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Jane Buttigieg
Feb 11, 2010
Transition Bristol Newsletter February '10
Hello In this February newsletter you can find out more about the Transition Bristol Core Team as well as events planned by some of our City's various Transition neighbourhoods. There are also details of the new film FOOD, inc, an expose of our global food industry.
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Transition Montpelier open meeting |
| Everyone is welcome to this meeting on Wednesday 10th February at 7.30pm at the Fairfield Resource Centre, 26 Fairfield Road, Montpelier. They will be discussing the possibilities of a renewable energy project in Montpelier. In addition, they have a guest speaker MIGUEL MENDONCA, Author of "Powering the Green Economy" (www.worldfuturecouncil.org). for further info see: http://www.transitionmontpelier.org.uk/blog/ |
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SusWot (Sustainable Westbury on Trym) |
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Wed 24 Feb
SusWot's Sustainable Question Time Venue: Westbury on Trym Village Hall. Doors open 7:15pm - start 8pm sharp. Light refreshments. Admission: £2. Come along and question your parliamentary candidates
for Bristol North-West. What would they each do to assure us a
sustainable future in the light of climate change, oil depletion and
environmental degredation? Submit your question to the
suswot2050(at)googlemail.com, and come along to ask it on the night.
Sat 27 Feb, 9am-1pm (and every 4th Sat of the month): Local produce market, in the medical centre car park. More info at www.suswot.org.uk
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Sustainable Redland |
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On Sunday 25th Feb the Metford Rd Orchard is having
a workday. If you want to attend and it's your first time, ring Joe on 07840 059
079 to let him know you're coming.
Solving Bristol's Transport dilemma is the
subject of a talk and discussion arranged by the Civic Society at the
Friends Meeting House, Hampton Rd on Wed Feb 24th 7.30 - 9.30. Councillor Jon
Rogers will be leading.
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Home Energy Auditing Training for Transition Neighbourhoods |
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we go to press, 19 of the 22 places for the training below have been
taken, but you still might be lucky, so get in touch with Dan on
danweisselberg(at)yahoo.co.uk Are you interested in training to be an "Energy Champion" who can help householders in both rented and private sector to access support, advice and grants to improve their domestic energy efficiency and in some cases move away from fuel poverty? A Home Energy Auditing training course for Transition Neighbourhood Groups will be run on....... Date: Monday 22nd March Location: The CREATE Centre Time: 9.15 for 9.30am to 4.00pm. Booking Essential: 24 places available, email Dan to apply Cost: Free The training will be run by the Energy Savings Trust's Green Communities Team which is part of The Centre for Sustainable Energy based here in Bristol. |
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Transition Bristol Coreteam Corner |
| Greetings from the Transition Bristol coreteam!
We hope that you all had a lovely holiday season. Transition
Bristol had their first meeting of the New Year on 20 January after an
extended winter break. We are excited about what we are hoping to
accomplish this year.
The Coreteam currently consists of Paul Baker of
Sustainable Thornbury, Angela Raffle of Sustainable Redland, Ciaran
Mundy of Transition Montpelier, and Kristin Sponsler and Simone Osborn
of Transition BS3.
As a coreteam, we help coordinate the following current "support" functions and resources:
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Next neighbourhood meeting |
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Following
the succesful get together of main contacts from Bristol Transition and
Sustainability groups in November, it is hoped that another meeting can
be held sometime in March. This will be more open and everyone will be
more than welcome to attend.
One possible item for discussion is the report 'Building a positive future for Bristol after Peak Oil' and how we can move it around Bristol. The
accompanying exhibition at the CREATE Centre can travel round Bristol,
and if Transition and sustainability groups can find somewhere in their
geographical area of Bristol to host it, it would provide an excellent
opportunity for awareness raising. Hopefully
people will get in touch with other items for discussion so that we can
meet again as the last meeting was very productive.
These
meetings are neighbourhood led and inspired, so if you ever wish to
propose an item for discussion at a neighbourhood meeting, or would
like to suggest a speaker, open space topic discussion or anything
else, please get in touch on transitionjane@yahoo.com
If you are already organising an event of your own and would like to publicise it on the website or this newsletter, send it to events@transitionbristol.net |
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Carbon energy dependency and effective social change |
| Want to share your ideas, expertise and experiences with researchers? You are invited to a meeting with local Bristol University researchers interested in local, concrete ideas and projects inspired by social action and concern about climate change. We hope to develop a project that would be mutually interesting for researchers and community groups, particularly around community initiatives that reduce energy demand. Come and discuss! - Feb.15th. 6-8pm. Location to be confirmed but curry supper (incl. veg) will be provided. Please contact Bronwen Morgan (B.Morgan@bristol.ac.uk) for further information | |
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Easton Energy Group |
The next meeting will be on Thursday 11th March 7:30pm at Easton Community Centre. |
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FOOD, inc. The Movie |
| Monday 15th Feb, 18:30 Vue Cinema, Longwell Green 19th-25th Feb 20:20 The Watershed The Soil Association is proud to be the official charity partner of this eye opening documentary which reveals how supermarkets have worked with governments to keep food costs artificially low, to the detriment of our health, animal welfare and the livelihood's of farmers - revealing surprising - and often shocking truths about what we eat and how it's produced. Food, Inc is more than just 'food for thought'; it's an opportunity for activism and essential viewing for any health-conscious citizen. You'll never look at dinner in the same way again! See the trailer here |
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Can you help with this Newsletter? |
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It involves being receiving emails about different events and then
collating them into an online programme which is easy to learn. Help
will be given initially, just to show you how it all works. Putting
the final newsletter together takes about two hours. Please contact
transitionjane@yahoo.com for more information. |
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Awareness raising |
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I did some training just over a year ago on how to give a Transition
talk. I am still very interested in spreading the word about peak oil
and Transition throughout the City and would like to get a group of
people together into an awareness raising team to start doing this. If
you have a good knowledge of peak oil and climate change issues, or
have access to a screen and projector I would love to hear from you. I
would particularly like to hear from others who have done the
Transition training or those who are active in neighbourhood groups.
We could potentially put on other events such as films or bring in
speakers. Please contact me on transitionjane@yahoo.com |
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In Transition-The Movie |
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You
can borrow this film for group viewings. Would you like to know more
about Transition? Would you like to organise a viewing of this DVD at
a group in which you are involved? It doesn't have to be an environment
group. It could be a craft group, reading group, guides
group...whatever! Please contact team@transitionbristol.net and we'll
see what we can do to help.
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Our Transition Neighbours |
| If you are just outside the Bristol area, you may be interested to know that there are Transition groups in Long Ashton, Pill,
Portishead, Nailsea, Backwell, Winscombe and Weston, as well as an
umbrella group called Target 80 in the Chew Valley. See here for more information. |
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Engaging the Powers-a talk |
| Public talk: ENGAGING THE POWERS Alastair McIntosh, environmental campaigner and acclaimed author will speak in Bristol as a guest of The Bristol Ecoshows on Monday February 15th 7.30pm on the 3rd Floor, Bush House (above the Arnolfini) 72 Prince Street BS1 4QD £3 entry. The venue has disability access. |
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Freeskilling event |
| Basic Clothes Making Tues 16th Feb, The Better Food Company, Sevier St @ 7pm Learn how to follow a simple pattern to make your own skirt from scratch. The workshop will cover basic techniques such as picking fabrics, using linings, and fastenings. With Sarah Inman. |
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On behalf of The Transition Bristol Team
Transition Bristol
Dec 03, 2008
Transition Bristol December Newsletter
A monthly newsletter produced by Transition Bristol. This month's newsletter reflects on the achievements of the past year and looks forward to 2009.
Reflecting on the past year...
Transition Bristol has achieved a lot this year. There are active Transition neighbourhood groups across the City and Transition Bristol has a strong and very committed Core Team which has achieved some really positive things in 2008.
We have continued to hold the monthly network meetings, some of them themed, from which we have had good feedback. We have developed our website with the help of some really enthusiastic volunteers and send out a monthly newsletter with an ever increasing number of subscribers.
We have also run stalls at the Organic Food Festival and had a presence at the Schumacher Conference. We have contributed to the National Transition Network document on structure.
In September we ran some very successful food related events, 'Share the Harvest' and 'Eat the Change', both of which will be further developed next year. We have also held a joint workshop with the Soil Association which will hopefully at some point in the coming year lead to the establishment of Community Supported Agriculture Projects across Bristol.
In February, Daniel Lerch of Post Carbon Cities in the US gave a talk to Bristol City Council, a very significant outcome of which was the setting up of a Peak Oil Task Force for Bristol, and in the last few days Transition Bristol folk have returned from the Transition Cities Conference in Nottingham, held with the very important aim of trying to work out how Transition might be achieved at city level.
...towards 2009
We have achieved a lot, but there is still work ahead!
At the start of the year we will be holding a big open space day for anyone who is interested to have a say in how Transition in Bristol will unfold over the coming year. What sort of unleashing will we have? What will it be called? How will it look? Which working groups will start to form? When will we start the process of energy descent planning? These are the exciting things we will need to consider very soon, so hopefully you will be part of this by coming to this open space day and being a part of the process. Watch this space and our website for further details!
Happy Christmas and New Year to all of you!
Transition Bristol Network Meeting
Tuesday 9th December7-9.30pm
Broadmead Baptist Church
Union Street
Bristol
Transition and the Arts
At the October Network meeting, there was an open space session on Transition and the Arts, notes of which can be seen here. At this meeting, David Mowat will be present to invite anyone interested to form a steering group for his Ecoshow. See his ideas here.
There will be space for you to hear what has been happening in other neighbourhoods and share news of your own. There will also be a chance to hear what happened at the recent Community Supported Agriculture event.
March for Climate Change Action
London, December 6th
Join thousands of people on this March to give an important message to the Government.Speakers include George Monbiot, Caroline Lucas MEP
Apple orchards-not executive flats!
Hamilton House, Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3QY
Don't miss this unprecedented opportunity to influence what land is used for in Bristol.
Bristol City Council is currently asking people, businesses and developers how they think land should be used in Bristol between now and 2026. It is urgent that we make use of this opportunity to begin creating and realising our dreams of sustainable, local living. This means we can insist on land for food rather than flats, for example.
The deadline for submitting your suggestions is 19 December
We think this is too short. If you agree, sign our online petition to have the deadline extended.
The meeting will run as follows:
19:10-19:20 Introduction by Claire Milne of Transition Bristol
19:20-19:40 Talk by Sarah O'Driscoll, Bristol City Council Planning Department
19:40-20:00 Questions
20:00-21:00 Open sessions on:
City Centre Planning-Learn how to find and plot land in your area using City Centre maps as an example.
How to do a land plotting walkabout in your area
Form filling surgery
Ideas for land use change
Neighbourhood space-if there are other people from your area
Sustainable Redland
The Redland group had its AGM on 12 November, where we ran a lively 'carbon counting for beginners' workshop and finished with a party. Events in December will include the Whiteladies Farmers Markets on Friday 5 and Saturday 20 December, and our Orchard workday (weather permitting) on Sunday 21st. We are planning an event for January which will partly be about getting to know new members, and partly for deciding our projects/events/outings etc for 2009. Major themes we want to pursue in 2009 include a garden fruit and veg growing project, and a possible farmlink 'community supported agriculture' project.
Transition Easton
We're still looking for active assistance. If you're interested, there are loads of different ways to help. You might like to help us in talking to local people about Transition, or add content onto our new website, help keep the database up-to-date, help organise some reskilling activities or a whole host of other things!
Whether you've got a day a week or just an hour to offer, we'd love to hear from you!
Email transitioneaston (at) yahoo.co.uk (anti-spam - replace the (at) with @)
or call Abby on 0781 4747606
Keep Castle Park Green!
Public enquiry begins 1st December
The Old Council House, Corn Street, Bristol
The following notice has been received from Castle Park User Group:
Bristol City Council and developers Deeley Freed are still intent on building on our green space. In a bid to stop this, Castle Park User Group have applied to the council to register Castle Park as a Town Green. If successful, it will be permanently protected from development. The Council and the Developers constitute the main objectors to the proposal, and the issue is going to a public inquiry
Support the move to protect our green space for all time
Assemble 9.15am outside the Old Council House; bring banners and placards.
The inquiry is due to run for one week, with two evening sessions.
The times are 10.00am to 5.00pm each day, plus Monday & Wednesday 6.00pm to 8.00pm
There is more information on the internet here
Heart and Soul Group
Many people have expressed interest in a Heart and Soul Group for Bristol. There have been a few meetings for those interested in getting such a group going, held on the first Friday of the month. If you would like to register your interest and would like more information, you can contact Paul Baker.
paulbaker@paulbakerandcompany.co.uk
Tel: 0782882213
Starhawk returns!
Holding the Vision-A two day workshop Wednesday 3rd-Thursday 4th December 9.30apm-5.00pm Bristol Venue to be confirmed Places still available on the Starhawk training days. Transitioners from all over the UK are converging for this 2 day event. If you're interested in coming please email sarah.pugh@ymail.com for a booking form.
For more details, click here
The Green Register
End of Year Party. The Tobacco Factory
9th December£12 for members. £15 for non members.
Simon Lewin, Head of Technical Consultancy at the Centre for Sustainable Energy (CSE), will start the evening off with a talk on developing biomass projects in the South West.
Simon will be sharing valuable lessons learnt from CSE's experience of developing over 40 different biomass projects in the southwest for the SW Bioheat and Coordinated Woodfuel programmes. These range from small-scale domestic and community systems of a few kilowatts to multi-megawatt industrial systems for a variety of clients including schools, community organisations, housing developers and industrial users.
For further details or to book a place, please call 0117 3773490 or email mail@greenregister.org.uk
To receive these newsletters, just go to the Transiton Bristol Website at www.transitionbristol.net and fill in the sign up form on the front page.
Please note that if you would like anything to go into next month's Newsletter, email the details to events@transitionbristol.net Deadline is usually about three days before the end of the month.
Sincerely, Jane Buttigieg
On behalf of The Transition Bristol Team
Transition Bristol
