November 2025 The Speakers Jonathan Kassian Head of Research, Flood Re Jonathan leads Flood Re’s work to measure and incentivise property-level flood resilience (PFR). Working with industry and government, his focus is on developing actionable evidence for resilience, and on nature-based solutions. He is currently leading Flood Re’s Flood Performance Certificate (FPC) work. Before FloodContinue reading “From Risk to Resilience”
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Re-use and Recycle
The world of charity shops February 2025 What can you take to a charity shop? Clothes, books and toys for sure… but furniture, mobile phones and electrical goods? After a brief introduction to the South Bucks Hospice and the work it does, our speakers, Richard and Pradeep, shared information about the challenges facing high streetContinue reading “Re-use and Recycle”
Climate in the Kitchen – A Practical Guide
November 2024 The Speakers Cinzia Fontana Cinzia has over 20 years of experience in food, sustainability, chemistry and communication. She works to promote food sustainability, conviviality and cooking through community events. She gives talks on food systems and sustainability, new food products and the future of food. Cinzia works internationally to implement a new foodContinue reading “Climate in the Kitchen – A Practical Guide”
Food
Talks, tips and tools for choosing, cooking and eating sustainable food
Clothes
Talks, tips and tools for choosing what you wear with the environment in mind
We use the Law to Protect our Client: Earth
September 2024 The Speaker: Sebastien De Menthon While studying Environmental Law at the London School of Economics, Sebastien discovered the NGO ClientEarth in the legal textbook. It was the first time he had heard of an organisation that specialises in taking legal action to hold governments and big corporations to account for harm caused toContinue reading “We use the Law to Protect our Client: Earth”
Don’t Buy It; Borrow It
The Story of the Oxford Library of Things June 2024 The Speaker: Ben Tuppen Ben is Project Coordinator at SHARE Oxford. As their first part-time paid member of staff, he took on the challenge of building SHARE Oxford into a sustainable organisation for the future, in terms of team, finances and impact. Ben also managesContinue reading “Don’t Buy It; Borrow It”
Farming that won’t Cost the Earth
Wednesday 7 February 2024 7.30pm UK The Speaker: Ben Taylor-Davies aka Regen Ben Ben Taylor-Davies was born and raised on a farm in Ross-on-Wye and studied geography at Liverpool University. A job as an agronomist was going extremely well until 2012 when our young son was involved in a horrific horse accident which changed everything.Continue reading “Farming that won’t Cost the Earth”
Hope for nature: the power of rewilding
Wednesday 6 December 2023 7.30pm UK The Speaker: Jan Stannard Jan is a co-founder and Chair of Trustees of the national rewilding charity Heal. She is also a co-founder and director of Bookmycharge, the bookable EV charging service, dubbed ‘Airbnb for electric cars’. She moved into the charity sector after 40 years serving on companyContinue reading “Hope for nature: the power of rewilding”
Nature’s Tool
Natural succession agroforestry systems November 2023 The Speaker: Angela Baptista Angela’s academic background is as a forest engineer. She worked for most of her life in conventionally cultivated vineyards, orchards and vegetable gardens, but she felt there was something missing. She now realises that the missing link was nature. She believes that we need toContinue reading “Nature’s Tool”
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