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Transition Bristol Newsletter February '10
by
Jane Buttigieg
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last modified
Feb 11, 2010 07:30 PM
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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Jane Buttigieg
On behalf of The Transition Bristol Team
Transition Bristol
