There’s some great work coming out of Knowle West Media Centre in Bristol who are working on their Carbon Makeover programme. Here are a couple of the projects already underway and creating lots of interest -
Working with local resident Mil Lusk, KWMC have co-conceived and created
this website which allows local residents to order vegetable seed
plugs (germinated seeds) online, view latest stock, learn more about
seasonality and get active themselves by joining a ‘my back garden’
scheme.
They have also created an administrative GUI (graphical user interface)
where Mil can grow vegetable seeds on demand, dynamically monitor and
maintain her business online; including order summaries, payment
tracking, seasonality info and compost quantities.
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Working with another local resident Akilah Nuru, they have created a
website where local residents and the wider community can understand
the medicinal qualities of plants in direct correlation to common
ailments, share advice and narrative with each other via an
interactive (web 2.0) forum and buy plants from Green Medicine
(allowing Akilah to build up a small business from sale of products).
Both of these projects have scalable elements – which can be used in
other neighbourhoods and regions should anyone be interested?
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Green Homes
KWMC are creating a website called Green Homes where local
residents can sign up for a free* Energy Performance Certificate
(subject to funding), understand the connection between being more
energy efficient and saving money lowering environmental impacts. gather information on
potential savings, grants and other home improvements. They hope to report
something on this project soon.
For further information from KWMC and for contact details please visit -www.kwmc.org.uk
