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1stMay 2012
Glyndebourne Festival 2012 to be powered by renewables
The 78th Glyndebourne Festival, taking place from 20th May to 26th August, aims to be the first opera festival in the world to be powered by renewable energy, thanks to their 67 metre on-site wind turbine that was launched by Sir David Attenborough on 20th January 2012.
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30thApr 2012
Going to Latitude? Join Tour de Latitude to cut carbon and support JB!
Off to Latitude Festival this July? If so, why not dust of your bike and join the Tour de Latitude - a charity cycle to the festival which will raise money for the Kenyan Orphan Project and Julie's Bicycle while keeping your carbon emissions down!
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24thApr 2012
Highlights from the Green Theatre Network 29 March 2012
Videos from Helen Heathfield (Julie's Bicycle) presenting the latest research on the environmental impacts of production, and Frederica Notley (Young Vic Theatre) with a case study on After Miss Julie, a production on which they've worked with Julie's Bicycle to reduce environmental impacts, and also web resources, top tips and tweets from attendees!
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10thFeb 2012
Plunge: Michael Pinsky imagines London's underwater future
Tuesday saw the launch of Plunge, a piece by artist Michael Pinsky, which projects a vision of London 1000 years into the future where rising sea levels have completely altered the capital as we know it.
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23rdJan 2012
Almost half way in our Better Batteries Campaign
We’re four months in to the Better Batteries campaign and we’ve already signed up almost half of our overall aim of 100 companies and organisations. Following our first Better Batteries Bulletin you can catch up with the campaign's progress here.
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14thNov 2011
JB in Australia
JB Director, Alison Tickell, recently visited Australia to give the sustainability keynote at IFACCA's 5th World Summit on Arts and Culture, in Melbourne. This was followed by a fortnight of workshops and public talks on the role of the arts and culture in responding to climate change. Here, she reports back on the experience.
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10thNov 2011
Designers: Do the Right Thing
If you missed Helen's appearance on the D&AD panel for 'Do the Righ Thing,' an event looking at the role of design in changing the way we think, communicate and behave towards a more sustainable version of both the design industry and society as a whole, you can watch it back again here.
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18thOct 2011
Professor Chris Rapley on the Certainty and Uncertainty of Climate Change Science
Professor Chris Rapley spoke at the Julie's Bicycle founding breakfast almost 5 years ago. Here's is the latest video of his persepctive on the certainty and uncertainty of climate change science.
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17thOct 2011
Energy prices on the rise: here's how you can cut costs
As David Cameron and Chris Huhne meet with the "big six" energy providers today to discuss a response to rising energy prices, we've noted our top tips for saving energy at home and in the workplace to bring the costs down this winter and beyond.
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14thOct 2011
Recommended Reading: Culture and Climate Change
This week we've been reading Culture and Climate Change: Recordings, a publication based on a series of discussions around the cultural politics of climate change, featuring contributions from the likes of Mike Hulme, Tim Smit, Siobhan Davies, Roger Harrabin and Marcus Brigstocke.
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