Green Vision is a youth movement aiming to make Bath and North East Somerset more sustainable and a more pleasant place to live. We create, explore, organise and act.
Green Vision will have a stall at Penny Farthing Festival, taking place in Bath on 5th May, a fully bicycle-powered festival! Lots of top bands will be playing at the event, which is put on by students from Bath Spa University and supported by several local businesses.
Green Vision will be talking to attendees about everything we do, but especially our new cycle-powered cinema project. The new project, details of which will soon be announced, will see a team of young people trained to build a bicycle generator which will be used to put on events in and around Bath. This project will involve raising £12000 to fund training and equipment, and we’ll see if Penny Farthing Festival can provide our first few donations!
Join Green Vision at Bath People’s Assembly’s ‘Visions for Change’ event this Saturday, bringing together forward-thinking groups and organisations to discuss “their visions for a better world, locally, nationally and globally”.
Green Vision will be joined by a wide variety of groups from the Bath area, including Oxfam Bath and Transition Bath, with who we have collaborated before, as well as many other wonderful organisations.
Anyone is welcome - we look forward to seeing you there! It takes place 12 - 3pm, 28th April at the Friends’ Meeting House on York Street.
Yet another successful People’s Kitchen for Green Vision!
Our excellent chefs CJ and Taryn cooked a dahl, some tasty pasta as well as some bread rolls, serving for free (or a donation) to people of all ages. We even used the opportunity for a little networking, with the local MP, several councillors, and our friend the Mayor of Bath coming along.
There was great discussion around reducing food waste and our squash-planting competition went down a treat! Attendees planted seeds in pots, which will be replanted at Dry Arch Growers in Bathampton, and a prize will go to the person whose squash is the best in a few months time.
Thank you to all who came!
People’s Kitchen, round 3: Thursday 5th April 2012
Come along to Green Vision’s third ‘People’s Kitchen’ event, where we’ll be cooking food that would otherwise have been wasted and serving it for free or a donation. The food cooked will depend on what we receive in the immediate days, but you can be assured it’ll be tasty under the watchful eye of our chefs, CJ, Shane and Taryn.
Our freshly-cooked food will be accompanied by fresh discussion, with our theme: How can we feed our growing population? Join us for discussion on alternative agriculture, local food, reducing food waste, genetically-modified food and vegetarianism.
Join us at Bath’s Green Park Station, between midday and 3pm on Thursday 5th April 2012. Whether enjoying the school/university holidays or on your lunch break, everyone is welcome!
At the end of November we co-organised our second People’s Kitchen event with Oxfam Bath. This time we focused on our ‘global’ community in Africa in light of the UN climate talks in Durban. Rachael and Shane cooked some tasty African-themed food using entirely surplus goods acquired through Fareshare Bath, part of the wider Fareshare South-West group and Janine Woodward of Oxfam South West gave an insightful talk on how climate change is affecting Africa. Were even able to link up with Tom, a Green Vision member who was lucky enough to be at the UN climate talks in Durban, for a video conference to find out in real time how the climate talks were progressing.
It was a great afternoon spent learning about our ‘global’ community, sharing ideas on how we can support and empower them to take action and of course eating! Check out Tom’s post as he reflects on his time spent at the climate talks.
Photo: Shane (far left) and Rachael (far right) chat to the Mayor of Bath and the Mayoress with a member of Oxfam Bath.
Come along to our African-themed People’s Kitchen, from 12 - 3 on Sunday 27th November. Talks, conversation and free food - what more could you want?
Green Vision, along with our newest friend Oxfam Bath, will be hosting another People’s Kitchen event from 12 pm - 3 pm on the 27th November in the Bath Society Meeting Room (entrance in the lobby to Green Park Station, Bath).
This time we are focusing on our ‘global’ community in Africa, with African-themed food, a live video conference with Tom, a Green Vision member who will be at the UN climate talks in Durban and a talk on how climate change is affecting Africa by Janine Woodward of Oxfam South West. This is tying in with the Stop Climate Chaos coalition’s ‘African Climate Connection’ taking place alongside the UN climate talks in Durban, South Africa.
There will be an opportunity to discuss these ideas and your own as we explore how we can create and support an empowered global community. We all had so much fun at the last People’s Kitchen event in August and hope that this one will be even more exciting! See you there!
On Wednesday Green Vision are co-hosting a special screening of ‘Just Do It’ at the Little Theatre Cinema, Bath. The documentary, which describes itself as ‘a tale of modern day outlaws’, follows several groups of UK climate change activists using civil disobedience as a means of protest. Even if you find the methods used by some of the groups controversial, you won’t fail to be amazed, fascinated and inspired.
The special screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring the film’s director, Emily James, Deputy Leader of Bath & North East Somerset Council, Nathan Hartley and a representative of Green Vision.
On 23rd July Green Vision will be hosting an ‘Open Space’ event at Manvers Street Baptist Church, Bath. This is an opportunity to discuss Bath’s future, the problems and opportunities it faces, and what we would like to do to improve it. It is both an opportunity for reflection after the Youth Climate Summit and an opportunity to start new conversations on any topic.
The event will use the ‘open space’ format, allowing attendees to choose the topic of conversation for themselves, setting their own agenda and pursuing what they are passionate about. Although there is no obligation to commit to action after the event, the hope is that you find others interested in areas similar to you that you can start a project with as part of Green Vision.
Anyone is welcome to come along between 11am and 3pm to join the discussion. You don’t have to come along for the whole thing - just come along when you’re available.
Green Vision yesterday spent the afternoon transforming a small section of Bath’s riverside, clearing nettles and weeds and planting flowers. Bath’s riverside is rather neglected, and we felt it was the perfect place to have a go at some rebellious horticulture! As well as planting some currently blooming flowers, we have planted around one-hundred bulbs, which will bloom nicely in the spring. We will return soon to finish the job!
Green Visionary and Guerrilla Gardener, Rachel Hannah, said: “It was a really enjoyable and productive afternoon and the support from passers by was brilliant. It really affirmed to us the reason behind our actions.”
It was dark by the time we were finished, so there are no particularly good photos of the finished site. Visit Tom Youngman’s flickr to view some more photos of the event. Keep an eye on our website for details of further events!
War has been declared against unsightly and poorly maintained empty space in Bath as Green Vision launches its Guerrilla Gardening campaign. Guerrilla Gardening involves finding areas of unused land and planting flowers, plants and vegetables, and generally making them more enjoyable public spaces.
Green Vision’s first event takes place on the 20th Novembers, between 1 and 5pm, meeting at Green Park Station. We will be transforming a neglected area of Bath and helping make a positive difference to all residents and visitors of the city. Any and all are welcome, although it is primarily aimed at young people. Watch out for photos of the work soon!
Green Vision is a youth movement aiming to make Bath and North East Somerset more sustainable and a more pleasant place to live. We create, explore, organise and act.
