Training for Transition - Places available this weekend

Training for Transition

Event Date & Time

Saturday, 5 March 2011 - 9:30am - Sunday, 6 March 2011 - 5:30pm

Location

THE HUB

5, Torrens St,

LONDON EC1V 1NQ

United Kingdom

Event organiser

Steph Bradley

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Very exceptionally we have several places left on our 2 day training for transition course in London 5/6 March.

This course costs £105, but concessions are always available.

"one of the best training workshops of any kind I have been on" (participant Nov 2010)

Training for Transition is a 2-day "fundamentals" course for those wishing to know how to set up, run, and maintain a successful Transition Initiative. It is packed with imaginative and inspiring ways to delve into both the theory and practice of Transition - download the course overview below.

The first Training for Transition was held on 19/20-Oct-07 in Totnes, and there have now been more than 70 further trainings in the UK and internationally. There are now training pools offering Training for Transition in Canada, the USA, New Zealand, Australia, and Japan. In addition we have run trainings in Italy, Hungary, Ireland, Holland, Brazil, Germany, Belgium, and China - with further trainings planned for Spain, Portugal, France, and Denmark.

This two day workshop is both a practical and informative introduction to Transition and a powerful personal journey to greater personal resilience. It weaves together practice and theory, information and experiential, our inner Transition with our outer Transition, and personal and community Transition. The feedback from participants indicates that this two day journey holds for many key insights, understanding, and awareness to help them to contribute to the most important journey of our times; the journey to a peaceful and resilient world.

Our intention in offering this training is to inspire, encourage, and inform people who wish to undertake Transition. There is plenty of glowing feedback, and now increasing evidence that those initiatives who attend the training find setting up and successfully creating a Transition Town an easier, faster, and more convivial process. By learning the nuts and bolts of what has worked in other Transition Initiatives, it empowers you to creatively apply Transition in your town, city, hamlet, or island.

Many people do this training when already involved in Transition and find it enriches and adds to their experience as well as providing opportunities for sharing experiences with others on the same journey.

Venue:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ie=UTF-8&q=the+Hub+Islington&fb=1&cid=2504808908679429095&li=lmd&z=14&t=m

Contact Steph Bradley training@transitionnetwork.org to book.

Next Film at Green on the Screen - Wednesday 2 March 2011

Green on the Screen

Moors Bar, Park Road

Crouch End

Doors Open @ 7pm

Film Showing @8pm

Suggested Donation £3

 

The Turning Point: a return to community



The Nature Sanctuary at the Findhorn Foundation Community



The Turning Point: a return to community explores the vital importance of community in the 21st century and its role in helping us to create a life-sustaining society.

 

The film takes an inspiring look at some of the sustainable community solutions that have grown up over the last 20 years around the Findhorn Foundation community in Scotland. This multi-faith spiritual community, ecovillage and international centre for holistic education aspires to foster a new human consciousness and to create a positive and sustainable future.

The film also explores Community Supported Agriculture, the localisation of wind energy, egg, cheese and bread production, ecological sewage treatment, a Transition Town community garden, car pooling and adopting a local currency. 

 

You can see clips from the film here

To RBS or not to RBS - Should we get involved in Climate Week?

This year's Climate Week takes place from 21-27 March with Tescos, the headline partner,and with support from Aviva, EDF Energy, Kelloggs and RBS.  You can see the two logos side by side (Tescos and Climate Week) on the publicity material with the Tescos's slogan, Every little bit helps standing out.

Tescos have pledged to 'become a zero-carbon business by 2050.'  They plan to reduce emissions from the products they sell and in addition, help customers work on their own carbon footprints. All very worthy and we like to hold Tescos to account - see the recent Hornsey Journal article pointing out the discrepancy between their policy on food waste and their dumping 400 loaves bread during Christmas period.
http://www.hornseyjournal.co.uk/news/muswell_hill_tesco_bread_outrage_1_767211

Tescos are not offering funding but participating organisations can have their events listed or apply for an award. 'Little', indeed.  However organisations that sign up will become part of a media extravaganza which includes celebrities and politicians, and a well-publicised campaign in schools and workplaces.

Tim Schmit, founder of the Eden Project in Cornwall appearing on Saturday Live last week said, 'One mustn't confuse the brand with the people that are inside it' and in 2007, he argued that the organisations 'that might make your tummy turn' were the 'very ones capable of changing the world.' 

On Saturday's programme he seemed less convinced that these behemoth corporations are going to save the world: the imperative of every public limited company is to maximise profits for their shareholders, which scuppers any move to equip themselves for change.  Nevertheless he still believes that these organisations contain people who were once idealists.

And there is a problem with getting the Climate Change message across, as Jolyon Jenkins found out in Radio Four's In Denial - Climate Change on the Couch.( http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y92mn)

Too terrifying, too austere, too distant a vision of the future makes people switch off. Nomalising the idea of climate change so that it becomes discussed during ordinary day to day activities may work better.  So the project, Stirling Going Carbon Neutral hopes to reach 35,000 people through rugby clubs and knitting circles; Solitaire Townsend from Futerror 'sells the sizzle' at a swishing event in Brixton.

George Marshall of Climate Change Outreach Network explains how the green agenda of climate change can actually undermine the move towards common understanding.  Its assumption of a leftwing liberal stance narrows the discussion and fuels rightwing arguments of bias. He argues for example that the much loved image of the polar bear is actually counterproductive.  The image is associated with the environment, but a distant environment, nothing to do with us.

So is there an argument for piggy backing on a household name, Tescos or would we be contributing to a cynical campaign that promotes their 'green credentials?'

Would we be creating a communal effort, reaching a wider audience through the media and the workplace, or are we just propping up a consumerist society through our alligning ourselves with a supermarket and a bank?

What to do?

Introduction to Permaculture at the Meadow Orchard Project

Introduction to Permaculture
Sat 19th &o Sun 20th March 2011
9.30 – 5.30pm
Meadow Orchard Project (access at back of carpark through health centre)
Hornsey Health Centre, 151 Park Rd, Crouch End N8 8 JD
  

A weekend course to learn new skills and practical approaches to living in a more sustainably way in all areas of your life. The course will cover the underpinning philosophy, ethics, principles and practical tools of permaculture – an approach that is being used by individuals and grassroots community groups globally to provide some of the solutions to our common environmental, economic and social challenges.
The Meadow Orchard Project provides an interesting and inspiring venue to illustrate these principles in practice to gain insight and reflect on our actions, as well as a chance to get hands-on.

Course teachers are
James Taylor and Kate Allardyce
Meadow Orchard Project members
Cost for course £50 or £30 concession (limited further concessions available) 

To register for the course please email meadoworchard@virginmedia.com or phone 07947 617563
This course is subsidized so priority will be given to regular Meadow Orchard Project volunteers and local residents. We hope to run more courses in future.   
To sign up to receive regular updates for the Meadow Orchard Project see http://shepherdscothealinggarden.ning.com/

Transition Crouch End Steering Group Minutes (7.02.11)

Transition Crouch End (TCE) Steering Group Meeting

Monday 7 February 2011, The Maynard

Present: Andy, George (Chair), Gillian (Minutes), Patrick, Rebecca, Tilly

Apologies: Catriona, Kate, Rachel

Agenda

1.     Minutes

2.     Magnificent Revolution Bike Workshop

3.     CSA

4.     Website

5.     TCE AGM

6.     HVCC Events

7.     AOB

1.     Minutes

Several matters were arising from minutes – see below.

2.     Magnificent Revolution Bike Workshop

Green Lens Studio can host the workshop for £200 a day, including tea and coffee.  Magnificent Revolution normally charge £40 per person, aiming to attract 20 people; it is not clear whether this includes the price of the venue. The funding from Pennies for Plastic could be used to cover the costs of the room or subsidise places on the course.

Action:

·       Gillian to negotiate prices with both parties and contact Transition Finsbury Park and Belsize to assess interest.

·       Rebecca to pass on Bart’s email, a TFP member who has links with cycling networks.

3.     CSA

The number of farm boxes is now 12, which is not sustainable in the long term (although alternative drops at Muswell Hill and Archway have been discussed).  It would be useful to feedback to the farm any issues or suggested improvements.

Action

·       Sam to provide a leaflet to distribute at networking events.

·       Gillian to produce a survey on the farm box to be circulated around the original list.

·       Rebecca to investigate Loyalty Scheme

4.     Website

The domain name can be linked to the blogspot and then migrated to a website later.

Action

·       Tilly to buy domain name, www.transitioncrouchend.org.uk and link to www.transitioncrouchend.blogspot.com

·       George and Gillian to explore the possibility of expanding the blogspot (or wordpress site) to include other materials e.g. events and photos.

5.     TCE AGM

The most likely date will be Sunday 3 April from 2-5, including a break for tea and cakes.  There will be 5 minutes input from different projects associated with TCE.

Action

Invites to the AGM as follows

Rebecca: Kathryn (River of Flowers), Caroline ( Knowing Thru Growing), Foodcycle, Debra O’Brien (Farmers’ Market)

Tilly: Sarah (Capital Growth)

George: Kate (Meadow Orchard Project), Fred (Muswell Hill Sustainability Group)

Gillian: Azul (Food from the Sky), Andrew (Pennies for Plastics), Sam (CSA), Jo (Growing in Haringey)

6.     HVCC Dates

Sunday 20 March 2011 – Clean up day at the Centre, including planting the Bike Racks, and HVCC Kitchen Garden Day

Saturday 26 March 2011 – Gardening Day linking  local Capital Growth spaces

Monday 30 May 2011 – May Gala – TCE to help in cafe

Early June -Table Top Sale and Give and Take Event

Permission was granted to include pictures of the HVCC Garden Day in the Newsletter.

7.     AOB

Deadline for SAGRA Newletter is 1/4/11

Transition Finsbury Park plan to unleash their initiative at the Well Oiled Festival in September.  Possible date for TCE would be Apple Day.

Skill Share video

Short film about the 6 Feb 2011 Skill Share (transport and energy) & Seed Swap in Tottenham by Ilaria Vecchi.