Make a cloth bag to replace use of plastic bags to be exhibited at the Knitting and Stitching Show. I've got the entry form with categories for adults and children.
This might be good for publicising at the Summer Gathering. I could supply some fabric pieces for people to take away (I am planning a clear out!) along with a copy of the pattern and details.
If you would like to be involved in this please contact: Hilary on 9814682
Register by 18 June to take part in the competition Sew, Salvage and Save!
The one pot pledge - give it a grow!
Garden Organic has launched a great new campaign which should help get us a nation of growers. If you would like to join in registering your interest in The One Pot Pledge® via the website.
The website is now live, so please do visit and make your pledge now to grow something edible for the first time. Whilst you're there, take a look around - the journey into the wonderful and rewarding world of growing your own starts here!
Already grow? Why not register as a Gardening Guru and help someone else to make their home growing a success.
As well as access to fantastic offers, downloadable resources and advice, we’ll also keep all of our pledgers and Gardening Gurus up to date with seasonal advice and tips via our One Pot Pledge® e-newsletter and blog. You can also follow us on Facebook and Twitter where you will be able to keep in touch and swap stories, handy hints and photos.
Don’t forget to check back on the campaign’s progress either by reading the latest One Pot Pledge ® news and by checking out our potometer to see how close we are to reaching our target of 30,000 new growers for Britain!
So don’t delay, make the One Pot Pledge® and give it a grow!
Wishing you every reward and success,
The One Pot Pledge® team.
The One Pot Pledge® is a Garden Organic campaign.
The One Pot Pledge® concept was devised by Food up Front, the urban food growing network.
Trademark registered to Food Up Front.
All content © Garden Organic | Registered Charity No 298104
For further information on Garden Organic, please visit our website
or phone 024 7630 3517
Garden Organic is the working name of the Henry Doubleday Research Association
Business of Transition
Transition Matlock has been working with the East Midlands School for Social Entrepreneurs (EMSSE) discussing what types of help community groups need to set up social enterprise projects.The result is this free event aimed at all sustainable/ transition / community groups who want to set up projects to make things happen in their community.
Please can you let as many people as possible know about this free event. EMSSE have given Transition Matlock lots of practical support and advice in setting up our Community Supported Agriculture Project and I am sure other groups will benefit from coming along to this free practical workshop day in Belper on the 24th April.
Please can people book places in advance as we need to get an idea of numbers to cater for the lunch.
see details here: or here:
hope to see some of you soon
Helen
Please can you let as many people as possible know about this free event. EMSSE have given Transition Matlock lots of practical support and advice in setting up our Community Supported Agriculture Project and I am sure other groups will benefit from coming along to this free practical workshop day in Belper on the 24th April.
Please can people book places in advance as we need to get an idea of numbers to cater for the lunch.
see details here: or here:
hope to see some of you soon
Helen
ALWAYS WANTED TO OWN A FARM?
Are you sick of the rat race? Wish your life was more “Good Life” than “This Life”?
Is a day on the allotment your idea of heaven? Think you can run your own business?
BBC is looking for ten couples (married couples / siblings / friends etc.) to take part in a new
series which will really put your aptitude for farming to the test. Over six weeks you’ll
learn how to run and manage your own farm; from animal husbandry and harvesting,
to coping with the unpredictable British weather.
The series will culminate in the winning pair getting the opportunity to live and work
on their own small farm.
Whatever your background or relationship; friends / married / siblings, as long as you
both share that yearning for a life on the farm we want to hear from you.
To apply, please email your name to farm@splashmediatv.co.uk and an application
form will be emailed to you.
Successful candidates may spend up to six weeks away from home in summer 2010.
Greening West Bridgford
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Members of Transition West Bridgford have been beavering away to get ready for the launch of the Greening Campaign on Saturday 20th March from 11-2pm at the Becket School on Wilford lane.
There will be music, drama, poetry, games, face painting, colourful displays and demonstrations by local schools and community groups with refreshments and food for all. Come and join us for a fun day and find out about the Greening Campaign challenges.
A guided bike ride by Cllr Richard Mallender will leave at 10.30 from the Pierrepont Deli and one lead by Hugh McClintock of Pedals same time from the Co-op in West Bridgford. This is a great opportunity to get a guided ride via some safe and virtually car free routes along the river past the newly re-opened Suspension bridge to the Becket School on Wilford lane. Otherwise, there's a good sized car park at the school with plenty of free carparking space.
For more information see our website
"ECOLOGIC – dividing good from greenwash in organizational responses to climate change"
Next Event
Tuesday 20th April 2010
5.30pm for a 6.00pm start
Featuring guest speaker Brian Clegg author of ‘Ecologic – The Truth and Lies of Green Economics’
No 1 Nottingham Science Park
Jesse Boot Avenue
Off University Boulevard
Nottingham
NG7 2RU
www.nottinghamsciencepark.co.uk
Our Guest Speaker: Brian Clegg is a popular science author and business consultant whose books include Ecologic – The Truth and Lies of Green Economics, The Global Warming Survival Kit, Before the Big Bang, Upgrade Me and Light Years. Brian read natural sciences (specialising in experimental physics) at Cambridge University and then headed a new high-tech solutions department at British Airways before setting up his own consultancy. His clients have included the BBC, the Met Office, Sony, GlaxoSmithKline, the Treasury and the Royal Bank of Scotland. Brian has given sell-out lectures at the Royal Institution in London and has spoken at venues from Oxford and Cambridge Universities to Cheltenham Festival of Science. He has also contributed to radio and TV programs, and is a popular speaker at schools. Brian is editor of the www.popularscience.co.uk book review site.
The Climate Change Seminars: These seminars are linked by an assumption: that science and scientists are playing a positive role by producing solutions to help mitigate the impact of climate change. Carbon capture and sequestration, new technologies to harness solar, wind and wave power; more energy efficient homes and cars – all these part-solutions, and many more, are fundamentally the products of scientific research and analysis (although allied to innovative engineering and in some cases politically led).
The seminar series are being held quarterly and are designed to promote debate and discussion about these important issues while also encouraging networking among individuals drawn from science, business, academia and other interested communities.
The Venue: No.1 Nottingham Science Park is one of the newest business locations in Nottingham and is helping the city realise its aspiration to become one of the UK’s premier locations for science and technology enterprise. Built by developers Blueprint, it incorporates low energy design, a brown roof, a biomass boiler and a public access lilypad walk featuring sustainable drainage and linked to a nature reserve.
Details: a light finger buffet and drinks will be available; networking is encouraged; invited guests include prominent local figures from business, academia, science and environmental groups.
Registration: This event is FREE, however prior registration is essential. Please register by calling or e-mailing Vanessa Corns at vc@nde.org.uk or by calling (0115) 934 9582 no later than 1st April 2010.
How to get there: An Ordnance Survey map can be seen at
http://getamap.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/getamap/frames.htm?mapAction=gaz&gazName=pc&gazString=NG7%202RU
Parking is available at the venue. If travelling by bus, services 13 and 14 – city centre to Chilwell – both stop near to the science park and can be caught at Beastmarket Hill or Castle Boulevard. The last return bus arrives in the city centre at 23.03. Alternatively you can find bus travel details
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www.science-city.co.uk
Energy Experiment saves 887,000 boiling kettles
There was a 1.4% reduction in electricity consumption on 24 Feb
A total of 29,580 kilowatt (kW) hours of electricity were saved in one night in Notts as part of an experiment.
That is the equivalent to 887,000 2kW boiling kettles.
The Energy Experiment, which took place on 24 February, 2010, aimed to see how much consumption could be reduced by switching off appliances.
Hundreds of households, council buildings and businesses took part in the event which was the idea of BBC Radio presenter Andy Whittaker.
Listeners to BBC Radio Nottingham were asked to switch off unused appliances at the plug and turn off lights when rooms were empty between 9.00pm on Wednesday, 24 February and 6.00am the following morning.
They were urged to tell their friends to do the same.
Central Networks monitored the difference this made in power consumption during the experiment, comparing it with a normal day in the weeks prior the event.
The result shows a 1.4% reduction in demand on the network during the given period.
This was the second Energy Experiment in Nottinghamshire. The first experiment in February 2009 saved a total of 14,150 kilowatt hours of electricity or 425,000 boiling kettles.
Vote Bike - By the National Cycling Organisation
With the general election approaching, now is the time to make sure that cycling will get the attention it deserves in the next parliament. CTC has written the Vote Bike Manifesto to make sure that MPs in the next parliament know what they need to do to make cycling a mainstream form of transport.
CTC's Vote Bike campaign makes it easy to engage with your prospective parliamentary candidates (PPCs) and find out how committed they are to voting bike.
Here's how you can get involved:
* Review CTC's Vote Bike Manifesto and find out what we're asking from PPCs.
* Take action! Find out if your PPCs support Vote Bike, and send them a message asking them to sign up to the manifesto.
Our headline message is for government to:
Commit to double cycle use within ten years, making cycling mainstream in the longer term.
For more details click here
Is solar power a bright investment?
It costs £12,500 to install solar cells on your roof, but new tariffs should give you a return of at least £25,000. So what's the catch? There isn't one, says Miles Brignall
If the government offered to pay you £1,000 a year for the next 25 years, in return for an up-front investment of £12,500, you'd snap it up in a second. Well, that's pretty much the deal on offer this week after the government finally revealed what it will pay those who install electricity generating solar panels – in and around their homes – through the new "Feed-in Tariffs" (FITs).
For the full article in the Guardian Saturday 6th February 2010 click here
If the government offered to pay you £1,000 a year for the next 25 years, in return for an up-front investment of £12,500, you'd snap it up in a second. Well, that's pretty much the deal on offer this week after the government finally revealed what it will pay those who install electricity generating solar panels – in and around their homes – through the new "Feed-in Tariffs" (FITs).
For the full article in the Guardian Saturday 6th February 2010 click here
Solar 100 project
David Nicolson Cole is currently looking at way to increase the use of PV solar in West Bridgford. Good Energy contacted me to let us know that they are involved in a Transition project in Marlow
Where Good Energy negotiates a good deal on PV panels if a large group wants to install. Could this be the way forward for Solar Rushcliffe?
Also for those who want to sell their electricity to the grid this is what Good energy will offer.
For full details of the Marlow solar project click here
Where Good Energy negotiates a good deal on PV panels if a large group wants to install. Could this be the way forward for Solar Rushcliffe?
Also for those who want to sell their electricity to the grid this is what Good energy will offer.
For full details of the Marlow solar project click here
Fair deal for energy entrepreneurs
Fair deal for energy entrepreneurs: Please join our campaign
We'd like you to sign a petition and write to your MP about the unfair deal that early adopters of microgeneration are getting from the feed-in tariff.
Here's why:
Good Energy has a long history of campaigning to help grow renewable generation in the UK. We're really proud that one in every 25 of our customers generates their own renewable power and we're committed to getting the best deal for them.
For several years we were part of the campaign to get a feed-in-tariff - or FiT- to reward renewable generators with a payment for their electricity. We pioneered our own, award-winning HomeGen scheme which pays generators 15p a unit for all the electricity they generate. And we were very pleased when the government recently announced the terms of its FiT scheme starting on April 1st 2010.
BUT - there is a major flaw in the scheme.
For the pioneers who installed their microgenerator before July 15th 2009 the government is offering much lower payments - just 9p a unit - than those available to new generators, who will get up to 41.3p a unit. We think this is wrong.
The UK microgeneration industry owes its existence to the early adopters who installed their own generation equipment because they wanted to make a difference to climate change. Many invested their life savings in such schemes because they believed it was the right thing to do - and they deserve to be recognised and rewarded for their entrepreneurial attitude, not penalised. We believe that green energy entrepreneurs should not be worse off under the new scheme.
So we're campaigning for a change in the legislation to ensure they get the recognition they deserve.
We're delighted that the Liberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael has endorsed our campaign and tabled an Early Day Motion on this issue. As he says, "If the government is serious about wanting people to develop small scale renewable energy projects then they will have to treat everyone fairly instead of punishing those who demonstrate initiative and commitment."
You can support the campaign in the following ways:
* Sign a petition Please sign the petition about this on the Number 10 website -
* Write to your MP If you are an existing generator who will be affected by this, please write to your MP telling him about your concerns and asking him to sign the Early Day Motion. We've drafted a letter you can use. To find out who your MP is, please visit. Cross Party support is important, so please write to your MP whatever his political party.
If we work together, we can make a difference and help our energy entrepreneurs get the fair deal they deserve for helping set the UK on the right path to reducing its carbon emissions.
Yours sincerely
The Good Energy Team
www.goodenergy.co.uk
We'd like you to sign a petition and write to your MP about the unfair deal that early adopters of microgeneration are getting from the feed-in tariff.
Here's why:
Good Energy has a long history of campaigning to help grow renewable generation in the UK. We're really proud that one in every 25 of our customers generates their own renewable power and we're committed to getting the best deal for them.
For several years we were part of the campaign to get a feed-in-tariff - or FiT- to reward renewable generators with a payment for their electricity. We pioneered our own, award-winning HomeGen scheme which pays generators 15p a unit for all the electricity they generate. And we were very pleased when the government recently announced the terms of its FiT scheme starting on April 1st 2010.
BUT - there is a major flaw in the scheme.
For the pioneers who installed their microgenerator before July 15th 2009 the government is offering much lower payments - just 9p a unit - than those available to new generators, who will get up to 41.3p a unit. We think this is wrong.
The UK microgeneration industry owes its existence to the early adopters who installed their own generation equipment because they wanted to make a difference to climate change. Many invested their life savings in such schemes because they believed it was the right thing to do - and they deserve to be recognised and rewarded for their entrepreneurial attitude, not penalised. We believe that green energy entrepreneurs should not be worse off under the new scheme.
So we're campaigning for a change in the legislation to ensure they get the recognition they deserve.
We're delighted that the Liberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael has endorsed our campaign and tabled an Early Day Motion on this issue. As he says, "If the government is serious about wanting people to develop small scale renewable energy projects then they will have to treat everyone fairly instead of punishing those who demonstrate initiative and commitment."
You can support the campaign in the following ways:
* Sign a petition Please sign the petition about this on the Number 10 website -
* Write to your MP If you are an existing generator who will be affected by this, please write to your MP telling him about your concerns and asking him to sign the Early Day Motion. We've drafted a letter you can use. To find out who your MP is, please visit. Cross Party support is important, so please write to your MP whatever his political party.
If we work together, we can make a difference and help our energy entrepreneurs get the fair deal they deserve for helping set the UK on the right path to reducing its carbon emissions.
Yours sincerely
The Good Energy Team
www.goodenergy.co.uk
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