This positive, fun film is a must - bring your family, friends and neighbours
- anyone who would like to know more about the Transition movement,
but especially how it is working in our own community of Newent and local villages.
FREE SCREENING
'In Transition' is the first film about the Transition movement.
It features the Oil Memorial at
and the Newent Grand Bag Making Competition. The film tells
the stories of how communities like Newent and around the world are responding to climate change and dwindling energy supplies. It shows how we rebuild our local economies and communities through our own creativity, imagination and practical action.
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'The Heat is On!' by Chris Wooldridge of
Back to the Future in Snow
This January's bitter and snowy weather has not been experienced in Gloucestershire in almost 30 years. I am old enough to remember the '81/82 and the '62/63 winters and this time around there was something quite different in the media's treatment of the weather. Yes, they did show tobogganing families and the stunning beauty of a winter landscape but in the main they concentrated on traffic chaos, food shortage and school closures. (...read more)
A Transition Newent Project
What is the
'Super Insulating Newent & The Villages' Project?
What will it do for you?
What can you do to help?
1, The Project is for the benefit of the whole population of Newent and the 17 surrounding Villages on the northern border of the
2. Its primary objective is to help the 2281 households in Newent and 3910 households in the Villages to reduce their energy costs against a long-term trend of increase; in so doing to enable single householders, whole villages, neighbourhoods or Newent Town as a whole, to do what is possible to meet the challenge of Climate Change, specifically the UK government's target to reduce carbon emissions by 34% by 2020. (.....read more)
No need for Candles, Caves or Hairshirts
In the confusion and disappointment that followed the final hours of the
Copenhagen summit on climate change and with the Christmas season on its tail it might seem that the Transition movement have little to celebrate but this, as I'll go on to explain, would be far from the truth. The world's media will now be full of comment and opinion, blaming certain nations and exonerating its own negotiators. One thing was clear: that a global problem as potentially devastating as climate change taxed the particular and varied interests and structures of the nation state. ........( read more) ........
'The Heat is On!' by Chris Wooldridge of
If we falter the earth itself will be at risk
By the time you read my December column, the
For those of you still unconvinced of the seriousness of the situation, let me recap. ... (more) ...
'The Heat is On!' by Chris Wooldridge of
Judge a Shop by its Shelf in Bid to Win Climate War
Why do environmentalists give supermarkets a hard time? Well, much of the reason lies with retailers' bold claims that they are in the fight against climate change while what actually appears on their shelves contradicts this. ......(more)
Retired GP Ian Kelsy is celebrating his success growing bananas for the first time at his unheated greenhouse near Newent. Since his retirement Ian has been working towards his dream of becoming self-sufficient and developing a smallholding in the area with his partner, Liz Christian. 'It's fantastic after three years persevering with a number of varieties, Dwarf Orinoco, is now producing. I put it down to climate change' says Ian although his own expertise as a grower and banana enthusiast no doubt plays a part. Ian and Liz are active in Transition Newent and supply the local fruit shop Pippins with their produce.
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