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Spray Building 'spring into action' open for business

Tash [alan lodge] | 05.04.2007 23:15 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Free Spaces

Here in Nottingham, A 'free space' has been made available and is now prepared for use. There will be many workshops here and at the other locations around town.






















Here in Nottingham, A 'free space' has been made available and is now prepared for use. There will be many workshops here and at the other locations around town.

After doing the strawbale building this morning .... workshops at the Spray Building this afternoon included a workshop on building a 'Rocket Stove'

So, if you have time, and would like to get involved, get along there. It's a big warehouse space at:

the Spray Building
Russell Street,
Radford
Nottingham.

Map:  http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=NG7+4GT

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Thu 5th - Wed 11th Apr, Spring into Action - A week of workshops, events, music and action on climate change happening at different venues across Nottingham. It is expected that within this period, there will be some workdays, were you will be able to turn up, and get involved in helping build the project

Spring Into Action - A week of events on Climate Change, happening in Nottingham

Thursday 5th - Wednesday 11th April 2007

This is the 'full' Programme of Events, with dates, time, locations ..... and everything

 http://www.eastsideclimateaction.org.uk/workshops/programme/

 info@eastsideclimateaction.org.uk
 http://www.eastsideclimateaction.org.uk

Please check Nottinghamshire Indymedia on the 'Events' column [left hard side] for details of what when, how and where, nearer the time.

A week of workshops, events, music and action on climate change happening at different venues across Nottingham.

Climate change is real and its happening now. Governments and corporations dream of continued economic growth - economic growth can't solve this crisis, but we can. A massive and concerted effort is needed on the scale of 'Dig for Victory' or the 'Home Front': A war on climate change.

We can't continue our current way of life - the oil on which it all depends is running out too fast. A shift to a locally based economy will have to happen, with food and energy being produced by the people that use it. The only question is when? We could start now, or we could wait for a future of war, famine, hurricanes, droughts and floods. We need to gain the courage and change fast enough to cultivate a new world, before it's too late.

'Spring into Action' is part of an emerging grassroots movement against climate change. Born out of the Camp for Climate Action (www.climatecamp.org.uk), 'Spring into Action' unites people across the east of England into making changes in our own lives, creating small scale solutions in our communities and resisting those who still seek their own short term gain over a safe future for us all.

So get involved, come join a workshop or run one yourself, come and help organise the change that you want to experience in our world.

 info@eastsideclimateaction.org.uk
 http://www.eastsideclimateaction.org.uk

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ALAN LODGE
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Additions

aerial view of the Spray Building

06.04.2007 00:49

an impressive gaff
an impressive gaff

quite an impressive gaff, me thinks

Tash


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rocket science for dummies

06.04.2007 12:10

http://www.efn.org/~apro/AT/atrocketpage.html
http://www.efn.org/~apro/AT/atrocketpage.html

Building a decent stove is one of the basic life skills that should be taught at every school. There are plenty of great websites explaining the technique for anyone who can't make it to the workshop. Rocket stoves are great, and they seem perfect for that big, urban building, , looks like you have little wood and good ventilation, good on you, good for you. I've seen those stoves in permaculture places but never in activist sites, which is a shame since they use less than a tenth of the wood of an open fire. Some people just seem to like chopping down trees I guess. The rocket stoves produce so little smoke that they can be used indoors - although be careful of carbon monoxide poisoning if you haven't ANY ventilation (caravans etc)

I'm building a super-charged rocket stove just now, using discarded old fire-bricks from raeburn /aga ranges to insulate the combustion chamber. The better the insulation, the more efficient it is, the less fuel you use. The bricks are normally too expensive but I have a source of free, old, cracked bricks that I'm cobbling together, hopefully will give it some oomph. The tin cans you are using are comparitvely inefficent but I know you are using them as a teaching-aid to spread the concept and not as ideal engineering design.

Good luck with the Spray Building, with a name like that you just have to run a spray-painting workshop sometime soon ! What other workshops have you lined up ?

"As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously." - Ben Franklin, stove designer

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