have fun!
Try car pooling to the events without driving!
The events are free: 
Alresford Low Carbon Living Fair
Bishops Waltham Are You Going My Way
Colden Common Love Your Own Food
Fulflood Open Green House
Olivers Battery Love Your Home
Whiteley Going Green
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Alresford Low Carbon Living Fair, Perin’s School 1-5pm. Organised by Alresford Greening Campaign
Alresford Greening Campaign's Low Carbon Living Fair will have environmental stalls, speeches, films and debates on 27 February at Perin's School. Other activities in Alresford in 2010 include, on 6 March, Alresford Greening Campaign AGM - 10-11am followed by a seedy saturday seed/seedling swap at Long Barn Plant Nursery, Long Barn - The Old Sheep Fair, Bishops Sutton Road, Alresford SO24 9EJ
Bishops Waltham Are You Going My Way, Jubilee Hall 12-2pm. Organised by Futureproofing Bishops Waltham
A staggering 80.6% travel out of Bishop’s Waltham to get to work or college, each travelling an average of 10.86 miles every day. Future Proof Bishop’s Waltham is organising a liftshare matchmaking event on Saturday 27thFebruary from 12:00 midday ‘til 2:00pm in Jubilee Hall, Bishop’s Waltham where you can come along and meet people informally and talk about your travel needs. Just imagine how much cash and carbon we could all save if we shared our journeys with someone going in the same direction. If you get 3 or 4 people in your car, then your travel is as fuel efficient as a bus.
The excellent website www.hantsliftshare.com can also help you find the right person to travel with.
Future Proof BW also invites you to ‘Taste the Distance’ with a delicious range of FREE recipes using locally sourced ingredients to compare with the long distance equivalents.
As part of Love Your Home we will also have a stall to advise you on energy saving in the home with the opportunity to borrow for FREE an energy monitor that will help you to reduce your electricity usage by 20 – 50% resulting in considerable cost and CO2 savings.More activities, entertainment for the kids and sources of information are also being arranged, so please contact us for further details of this event. We look forward to meeting you.
Colden Common Love Your Own Food, Colden Common School 1-4pm. Organised by Greening Colden Common
Colden Common Greening Campaign launch ‘Love Your Own Food’, a free springtime event to encourage local people to grow their own food. 
Home-grown produce is greener by far, can be sociable, healthy and fun. To launch their campaign, the Greening Campaign has got together with local gardening experts & businesses to offer help and advice on everything from compost to carrot fly, plus advice on energy savings to help reduce your carbon footprint. There will be plenty to entertain the kids, with a pet farm on site, displaying live llamas, goats, sheep, ducks and more! Food-tasting, seed-planting and face-painting activities should give children a taste for healthy food and the ‘good life’!
With plenty of freebies, plant swops, stalls offering locally made food, and refreshments, why not cheer up February by coming along to this free and fun event!
PRIZE DRAW QUESTIONNAIRE – Win £150 worth of gardening vouchers
Residents in Colden Common will shortly receive a questionnaire requesting the level of interest in Growing you Own food. It’s involves ticking the relevant “level of interest” boxes and returning the leaflet to one of our drop boxes at the CoOp or at Colden Common Primary School. Alternatively, hand it in on the 27thFebruary or fill in the online form at this link www.greeningcoldencommon.org.uk - “Join us to discover ways in which we can all make a difference”
Fulflood Open Green House, 2-4:30pm. Organised by Greening Fulflood
Greening Fulflood homes across Fulfood will open their doors to visitors on the 27th and 28th of February between 2.00 and 4.30. Addresses and what you can see below. Look at other people's homes and chat to the owners about their experiences with sun pipes, under-floor, cavity and roof insulation, effective LED lighting, wood burning stoves, double glazed sash windows, solar thermal panels and more.
Just call in from 2 to 4:30pm on Saturday on Saturday 27 or Sunday 28 February, unless otherwise indicated, and you can:
- look closely at the installations at each address
- discuss the practicalities of installing them
- consider the benefits, both reduced bills and improved facilities, and share your useful hints and tips.
Greenhill Road (ring 01962-867902 first)
Solar hot water panels; double glazing; OWL electricity meter; cavity-wall insulation
Greenhill Road (ring 01962-853234 first)
Wood-burning stove; double glazing; composting bays; cavity-wall insulation; low-energy light bulbs; thermostatic radiator valves; organic locally supplied fruit and vegetables (Riverford).
Cheriton Road
Solar hot water panels, specialist hot water tank; cavity-wall and loft insulation (through the council scheme – easy); condensing boiler; thermostatic radiator valves; double glazing (wood and plastic casement frames); remote eco-switches for easy switching-off of standby; open fire fuelled by wood from tree surgeons, sawdust briquettes and home-made newspaper logs (slow burning); a variety of energy-saving light sources (halogen downlighters, compact fluorescent (CFL) low-energy light-bulbs, wind-up torch); wildlife garden; composting; water butt; vegetable garden; obtaining goods on Freecycle; local food (such as Riverford delivery). Activities: Making newspaper logs, using seasonal vegetables.
Fordington Avenue
Insulated secondary wooden floors; double-glazed wooden casement windows with aluminium covering; loft and cavity-wall insulation; 2KW and 8KW wood-burning stoves; upgraded boiler with tank for solar water heating (to be fitted); thermostatic radiator valves; 5W LED downlighters (warm and cool white); various compact fluorescent (CFL) bulbs; 2 and 4 litre dual-flush WCs, composting; water butts (normally attached to rain water pipes, but with waste water diverter for dry weather to be fitted); OWL electricity meter. Activities: biscuit decoration (with Greening Fulflood Green Leaves); seed planting.
Byron Avenue
Wall, floor and roof insulation; double glazing; extra south-facing glazing to increase solar gain; thick curtains for thermal insulation; sun pipe; condensing gas boiler with water tank ready for solar water heating panel (to be installed); water butts on rainwater pipes; new extension using low-carbon materials (bamboo flooring, water-based paint; low energy lighting; ‘A’-rated appliances, dual-flush WCs); outdoor clothes-drying; composting.
Elm Road (Sat 3 to 6 or call 01962-860911 or 07708-589359 to book Sunday)
3KW multi-fuel wood burning stove with a clear glass door heated by eco logs made of compressed sawdust, and are environmentally friendly; double glazing. Activity: seed swap
Fairfield Road
Double-glazed wooden sash windows (almost replicas of the original, with thin krypton-filled cavities and draught excluding trimmings); secondary plastic film window glazing (very cheap and effective); underfloor, cavity-wall and roof insulation; condensing boiler; thermostatic radiator valves; compact fluorescent spotlights(warm white, cool white, and daylight for comparison) and compact fluorescent (CFL) lightbulbs; LED cool white track spotlighting; DIY draught stripping; folding bikes; remote eco-switches for easy switching off of standby; a double cat door; water butts fed from rainwater downpipes; composting. Activities: calculating your carbon footprint, folding a folding bike, using a bike trailer.
Fordington Avenue
Solar hot water panels integrated with condensing boiler; a variety of double-glazed windows; cavity-wall, internal wall and underfloor insulation; loft insulation (two types); 3.4KW multi-fuel stove; various energy-saving lights (inside and outside); water butt on rainwater pipe; energy- efficient front door.
Olivers Battery Love Your Home, St Mark’s Church Hall 10-12pm. Organised by Greening Olivers Battery
Olivers Battery Greening group have planned a Love Your Home event to attract local residents who want to find out more about bulk insulation - with vendors from a local insulation company, as well as trained consultants from the Environment Centre booked to attend. Those interested in finding out more about other grant schemes such as the Boiler Scrappage Scheme, as well as energy efficient products, green ideas for the home and garden, or the activities of the local greening group itself, are all welcome to this event. It will be held at the St Mark’s Church Hall, Olivers Battery Road South, from 10-12pm. More information can be found here: Greening Olivers Battery.
Whiteley Going Green, Meadowside Leisure Centre 12-2pm. Organised by Whiteley Parish Council
Al Menzies, Whiteley Parish Council's Climate Change Champion, is keen to meet like-minded people interested in setting up a local Climate Change Group. To contact Al email al.menzies@whiteleypc.info. No prior knowledge is necessary—just a strong desire to work with others to share thoughts, ideas and concerns about climate change, and then to take decisive action within the Whiteley community. All Whiteley residents are invited to this initial meeting. Professor David Knight, Chairman of the Science and Technology Advisory Panel of WinACC will give a short talk about climate change. Catrina Pickering, from COIN (Climate Outreach Information Network) will then describe how to create a local group to bring the community together to take action.
We hope these events will inform people about what local greening groups in their area are doing to tackle climate change as well as inspire more individuals to get involved.
Hope to see you there!
