January 2010 Archives
'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)
