Innovative Masters Programme re-launches at New Centre in Hereford
The Bulmer Foundation is delighted to announce that it’s unique masters degree in Sustainable Development Advocacy, has been modernised and is being re-launched this September in the Bulmer Foundation’s new centre at the Cider Museum in Hereford.
The Programme, delivered in partnership with the University of Worcester, is [...]
Alastair, Chris, Ian, Michael and Stephen write:
Is local food sustainable? The team task carried out by this years students on the MA Sustainable Development Advocacy course was an assessment of the barriers to local food consumption in the Malvern Hills area of Worcestershire.
We investigated the local supply chain in terms of sheep/lamb production as a [...]
Shirley Ali Khan writes “Please circulate this in your networks”:
MA Professional Practice: Local Food Advocacy – September 2009 start
This brand new, full-time, fast-track, one year Masters Programme is designed to simultaneously support the sustainable development of local food businesses (particularly in Herefordshire) and train a new generation of local food entrepreneurs.
Students will undertake: placements with [...]
Stephen has suggested this event:
“Low Impact Living: Consumption Beyond Consumerism”
(or, with reference to Gil Scott-Heron, “The Eco Revolution will not be Gadgetised”)
Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th June 2009
Karuna, Picklescott, Church Stretton, Shropshire SY6 6NT
A weekend of camping, discussions, workshops and contemplating change
Cost: £20 weekend or £10 per day / donations
The focus of the weekend is [...]
Jon Dover writes:
CARE FARMING WEST MIDLANDS
HEREFORDSHIRE DEVELOPMENT OFFICER JOB VACANCY
Please see www.cfwm.org.uk for details of an exciting job opportunity to help develop care farms in the County of Herefordshire.
Please pass on to people who may be interested.
All job responses to enquiries@cfwm.org.uk or by post to the below address.
Many Thanks,
Jon.
Jonathan Dover MA
Care Farming West Midlands [...]
Jon Dover wants you to know about this University of Worcester PhD studentship investigating care farming:
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/LV430/PhD_Studentship/
Alastair McGowan writes:
One of the major issues in sustainability is how we can live in the countryside with less dependency on transport and other economies that city life brings.
BBC Radio Four dealt with the issue this week in the Open Country series, focusing on Canon Frome Court in Herefordshire where a number of families are [...]
Michael Hancock writes:
In the middle of March, looking out of the window of The Watershed, the MA SDA’s base in a renovated building on the south bank of the the Wye, I noticed that there were no Goosanders (Mergus merganser merganser) bobbing in the current down river of the old Wye bridge. The Goosanders [...]
Alastair McGowan writes:
I believe that the days of centralised power are numbered, and that a re-tribalisation of society is an inevitable, if sometimes painful, process. The applied theories of politics, economics and industry have made a sick society; it is time for new approaches. We live in the post-industrial world, and have an immense amount [...]
Stephen writes:
This was on an e-bulletin I get from Permaculture Association:
Have the people in charge got a plan to cope? The New Economic Foundation has lined up some suggestions charting a course towards a sustainable, resilient and careful future in ‘A Green New Deal’ , their response to the lack of joined-up action from politicians [...]
