Making the Homes We Need within Planetary Boundaries 🗓️ 16 June, @wshed.bsky.social We invite you to join community activists, designers, and policy-makers who are co-designing and making new ways to create decent and affordable homes that don’t cost the earth. housing-reimagined.eventbrite.co.uk

Housing Reimagined: Making the Homes We Need Within Planetary Boundaries

How can we deliver the 1.5million homes the government has pledged to deliver, without costing the earth?

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A little side project I've been working on... @roll-models.bsky.social – a mentorship community with a vision to empower women and other marginalised genders to explore by bike – independently, adventurously, and on their own terms. open.spotify.com/episode/2dCQ...

Building Confidence in Bikepacking Through Mentorship: Athlyn Cathcart-Keays and Roll Models

Detours: Bikepacking, Ultra-Cycling and Adventures by Bike · Episode

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Join the @wecanmake.bsky.social team at our next Neighbourhood Meet Up to make a cold-busting 'fire cider' tonic, try your hand at some visible mending 🪡 and learn how to safety-check your bike 🚲 Book a spot 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wecanmake-...

WeCanMake Hood Meet Up – Feb

Meet the WeCanMakers, for an evening of speed crafting and making!

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WeCanMake@wecanmake.bsky.social · 2y ago

At our next WeCanMake Hood Meet Up (20 Feb), the team would like to share some of what we like making in our own time with YOU! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wecanmake-... #Bristol @knowlewestmedia.bsky.social

At this meetup, you’ll be able to take part in: 🚲 Bike maintenance with Athlyn and Peter 🪡 Visible mending with Hester and Riannan 🍯 Fire cider making with Tay and Meha 🍲 Shared food + drink 😊 Connect with the wider WeCanMake network Book your spot: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wecanmake-...

WeCanMake Hood Meet Up – Feb

Meet the WeCanMakers, for an evening of speed crafting and making!

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What a morning! Crossing the Clifton Suspension Bridge will never get old. #bristol

We've launched the programme for our Hood Meet Ups for the next few months! They'll take place every third Thursday at The Factory, with each one involving some making/crafting together, food and drink, and a chance to get together with the wider community. www.eventbrite.com/cc/wecanmake...

WeCanMake Neighbourhood Meet Ups

Every third Thursday of the month, join your neighbours for an evening of making, meeting and mingling with WeCanMake.

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We're revisiting our guiding principles at this month's @wecanmake.bsky.social Hood Meet Up. Join us from 5-7pm at The Factory 🏭 for some making, a shared meal, and a get together with the wider community. @knowlewestmedia.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wecanmake-...

WeCanMake@wecanmake.bsky.social · 2y ago

Here are a few reflections from team members @tayaziz.bsky.social, @athlynck.bsky.social and Riannan on which principles resonate with them most, and how they serve as a lens through which to sense-check and reflect on our work.

We are gently starting 2025 as a team, reflecting on the principles that guide our work, and how they will shape the year ahead. Join us at our Hood Meet Up this Thurs to explore the principles in more depth, share food, and connect with the wider WCM ecosystem. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wecanmake-...

WeCanMake Neighbourhood Meet Up – January

Our guiding principles – setting intentions for 2025

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How did I miss this study when it came out a few months ago? Google Scholar normally emails me about anything that even mentioned cycling. Anyway - WOW, look at the effect sizes for the benefits of active travel

Jim's Wheels@jimswheels.bsky.social · 2y ago

bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/2/1/... full study here, abstract is good explanation

How do you like to reflect on the last year + plan the next one as a team? We've played around with Year Compass and a few other journaling methods at @wecanmake.bsky.social + would love to know what other tools are out there that we can use to look back + set intentions for 2025.. Any suggestions?

"It is so important that we build homes… And we do that with a neighbourhood focus, rather than just housing units." Read the story of Hastings Commons and community-led housing from our Trustee, Jess Steele 🏠 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hastings Commons: 'Why I spent £85k to help fix housing crisis'

Dr Jess Steele put her money into a project providing affordable homes to people in her community.

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This is the list of reasons to invest in the Chocolate Factory development at the end of my road in Bristol, where the new flats are being wholly marketed as buy to rent. This isn't how it was originally marketed, and very different from how the dev was presented to local residents prior to building

@jrf-uk.bsky.social's latest Cost of Living Tracker makes for grim reading, particularly for low-income ethnic minority households who all face an elevated risk of hardship. Around 8 in 10 households with a Black respondent are at very high risk of going with essentials such as food and heating.🧵1/

Picture this: I’m in one of the most remote parts of the UK with my fully-laden gravel bike on my shoulders, and I’m climbing up a switchback trail so steep that I’d probably be enlisting the use of my hands if I’d had the capacity to do so. athlynck.medium.com/riding-the-r...

Riding the Ridiculous: Adventure and empowerment on Le Tour de Farce

A journey through the Northwest Highlands of Scotland by bike, with a single egg in tow…

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Erm, how would I go about reporting A CAR driving along the Bristol-Bath cycle path this evening? @sustrans.bsky.social

Nice demonstration of the importance of accessibility as a characteristic of infrastructure. There might be a lot of green space in the east of England, but it's of not much use if you can't access it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Call for east of England coast trail to address access-to-nature gap

Exclusive: Trail would help region with few areas where people can walk in countryside, report says

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Well this is turning into a pretty ok space to be :) Hello EVERYONE If you're seeking more #HopeInTheDark (gratitude & citations to @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social) - here's a starterpack of place-based changemakers who're making some of those better futures we all hope for happen. go.bsky.app/6BNBPgg

This list is growing. A few new additions this morn @jesscraig.bsky.social @jakepuddle.bsky.social @jillyrutter.bsky.social @kenanmalik.bsky.social @athlynck.bsky.social @davidbarclay.bsky.social Do shout if you want to be added, or can think of someone else that should be. go.bsky.app/H5rQDgh

@vanfh.bsky.social so glad I made the cuf for your big Bluesky debut

Ok, I’m here… Who do I follow? You’ll find me posting about things including shaping regenerative neighbourhoods with the people who live in them, and my self-propelled adventures…

Reflections on #Rotterdam so far - the stairs here are dangerously steep.

A wonderful community business that's building social infrastructure and community wealth in Bristol - give them a follow!

WeCanMake@wecanmake.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hi, we're WeCanMake and we've joined the exodus from that other platform... WeCanMake is a neighbourhood test space in south Bristol, imagining and making low-carbon homes that grow social infrastructure and community wealth in the process. Operating out of a community microfactory, we... 🧵

We’ve escaped! Follow 👉 @wecanmake.bsky.social, and join us at our upcoming meet up (Thurs 21 Nov) if you’d like to connect IRL tinyurl.com/21nov-retrofit

WeCanMake@wecanmake.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hi, we're WeCanMake and we've joined the exodus from that other platform... WeCanMake is a neighbourhood test space in south Bristol, imagining and making low-carbon homes that grow social infrastructure and community wealth in the process. Operating out of a community microfactory, we... 🧵

Bristol's first public map of the repair, share and reuse community has just landed thanks to UWE & Bristol Waste. Check it out for: - Book libraries - Charity shops - Commercial repair - Communal workspaces - Libraries of Things - Recycling - Reduce - Repair cafes - Reuse #circulareconomy

Repair Share and Reuse Map - Google My Maps

A map of organisations in the areas of share, repair, reuse, recycle and community in Bristol and the surrounding areas. This was developed as a collaborative project between Share Bristol and UWE Br...

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Our ability to thrive in the future, and to fulfil all those carbon goals we’ve set ourselves, depends on this hidden underbelly I like to call the “Material World”. It depends on us getting the metals & minerals we need to build the 21st century world. In staggering quantities.