Introducing CLEAN Day 🌱

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Wednesday 11 November is CLEAN Day, a day dedicated to the ideas, technology and people driving a cleaner, more resilient future.

From community-owned energy and hydrogen to device reuse and Bristol’s green vision for the city centre, it’s a chance to see how the shift to net zero is already happening across the West of England, and how you can be part of it.

What if the ecological crisis is a crisis of values, not just technology? Having once walked 8,000 miles to the capitals of the world’s nuclear powers for peace, this lifelong activist shares why simplicity, reverence for nature and human connection are essential to a sustainable future, and what leaders, founders and technologists can learn from thinking beyond growth and efficiency.

Speaker
Satish Kumar

📍 St Nicholas Church, St Nicholas St
📅 Wednesday 11 November 2026
🕛 12:00 - 12:30 PM

Bristol has called itself a green city for years, but what would it take to make it a clean-powered one? Voices from industry, delivery, technology and national energy planning look at what the region has achieved, where ambition has outpaced delivery, and what the 30-year spatial plan needs to get right to power our future.

Speakers:
Andrew Garrad, Hannah Spungin, Janine Michael, Phil Taylor, Ann Cousins

📍 St Nicholas Church, St Nicholas St
📅 Wednesday 11 November 2026
🕙 10:05 - 10:55 AM

A community power revolution is coming, but can local clean energy actually bring bills down? Community energy pioneers, delivery partners and tech and grid experts explore how battery storage, data, AI forecasting and local trading can make projects stronger, help the households that need it most, and get the West of England ready when the money arrives.

Speakers
Ruth Delaney, Stephen Le Fanu, David Witherspoon, Katherine Rooney

📍 St Nicholas Church, St Nicholas St
📅 Wednesday 11 November 2026
🕚 11:05 - 11:55 AM

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