Family friendly!  

Low Carbon Buffet for just £5

Organic local sourced food buffet brought to you by Slow Food Manchester, Contact's Kitchen and Dig's organic food delivery. Served from 12 - 2pm.

Environmental Design

Window Farm by Maya Chowdhry at Contact's canteen window.

WindowfarmsTM are vertical, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield edible window gardens built using low-impact or recycled local materials.

25 fresh live vegetable plants can grow--lettuce, herbs, snap peas, cherry tomatoes, peppers, kale, small squash, edible flowers, and many more--in a normal 4'x 6' window in your home. That could be a salad a week.

Maya has build one through through the brilliance & generosity of an open design community that you can join.

( www.windowfarms.org )

( www.interactiveartist.org )

Mezzanine - Workshops - Hot Spot Stall

12 - 12.45pm ' Mend your cloths! ' run by Alice, Action for Sustainable Living (AfSL)

If you have any cloths that need any mending, bring them at this workshop and learn where to start!

( www.afsl.org.uk )

1 - 1.45pm ' Window Farms! ' run by Maya Chowdhry

Want to grow some of your own food but don't have a yard?

Come and see how to build a Windowfarm, a high-yield edible window garden built using recycled materials.

( www.interactiveartist.org )

2 - 2.45pm ' Flowers and Plants Hanging Baskets! ' run by Hulme Community Garden Centre

This will be a very nice opportunity to learn how to make your own hanging basket.

( www.hulmegardencentre.org.uk )

3 - 3.45pm ' Reduce . Reuse . Recycle ' run by Emerge Recycling

Family friendly interactive workshops run by the nice people of emerge.

( www.emergemanchester.co.uk )

Space 3 - Talks - Discussions - Showcases

12-1.15pm ' Local Café ' by Transition City Manchester

Transition City Manchester invites people to its Local Café, an innovative yet simple methodology for hosting conversations about questions that matter. And what is this question: What will the role of the communities be in 2030? How will they flourish with limited resources? The Local Café will explore the areas of energy, food, the economy and sustainable living here in Greater Manchester.

( http://transitioncitymanchester.wordpress.com )

1.30 - 2.15pm   ' Feeding Manchester ' by Kindling Trust

Be the first in watching Kindling Trust premier 'Feeding Manchester', a 10 minutes film about how Feeding Manchester project has defined "Sustainable Food". It will be followed by a demonstration of their interactive mapping project of sustainable food in Manchester and a display of the food sourcing they have done for Sustainable Fair, working to rollout sustainable food to Manchester schools. A Q&A will follow.

( http://kindling.org.uk )

2.30 - 3.45pm ' Green Jobs ' by Environmental Performance

Looking for a green job? Or have you got an idea for a business? This is a chance to take part on a panel discussion that will look at the possibilities and processes of getting a job in the green economy and also starting up your own Eco-Ethical Business. Hosted by Jonathan Atkinson - low winter sun consultancy

Panelists:

Nick Martin - BTCV - Conservation Charity ( www.btcv.org )

Finn Lewis - Ecobee - Cooperative ( www.ecobee.org )

Fiona Jones - Wooden Canal Society - Charity ( www.wcbs.org.uk )

Simon - Herbi Mobile Greengrocer - ( www.merci.org.uk/herbie )

( www.environmentalperformance.info )

( www.lowwintersun.info )

4 - 4.45pm ' Community Power Stations ' with Water Power Entreprises and Good Neighbour Community Energy.

What are the energy options for Greater Manchester?

( www. www.h2ope.org.uk )

( www.gnce.net )

Ground Floor - Activities

12 - 12.45pm 'Acustic Music' by Jezabeleza and Ben Playford.

12.45 - 1.30pm 'Films and animations'

1.30 - 1.55pm Public Eco-Bulding competion awards by ArcSpace

( www.arcspacemanchester.org.uk )

2 - 2.45pm Swap Cloths Market

People of all ages! Bring your unwanted cloths, shoes, accesories and be part of what aims to be a large Sawp Cloths Market. You'll get many clothes for free!! It will be your best free shoping experience of your life!

Organised by Alice, Local Project Manager at Action for Sustainable Living (AfSL)

( www.afsl.org.uk )

3 - 3.45pm Dance sustainably! By Solar Salsa

Fancy a dance? Come and dance salsa with a sustainable angle.

( www.solarsalsa.org.uk )

4 - 4.45pm Sustainable Fashion Show by The School of Junk

Come and see the winter season fashion designs by four of the best fashion designers based in Gretaer Manchester. They belong to The School of Junk, a Community Interest Company based in the Northen Quarter which, thanks to a partnership with Oxfam, reclaims unwanted cloths and gives them a second live.

Organised by Kelly and Kim, Local Project Managers at Action for Sustainable Living (AfSL)

( www.afsl.org.uk )

( www.junkshop.co.uk )

Mezzanine -Stalls

1 - ' Manchester: A certain future ' stall run by Action for Sustainable Living (AfSL)

'Manchester: A certain future' is Manchester City Council climate change action plan. Its successful delivery will rely on us all working together which is why the council invites everyone to have their part to play and has set up a stakeholder conference on the 30 th of November at the Museum of science and Industry from 9am to 4am.

AfSL volunteers will video-interview members of the public at envirolution festival around the themes of the stakeholder conference: transport, housing, community engagement (just to mention very few) and will send these at the conference.

( www.afsl.org.uk )

( www.manchesterclimate.com )

2- ' Free Seasonal Refreshments ' stall run by Abundance

Have a nice apple juice from organic local sourced apples from Greater Manchester. Brought to you by the amazin people of Abundance!

( abundancemanchester.wordpress.com )

3- ' Libralato Engines'

If Manchester was the cradle of Royce Rolls cars, it will be also for the Libralato engine, a clean technology for affordable hybrid

and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles that can reduce vehicle fuel-use and CO2 by up to two thirds. Come and meet Dan Aris, the managing director of Libralato Holding Ltd. Company based in Hulme.

( www.libralato.co.uk )

4- ' Garden Delights' run by Hulme Community Garden Centre.

A nice selection of plants and seeds will be in offer for you to buy, but who knows, if you enter in the raffle you might be the winner of a flower-hanging basket!

( www.hulmegardencentre.org.uk )

5- ' Reduce . Reuse . Recycling' run Emerge Recycling

All day one-to-one sessions around the 3 R's.

( www.emergemanchester.co.uk )

Outside Contact -

1- ' Eco-building ' by ArcSpace

Buildings made of plastic botles? Nooo! Really? Come and see it with your own eyes!

( www.arcspacemanchester.org.uk )

2- ' Recycling Live! ' by Kids with Hooves

Come, see, or even better, put your hands on creating an amzing 3D sculpture with these fabolous guys. La-la-ra la-la.

3- ' Bike Power Generators ' by Pow Pow Arts

Do you need to do some excersise? Don't go to the gym! Come to pedal pow pow bykes and power the music for environmental festival.

( www.powwow-ecoarts.org.uk )

4- ' Bike Juice Maker ' by Friends of the Earth

Pedaling a bike and drinking juice, what a better way of getting fit and healthy.

( www.manchesterfoe.org.uk )

Student Union M'chester University

5 - 7pm ' Eco-Brazil Live Feed ' by ArcSpace

Open source telepresence technology will bring us some of the most interesting eco projects in Brazil here in Manchester with a much lower environmental impact.

Envirolution wants to walk the walk and aims to bring any interesting international eco project to Manchester without having to flight those people here. Using telepresence technology is the solution to this. Thank you ArcSpace for organising such an event!

( www.arcspacemanchester.org.uk )

Come and njoy the day!

The Envirolution Team

Matt Rowe - Event Coordinator

Àgata Alcañiz - Programme Group

Bob Whalley - Promotion

Colin Bennet - Volunteers Group

Faye Millar - PR and Press Officer

Matt favier - Event Production

Please, any request, do not hesitate in contacting us at envirolution.manchester@gmail.com

Thank you