Fife Science Festival at Earthship Fife Visitor Centre

Sustainable Communities Initiatives’s creative workshop is a part of Fife Science Festival’s programme!

After 12 years of ever-evolving creative ideas at SCI (Sustainable Communities Initiatives) we have launched a new book, ‘Plastics are (still) Fantastic’. It is full of great ideas of things to make with your family and friends, with the help of easy-to-follow instructions. During the workshop, we will guide you step-by-step through DIY techniques. Come and enjoy turning plastic drinks bottles into flowers, windmills, bird-feeders, spiders, rockets and much more. It’s fun and creative, and it’s free. 

Audience

Families/ALL

Admission

Free, drop-in

Time and venue

Sunday, 23 March, 2014 (12-4pm) in our Mongolian Community Yurt

Earthship Fife Visitor Centre  
Kinghorn Loch
Kinghorn, Fife
KY3 9YG

About the venue

The Earthship Fife Visitor Centre is a fully autonomous, self-sustaining building and the first and only in Scotland. It is a highly energy efficient building made from natural and recycled materials – mostly tyres filled with earth, aluminium cans and bottles. Come and see how it works, take a tour and do our close-up quiz for children!

2014 is the 10th anniversary of the Earthship Fife Visitor Centre and we have lots of events planned. The 23rd March will mark the re-opening of the Earthship to visitors. Keep an eye on the website for further information about our anniversary and for opening times: http://www.sci-scotland.org.uk.

For further details, contact Louise on 01592 891884 or inquiry@sci-scotland.org.uk

Christmas Fair in Burntisland

Free Christmas workshops for the whole family! Come along on Saturday 14th December (12-3pm) to the Sustainable Communities Initiatives Christmas Fair at Young Community (Music) Hall, Thistle Street in Burntisland.

Make your own Christmas wreath out of natural materials and festive recycled decorations, knit a Christmas gift, bake and make with gingerbread and listen to seasonal stories.

You can also relax with a coffee and cake at the café and browse the handmade gifts for sale. Take some time out from running around shops and remember all the nice things about Christmas!

For further information, contact Louise at SCI on 01592 891884 or email inquiry@sci-scotland.org.uk.

Priorsford Primary loves upcycling…

…and we love the School! They asked Richard – plastic bottles constructions designer, to build one in Peebles, so that kids could assist on the site and learn, too. There you go! Last Wednesday pupils were preparing bottles to be fit into the walls by cutting off the bottoms. There were some volunteers, too and team spirit helped to overcome unpleasant weather conditions and complete the greenhouse. It now shines on a playground, absorbing light and is ready to use for growing plants, as a shelter or a play room.

Fancy building your own plastic shelter? SCI can help you, offering different packages:

– full supervision and build with SCI

– SCI builds the frame and provides training & supervision to self build with bottles

– self build using “Plastics are Fantastic” booklet & SCI consultation (SCI spends two days on site at crucial construction points).

More about waste education package can be found here: http://www.sci-scotland.org.uk/bottle.shtml

Prefer being your own boss and work alone in your backyard? Why not go through Plastics are Fantastic booklet for tips and photos to help you start. Earthship shop is so close! It’s here: http://www.sci-scotland.org.uk/shop.shtml

Interesting fact: You can make a solar heater from old cans: http://bit.ly/NiTM7O

Plastics Are Fantastic workshops – Green Scene 2013

Wednesday 11 September was a day full of fun learning and creativity thanks to Green Scene Environmental Learning Festival organised by National Trust for Scotland.

Sustainable Communities Initiatives delivered “Plastics Are Fantastic” workshops for primary pupils. Under the guidance of our energetic facilitator Joeann, children produced rockets, flowers, spiders, bird feeders and wind mills out of used plastic bottles, the material that is a third major waste in the cities.

Re-using plastic not only can be a pro-environmental practice, but it is also an inexpensive and easy method of making learning fun. Children that took part in our sessions were very creative and engaged. Teachers told us, that they had more ideas and wanted to continue this kind of activities when back to schools.

Good news for those, that couldn’t attend Green Scene this time but would like to learn how to re-use plastics in a creative way – Sustainable Communities Initiatives published a booklet “Plastics Are (Still) Fantastic”, with plenty of colorful illustrations and handy tips. It can be purchased from our on-line shop here: http://www.sci-scotland.org.uk/shop.shtml as well as directly at Earthship Fife Visitor Centre in Kinghorn.

If you would like to book creative waste workshops for your school or community group, please e-mail us at greenwaysdays@sci-scotland.org.uk or phone 01592 891884.

Interesting fact: According to British Plastics Federation, The UK uses over 5 million tonnes of plastic each year of which an estimated 24% is currently being recovered or recycled.