January 2012
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Operation Farm visioning sessions
Jonathan of lowwintersun is on the board of Operation Farm and currently working on a lottery-funded feasibility study for the project. The Operation Farm visioning sessions took place on 21st and 23rd January 2012 at the Park Cafe, Hyde and were attended by over 60 people.
Facilitated by Kindling Trust the sessions saw participants from the community, voluntary and public sector as well as...
October 2011
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Operation Farm feasibility work
lowwintersun is involved in the development of Operation Farm and the project is in the process of developing a plan for a community farm in the Tameside and Glossopdale area.
We are currently carrying out a feasibility study, finding out if there are people or organisations locally who might be interested in getting involved or would like to influence its development in some way.If you would...
September 2011
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July 2011
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Information Architecture presentation for the New...
I made the trip down to Oxford last week to attend the New Internationalist’s annual meeting and make a presentation to the co-op on Information Architecture and the NI’s website.
There’s many definitions for Information Architecture, I described it to the NI as simply making their website cogent, ie ensuring it makes sense for the user, that they are able to find and extract...
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June 2011
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May 2011
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Carbon Co-op visits River Cottage
Carbon Co-op have been fortunate enough to have been invited to the EnergyShare day at River Cottage. on 18th May 2011. The day will be packed full of workshops and seminars from other community renewables projects, it’ll also be a great opportunity to see Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall’s local food project up close.
The day will give us an extra boost in our ambition to win part of the...
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Carbon Coop's EnergyShare application
Please support the Carbon Coop’s application to EnergyShare - it just takes a few minutes!
We are very excited to announce the Carbon Coop’s submission to the innovative Energyshare programme and I am writing to ask for your support, by voting for our bid, to help us start putting co-operatively owned solar panels on our City’s roofs. The Carbon Co-op is hoping to secure...
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Neither Shoreditch nor Manhattan: Black Country...
lowwintersun contributed via Urban Research Collective to the Black Country creative advantage book, ‘Neither Shoreditch nor Manhattan’, published in May 2011.
The publication critically examines regeneration led by ‘creative industries’ in the West Bromwich area and features contributions from artists, researchers and activists.
You can download the publication as a...
Manchester Carbon Co-op →
Please support the Carbon Coop’s application to EnergyShare - it just takes a few minutes! http://s.coop/1bvz
We are Open →
Print Club London →
April 2011
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BandStand - A Grand Day Out
Jonathan of lowwintersun co-organised the BandStand event for Single Cell Collective and Operation Farm.
‘BandStand - a celebration of local food and music’ took place on Sunday 10th April 2011, with around 2,000 people enjoying some great music and some lovely local food in the unexpected and most welcome warm spring sunshine.
Local sustainable food network, Operation Farm,...
Added Value event - social enterprise and public...
Project managed by lowwintersun for Wigan Recycles and SENW, Added Value took place on Tuesday 29th March 2011 at Levenshulme Inspire, Manchester.
The event, added by over 60 commissioners, managers and public service staff, explored the social enterprise model and its potential for public service delivery.
As well as panel discussions and Q&A sessions, the event included practical...
BandStand - A Celebration of Local Food and Music
11am-5pm Sunday 10th April 2011 At the Victorian Hyde Park Bandstand, Hyde Park, Hyde SK14 4JX
The best in Manchester music Featuring live music from: Honeyfeet, Samson & Delilah, The Tao of Steve, Glass Ankle, Naymedici, Phil Davies, SR Downes and street theatre from Canopy present The Preeners. All compered by poet Dominic Berry.
Local sustainable food Featuring fresh food and...
February 2011
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January 2011
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'Ecological Literacy Map' (Tube map style) →
Wu Ming Foundation blog →
The blog of the Wu Ming/Luther Blisset, Italian writers collective, authors of Q, 54 and Manituana.
December 2010
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Broken City Lab →
Broken City Lab is an interdisciplinary creative research group that tactically disrupts and engages the city, its communities, and its infrastructures to reimagine the potential for action in a collapsing post-industrial city. Based in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Community Renewables Finance School →
Project website for Community Renewable Finance School, a partnership between Carbon Co-op (lowwintersun) and Carbon Leapfrog.
A new tune by Single Cell Collective's... →
November 2010
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Generating Interest - Renewables and the Third... →
This is an executive summary of a report I wrote in April 2010, commissioned by GMVSS, looking into the capacity for Third Sector organisations to contribute and benefit from renewable energy development.
I am currently working with GMCVO to develop the ideas outlined in this report, more news soon..;
WatchA great new video from the Kindling Trust, explaining the concepts behind ‘sustainable food’.
Together Works 2010
lowwintersun are staging an event with Together Works, the social enterprise network for Greater Manchester.
To be held 4pm-7pm, Tuesday 23rd November 2010 at Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab), Edge Street, Manchester, the event will allow attendees to network, do business and debate. A panel discussion, Boom or Bust: Social Enterprise In 2011 with feature contributions from local social...
October 2010
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The Union Street Urban Orchard →
Through my involvement in the Black Country Creative Advantage project I’ve met landscape architect and artist, Heather Ring. She’s been involved in organising the Union Street Urban Orchard, a temporary installation over summer 2010, on the South Bank that has hosted gigs, meals, film showing and much more. Take a look at the project website. Sadly the trees have now gone but it...
September 2010
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Creative Co-operatives Launch
6-9pm, Thursday 23rd September 2010 OpenSpace, Unit 1, Work for Change, 41 Old Birley Street, Hulme M15 5RF - just opposite Hulme Community Garden Centre and behind Kim By the Sea cafe.
OpenSpace are working in association with Co-operatives UK to stage a Manchester launch for their Creative Co-operatives report and website
Creative Co-operatives is for anyone working in the creative...
August 2010
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Beyond the Tipping Point? film launched
lowwintersun has been helping out with the launch and promotion of a new film, Beyond the Tipping Point? Created by fellow Single Cell member, Dr Stefan Skrimshire, the film examines the idea of tipping points in the global climate system and whether these tipping points might effect how and why people engage in campaigning on climate change issues.
The film is intended as an educational...
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July 2010
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May 2010
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lowwintersun business cards feature in a new book
lowwintersun’s business cards feature in a new book, Nice To Meet You Too. More images from the book can be found here. Big thanks, as always, go to Loz from Because Studio, on all his hard work on that job.
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Canopy
Thanks to funding from Social Enterprise North West we’ve been mentoring performer Sonya Moorhead. With our help she has set up a social enterprise, Canopy, to create theatre to inspire bravery and nurture a sense of well-being. Take a look at her new website.
March 2010
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Together Works case studies
Together Works is the social enterprise for Greater Manchester. I’ve been involved in creating a series of video case studies profiling the breadth and diversity of the members. What struck me about visiting these videos was the inspirational stories of the individuals involved in these enterprises, all of them share the concept of trading to benefit society but carry out that in such...
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February 2010
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Searching Hulme....Finding Zion →
BBC Manchester feature on Single Cell’s residency at Zion Arts Centre.