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A wide range of blog articles published by Sustainable Wales.
PORTHCAWL’S ‘GREEN ROOM’ RETURNS WITH EXCITING PROGRAMME
Sustainable Wales’s ‘Green Room’ performance space has its autumn 2015 programme lined up.
EVENTS so far arranged include the following, with an exciting ‘Cerdd Dant’ launching the season.
Read MoreRichard Marggraf Turley’s recently released novel, The Cunning House, is an exploration - and excavation - of a troubling historical mystery, and holds a mirror up to our own times, exploring sexual scandal, corruption and surveillance
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Our sister organisation SUSSED, an ethical store in Porthcawl run as a social enterprise is conducting a customer survey. If you visit SUSSED please take a few moments to answer a few questions
Take the survey (a new window or tab will open on SurveyMonkey, all answers are anonymous). Your response is appreciated!
Man-made climate change is the greatest threat to our society and environment. A forthcoming course at Ty Newydd encourages all forms of imaginative writing about this phenomenon from descriptions of the present to possible futures.
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The garden at the Centre for Alternative Technology, Machynlleth
It was intriguing to hear Katie and George talk about their plans. A festival of ideas, they said, as well as the usual music and revelry. And why not? Yes, the thought stayed with me. After all, aren't ideas the most valuable currency a culture can posess? I wanted to know more...
Read MoreIn 2000 growing recognition of the reality of the planetary scale of human impacts led Nobel laureate and atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen to coin the term ‘Anthropocene’ to describe the geological epoch in which we now live.
Read MoreWhy would a million people sign a petition against TTIP ? - here are some of the issues...
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a comprehensive free trade and investment treaty currently being negotiated – in secret – between the European Union and the USA. - War on WantRead More
It was 1990 and I had never previously been to Ty Newydd or Llanystumdwy. First, I drove, then walked around the village, passing the now familiar white gates several times but believing the entrance private. Yet I needed to find the house. I was a co-tutor on the first ever Ty Newydd writing course, along with Gillian Clarke.
Read MorePublished in The Guardian on 28th May 2015, The Rhinoceros by Robert Minhinnick
UK poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy curates a series of 20 original poems by various authors on the theme of climate change.
Read MoreOur mission is to seek solutions for the unsustainable way we live. This involves cultural change and has implications for future generations.
Sustainable Wales’s aim is to help revitalise the local economy. We promote social and environmental progress and are enterprising, creative and internationally aware.
We are committed to society, artistic creativity and the natural world. We work with communities, voluntary groups and government.
We believe in this way we can foster an exciting future that doesn’t cost us the earth.
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