“The next meeting of Witney Eco Forum will be on Thursday 12 September 2024, at St Mary’s Church on The Green, Witney, OX28 4AW. The bar opens at 7.00pm and the speaker will start at 7.30pm.

Dr. Emily L. Connally will be speaking about Waste Innovation Station, the National Lottery Funded project that hopes to establish critical infrastructure for a local circular economy. Waste Innovation Station Hubs bring together and support businesses and organisations to identify gaps in infrastructure and build hyperlocal climate resilience at a quicker pace.

Emily uses lived experience from her childhood in rural New Mexico to guide her vision of communities living within the planet’s resources. Prior to founding Cherwell Collective, Emily was an Experimental Psychologist with expertise in how the brain learns and how people’s behaviour changes. She uses that knowledge to create spaces that are truly open to all, where people from any walk of life can connect without judgment or pressure, and where people build the infrastructure they want and need for climate resilience.”

“Retrofitting our homes” – a talk by Turner Prize-winning collective Assemble

“Join Oxfordshire Community Land Trust for a talk by members of the Turner Prize-winning, multi-disciplinary architecture, design and art collective Assemble about retrofitting buildings. They’ll tell us about the general principles they use to guide their retrofit projects, as well as more specific detail about their current project at St Anne’s College in Oxford, where they’re refurbishing 10 Victorian villas.”

Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, St Anne’s College, 56 Woodstock Rd, Oxford OX2 6HS