Saturday 10, Sunday 11th, Saturday 17, Sunday 18th September: Open EcoHomes. Fifteen homes in West Dorset will open to showcase low energy living, retrofits, self-builds and straw bale homes. Please see http://bridport.greenopenhomes.net for details, or pick up a brochure at the information centre. Free event run by Transition Town Bridport and welcoming hosts.
Tuesday 13th September, 7.15 for 7.30 , Baptist Church Hall, Broad Street, Lyme Regis: Mukti Mitchell, North Devon’s ‘Low Carbon Living Guru’, has won awards for the creation of his carbon footprint calculator, eco-yacht design and unique secondary glazing system. He will give a talk on Smart Living: how smart lifestyle choices that put your own true, long-term self-interests first, automatically benefit the community and the planet. He goes on to look in detail at Smart Homes, and give tips on energy conservation for period homes.
Wednesday 14th September, 7.15 for 7.30, Chapel in the Garden, East Street, Bridport. Mukti Mitchell, poet, sailor and director of CosyHomes, will look at retro-fitting insulation in-depth, bringing traditional homes and listed buildings up to modern standards of thermal efficiency. £4.00 or 4 NETS, less if you can’t afford it.
Thursday 22 September, 7.15 for 7.30, Bridport Town Hall. Sam Goss is a partner of Barefoot Architects and is known to Open EcoHomes visitors as the architect of the Chalk Wall house in Dorchester and the planned cohousing in Bridport. He will give a talk on Bridport Community Cohousing, covering sustainability of housing and also the broader design process and evolution of the project from an architectural perspective. £4.00 or 4 NETS, less if you can’t afford it.
