tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30560309217915088382024-03-19T05:06:00.293+00:00transition circle eastCharlotte Du Cannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216522431894543642noreply@blogger.comBlogger130125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3056030921791508838.post-26596846994952047112013-09-17T17:49:00.000+01:002013-09-18T12:02:44.599+01:00Sustainable Bungay's Car Free Day - Sunday 22 Sept - FREE Bus Service between Beccles and Diss!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>What would Bungay look like with fewer cars on the roads? On
September 22nd every year communities across Europe take back their
streets for a day. This year Bungay is joining in and we’re asking
everyone to leave their cars at home for the day.</i><br />
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<i><b>There are some great events planned and local traders are offering special discounts and services - see below.</b> And if you live between Beccles and Diss, why not take advantage of the <a href="http://www.sustainablebungay.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Free-Bus-Times.pdf"><b>FREE BUS SERVICE</b></a> Sustainable Bungay has organised with Anglian Bus and visit us:</i><br />
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Working with<b> Anglian Bus</b> <a href="http://www.sustainablebungay.com/2013/09/car-free-day-beccles-diss-bus-timetable/">Sustainable Bungay</a> have arranged a <a href="http://www.sustainablebungay.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Free-Bus-Times.pdf"><b>free bus between Beccles and Diss</b></a>.
There's currently no Sunday service on this route so the 'Waveney Special' presents a unique opportunity to hop on the bus and visit some of the valley's other towns and villages - perhaps for a walk and pub lunch, to visit friends or just for a bit of sightseeing.<br />
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<b>Buses leave Beccles at 9:50pm and 1:50pm and Diss bus station at 11:15am and 3:15pm. You can view the full time table here: <a href="http://www.sustainablebungay.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Sun22980.pdf">Car Free Day Bus Timetable</a></b><i> </i><br />
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<i>Of course if you don't live in Bungay the bus is a great way of getting to one our Car Free day events or taking advantage of the offers from local businesses:</i>
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<b>9am:</b> Town Mayor Judy Cloake and Town Reeve Richard Cundy will see the Godric Cycling Club off on their regular club run (which is for faster riders). The Club are always keen to see new faces, so do feel free to join them.<br />
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<b>10am:</b> As part of Sustainable Bungay’s on-going series of walks around the town there will be a Wellbeing Walk across the Outney Common. Join Tony and others for a gentle walk and conversation.<br />
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<b>10:30:</b> Margaret Sheppard will lead a group through the lanes for coffee in Beccles. A more leisurely cycle ride than the Godric Cycling club run!<br />
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<b>1:30pm:</b> Josiah Meldrum will lead a group along the back roads to join the Bungay Community Beekeepers for their open day at Aldeby. Those who’ve cycled to Beccles with the 10:30am group are welcome to join at Aldeby.<br />
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<b>2:30pm:</b> Picturing the Past – the hidden gems of Bungay: A walk of approx 1.5 miles around the town centre and riverside to view the 16 Bungay broadsheets created by artist Alan Irvine, and the embroidered wall-hangings in the church and library created by Mary Walker (above). The artists will talk about their work and Chris Reeve will cover local history, finishing in St Mary’s church with tea and cakes. Organised for and by Waveney and Blyth Arts. <i>To book (essential) phone Chris Reeve on 01986 893155 or email kitkat46@btinternet.com Waveney and Blyth Arts members £3/£4 non-members (children under 12 free); Tea and cakes (optional) £2.50</i>
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<b>Buttercross Cafe</b> - a free drink for anyone using the cafe on Sunday 22nd<br />
<b>Earsham Street Cafe</b> - 10% discount for those involved in Car Free Day; bring a bus ticket<br />
<b>Tutti Frutti</b> - Tim will be opening his green grocers shop on Sunday morning.
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Like almost every other town, city and village in the UK, Bungay was not designed to accommodate cars - instead the town evolved around the needs of pedestrians, who shared the roads and paths with draught animals and those on horseback. Over the last 100 years the car has come to dominate the roads; walkers have been pushed onto pavements and cyclists squeezed between the two.<br />
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Motor vehicles have brought huge benefits, but there are obvious disadvantages. Aside from segregated and potentially dangerous roads, we suffer air and noise pollution, damage to historic buildings, the loss of open spaces to road building, and health problems linked to a lack of exercise. As the arguments about Bungay’s new one-way system rumble on there’s one simple action we could take to reduce pressure on the town: leave our cars at home.<br />
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<b>Car Free Day</b>, which emerged from separate campaigns in big cities like New York, Berlin and Amsterdam, can trace its roots back to the 1950s. The current annual event is 15 years old and aims to encourage people, for just one day, to reduce their car use. In a rural area like ours where public transport is often limited, cutting back on car use can seem difficult, but Department for Transport research shows that a fifth of all journeys are less than a mile and two thirds are less than five miles. We’re asking people to think about those trips on the 22nd – is walking an option, could you hop on your bike, a bus or even car-share?<br />
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In many towns and cities Car Free Days have eventually led to huge changes in the way transport is organised – in Germany and the Netherlands many towns now have car free centres and improved public transport, pedestrian and cycling infrastructure. Here in Bungay our immediate aims are more modest, but we have persuaded <b>Anglian Bus</b> to run 2 FREE services between Beccles and Diss where currently there is no Sunday service. If this one day trial proves a success we hope Anglian Bus will consider making a permanent timetable change. So if you’re not a cyclist or a walker why not take a trip to one of the other beautiful towns in our valley - or invite your friends to Bungay.
<i> </i>Mark Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08225616694537327344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3056030921791508838.post-49377741458972207092013-07-09T21:32:00.000+01:002013-07-10T16:11:03.994+01:00BUNGAY: Happy Mondays Festival Meal - 15 July<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times, 'times new roman', serif;">Happy Mondays in the Festival Marquee:</span><em><span style="font-family: georgia, times, 'times new roman', serif;"> A feast of local food prepared and served in the Bungay Festival Marquee (at Bungay Castle): </span><span style="font-family: georgia, times, 'times new roman', serif;">15th July | 6:30pm – 9:30pm</span></em></span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia,times,times new roman,serif;">We're getting ready for our BIGGEST ever Happy Monday!</span>
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<span style="font-family: georgia,times,times new roman,serif;">Happy
Mondays with the Community Kitchen is more than a meal, it’s a monthly
celebration of the best in local and seasonal food in great company. </span><span style="font-family: georgia, times, 'times new roman', serif;">In
July the Community Kitchen will be setting up its big table in the
Festival Marquee and cooking a two-course feast for 100. The marquee
will be decorated with garden flowers and the meal will be cooked in our
meadow kitchen - expect a warm welcome and delicious food!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia,times,times new roman,serif;">For this extra-special event there will be a licensed bar in the marquee selling local beer, cider and apple juice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia,times,times new roman,serif;">As ever the meal is £5 for 2 courses (including a glass of Mark Watson’s famous <a class="ecxtpl-content-highlight" href="http://sustainablebungay.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3214816868f07110286850262&id=066eb3fe66&e=eda4b70f8b" style="color: #458b00; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Herbal Refresher</a> - but not including drinks from the bar).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia,times,times new roman,serif;">We’ll be
serving a herby summer vegetable barley risotto with Baron Bigod
cheese; a radish, tomato and cucumber salad; a green leaf and edible
flower salad and a courgette and carrot slaw with horseradish and
yoghurt. The dessert will be marinated strawberries and cream.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia,times,times new roman,serif;">The bar will be serving Lightweight, brewed by the Waveney Brewing Company in Earsham, and Aspall’s cider.</span></div>
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<strong><em><span style="font-family: georgia,times,times new roman,serif;">If you’d like to join us (we hope so!) please complete the booking form you'll find <a class="ecxtpl-content-highlight" href="http://sustainablebungay.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3214816868f07110286850262&id=1c7fb181bf&e=eda4b70f8b" style="color: #458b00; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">HERE</a> or on the Sustainable Bungay website <a class="ecxtpl-content-highlight" href="http://sustainablebungay.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=3214816868f07110286850262&id=f6cb72c7f1&e=eda4b70f8b" style="color: #458b00; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</span></em></strong><br />
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An evening with Rob Hopkins, organised by Transition Swaffham, Transition Downham Market and Transition King's Lynn is happening at<b> The Green Britain Centre in Swaffham on Thursday 4th July at 7pm.</b><br />
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Rob will be launching his new book <i>The Power of Just Doing Stuff</i> and engaging in a Q&A. We will also be building a picture of the stuff we are all doing in Norfolk so do come and help us fill in the maps! This is a really important opportunity for us to come together and think about how we can create a positive vision and transition for this great part of the world. If you are interested in helping out before the event, or on the night, please e-mail John Knock at <a href="mailto:johnknock2@hotmail.co.uk">johnknock2@hotmail.co.uk</a>. <br />
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There will be refreshments available and this will be a great chance to meet other like-minded people from around Norfolk. All welcome. (Ben Margolis)<br />
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<i>Image: Rob Hopkins signs <a href="http://transitionculture.org/2013/06/20/power-of-just-doing-stuff-launches-in-crystal-palace/">new Transition book at Crystal Palace launch</a> (Jonathan Goldberg)</i> Charlotte Du Cannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216522431894543642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3056030921791508838.post-25629448909863524462013-06-23T11:56:00.002+01:002013-06-23T11:56:56.646+01:00Norfolk Permaculture Design Course - 3-16 August<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="ecxyui_3_7_2_35_1371625674190_80" style="font-family: Arial;"></span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">An exciting opportunity to participate in Norwich’s
first residential Permaculture Design Course. </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">This course provides an overview of what
permaculture is all about and how it can help you to design a more sustainable,
yet more abundant lifestyle. The venue, Park House, consists of 12.7 acres of
woodland, arable land and gardens 4 miles from the city centre.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Although permaculture is
most commonly thought about in connection with gardening and farming, its
principles, ethics and design methods can be adapted and used in
individual's own work, interests and home and offers a perspective on all aspects of
building a sustainable future. Permaculture encourages us to use our individual
skills, knowledge and interests, whilst drawing on traditional wisdom, science
and our innate ability to observe and learn from the world around us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Permaculture is about meeting fundamental human needs by mimicking the design
of natural systems. A simple way to understand this is to consider something
you don’t want (waste) being used creatively as new input to the system. In
this way problems can become the source of solutions. The elegance of systems
designed on permaculture principles is in their simplicity and functionality. (Deepak Rughani)</span><br />
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Charlotte Du Cannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216522431894543642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3056030921791508838.post-34775610448231789402013-05-07T19:57:00.002+01:002013-05-07T20:03:42.188+01:00Ecotherapy Awareness workshop 22nd May!<div class="yiv3576523164MsoNormal" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1367944143603_17262">
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invitation is to spend a day outdoors with the intention of creating a deeper
connection to Nature and in the process increase our sense of well-being. The
use of the outdoors for well-being is becoming increasingly popular. The
ecotherapy I train people to use is leading edge in its use of specific
activities that bring people closer to nature and in turn improves their
well-being. You will experience the ecotherapy activities I do with my clients
and receive the positive benefits for yourself. There will also be an
opportunity to reflect on ecotherapy and how it relates to your professional
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involved and the environment. The course will be led by two Transition
Totnes approved trainers and is designed for those wishing to
co-ordinate and lead Streetwise courses in their area. It follows a
successful trail with 8 households in the village of Cransford, part of GreenerFram.</span></span></span><br />
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Totnes under the name of Transition Together. Based on 468 households
from 56 groups the average saving per household is around £570 per year
and 1.3 tonnes of CO2 per year’. ‘The greatest benefit of participating
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Charlotte Du Cannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216522431894543642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3056030921791508838.post-58734314726583112872013-01-29T15:11:00.000+00:002013-01-29T15:12:26.634+00:00Some Winter Dispatches from East Anglia<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">First published on the Transition Network Social Reporting Project 21 Jan 2013, introducing a regional week on Transition in East Anglia</span></i><br />
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This post is not (for once) just about Sustainable Bungay (“You don’t really need to speak about us this time Mark,” laughed Josiah on the phone the other day. “We’ve been very well represented, after all!”). I did want to mention that meeting though, because of the connections I perceive between the local initiative I’m in and what people are saying and hinting at in their pieces for this week on other Transition initiatives in East Anglia.</div>
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The two main things I notice at this point five years down the Transition line are: one, a strong feeling that we actually have been building community over this time with all our meetings and events and discussions. People really wanted to be in the pub looking at ways, often quite simple ways, to maintain well-being, and hence resilience, by doing things together. This is reflected in Carol Hunter's piece (this coming Thursday) about Downham and Villages in Transition in west Norfolk.</div>
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The other is an awareness of how many people are in our lives who weren’t there before Transition began. And how diverse we all are. Even in a rural market town like Bungay (sorry, I’ll try not to say it again) where the population is less obviously diverse than in a city, say, our transition group has (and welcomes) a large variety of people. Everyone was aware it couldn’t be done on our own. And even within the group itself, there is a greater awareness of the challenges we face both locally and globally, certainly in terms of financial and climate instability, than there was in the early days.</div>
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East Anglia has hosted three Transition in the East gatherings since 2009, in Downham Market and Diss (Norfolk) and East Bergholt on the Suffolk-Essex border, as well as a large Transition Suffolk meeting in 2011. The<span data-mce-style="color: #353535;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #353535; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 21.33333396911621px;"> </span></span><b style="color: #353535; line-height: 21.33333396911621px;"><a data-mce-href="http://transitionculture.org/2009/11/17/transition-in-the-east-a-brilliant-look-at-whats-rising-in-the-east-of-england/" href="http://transitionculture.org/2009/11/17/transition-in-the-east-a-brilliant-look-at-whats-rising-in-the-east-of-england/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 233, 228); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #027583; text-decoration: initial;">Diss gathering in November 2009</a></b></span></span></span> coincided with the publication of a document<span data-mce-style="color: #353535;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="color: #353535; line-height: 21.33333396911621px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://transitionculture.org/wp-content/uploads/Transition-East-Roundup-Edit.pdf" href="http://transitionculture.org/wp-content/uploads/Transition-East-Roundup-Edit.pdf" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 233, 228); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #027583; text-decoration: initial;">“Transition in the East: co-operation, collaboration, support and influence”</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></b></span></span></span>produced by Charlotte Du Cann and Josiah Meldrum and based on telephone communications with twenty nine initiatives over the course of several weeks.<br />
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In November a quartet of us set off from a previously mentioned Transition Initiaitve in north-east Suffolk to see the folks at the recently revived Sustainable Bury at Bury St. Edmunds Green Fair. This was in exchange for the visits to B**G*Y from Karen Cannard of The Rubbish Diet fame, who had come to talk all things bin-slimming at our Give and Take Day in September and led a Green Drinks session earlier in the year on domestic waste. See <span style="color: #353535; font-family: inherit; line-height: 21.33333396911621px;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: medium;" style="font-size: small;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #027583;" style="color: #027583;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: small;"><span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"><a data-mce-href="http://therubbishdiet.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/weve-caught-swapping-bug-sustainable.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheRubbishDiet+(The+Rubbish+Diet)" href="http://therubbishdiet.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/weve-caught-swapping-bug-sustainable.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheRubbishDiet+(The+Rubbish+Diet)" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 233, 228); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #027583; text-decoration: initial;">Karen Cannard's blog</a>post<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span>on how these exchanges provide fertile cross-pollination.<br />
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Wivenhoe, a university town of 10,000 people on the River Colne in north Essex, is home to<a href="http://transitionwivenhoe.blogspot.co.uk/"> </a><span style="color: #353535; font-family: inherit; line-height: 21.33333396911621px;"><b style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 233, 228); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #027583; text-decoration: initial;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: small;"><a data-mce-href="http://transitionwivenhoe.blogspot.co.uk/" href="http://transitionwivenhoe.blogspot.co.uk/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 233, 228); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #027583; text-decoration: initial;">Transition Town Wivenhoe</a></span></b><span data-mce-style="font-size: small;">,</span></span> now over four years old. The initiative recently celebrated the New Year with a cycle-powered showing of the film <span style="color: #353535; font-family: inherit; line-height: 21.33333396911621px;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: small;"><b style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 233, 228); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #027583; text-decoration: initial;"><a data-mce-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasing_Ice" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasing_Ice" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 233, 228); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #027583; text-decoration: initial;">Chasing Ice</a></b><span style="font-size: x-small;">, </span></span></span>a climate change documentary about photographer James Balog's Extreme Ice Survey, which recorded Arctic ice melt over a period of three years.<br />
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I bumped into an acquaintance the other day I hadn't seen for ages and started talking to her about Transition, had she heard of it? "Oh yes," she said, "I'm part of <b style="color: #353535; font-family: inherit; line-height: 21.33333396911621px;"><a data-mce-href="http://greenersax.org.uk/" href="http://greenersax.org.uk/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 233, 228); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #027583; text-decoration: initial;">GreenerSax's</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></b>foodgrowing group" (in Saxmundham, Suffolk).<br />
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Nearby GreenerFram in Framlingham have just published their report on last year's <span data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #353535; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 21.33333396911621px;"><a data-mce-href="http://greenerfram.co.uk/drupal/node/133" href="http://greenerfram.co.uk/drupal/node/133" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 233, 228); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #027583; text-decoration: initial;">Suffolk pilot of Transition Streets</a></b><span style="color: #353535;"><span style="line-height: 21.33333396911621px;">,</span></span></span> based in and around the village of Cransford and have set up a meeting to take it further. And Stowmarket Transition formed last summer, recently <span data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #353535; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 21.33333396911621px;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/politics/stowmarket_new_green_project_set_up_in_town_1_1790498" href="http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/politics/stowmarket_new_green_project_set_up_in_town_1_1790498" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 233, 228); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #027583; text-decoration: initial;">appearing in the local paper</a></b></span> talking about their "new "green project" aimed at reducing the town's carbon use.</div>
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<span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 233, 228); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px;">As I said on the front page introduction to this East Anglia in Transition week, this post is the tip of the iceberg as far as Transition activity in this region is concerned. I haven't mentioned </span><span data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><b><a data-mce-href="http://transitionnorwichnews.blogspot.co.uk/" href="http://transitionnorwichnews.blogspot.co.uk/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 233, 228); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #027583; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 21.33333396911621px; text-decoration: initial;">Transition Norwich</a></b></span>, for example, whose original food group turned into the CSA <span data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #353535; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 21.33333396911621px;"><a data-mce-href="http://norwichfarmshare.co.uk/" href="http://norwichfarmshare.co.uk/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 233, 228); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #027583; text-decoration: initial;">Norwich FarmShare</a></b></span><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 233, 228); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px;">, now in its third year, and whose NR3 neighbourhood group created the annual </span><span data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><b><a data-mce-href="http://magdalenstreet.blogspot.co.uk/" href="http://magdalenstreet.blogspot.co.uk/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 233, 228); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #027583; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; line-height: 21.33333396911621px; text-decoration: initial;">Magdalen-Augustine Festival</a></b></span> in one of the city's so-called deprived areas.</div>
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If you are reading this and are part of a Transition initiative in East Anglia, do feel free to make yourself known in the comments box below and put a link to your website or Facebook page. And if you'd like to join the <a data-mce-href="http://transitioncircleeast.blogspot.co.uk/" data-mce-style="font-size: 0.813em;" href="http://transitioncircleeast.blogspot.co.uk/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 233, 228); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #027583; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.813em; line-height: 21.33333396911621px; text-decoration: initial;"><b data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: small;">Transition Circle East</b></a> community blog and upload posts about your transition group and events, email Charlotte at <b data-mce-style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #353535; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 21.33333396911621px;">theseakaleproject@hotmail.co.uk</span></span></b> for an invitation.</div>
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And me, I'll be getting on with helping to organise our new Arts, Culture and Well-Being group in <b style="color: #353535; font-family: inherit; font-size: small; line-height: 21.33333396911621px;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.sustainablebungay.com/" href="http://www.sustainablebungay.com/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 233, 228); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #027583; text-decoration: initial;">SssshYouKnowWhere</a></b><span style="color: #353535; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small; line-height: 21.33333396911621px;">.</span><span style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 233, 228); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px;"> And reporting on our activities here on the Social Reporting project and elsewhere throughout the year. Though talking of icebergs, I might not actually be able to get to </span><b><a data-mce-href="http://www.sustainablebungay.com/2013/01/happy-monday-back-for-2013-book-now-for-the-21st-jan/" href="http://www.sustainablebungay.com/2013/01/happy-monday-back-for-2013-book-now-for-the-21st-jan/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 233, 228); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #027583; font-family: inherit; font-size: small; line-height: 21.33333396911621px; text-decoration: initial;">Happy Mondays</a> </b>tonight for the South Indian themed meal. Bah!<br />
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Meanwhile, you'll find plenty of good nutritious fare here this week from fellow transitioners reporting from the east. <b>Mark Watson</b><br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><i>Pics: </i></span><span data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="color: #353535; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small; font-style: italic; line-height: 21.33333396911621px;">Poster for <a data-mce-href="http://transitioncircleeast.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/living-together-gathering-day-of.html" href="http://transitioncircleeast.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/living-together-gathering-day-of.html" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 233, 228); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #027583; text-decoration: initial;">Living Together, a day about co-housing and intentional communities,</a> organised by transitioners in Suffolk, January 2013; Happy talking rubbish with Karen Cannard, Sustainable Bungay's Give and Take Day, September 2012; Transition Town Wivenhoe's Chasing Ice poster; Transition Norwich 2nd birthday poster 2010; Transition East Gathering organised by Downham and Villages in Transition, March 2009</span></div>
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Charlotte Du Cannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216522431894543642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3056030921791508838.post-34939415314454631572013-01-07T11:59:00.003+00:002013-01-07T16:33:29.792+00:00Living Together gathering <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A day of workshops and networking about and for intentional communities. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> How <span class="il">to</span> set up a housing co-op </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Introduction to CoHousing </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Forming a group/ Visioning/ Action Planning </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Facilitation and Consensus Decision Making </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Raising finance and making a business plan </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Radical Routes </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Case studies from local communities: Random Camel Housing Co-op, Argyle St Housing Co-op, Norwich Cohousing, Old Hall, possibly the Drive from Walthamstow </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Open space discussions - and please notify in advance any specialist workshop desires</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Matchmaking! Like a real time Diggers and Dreamers noticeboard! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Lunch included, a local AND vegan offering - oooh.
<span style="color: #999999;">Cost</span>: A tenner concession/ twenty pounds full price, but nobody turned away for lack of funds - contact us! Places limited please book
<span style="color: #999999;">Contact</span>: Nigel - 07946529642 / <a href="mailto:livingtogetherevent@gmail.com" target="_blank">livingtogetherevent@gmail.com</a>
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Gemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12951474250458290566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3056030921791508838.post-5180422373666807372012-12-22T11:32:00.000+00:002012-12-22T11:32:20.867+00:00IPSWICH - Community Resilience Workshop - 23 January<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: green;"><b>Transition Ipswich's Community Resilience Workshop - Wednesday January 23</b><b><sup>rd</sup></b><b> - 8pm to 10pm; </b><b>West Building, UCS Campus, Ipswich</b></span><br />
<br />The aim of this free, practical workshop is to devise new projects
to increase Ipswich’s resilience to economic crisis, resource depletion
and climate change – and improve our wellbeing.<br /><br />It's easy to
slip into despondency, thinking 'there's nothing I can do in the face of
massive global changes which are outside anyone's control'. Transition
offers a different way of thinking and fosters projects that are making
a real difference at the local level. But it needs people like you to
make it happen.<br />
<br />Here in Ipswich, a range of initiatives are already well underway including (check out the links) a <a href="http://transitionipswich.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=2d88c3e0e15e34f11d8d6609e&id=707491d95e&e=7bfa4fa0b1" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">community supported agriculture scheme</a>, <a href="http://transitionipswich.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=2d88c3e0e15e34f11d8d6609e&id=9c4f00bf90&e=7bfa4fa0b1" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">a community orchard</a>, a <a href="http://transitionipswich.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=2d88c3e0e15e34f11d8d6609e&id=b27a6f3102&e=7bfa4fa0b1" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">food co-op</a>, a <a href="http://transitionipswich.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=2d88c3e0e15e34f11d8d6609e&id=d1718a6160&e=7bfa4fa0b1" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">pig club</a>, a <a href="http://transitionipswich.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=2d88c3e0e15e34f11d8d6609e&id=d00a55206f&e=7bfa4fa0b1" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">local food challenge</a> and a <a href="http://transitionipswich.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2d88c3e0e15e34f11d8d6609e&id=171bbacb40&e=7bfa4fa0b1" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">housing co-op</a>.
Each of these was started by one or two people with the germ of an
idea and a “can do” attitude that inspired others to join in.<br />
<br />The workshop on January 23<sup>rd</sup> will build on these
successes and explore new initiatives. It will be a dynamic Open Space
event where anyone can put forward their ideas, debate them with others
and focus on what interests them most. If you haven’t tried Open Space
before you’ll be amazed how natural, enjoyable and productive it can be.<br />
<br /><b>Come and join us to scope out the next phase of Transition in Ipswich -</b><b> and bring your friends.</b><br /><br /><b>West Building</b> is the large brick building in the central part of the UCS site – entrance labelled A on <a href="http://transitionipswich.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2d88c3e0e15e34f11d8d6609e&id=7d08f62ca9&e=7bfa4fa0b1" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">this map</a>. Access by foot or bike is from Grimwade Street and New Street.<br />
<br />If needed, <b>free parking</b> is available in the <a href="http://transitionipswich.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2d88c3e0e15e34f11d8d6609e&id=0debd42c96&e=7bfa4fa0b1" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">UCS Car Park</a>, accessible via Fore Street at the bottom of Back Hamlet.<br />
<br />For more information see <a href="http://transitionipswich.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2d88c3e0e15e34f11d8d6609e&id=43647533b1&e=7bfa4fa0b1" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">http://www.transitionipswich.org.uk/</a>
or phone Steve on 07889 751578 Charlotte Du Cannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216522431894543642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3056030921791508838.post-70356749325886422352012-11-29T16:37:00.002+00:002012-11-29T16:37:27.305+00:00BUNGAY: Plants for Life review and Les Belles Tisanes de France<a data-mce-href="http://www.sustainablebungay.com/?attachment_id=1234" href="http://www.sustainablebungay.com/?attachment_id=1234" rel="attachment wp-att-1234" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-1234 alignleft" data-mce-src="http://markinflowers.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/pfl-a4-21.jpg?w=213" height="300" src="http://markinflowers.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/pfl-a4-21.jpg?w=213" style="border: 0px none; float: left;" width="213" /></a><i>This report was first published on <a href="http://www.sustainablebungay.com/2012/11/the-plants-for-life-year-and-belles-tisanes-de-france/">Sustainable Bungay's website</a>. It consists of a review of this year's Plants for Life project and a write-up of the last of the events in the series this year, a talk about and tasting of the herb teas and honeys of la Dr<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">ôme region in France.</span></i><br />
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It was a lovely way to end this year’s <a data-mce-href="http://www.sustainablebungay.com/category/plants-for-life-talks/" href="http://www.sustainablebungay.com/category/plants-for-life-talks/">Plants for Life</a> series. At 3pm in Bungay library last Sunday, we did a round up of the events and spoke about what we’d enjoyed and learned from them. Then we took a visit to the Drôme region of south-eastern France with Eloise Wilkinson. This was via a brew of the <i>tisanes</i> (herb teas) and a taste of the honeys from the place where she spent the early part of her life.</div>
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Each month between eight and forty people came for a talk, walk or workshop on the theme of plants as medicine. We met mostly in the library where the central bed of the courtyard garden also showcased the theme. I curated this throughout the year, with the help of others in Sustainable Bungay, most notably Richard Vinton.</div>
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Each Plants for Life session featured a guest ‘plant person’ speaker and included medical and lay herbalists, authors, organic and biodynamic growers, and home winemakers.</div>
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We looked at the medicine under the ground as we connected with our roots in January, learned growing tips in February (never water basil in the evening, morning is always best for the roots; keep coriander moist it hates beings dried out), adopted a herb to focus on for the year in March, walked with weeds in April, heard about hedgerow medicine in May, made midsummer wildflower oils in June, went on a bee and flower walk in July, had our world shaken by 52 flowers in August, made autumn tonic tinctures in September and medicinal wines in October.</div>
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I asked everybody on Sunday to think about two things to share with the group about these events. First, a general feeling about why it had been worth coming to them, and then something specific thing they'd learned during the plant medicine year.</div>
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People expressed an increase in their general awareness of the plants around them, and were inspired by the open sharing of knowledge in the sessions. After the plantain oil-making workshop in June with Rose, Eloise said her four year-old daughter became obsessed with plantain and had spent the summer telling all her friends about it! Coming to think of it, I spent all summer doing the same thing!</div>
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"It's really good for the imagination," said Charlotte. "Everything from foraging to growing to connecting with the different times of the year. And I loved the practical stuff. I knew nothing about winemaking until the session with Nick. The fight between the yeast and the sugar really grabbed me."</div>
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Richard has loved wildflowers since he was a child, and enjoyed the tea-making at the meetings. "When you find out all the things a common plant like Yarrow can do, for example," he said, "you wonder why you bother going to the chemist so much."</div>
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"It's been really productive," said Nick. "And I've enjoyed all the variety. Talking of yarrow, when we went Walking with Weeds, I was stunned when you asked everybody if they recognised the leaf, and a six-year old boy answered immediately, 'That's Yarrow!' "</div>
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Newcomers Linda and Tony had both been inspired by the last few events to find out more about the qualities of plants. "Raspberries," said Tony. "I had no idea about all the benefits of raspberries."</div>
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For more about the specific Plants for Life sessions, do <a data-mce-href="http://www.sustainablebungay.com/category/plants-for-life-talks/" href="http://www.sustainablebungay.com/category/plants-for-life-talks/"><b>visit the archive on Sustainable Bungay’s website</b></a>, where you’ll find previews and write-ups of the events.</div>
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La Drôme is an extraordinary area in south-eastern France, where three different landscapes/eco-systems meet. There are the plains of the Rhône river, the low-lying hills in the Valley of the Drôme and the bigger Massif Alpin mountains. To the south are the mountains of the Mediterranean. The three climates are continental, alpine and meditaerranean. In this place of convergence, half of the total number of plant species in France are to be found.</div>
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After speaking about the nature of the land, Eloise turned her focused to <i>tilleul, </i>as limeflowers are such a part of the French cultural fabric. Lime trees in France are somewhat like our English oaks in that they are the traditional tree of justice under which meetings, councils and even courts were held. But <i>tilleul</i> is probably best known as a relaxing and digestive herbal tea.</div>
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“When I was a young child, every evening the adults would make a large pot of limeflower blossom tea, <i>tilleul</i>. I’d get the really strong feeling that the evening I was allowed to join in with this tea ritual would mark my own transition to becoming a grown-up.”</div>
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There used to be an annual Foire au Tilleul (Limeflower Fair) in the area, which lasted a whole week and where the price of <i>tilleul</i> was fixed for the coming year. The last one was held in 2003, although there is still a (much smaller) fête.</div>
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“I think often about this area which is so unique in terms of the meeting of such different landscapes and what effects climate change and instability could have on it,” said Eloise.</div>
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It was time to drink some <i>tilleul</i> from the Drôme ourselves. The flowers smelt delicate with a honey sweetness to them. And shortly after we drank the infusion, several of us remarked on just how relaxing it was. No one wanted to get up from their seat.</div>
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I dragged myself downstairs to make a second pot, this time of ‘Couleurs d’automne’ (Autumn colours), which was made up of a mixture of hawthorn, mallow, spearmint and again limeflowers. Delicious, but just as relaxing. We didn't get round to trying the sweet and resinous thyme tea, <i>thym serpolet</i> (Thymus serpyllum) another Drôme native, and like other thymes, a boost for the immune system.<i><br /></i></div>
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Eloise passed around various honeys from the Drôme for everyone to taste: rosemary, lavender, limeblossom and pine. And sweet chestnut. They were all extraordinary. The tree honeys were dense and intense, particularly the sweet chestnut, with its definite medicinal smell.</div>
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Then we sat in silence for a while, infused by the teas and the honey. Infused by plants for life.</div>
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<a href="http://markinflowers.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/img_8681-low-res1.jpg?w=300" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="wp-image-1066 alignleft" data-mce-src="http://markinflowers.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/img_8681-low-res1.jpg?w=300" height="144" src="http://markinflowers.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/img_8681-low-res1.jpg?w=300" style="border: 0px;" width="192" /></a>Throughout the summer I paid a weekly visit to the library garden to hold a ‘plant medicine surgery’, where anyone could come and share any aspect of their plant knowledge or ask questions. We watched as the giant burdock (blood purifier and organ restorer) became more giant and the native vervain (restorative of the nervous system) put out its tiny star-like flowers like points of light. And a common theme or question emerged from these meetings: what does well-being entail, not just on the individual but also on the community and the planetary or ecological level? Can individual well-being really exist in isolation from the whole or on a too-stressed planet?</div>
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Next year Sustainable Bungay will form a new Arts, Culture and Well-being subgroup with these questions in mind. Anyone and everyone is welcome to join in and it will be the topic for the first Green Drinks of the year on 8th January at 7.30pm. The brief is open and there will be a monthly conversation, practical activity or workshop, exploring the different elements that constitute community well-being and culture: topics so far include growing food together, permaculture, meditation and creative non-fiction writing and journalism along with social and other media.</div>
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Meanwhile I would like to thank all the plant people who contributed so generously to the Plants for Life project this year, those who came to speak, to listen, to join in... and to those growing all around us. <b>Mark Watson</b></div>
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<i>Connecting with our Roots, Jan poster; Adopt a herb with Dan in March; Eloise showing the map of the Drôme, Tisanes and honeys, November; Plants for Life on the 'A' board and drinking tisanes in the library, November; talking well-being with Christian and Fairy by the plant medicine bed in Bungay community library garden, July; Walking with Weeds, April</i> All images and artwork by Mark WatsonCharlotte Du Cannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216522431894543642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3056030921791508838.post-50947278065026940832012-10-28T16:04:00.005+00:002012-10-28T16:04:59.634+00:00BUNGAY - Happy Monday at the Community Kitchen - 19 November<span class="entry-cat"></span>
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It’s not often you can cook for and sit down with 50 people for supper,
and food, with its roots in the land and evocative flavours, brings us
all together in a way that dry discussions about climate and behaviour
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There is big sustainable thinking behind every dish at Happy Mondays.
All the key Transition subjects, including peak oil and the gift
economy, are on the table among the neighbourhood flowers. Even though
our dishes are often global (Greek, Moroccan, Indian), nearly all the
ingredients ar<strong>e locally-sourced and seasonal.</strong> We are
deliberately vegetarian to show how meals do not have to rely on
resource-heavy meat or fish to be delicious and nutritious.<br />
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We are also
organic where possible. Why? Because the pesticides used on most
conventional crops are harmful to the soil, our bodies, wildlife and
especially to bees.<br />
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<a href="http://www.sustainablebungay.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Image1707.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-5200" height="180" src="http://www.sustainablebungay.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Image1707-300x225.jpg" title="Image1707" width="240" /></a>Well-being
is one of the principles of Happiness. In the kitchen everything is
cooked from scratch and so is free from unhealthy industrial processing.
Recipes and ingredients are discussed in detail, from the use of “dry”
Italian rice (traditional paddy-grown “wet” rice creates high methane
emissions) to whether Nick’s allotment maize would be ready for
September’s Mexican fiesta. The more connected we are to what we eat and
where we live the happier we are.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>Happy Mondays next meal is on 19th November <a href="http://www.sustainablebungay.com/2012/10/happy-monday-book-now-for-19th-november/">(bookings now open)</a>.
We are having our Winter Solstice and Christmas Party on 21st December
at the Community Centre (all welcome). Donation. Please bring festive
food and drink! A new SB Well-being, Art and Culture group is starting
up in 2013. Do join us for a discussion about Well-being and the
Conmmunity at our Green Drinks on 9th January.</strong></span><br />
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The 2012 celebration, on <b>Saturday October 13th, 10.00 - 5.00,</b> is picking up a bigger beat this year!<br />
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Following the same multi-media format as previous years, it will feature over 20 live music slots in 3 locations, history tours, stuff for kids, a giant free doodle art session under the flyover, tandem rides, a recreation of a 'doll doctor', story-telling ( with tell-a joke-certificates), classical recitals in St.Augustines church through the afternoon, stalls by local charities and groups including Norwich Farmshare, workshops including thai boxing, tai chi, belly dancing, art and poetry.<br />
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Future Radio (FM 107.8), who are supporting this year's celebration and running a live broadcast from Anglia Square, will also be featuring artists and organisers of the event through the week before. Listen out for us on : the Platform programme, Sunday 7th October 5 - 6 p.m., the Breakfast Show 10th October 8.40 a.m., and on Friday October 12th Community Chest programme 9.30 a.m. onward........<br />
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<b>Check us out at : www.magdalenstreet.blogspot or on Facebook to see the latest updates and schedule of events on the day.</b><br />
<br />Charlotte Du Cannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216522431894543642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3056030921791508838.post-47343286241474204662012-09-12T14:58:00.010+01:002012-09-12T17:15:29.297+01:00BUNGAY: Welcome to a busy September round-up<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgobcQ_YGZ0VhVoMTzpa2PP06DlYOAIpMvzK031tECeO8Nryvu-J4hjMkjUt9eAUZVbG49jg5erMcZtT4VH6qGZqjX16GoobxIJBVMZrI_IqcV_ZX3biTmjPoVG_u6k9zupZi-Nhp9OLQA/s1600/HM+Birthday+1.jpg"><img style="float:centre; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgobcQ_YGZ0VhVoMTzpa2PP06DlYOAIpMvzK031tECeO8Nryvu-J4hjMkjUt9eAUZVbG49jg5erMcZtT4VH6qGZqjX16GoobxIJBVMZrI_IqcV_ZX3biTmjPoVG_u6k9zupZi-Nhp9OLQA/s320/HM+Birthday+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5787324089647760194" border="0" /></a><br />Sustainable Bungay's autumn events start this Friday when you can join the regulars at our <a class="ecxtpl-content-highlight" href="http://sustainablebungay.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3214816868f07110286850262&id=1ed26ed791&e=eda4b70f8b" style="color:#864215;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">monthly film night</a>, then on Sunday you can pop along to our <a class="ecxtpl-content-highlight" href="http://sustainablebungay.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3214816868f07110286850262&id=3f2723b7c7&e=eda4b70f8b" style="color:#864215;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Grow and Give produce swap</a> in the library courtyard garden and pick up or drop off some surplus garden produce. While you're at the library you could nip upstairs to do a bit of <a class="ecxtpl-content-highlight" href="http://sustainablebungay.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=3214816868f07110286850262&id=04b628ebc0&e=eda4b70f8b" style="color:#864215;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">sewing</a> before cycling out of town to meet the<a class="ecxtpl-content-highlight" href="http://sustainablebungay.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3214816868f07110286850262&id=221eb85ae1&e=eda4b70f8b" style="color:#864215;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank"> Pig Club </a>and help prepare for the first porkers.<span style="font-family:georgia;"><br /><br />On Monday 17th the Community Kitchen will be dishing up another of their amazing Happy Mondays - this month a <a class="ecxtpl-content-highlight" href="http://sustainablebungay.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=3214816868f07110286850262&id=93f82182e2&e=eda4b70f8b" style="color:#864215;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Mexican Fiesta</a>. After such a busy weekend we'll need a breather - but only until Satuday 22nd when the second 2012 <a class="ecxtpl-content-highlight" href="http://sustainablebungay.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3214816868f07110286850262&id=ef3ac0fb2d&e=eda4b70f8b" style="color:#864215;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Give and Take Day</a> will be in full swing; bring things you no longer want or need - take home stuff you do. The day after Mark will be preparing <a class="ecxtpl-content-highlight" href="http://sustainablebungay.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3214816868f07110286850262&id=4add36ed58&e=eda4b70f8b" style="color:#864215;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Autumn Berry Tonics and Tinctures</a> in the library.</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"><br /><br /><a class="ecxtpl-content-highlight" href="http://sustainablebungay.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3214816868f07110286850262&id=94c26d3a9d&e=eda4b70f8b" style="color:#864215;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Bungay's New Favourite Poet, Luke Wright,</a> will be performing at the library on Friday 28th September - all part of the effort to ensure that the library we campaigned so hard to keep open stays open. And throughout September you could be taking part in the <a class="ecxtpl-content-highlight" href="http://sustainablebungay.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3214816868f07110286850262&id=bcb576ce39&e=eda4b70f8b" style="color:#864215;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">30:30 Local Food Challenge</a>...</span> <p><span style="font-family:georgia;"> There are more details about all our events and activites, plus some of the things we're keen to support below and on our <a class="ecxtpl-content-highlight" href="http://sustainablebungay.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3214816868f07110286850262&id=7b834e241d&e=eda4b70f8b" style="color:#864215;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">website</a> - look out for our paper newsletter later this month too.</span></p> <h1 style="color: rgb(106, 159, 55); display: block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 100%; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left;font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"> See you soon!</span></h1> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td style="border-collapse:collapse" valign="top"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding-bottom:20px;border-collapse:collapse" valign="top"> <div style="text-align:none"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><img src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/3214816868f07110286850262/images/IMG_5451769d3b.1.jpg" alt="" style="border:px none;border-color:;border-style:none;border-width:px;height:150px;width:150px;padding:0;line-height:100%;outline:none;text-decoration:none" border="0" height="150" width="150" /></span></div> </td> <td class="ecxlowerBodyContent" style="padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 20px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 125%; text-align: left;font-size:14px;" valign="middle"><h2 style="color: rgb(106, 159, 55); display: block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 100%; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left;font-size:20px;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"> <span style="font-size:100%;">Give and Take Day | 22nd Sept</span></span></h2><span style="font-family:georgia;"> One of the most popular event in our calendar, Give and Take is a chance to give away stuff you don't need and pick up stuff you do. This time there will be stalls and workshops as well as refreshments from the Community Kitchen - clear out your cupboards! 10am - 1pm, Saturday 22nd September<i>. Read more <strong><a href="http://sustainablebungay.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=3214816868f07110286850262&id=1108b2fb6e&e=eda4b70f8b" style="color:#864215;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">HERE</a></strong></i></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom:20px;border-collapse:collapse" valign="top"> <div style="text-align:none"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><img src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/3214816868f07110286850262/images/Seeds_of_Freedom_Poster_212x300deede5.jpg" alt="" style="border:px none;border-color:;border-style:none;border-width:px;height:150px;width:150px;padding:0;line-height:100%;outline:none;text-decoration:none" border="0" height="150" width="150" /></span></div> </td> <td class="ecxlowerBodyContent" style="padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 20px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 125%; text-align: left;font-size:14px;" valign="middle"><h2 style="color: rgb(106, 159, 55); display: block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 100%; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left;font-size:20px;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"> <span style="font-size:100%;">Film Nights Return! | 14th Sept</span></span></h2><span style="font-family:georgia;"> This coming Friday at Bacon's Barn we'll be showing a short film: Seeds of Freedom charts the story of seed from its roots at the heart of traditional, diversity rich farming systems across the world, to being transformed into a powerful commodity, used to monopolise the global food system. <em>Read more <a href="http://sustainablebungay.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=3214816868f07110286850262&id=316b193503&e=eda4b70f8b" style="color:#864215;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">HERE</a></em></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="padding-bottom:20px;border-collapse:collapse" valign="top"> <div style="text-align:none"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><img src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/3214816868f07110286850262/images/IMG_49024416fa.1.jpg" alt="" style="border:px none;border-color:;border-style:none;border-width:px;height:150px;width:150px;padding:0;line-height:100%;outline:none;text-decoration:none" border="0" height="150" width="150" /></span></div> </td> <td class="ecxlowerBodyContent" style="padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 20px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 125%; text-align: left;font-size:14px;" valign="middle"><h2 style="color: rgb(106, 159, 55); display: block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 100%; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left;font-size:20px;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"> Grow and Give | 16th Sept</span></h2> <div><span style="font-family:georgia;"> We are holding another autumn produce exchange at the Library Courtyard on Sunday 16th September, 11am to 1pm. There is an annual sister event in the Spring: Give and Grow. Both occasions encourage use of the permanent swap area in the courtyard for free exchange of anything garden-related. <em>Read more <a href="http://sustainablebungay.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=3214816868f07110286850262&id=84070eaf7f&e=eda4b70f8b" style="color:#864215;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:#864215;"><b>HERE</b></span></a><br /><br /></em></span></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td style="padding-bottom:20px;border-collapse:collapse" valign="top"> <div style="text-align:none"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><img src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/3214816868f07110286850262/images/sewing_kit_photo_co_faqs_orgc6388e.jpg" alt="" style="border:px none;border-color:;border-style:none;border-width:px;height:150px;width:150px;padding:0;line-height:100%;outline:none;text-decoration:none" border="0" height="150" width="150" /></span></div> </td> <td class="ecxlowerBodyContent" style="padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 20px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 125%; text-align: left;font-size:14px;" valign="middle"><h2 style="color: rgb(106, 159, 55); display: block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 100%; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left;font-size:20px;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"> Sewing Sunday | 16th Sept</span></h2> <div><span style="font-family:georgia;"> Sewing Sunday is on this Sunday 16th September 3pm at Bungay Library. A friendly group, we chat and sew and share tips and would love to learn any new skills: crochet, rag rugs, knitting, patchwork, revamping old clothes... if you have some skills to show, or just want to lear the basics with us Sewing Sunday is for you!. <em>Read more <a href="http://sustainablebungay.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3214816868f07110286850262&id=b3044a81c2&e=eda4b70f8b" style="color:#864215;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(134, 66, 21);font-weight:boldcolor:#864215;" ><b>HERE</b></span></a></em></span></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td style="padding-bottom:20px;border-collapse:collapse" valign="top"> <div style="text-align:none"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><img src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/3214816868f07110286850262/images/IMG_3803c42035.1.jpg" alt="" style="border:px none;border-color:;border-style:none;border-width:px;height:150px;width:150px;padding:0;line-height:100%;outline:none;text-decoration:none" border="0" height="150" width="150" /></span></div> </td> <td class="ecxlowerBodyContent" style="padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 20px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 125%; text-align: left;font-size:14px;" valign="middle"><h2 style="color: rgb(106, 159, 55); display: block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 100%; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left;font-size:20px;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"> Pig Club | 16th Sept</span></h2><span style="font-family:georgia;"> On Sunday 16th (1.30 - 5.30pm) pig fencing is going up at Lodge Farm, Ilketshall st. Lawrence in readiness for our first pigs. Please feel free to come and help, find out about the pig club and, if you like, join up. So far 9 people have commited to a £50 share in a pig - including a share in pig care, but there's room for a few more... <em>Read more <a href="http://sustainablebungay.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3214816868f07110286850262&id=b072e10fda&e=eda4b70f8b" style="color:#864215;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(134, 66, 21);font-weight:boldcolor:#864215;" ><b>HERE</b></span></a></em></span></td> </tr><tr> <td style="padding-bottom:20px;border-collapse:collapse" valign="top"> <div style="text-align:none"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><img src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/3214816868f07110286850262/images/band3df5dd.jpeg" alt="" style="border:px none;border-color:;border-style:none;border-width:px;height:150px;width:150px;padding:0;line-height:100%;outline:none;text-decoration:none" border="0" height="150" width="150" /></span></div> </td> <td class="ecxlowerBodyContent" style="padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 20px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 125%; text-align: left;font-size:14px;" valign="middle"><h2 style="color: rgb(106, 159, 55); display: block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 100%; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left;font-size:20px;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"> Happy Monday | 17th Sept</span></h2><span style="font-family:georgia;"> Using local ingredients and guided by Mark and Charlotte, who lived in central America for some years, this month's community meal will have a Mexican inspired menu (but no mariachi band I'm afraid...). The pudding is as unexpected as it is delicious - but you'll have to join us on the 17th to find out why! <em>Read more and book your place <a href="http://sustainablebungay.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3214816868f07110286850262&id=2f072b77b3&e=eda4b70f8b" style="color:#864215;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(134, 66, 21);font-weight:boldcolor:#864215;" ><b>HERE</b></span></a></em></span></td> </tr><tr> <td style="padding-bottom:20px;border-collapse:collapse" valign="top"> <div style="text-align:none"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><img src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/3214816868f07110286850262/images/poster3457bbfd8f1151515a.jpg" alt="" style="border:px none;border-color:;border-style:none;border-width:px;height:150px;width:150px;padding:0;line-height:100%;outline:none;text-decoration:none" border="0" height="150" width="150" /></span></div> </td> <td class="ecxlowerBodyContent" style="padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 20px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 125%; text-align: left;font-size:14px;" valign="middle"><h2 style="color: rgb(106, 159, 55); display: block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 100%; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left;font-size:20px;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"> Plants for Life | 23rd Sept</span></h2> <div><span style="font-family:georgia;"> Autumn Berry Tonics and Tinctures: We'll look at 3 native plants - hawthorn, elder and sea buckthorn all of which provide berries as medicine and food - and demonstrate how to make berry tinctures. Everyone welcome regardless of experience - and if you do have some herbal tips to share do come along and join in! <em>Read more <a href="http://sustainablebungay.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=3214816868f07110286850262&id=2adbc899a1&e=eda4b70f8b" style="color:#864215;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(134, 66, 21);font-weight:boldcolor:#864215;" ><b>HERE</b></span></a></em></span></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td style="padding-bottom:20px;border-collapse:collapse" valign="top"> <div style="text-align:none"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><img src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/3214816868f07110286850262/images/BUNGAY_LIB_POSTER_Layout_1_724x10241ef35b.jpg" alt="" style="border:px none;border-color:;border-style:none;border-width:px;height:150px;width:150px;padding:0;line-height:100%;outline:none;text-decoration:none" border="0" height="150" width="150" /></span></div> </td> <td class="ecxlowerBodyContent" style="padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 20px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 125%; text-align: left;font-size:14px;" valign="middle"><h2 style="color: rgb(106, 159, 55); display: block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 100%; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left;font-size:20px;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"> Saving Bungay Library! |28th Sept</span></h2><span style="font-family:georgia;"> Last year we worked hard to help keep Bungay Library open - this year we need to work hard to ensure it stays that way. On Friday 28th September at 7:30pm the excellent Luke Wright will perform a selection of his funny, moving and at times scurrilous poems in aid of Bungay Community Library. <em>Read more and find out how to buy tickets <a href="http://sustainablebungay.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=3214816868f07110286850262&id=a52c75a75f&e=eda4b70f8b" style="color:#864215;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(134, 66, 21);font-weight:boldcolor:#864215;" ><b>HERE</b></span></a></em></span></td> </tr><tr> <td style="padding-bottom:20px;border-collapse:collapse" valign="top"> <div style="text-align:none"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><img src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/3214816868f07110286850262/images/challengefc22e5.1.jpg" alt="" style="border:px none;border-color:;border-style:none;border-width:px;height:150px;width:150px;padding:0;line-height:100%;outline:none;text-decoration:none" border="0" height="150" width="150" /></span></div> </td> <td class="ecxlowerBodyContent" style="padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 20px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 125%; text-align: left;font-size:14px;" valign="middle"><h2 style="color: rgb(106, 159, 55); display: block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 100%; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left;font-size:20px;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"> 30:30 Local Food Challenge | Sept</span></h2><span style="font-family:georgia;"> Transition Ipswich, working with Transition Woodbridge, have been gearing up to organise a 30-Mile Local Food Challenge this September. They're now in the thick of it with challenge participants only eating only food that has been produced and processed within a 30 mile radius of their homes. <em>Read more <a href="http://sustainablebungay.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=3214816868f07110286850262&id=6cf65d2d1d&e=eda4b70f8b" style="color:#864215;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(134, 66, 21);font-weight:boldcolor:#864215;" ><b>HERE</b></span></a></em></span></td> </tr><tr> <td style="padding-bottom:20px;border-collapse:collapse" valign="top"> <div style="text-align:none"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><img src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/3214816868f07110286850262/images/conf2012square_info_190.1.jpg" alt="" style="border:px none;border-color:;border-style:none;border-width:px;height:150px;width:150px;padding:0;line-height:100%;outline:none;text-decoration:none" border="0" height="150" width="150" /></span></div> </td> <td class="ecxlowerBodyContent" style="padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 20px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); line-height: 125%; text-align: left;font-size:14px;" valign="middle"><h2 style="color: rgb(106, 159, 55); display: block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 100%; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left;font-size:20px;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"> Transition Conference | 14th Sept</span></h2><span style="font-family:georgia;"> This year quite a few from Sustainable Bungay are attending the Transition Network conference in London. The conference aims to provide a weekend of events and workshops that explore the theme of<em><strong> </strong>Building Resilience in Extraordinary Times; </em>there are still a few tickets available. <em>Read about the conference on the Transition Network site <a href="http://sustainablebungay.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=3214816868f07110286850262&id=3ac8db085a&e=eda4b70f8b" style="color:#864215;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(134, 66, 21);font-weight:boldcolor:#864215;" ><b>HERE</b></span></a></em></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Charlotte Du Cannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216522431894543642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3056030921791508838.post-73953065267941906182012-09-12T14:57:00.000+01:002012-09-12T14:58:03.387+01:00Transition Network UK Conference 2012 - 13-18 September<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvel2-bBN9r3kXA4knJ0qdQoUdsYJNTfiXA0ZSFeO7WMML8zpxBm3w96lUBfPGxpSgkmDnE2zpF7iEaNk_mLqNt8FzFIDqKC7WlmafeezO7NWEt0R_UdqpjxrCumhSxDFkATxL1y0j-dc/s1600/97949a9aef50bb3b027a5ce49d237094-275x182.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 132px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvel2-bBN9r3kXA4knJ0qdQoUdsYJNTfiXA0ZSFeO7WMML8zpxBm3w96lUBfPGxpSgkmDnE2zpF7iEaNk_mLqNt8FzFIDqKC7WlmafeezO7NWEt0R_UdqpjxrCumhSxDFkATxL1y0j-dc/s200/97949a9aef50bb3b027a5ce49d237094-275x182.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5780928907245696994" border="0" /></a>This year the Transition Conference will take place in London, hosted by the <a href="http://www.bac.org.uk/" target="_blank">Battersea Arts Centre</a> (BAC), and the conference aims to provide a weekend of events and workshops that explore the theme of "<strong>Building Resilience in Extraordinary Times</strong>".<p>The programme has 5 distinct elements, which can be attended as stand-alone events or in combination:</p><ul><li><a title="View the programme page" href="http://www.transitionnetwork.org/conference-2012-uk/conference-2012-programme"><strong>Main Transition Conference</strong></a>: Friday 14<sup>th</sup> September (6.00pm) to Sunday 16<sup>th</sup> September (4.30pm)</li><li><a href="http://www.transitionnetwork.org/conference-2012-uk#reconomy"><strong>REconomy Project Day</strong></a>: Friday 14<sup>th</sup> September (10.00am to 5.30pm)</li><li><a href="http://www.transitionnetwork.org/conference-2012-uk#youth"><strong>Youth Symposium</strong></a>: Friday 14<sup>th</sup> September (10.00am to 5.30pm)</li><li><a href="http://www.transitionnetwork.org/conference-2012-uk#national-hubs"><strong>National Transition Hubs gathering</strong></a>: Monday 17<sup>th</sup> September (10.00am) to Tuesday 18<sup>th</sup> September (1.00pm)</li><li><a href="http://www.transitionnetwork.org/conference-2012-uk#thrive"><strong>Transition THRIVE training</strong></a>: 2 full days, Thursday 13<sup>th </sup>(9.30am to 5.30pm) and Friday 14<sup>th</sup> September (9.30am to 5.00pm)</li></ul><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicljNnpLzP_H7vbEvaAbcjTHrmaWIvzt_eUq060CgLTYOjdwsJBaAS5xGMzEegrDJNnuZ6hMYEeSqIanNygTJilHPirpP8JYnjSigaWOCAQ7UKe7DcLXkl77f9s90OYd2ABkOGwsUj-b4/s1600/b6fc2465be5a3730ce5d5b0121889fa3-275x182.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 132px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicljNnpLzP_H7vbEvaAbcjTHrmaWIvzt_eUq060CgLTYOjdwsJBaAS5xGMzEegrDJNnuZ6hMYEeSqIanNygTJilHPirpP8JYnjSigaWOCAQ7UKe7DcLXkl77f9s90OYd2ABkOGwsUj-b4/s200/b6fc2465be5a3730ce5d5b0121889fa3-275x182.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5780929809890882978" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#336666;"><b>Main Transition Conference </b></span><br />The main Conference gives you the chance to connect with people from all over the UK - and the world – who have taken th</span>e Transition approach into their hearts, lives and communities.<br /><br />Whether new or experienced in Transition this will be an opportunity to plunge into a rich pool of ideas, inspiration and practical learning, refresh your energy and make new friends<span style="font-size:100%;">The theme this year will be explored through a wide variety of activities and processes including programmed workshops, an Open Space afternoon, walks and visits, and a great Saturday evening of entertainment, including an open mic slot. It will draw in elements of the REconomy and Young Transition conferences happening the previous day<b>.</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">The <a href="http://www.transitionnetwork.org/conference-2012-uk/conference-2012-programme">full programme is now available</a>.</span><br />Charlotte Du Cannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216522431894543642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3056030921791508838.post-31116705765564147372012-08-03T07:47:00.009+01:002012-08-03T14:26:52.180+01:00IPSWICH: 30-mile Food Challenge- 18/19 AugustTransition Ipswich, working with Transition Woodbridge, have been gearing up to organise a 30-Mile Local Food Challenge this September, The challenge participants will be embarking upon is to eat only food that has been produced and processed within a 30 mile radius of the centre of Ipswich – for 30 whole days. Here’s a rough idea of the challenge radius.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr2Dy3W8-WGqhcDaIJG8Xw0_puZII4kL_JeSVw34UCrPp5TQRMtjWnof8T4jpq8BvHWptmh-nX8BH-3QbFgx2TEedYQC22R87nrPhpymFl4o8oqJeW5B-gteTFapyQkHQiCgoX-3UxEe8/s1600/radius1.bmp"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr2Dy3W8-WGqhcDaIJG8Xw0_puZII4kL_JeSVw34UCrPp5TQRMtjWnof8T4jpq8BvHWptmh-nX8BH-3QbFgx2TEedYQC22R87nrPhpymFl4o8oqJeW5B-gteTFapyQkHQiCgoX-3UxEe8/s320/radius1.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5772437184649333394" /></a><br />We want you to join in with us and find out all about the exciting food available locally, which we’ll be mapping up until September and beyond to help you find sources of local food. Let’s support local producers and eat more of what’s grown right here in Suffolk!<br /><br />If you’re with us – sign up to pledge your support, using the sign-up button on the right. Once you’ve signed up we’ll send you email updates about the challenge, including the events we’re organising and promoting between now and the end of September.Interested in joining in? Want to find out more? Challenge guidelines and more information are on the<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a title="FAQs" href="http://30milefood.transitionipswich.org.uk/?page_id=118" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">FAQs page</a>.<br /><br />Check out our website <a href="http://30milefood.transitionipswich.org.uk/" target="_blank" style="line-height: 17.27272605895996px; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">http://30milefood.transitionipswich.org.uk/</a></span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">especially growing lists and maps of Retailers, Producers and Eating Out places.<br /><br />We have a stall this month at the inaugural<b> Ipswich Food Festival on 18/19 Aug (Maritime Weekend)</b> and on Monday 3rd September are <strong style="line-height: 17.27272605895996px; font-weight: bold; ">showing ‘In Transition 2.0’ film</strong>, 7.30pm, at Suffolk Coastal District Council Offices, Melton Hill, Woodbridge, IP12 1AU. Followed by coffee and cake and presentation on the 30-Mile Food Challenge.</span><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>For contact information and questions please leave a comment and we will get back to you: 30milefoodchallenge@gmail.com.</b></span></span>Charlotte Du Cannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216522431894543642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3056030921791508838.post-22979770177928350572012-07-12T18:09:00.002+01:002012-07-12T18:13:37.600+01:00Bungay Bee Hive Day - 15 July<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://transitionfreepress.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/bee-keeping.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-416" title="Bee keeping" src="http://transitionfreepress.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/bee-keeping.jpg" alt="" height="350" width="430" /></a></p><strong>Apprentice beekeepers in Finsbury Park highlight the rise of grassroots and community beekeeping in Transition initiatives around the UK in response to honeybee decline. This Sunday Bungay Community Bees in Suffolk are holding an event to bring attention to the crucial role of bees and other insects in our everyday lives - and how we can help them. Josiah Meldrum reports:</strong><br /><br /><strong>Bungay Bee Hive Day</strong> is a celebration of the honeybee and other pollinating insects along with the plants they love. Unique in the region and in its second year the event is organised by <strong><a href="http://www.sustainablebungay.com/bungay-community-bees-2/">Bungay Community Bees</a></strong> as part of the Bungay Festival and aims to promote awareness and enjoyment of the essential relationship between people, plants and bees.<br /><br />After the success of last year’s event which attracted around 1000 people, Bungay Community Bees have invited Heidi Hermann, Founder Trustee of the Natural Beekeeping Trust, to talk about swarming – perhaps the most exhilarating event of a honeybee colony’s annual lifecycle. The Natural Beekeeping Trust was formed in response to the critical situation of the honeybee which has led many beekeepers to question approaches to beekeeping that rely on chemical inputs and to seek to improve the wider landscape in which bees live.<br /><br /><strong></strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdtkTvDkWCrIwrwaSNJcKYYLzlGB8uuD45iw6oF6uwz2_xOPwB_RxtiiLXLWnHxHUQjLoEWhIXFVMVlyQ_fUOsPW1ZkCuSl6zqvz3EBmaXWdNBy0UrJrB2ERZ52iSNiohsp77OF8f6BlQ/s1600/DSCF5655.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 185px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdtkTvDkWCrIwrwaSNJcKYYLzlGB8uuD45iw6oF6uwz2_xOPwB_RxtiiLXLWnHxHUQjLoEWhIXFVMVlyQ_fUOsPW1ZkCuSl6zqvz3EBmaXWdNBy0UrJrB2ERZ52iSNiohsp77OF8f6BlQ/s320/DSCF5655.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5764332213590194946" border="0" /></a>Co-Founder of Bungay Community Bees Elinor McDowall said: <em>‘We’re very lucky to have Heidi Hermann joining us on the 15th. It’s the first time she’s spoken in East Anglia and this is a great opportunity for local beekeepers and those interested in bees to come and hear about this growing new holistic take on bee husbandry’.</em><br /><br />Building on the theme of this year’s Bee Hive Day, Rose Titchiner of Bungay Community Bees will explain how we can provide year-round plants and habitats for bees, pollinators and wildlife . She’ll introduce Bungay Community Bees’ Get your Garden Buzzing project – a bee-friendly plant labelling scheme that can be used by any garden centre. Meanwhile there will be a Bee and Flower Walk around Bungay’s diverse green spaces, local author (and TFP editor), Charlotte Du Cann reading from her latest book <em>52 Flowers That Shook My World,</em> a screening of the highly acclaimed film<em> Queen of the Sun</em> and a panel discussion. Waveney Beekeeping Group and Bungay Community Bees will display hives, equipment and information to show how honeybees work and how they can be supported by beekeepers.<br /><br />Information stalls and displays covering all aspects of beekeeping and pollinators will be complemented by those selling bee-friendly plants, seeds, bee-related crafts and of course honey! There will be an activities area where children and adults can make their own bug hotels, beeswax lip balm or get their faces painted and a quiet reading corner stocked with bee books and magazines. <a href="http://www.sustainablebungay.com/2012/07/happy-mondays-coming-up-this-summer/"><strong>Bungay Community Kitchen</strong></a> will provide refreshments.<br /><br />You’ll find a .pdf of the programme and details of all our speakers <strong><a href="http://www.sustainablebungay.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Bee-Hive-Day-_-Programme_Speakers.pdf">here</a></strong><br /><br /><strong>Bungay Beehive Day is at the Festival Marquee, Castle Meadow, Bungay, Suffolk, 10.30am-4.30pm. For further information contact Gemma Parker on 07540 724395</strong> <strong>or email inquiries@humblecake.co.uk</strong><br /><br /><em>Images: Introduction to Beekeeping Day by<a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.jongoldberg.co.uk"> Jonathan Goldberg </a>(Transition Kensal to Kilburn) <em><a href="http://www.jongoldberg.co.uk/">;</a></em> <a href="http://www.sustainablebungay.com/category/plants-for-life-talks/">Bee and Flower walk </a>for Bungay Beehive Day, 2011 by Muhammad Amin.<a href="http://www.jongoldberg.co.uk/"><br /></a></em>Charlotte Du Cannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216522431894543642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3056030921791508838.post-74250405171831867082012-07-03T11:37:00.004+01:002012-07-03T11:42:50.913+01:00Welcome to our regional weeks from the East!<p><span style="font-style: italic;">This is an introduction to the regional weeks on the Transition Network Social Reporting Project.</span><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.transitionnetwork.org/sites/default/files/uploaded/u7292/IMG_5436.JPG" style="float: right;" class="float-right" height="188" width="250" /></p> <p>Welcome to our first Regional Week where the Social Reporters and their guest bloggers will be introducing their respective regions. <a href="https://www.transitionnetwork.org/ingredients/connecting/forming-networks-transition-initiatives">Forming networks of Transition initiatives</a> is one of the key ingredients in the third stage of <em>The Transition Companion</em> and one of the main reasons we began this blog was to hear voices and experiences from inititiatives all around the UK and connect up the dots. We plan to run our regional weeks every two months, beginning in London in October.</p><p>We're kicking off in the East, which was a hot topic amongst the Eastern initiatives when we were setting up gatherings and a support network in 2009. What defined Transition East? How could we form alliances and give each other a hand? East Anglia is a bio-region characterised by its waterlands - slow rivers, fens and marshes - and the arable land that grows much of the country's grain. Its heartland is Suffolk, Norfolk, east Cambridgeshire and north Essex. The geographic East of England encompasses all those counties, plus Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire. We decided to include all the counties, though in practice (due to distance and cultural orienteering of places and people), it is mainly East Anglia.</p><p><img src="https://www.transitionnetwork.org/sites/default/files/uploaded/u7292/Graham%20Teaching%20%28JM%29.jpg" style="float: left;" class="float-left" height="146" width="220" />Many of us that met at the first gathering in Downham Market are still in touch with each other. We don't visit each other as much as we did (blame peak oil!), but we know who to get in touch with in a string of market towns and communities across the region: ranging from Shane Hughes in Bedford in an arc that crosses the estuaries and big sky country, down to to Graham Burnett in Southend-on-Sea (here teaching permaculture in Bungay). We help kickstart new initiatives, we speak at each others' events. We meet up in all kinds of situations, in<a href="http://transitioncircleeast.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/report-transition-suffolk-and-pattern.html"> farms </a>and in church halls, at events ranging from an <a href="http://oneworldcolumn.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/reclaiming-field.html">agricultural meeting in Ipswich</a>, Cambridge storytelling in a Norwich school, a Transition Talk Training in Colchester, Festival of Transition in Stowmarket, and at the Waveney Greenpeace fairs.</p><p><a href="http://transitioncircleeast.blogspot.co.uk/"><img src="https://www.transitionnetwork.org/sites/default/files/uploaded/u7292/IMG_5549.JPG" title="going off to the conference" style="float: right;" class="float-right" height="150" width="200" /></a>So here to map out how it all began is Gary Alexander, Trustee of the Transition Network, founding member of Transition Diss and Diss Community Farm, and the originator of the Transition East regional support group (here on the right <a href="http://transitionnorwich.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/leaving-for-liverpool.html">setting off to the Transition Conference 2011</a> - the top pic from a Transition Suffolk meet-up is from <a href="http://transitionnorwich.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/gatherings-in-transition.html">Rogueing in the Wheat and other Transition Gatherings</a> by Mark Watson). <span style="font-weight: bold;">Charlotte Du Cann</span><br /></p><h5 style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Transition Towns, but also regions, nations and world?</strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"> by Gary Alexander</span></span></h5><p>I’m very pleased to have been invited to open the series of reports on the role of regional networks in the Transition Movement. I have thought that to be very important since I first became active in Transition, and I’ve been involved in various ways, from helping to set up ‘Transition East’ (East Anglia in the UK) to the <a href="http://www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/gary-alexander/2011-10/first-national-hubs-online-meeting">National Hubs</a>.<br /><br />If we are to pioneer community solutions to peak oil, climate change and especially our economic challenges, these must be inherently collaborative. Market-based solutions, where people are working against each other, where the purpose of an activity is to make money rather than promote the wellbeing of people and planet, are at the heart of our problems.<br /><br />But it isn’t obvious how such a collaborative culture would work, at all scales. Most Transition groups and their activities are separately cooperative, but too often individual projects are not actively linked to other activities either locally or elsewhere. They miss out on the mutual learning and support that could make all the difference between success and failure.<br /><br />These are some of the issues that have led to the spontaneous formation of regional groupings all over, which might be within a large town or city, a region of a nation, or a national group in the case of the new national hubs.<br /><br />To give you a sense of how this can work, and also how difficult it can be, I’ll describe some of the events in Transition East over recent years, as I have experienced them.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.transitionnetwork.org/sites/default/files/uploaded/u161/EastAnglianInitiatives.jpg" alt="TIs in East Anglia, UK" title="TIs in East Anglia, UK" style="float: left; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" class="float-left" height="165" width="221" />By 2009, there were a growing number of Transition Initiatives around East Anglia, ranging from large and well established in Norwich and Cambridge, to tiny and aspirational in some rural places. Several moves to bring us together arose spontaneously: a Google group for discussions, a <a href="http://transitioncircleeast.blogspot.co.uk/">blog</a>, and many of us had met at a Training in Norwich. Then Downham Market organised our first Transition East Regional Meeting. It was like a mini-version of the Transition annual conference, with open spaces, mappings and shared meals for about 40 people from about 12 initiatives.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.transitionnetwork.org/sites/default/files/uploaded/u161/DownhamMeeting.jpg" alt="Downham Meeting" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" class="float-right" height="132" width="198" />At it, we proposed setting up a regional network and also a regional support group composed of people who would co-ordinate the regional network and take an overview of Transition in our region. We found a lot of enthusiasm for this.<br /><br />Our idea was that the purpose and function of the regional support group would be based upon ‘viable system’ principles. It certainly had no power or authority. (How could it?) It would be to promote information sharing (What’s going on & is it going well? Help with difficulties.), Synergy (How well are groups interacting, working together?) Liaising and Planning, Identity and Policy (What are our values? Policies? Goals?) The image was of the various transition groups and projects in our region working together as though we were a single organism!<br /><br />The regional support group met several times, and in itself was a useful sharing of information between different groups, but it was more about what was happening and what immediate problems we were facing than the more ambitious functions above.<br /><br />Later in 2009, there was a second regional meeting in Diss. The Diss group organised the hosting (venue, food, transport), while the regional support group organised the programme. One useful innovation was a ‘transition troubleshooting’ session, similar to an open space, but concentrating on the difficulties groups were having (conflict, burnout, lack of volunteers and resources...). Charlotte Du Cann contacted all the initiatives in the area and produced<a href="http://transitionculture.org/2009/11/17/transition-in-the-east-a-brilliant-look-at-whats-rising-in-the-east-of-england/"> an excellent report</a>.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.transitionnetwork.org/sites/default/files/uploaded/u161/TransitionSuffolk2.jpg" alt="transition suffolk attendees" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" class="float-right" height="96" width="166" />The following year there were no full regional meetings, but there were a couple of smaller, sub-regional meetings, each with people from a few initiatives. These were both provoked by the Stoneleigh talk at the national Transition Conference, predicting economic collapse in the near future! What should we do about that?<br /><br /><img src="https://www.transitionnetwork.org/sites/default/files/uploaded/u161/oldhall.jpg" alt="Old Hall community" style="float: left; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" class="float-left" height="187" width="194" />Most recently, in late 2011, there was a <a href="http://www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/gary-alexander/2011-11/transition-east-old-hall-november-2011">regional meeting at Old Hall community</a>, in East Bergholt, with about 40 transitioners from 13 initiatives. We had a fascinating tour of the community, which had been running for about 40 years. There was an interesting proposal for an East Anglian transition currency that we could all use. As the years had passed, it was clear that some ‘Transition’ groups were no longer active but in their place were active ‘transition’ projects (and especially food projects), not officially connected with Transition Network, more autonomous but still with the same spirit. For example, Transition Diss was no longer active, but Diss now has the Diss Community Farm.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.transitionnetwork.org/sites/default/files/uploaded/u161/oldhalldiscussion.jpg" alt="Disscussions at Old Hall" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" class="float-right" height="189" width="252" />Where does this leave us? We had very ambitious plans for our regional network, way beyond what we achieved. (And perhaps this is true of most transition initiatives as well.) Very little happened in the aftermath of these events. Not much was actually implemented. But every event and meeting we held was quite universally appreciated by all who attended. We could all see how much was going on overall, so our own little parts seemed more significant. We could share our difficulties with people who faced similar ones, which felt great. We enjoyed ourselves in good company and had excellent pot-luck shared meals. Isn’t that enough?<br /><br />Perhaps, if and when Stoneleigh’s predictions come home to roost (and that still looks likely to happen soon!) we will be forced to take much more drastic actions than we are now and all these preliminary actions will have paved the way.</p>Charlotte Du Cannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216522431894543642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3056030921791508838.post-7265710339327554452012-06-28T10:40:00.004+01:002012-06-28T10:43:29.272+01:00DOWNHAM MARKET: Incinerator Protest in Norwich - 29 June<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIeHxp16zH9f7O8pcoCui6zndtoIaZaJ3usrTv4Jw-TCcD04-xRyNqZ6Rv88bxezrQaxM3Zuh8Mrqz0kV7Sx30uWCAwyF4kNMnLcbUWn3E9-_kT1yMVhZ1ss7dKKtcdNrTEH-dLR-vS6M/s1600/norwich_incinerator.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 149px;" 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mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapedefaults ext="edit" spidmax="1026"> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapelayout ext="edit"> <o:idmap ext="edit" data="1"> </o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->Norfolk County Council is threatening West Norfolk with a mass burn incinerator.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Like nuclear waste, it is perfectly safe.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It is to be sited 2 miles from King’s Lynn, near farming land and near the Wash, with its shellfish beds.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><br /><br />Nobody in West Norfolk wants this – 90% of 65,000 polled said NO INCINERATOR. The campaign against it are King’s Lynn Without Incinerator (KLWIN) and the Farmers’ Campaign.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>In 2010 there was a 400 strong demonstration outside the Town Hall (from a population of 30,000).<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>When BBC Question Time visited Lynn, the unofficial mention of the incinerator stopped the show!<br /><br />West Norfolk musicians and poets, a number in <a href="http://www.transitiondownhamandvillages.co.uk/Home_Page.html">DOWNHAM AND VILLAGES IN TRANSITION</a>, got together and made a CD of excellent and pertinent songs and poems about the incinerator.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>They then launched a Living Room Tour, where they performed in people’s houses and sold the CD, thus raising over £300 for the KLWIN campaign.<br /><br />On<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Friday 29</span><sup style="font-weight: bold;">th</sup><span style="font-weight: bold;"> June at 10.00 a.m. at County Hall</span>, the Planning Committee will decide whether to build the incinerator despite the overwhelming public opposition.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>A lot of people are going to invade Norwich to protest and we will be singing our Incinerator Hymn!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Come and join us!<br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">For background read Transition Norwich's "Dash for Ash" story by Andrew Boswell </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://transitionnorwich.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/can-norfolk-stop-dash-for-ash_01.html">here</a><br /></p>Charlotte Du Cannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216522431894543642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3056030921791508838.post-34859597941713238332012-06-16T07:35:00.004+01:002012-06-16T21:44:56.714+01:00BUNGAY: Midsummer Flower Walk, Plant Oils and Green Drinks - 17 and 19 June<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHStBH4lOEwwk3tS6aS95s_FzpXdN28Vh74wDH0D6eu2DxTXzqgCcHm959JS0jLAcGo9u9LHVfuTLoKMK8-lNIxtoE-Lpd4VsVoMUPeNCLxkLZeY6UkAkRxxyKN_BvUL00EyNnw18H_Rs/s1600/June-Pfl-Poster-A4-213x300.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 213px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHStBH4lOEwwk3tS6aS95s_FzpXdN28Vh74wDH0D6eu2DxTXzqgCcHm959JS0jLAcGo9u9LHVfuTLoKMK8-lNIxtoE-Lpd4VsVoMUPeNCLxkLZeY6UkAkRxxyKN_BvUL00EyNnw18H_Rs/s320/June-Pfl-Poster-A4-213x300.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5754520577611539794" border="0" /></a>Everyone is welcome to our 6th <strong><a href="http://www.sustainablebungay.com/category/plants-for-life-talks/">Plants for Life 2012</a></strong> event, an (almost) midsummer visit to Outney Common this <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sunday 17 June</span>, and a demonstration of how to make wildflower and plant oils by Rose Titchiner, with an introduction to plant ‘simples’.<br /><br />We will meet from <strong>20 Ditchingham Dam </strong><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline ! important; float: none;"></span><strong></strong> (the continuation of Bridge Street), Bungay at <strong>2.45pm</strong> prompt (<strong>please note this month’s event is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">not</span> at the library</strong>) at Rose’s house for the demonstration and tea and visit the meadow after the demonstration and tea<div class="entry-content"> <p>If you are coming by car, please <strong>carshare</strong> if you can and note that there is <strong>no parking in Bridge Street</strong>. Close by are <strong>Trinity Street </strong>and<strong> Broad Street</strong> which have plenty of parking spaces.</p> <p>Walk down Bridge Street and over the bridge. There is a sign for Ditchingham and Norwich on the left. No. 20 is directly opposite this sign, the first house on the left down a gravel driveway (the pale yellow Victorian lodge cottage).</p> <p>The event is free and donations are happily received.</p> <p><em>Rose has worked with plants all her life, is an experienced grower and farmer as well as a lover of wildflowers and makes many plant remedies at home. Recently she has been working with Bungay Community Bees to promote bee-friendly gardens and farms with the <a href="http://www.sustainablebungay.com/2012/05/bungay-garden-centre-goes-bee-friendly/">Get Your Garden Buzzing</a> project.</em></p> <p>At this months’ <strong> Green Drinks at the Green Dragon, Tuesday 19th June at 7.30pm</strong>, Mark Watson will introduce the theme of Plant Families and talk briefly about the many roles plants play in our lives and life on earth. This will be followed by an exploratory and interactive discussion around the theme. Everyone welcome, do join us.</p> <p><em>Mark is the organiser of the <a href="http://www.sustainablebungay.com/category/plants-for-life-talks/">Plants for Life 2012</a> series of talks, walks and workshops and curator of the Plant Medicine bed this year at Bungay Library Community Garden. He has worked with plants for many years and also designed this poster.</em></p> <p>For <strong>all enquiries and information</strong> on this event or the <strong>Plants for Life series</strong> as a whole, contact: <strong>Mark Watson 01502 722419,</strong> <strong>email: markintransition@hotmail.co.uk</strong> or check this website <strong>www.sustainablebungay.com</strong></p> <p align="center"><strong>Plants for Life 2012 with Sustainable Bungay</strong></p></div>Charlotte Du Cannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216522431894543642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3056030921791508838.post-23584086506151351622012-06-15T07:25:00.006+01:002012-06-15T07:34:13.132+01:00Transition Free Press - new national paper launched!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqcadDmHrvrXLAl-d2rwHJvUykujhC3VM15mwiqR8u2arINqMpnKCqhUp2k-z1uXE3v4QKO3PE56Sdwhxmcm8NchdoTP6bMxNLX9LsUQwqkmoeT4wOUcnE-Yh6PeM5wv2pe4DQvVBQqsE/s1600/img_8544.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 225px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqcadDmHrvrXLAl-d2rwHJvUykujhC3VM15mwiqR8u2arINqMpnKCqhUp2k-z1uXE3v4QKO3PE56Sdwhxmcm8NchdoTP6bMxNLX9LsUQwqkmoeT4wOUcnE-Yh6PeM5wv2pe4DQvVBQqsE/s320/img_8544.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5754147977096522050" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;">This month the </span><a href="http://issuu.com/transitionfreepress/docs/issue1" style="font-size: 100%; "><b>Transition Free Press</b></a><span style="font-size:100%;">, a new national newspaper, launched its preview edition. It's a blueprint of how the paper will look, and the kinds of subjects we aim to cover every quarter - news with comment and context, features and reviews.<br /><br /></span><p style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; ">As well as viewing it online, there are printed copies that will be available at various events, including the Transition Network Conference in September 2012. Plus you can order copies by post (see bottom of page).</p><p style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; ">"Where are we going?" asks the editorial. "We’re heading for the future. We are not afraid to share our views, ask awkward questions, laugh or explore paths other papers don’t go down in order to get there. What we want is to capture the real-life experiences of people who are discussing and doing Transition, learning to share skills and resources, starting up social enterprises, thinking hard about alternative ways of organising the way we do energy and economics.</p><p style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; ">We’re looking at the small details in the big picture. We’re <strong>optimistic</strong> in the face of tough times. But we are also real. We’re <strong>real</strong> about the awesome challenges of peak oil and climate change and the economic collapse. We’re real about the hard work the projects featured in these pages take (including this paper!) We want to<strong> reflect</strong> that feet-on-the-ground reality, mixed with the cheerfulness that comes when you’re working with your fellows for a common purpose.</p><p style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6EjVSY3Pwg4t_k9dghRp7j0J7w-RI9LncTSwiRs4ictGUUeRVvdGgp_lro_5Aa7wET57POjiTIK49nRrMp2I-BcrAdm4V__ogesEhh6zp8nB8Xc-EtQq4jexqZmCUoBqXKs8AA1Pgtdo/s1600/images.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 276px; height: 183px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6EjVSY3Pwg4t_k9dghRp7j0J7w-RI9LncTSwiRs4ictGUUeRVvdGgp_lro_5Aa7wET57POjiTIK49nRrMp2I-BcrAdm4V__ogesEhh6zp8nB8Xc-EtQq4jexqZmCUoBqXKs8AA1Pgtdo/s320/images.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5749368545456501954" border="0" /></a>Most of all we want to <strong>connect the dots</strong>. Our old-style, fossil-fuelled culture works by separating out all the important subjects, by keeping everyone separated and alone. We want to connect people in Transition, connect campaigners and thinkers and people who never heard of energy descent or alternative currency, open up a dialogue, write another story."</p><span style="font-size:100%;">To make future editions happen, </span><strong style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; ">we need your support</strong><span style="font-size:100%;"> too - in particular we hope you like it enough to want to have copies to give out in your community. Please fill in this short survey to give us an idea of your interest in distributing copies: </span><a title="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GZCKV97" href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GZCKV97" target="_blank" style="font-size: 100%; "><b>http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GZCKV97</b></a><br bogus="1"><p style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; ">Please get in touch if you would like to contribute or advertise or get involved in any way with future editions.</p><p style="font-size: 100%; ">For editorial contact Charlotte Du Cann <a href="mailto:charlotteducann@transitionnetwork.org" target="_blank"><b>charlotteducann@transitionnetwork.org</b></a><br />For distribution contact Mike Grenville <a href="mailto:mgrenville@gmail.com"><b>mgrenville@gmail.com</b></a><br bogus="1"></p><p style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; "><strong>Order print copies with Paypal. Click here: <a title="1 Copy" href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=WC8J5Y4XF3ZRG" target="_blank">1 copy</a> or <a title="5 copies" href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=JCM4TE4XLCEQA" target="_blank">5 copies</a></strong><br />Please contact Mike for prices for more copies.</p><span style="font-size:85%;"><em style="font-weight: normal; "><span>Image: Nick Watts (Sustainable Bungay) reading preview edition in Stowmarket; Climate impacts day in Texas from 350.org</span></em></span>Charlotte Du Cannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216522431894543642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3056030921791508838.post-91698238535474854932012-06-12T16:21:00.002+01:002012-06-12T16:44:26.171+01:00STOWMARKET; What if , . . .the sea keeps rising? - 13 June<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn-SjO6_N6M2YOLrjnWSteNJJdsKLxZgKE0yqZhtgg9U1jW2RI0CvrzyMY3NQD4OJQt9mT3ztrRF-YjleN6q7JqipfUTZjXhVT6QiZBiiEEROCCymyb9lEGs-gaYYOiJo_BgwOtnCs4BE/s1600/sea.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 126px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn-SjO6_N6M2YOLrjnWSteNJJdsKLxZgKE0yqZhtgg9U1jW2RI0CvrzyMY3NQD4OJQt9mT3ztrRF-YjleN6q7JqipfUTZjXhVT6QiZBiiEEROCCymyb9lEGs-gaYYOiJo_BgwOtnCs4BE/s320/sea.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5746554525384018994" border="0" /></a><strong><span style="text-align: left;">The nationwide ‘</span><a style="text-align: left;" href="http://www.festivaloftransition.net/">Festival of Transition’</a><span style="text-align: left;">, coordinated by <a href="http://www.neweconomics.org/">nef</a> (the new economics foundation) and the Transition Network, is running until 20th June, the first day of the 20th UN Earth Summit in Rio.</span></strong><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">Throughout June museums, galleries and public spaces across the country are hosting debates, talks and workshops asking the question: What if…? <b> 'What if . . . the sea keeps rising' </b>is taking place on<b> Wednesday 13 June at the Museum of East Anglian Life, Stowmarket with Andrew Simms of nef.</b></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div id="masthead" class="clear node"><div class="column g-2 padded"><span style="font-size:100%;">Low-lying East Anglia is particularly susceptible to the effects of climate change. Latest estimates suggest the global sea level could rise one meter by 2100, but even more important than the actual rise in sea level is the possible increase in frequency or severity of storm surges, which combined with sea level rise could result in frequent, devastating floods throughout the region. Is it still possible to avoid this scenario? By taking immediate and decisive action, can we imagine a different future for East Anglia? If not, what is to become of its culture and its people? </span></div></div><div class="content-block article clear node"><p><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>Museum of East Anglian Life,</strong></span><span class="date-display-single" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Wednesday, 13 June 2012 - </span><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="date-display-start">7:00pm</span><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="date-display-separator"> - </span><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="date-display-end">9:00pm</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>To reserve a ticket for this event please click <a href="http://what-if-sea-keeps-rising.eventbrite.co.uk/">here</a>.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">For more information on the Festival of Transition please go to <a href="http://www.festivaloftransition.net/">www.festivaloftransition.net</a>.</span></p> </div>Charlotte Du Cannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216522431894543642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3056030921791508838.post-85310812689538550602012-06-03T11:29:00.000+01:002012-06-03T11:29:00.442+01:00Your chance to become a Norwich FarmShare Apprentice!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong>We're offering two fantastic chances to join the FarmShare growing team as an apprentice. You'll find more information below and you can download a post description <em><a href="http://norwichfarmshare.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/FarmShare-Apprentice-Scheme.pdf">here</a></em></strong><em>.</em><br />
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<em>Application closing date Monday 25th June, start date Monday 16th July.</em><br />
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Norwich FarmShare - and other <a href="http://www.soilassociation.org/communitysupportedagriculture">CSA schemes</a> in the UK - are doing something a bit different and, we think, a bit special: blurring the boundaries between producer and consumer. This brings a host of benefits - our growers are supported by a team of volunteers, have a secure and regular market for their produce, are part of a community that values their hard work and commitment. Meanwhile our members benefit from very fresh produce and from varieties not generally on sale in supermarkets and greengrocers, they're able to actively participate in the business they own - from helping on the farm to working on marketing and communications. Both growing team and members are part of a wider movement and are in contact with a local, national and international network of other, similar, ventures.<br />
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But trying to do something new can also be quite a challenge.<br />
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Last year when Norwich FarmShare began recruiting for a head grower we wrote a description of the role - we needed to find someone who had experience growing vegetables on a small scale (but bigger than an allotment), could handle the small machines we use, understood the principles of permaculture and organic production - and got <a href="http://norwichfarmshare.co.uk/values/">what FarmShare is all about</a>, could recruit, co-ordinate and work with volunteers, could manage staff, would be happy blogging, using Facebook, Twitter and talking to the press. A tall order.<br />
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In the end we decided to take a different approach and, working with Tierney Woods (then our assistant grower), we developed an informal apprenticeship scheme. We recruited a mentor, Michael Knights, with a decade and half experience in organic production and we arranged visits to other similar projects.<br />
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It worked; Tierney has grown into the role, developed new skills (and taught us a thing or two!). Therefore this summer we'd like to offer our apprenticeship scheme to two more people. We hope that these two apprentices will eventually be able to work either at FarmShare or find places with other similar local initiatives, building skills and capacity in East Anglia and making it easier for other communities to do what we're doing.<br />
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The two apprenticeships are voluntary and will last for 6 months. during that time the apprentices will work for 1.5 days a week on the farm (a day of which will be spent with the horticultural mentor) they will participate in a two day communications for community growers workshop, organise a volunteer workday, meet other similar groups from East Anglia and further afield, visit other enterprises, learn the basics of organic production (including protected cropping, crop rotation, weed control, crop/harvest planning, fertility building and more). In addition they will learn more about how community enterprises like Norwich FarmShare work and develop their skills in team-working and volunteer management. Both apprentices will have the option to attend an introduction to permaculture course and to choose a local enterprise they'd like to visit.<br />
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It sounds pretty amazing!<br />
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If you're interested have a look at the more detailed description <strong><a href="http://norwichfarmshare.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/FarmShare-Apprentice-Scheme.pdf">HERE</a></strong>.<br />
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<strong>TO APPLY</strong><br />
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If you’re keen please send us a brief CV and a short covering letter. In the covering letter please tell us why you’re interested in the apprenticeship scheme, how you meet the requirements and how a FarmShare apprenticeship fits with your future plans.<br />
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Apply in writing to Tierney Woods, Head Grower Norwich FarmShare at:
43, St. John’s Road, Bungay or by emailing <a href="mailto:josiah@provenance.co"><strong>josiah@provenance.co</strong></a><br />
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<strong>Deadline for applications:</strong> Monday 25th June<br />
<strong>Interview date: </strong>Wednesday 4th July (at Postwick)<br />
<strong>Start date:</strong> Monday 16th JulyJosiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02651420962825076168noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3056030921791508838.post-16727748236650072762012-04-26T13:56:00.000+01:002012-04-26T09:35:00.375+01:00IPSWICH: Festival of Ideas and 30-mile Food Challenge- 12 May<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCgRR9A4ELTms5gIfI5RDb_gbRJyB3N2KwKyfaBmraU-dh6K_nWJnApbtDbNc9PeuF-2RvHem00hVKRzLbvJhR-4RXWmB3OyBiLZ2XW6tGrGcUuYqnnUpeEmSv9Fc3bdMNjCbYVRAjZxw/s1600/FLYER+Final+Version%252C+April+2012+Jpeg.jpeg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 141px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCgRR9A4ELTms5gIfI5RDb_gbRJyB3N2KwKyfaBmraU-dh6K_nWJnApbtDbNc9PeuF-2RvHem00hVKRzLbvJhR-4RXWmB3OyBiLZ2XW6tGrGcUuYqnnUpeEmSv9Fc3bdMNjCbYVRAjZxw/s200/FLYER+Final+Version%252C+April+2012+Jpeg.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5733466300317489602" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:'Bookman Old Style';color:black;">I<span style="font-family:georgia;">nterested in green issues – from fixing your bike (bring it along!) or growing your own food to global concerns about climate change and population?</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family:georgia;">Then come to Ipswich’s second Festival of Green Ideas on Saturday 12</span><sup style="font-family: georgia;">th</sup><span style="font-family:georgia;"> May at the Quaker Meeting House, on Fonnereau Rd, opposite Christchurch Park, 10am-5pm. Entrance is free and the whole family is welcome.<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;font-family:'Bookman Old Style';font-size:100%;" class="ecxApple-style-span" >With a wide variety of stalls, talks, films and children’s activities throughout the day there will be plenty to get everyone engaged. Our Local Food Café will be serving delicious local produce and challenging you to Eat Local. During the afternoon there will be a Question Time style discussion, where everyone is encouraged share their thoughts and feelings on the many issues that the Festival embraces.</span><br /><br />Transition Ipswich will be 'launching' our 30-Mile Food Challenge, which will be taking place this September. If you want more information about that - several Transition Groups are thinking of doing a similar Challenge - do get in touch we me as we are more than happy to share our resources (our new website will be going live in early May) and get ideas from others who have done it before.<br /><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;font-family:'Bookman Old Style';" class="ecxApple-style-span" >Further information at </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;font-family:'Bookman Old Style';color:black;" ><a href="http://www.suffolkquakers.org.uk/green-ideas.htm" target="_blank">http://www.suffolkquakers.org.uk/green-ideas.htm</a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span>or contact Heather Bruce on: 01473 257 649 or </span><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;" href="mailto:hbbruce@hotmail.co.uk">hbbruce@hotmail.co.uk</a><span style="font-family:'Bookman Old Style';color:black;"><span><br /></span></span></p>Charlotte Du Cannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216522431894543642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3056030921791508838.post-70897144527200246392012-04-20T13:51:00.001+01:002012-04-20T13:53:02.414+01:00BUNGAY: Give and Take<p><em></em><a href="http://www.sustainablebungay.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_4373.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4286" title="IMG_4373" src="http://www.sustainablebungay.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/IMG_4373-300x225.jpg" alt="" height="225" width="300" /></a><br /></p><p>It’s that time of year again when everything starts afresh. The green is returning to the landscape, seeds are being sown and stuff is being thrown out. And not to your local recycling centre and into landfill but to another <strong>Give and Take Day</strong> on <strong>Saturday 21st April 10am-1pm</strong> at the Community Centre in Bungay.</p> <p>If you’ve got something <strong>in decent condition</strong> that you no longer need – whether it’s an <strong>item of furniture, clothes, kitchenware, garden tools, books or toys (but NO electricals please)</strong> – bring it along and we’ll find it a new home. You might just find a hidden gem and all for free. There can be great encounters with people, and the history of their unwanted objects can make for some interesting stories. You never know what’s going to come through the door. Anything that hasn’t found a new owner by the end of the day will be collected by the local Emmaus centre in Ditchingham.</p> <p>You don’t have to bring something in order to take something away, everything must go!</p> <p>With a hose pipe ban in operation across parts of the valley, many of us are religiously emptying our baths with a watering can. There is a simple satisfaction in not letting water go to waste. And it makes us more conscious of the circulation of resources into and out of our homes and lives. Do we use more than we need? Do we consider the lifecycle of each piece of rubbish that’s dropped into the black bin?</p> <p>Much of what we throw away will sit in the ground for a very very long time. By becoming aware of this fact we can influence our daily actions and reduce our personal impact on the planet – and feel great about it! Whether it’s driving, eating, buying, or simply enjoying ourselves we can change our lives in so many ways. We can live more slowly, more softly, more simply or even go on a Rubbish diet. The Rubbish Diet was started in 2008 by Karen Cannard in Bury St. Edmunds who took up a week long challenge to seriously reduce the amount of rubbish going into her family’s “Black Bin”. It really took off and you can find out all about it at our next <strong>Green Drinks</strong> evening at the <strong>Green Dragon (Tues 17th April)</strong>. You might even decide you want to give it a go.</p> <p>So I challenge you now to have a jolly good rummage for all that stuff you really don’t need that’s cluttering up your space and bring it along to the <strong>Community Centre</strong> in <strong>Upper Olland Street, Bungay</strong> on <strong>Saturday 21st April 10am-1pm</strong>, where there will also be an opportunity for some free bicycle maintenance. Refreshments by Happy Mondays at the Community Kitchen crew.<br /></p><p><strong>To arrange collections for large or heavy items contact Eloise 01986 788785 eloise.wilkinson@gmail.com</strong></p>Charlotte Du Cannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216522431894543642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3056030921791508838.post-19951663791944505222012-04-09T09:23:00.006+01:002012-04-09T19:49:58.660+01:00BUNGAY FILM NIGHT: The Crisis of Civilisation - Friday 13 April<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfVEmjBBPoyZhjZzfeOZG6nbSBUL250JUznSakS9hs0i_A_UfQt2hsF3prLn5uiyQc5CRd3FAzHUpEHgr1p0nBo4StqbuSg56H7afJuJYXw2vsETG8DjcN3BSX9jKiW5hpkh5Fi7cEVLA/s1600/The-People-e1321512558936_0-200x150.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfVEmjBBPoyZhjZzfeOZG6nbSBUL250JUznSakS9hs0i_A_UfQt2hsF3prLn5uiyQc5CRd3FAzHUpEHgr1p0nBo4StqbuSg56H7afJuJYXw2vsETG8DjcN3BSX9jKiW5hpkh5Fi7cEVLA/s400/The-People-e1321512558936_0-248x188.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5723355843491710898" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">This Friday Sustainable Bungay and Waveney Greenpeace will be showing the documentary, <span style="font-style:italic;">The Crisis of Civilisation</span>. Here <span style="font-weight: bold;">Nafeez</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> </span></span><strong style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Mosaddeq Ahmed</strong><span style="font-style: italic;"> describes how his book, </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://crisisofcivilization.com/book/"><em>A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It</em></a><span style="font-style: italic;">, was turned into a <a href="http://crisisofcivilization.com/">documentary film</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span> The post is excerpted from an original post, </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.transitionnetwork.org/stories/guest-blogger/2012-02/fine-tuning-great-transition">Fine Tuning the Great Transition</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> written during the Film Media week on the Social Reporting Project this February.</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><br />The book was the first serious attempt to bring together the seemingly disparate crises of climate change, energy depletion, food scarcity, economic meltdown, terrorism, warfare, and state-militarisation, into a single framework of analysis and charts the probable demise of industrial civilization in its current form over the next few decades, and suggests a series of fundamental radical political, economic, cultural, ideological and ethical changes that communities need to explore to achieve a transition to more sustainable, equitable and participatory structures.<br /><br />I’d also warned that our inability to understand the inherent interconnections and systemic context of contemporary crises would not only inhibit our capacity to respond to them effectively; but would lead inevitably to ill-conceived, short-sighted responses based on violence to control symptoms of crisis convergence, in order to maintain business-as-usual.<br /><br /><div role="main" id="main-content" class="clear-block"><div class="panel-display hometus clear-block"><div class="main-wrapper"><div class="panel-panel panel-col-first"><div class="inside"><div class="panel-pane pane-node-body"><div class="pane-content"><p class="Standard">Suffice to say, my argument would hardly make fun, bedtime reading. So when film-maker <a href="http://deaddeanfilms.org/">Dean Puckett</a> offered to help me promote my book on youtube, after bumping into him at a democracy rally in St. James Park, I was rather chuffed.<br /></p><p class="Standard">We arranged a date, and Dean came round my flat with his camera to interview me for what we both thought would be a cool little clip I could use on my blog or website. He sat opposite me in my little office, flicking through my book and asking me questions as he went. In the end, we conversed for nearly five hours. “Maybe we could make a series of clips, then”, ventured Dean as he left my flat.</p><p class="Standard">About a week or so later, Dean called me up and told me how he’d experimented with splicing footage of our interview with <a href="http://crisisofcivilization.com/recycled-film-and-archive-favorites/">old archive film footage</a> from the 40s, 50s, and 60s – mostly social engineering films by corporations and government celebrating the supposed brilliance of industrial capitalism – to illustrate my thesis.</p><p class="Standard"><em> </em> He’d also asked artist <a href="http://crisisofcivilization.com/animating-the-crises/">Lucca Benney</a> to create an animation to represent one of the core themes of the book, leading to an eye-popping hand-drawn cartoon of the Unlimited Growth Monster.</p><p class="Standard"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYSWqbVl2Abb8psy33-6dnszGvcrB-gAoEOkpvh4tirc7rSi02wIZ-Ph_7Flbs7o-3AjzvAoOMYkta3KSR2AtS8lNxkdAXK1zRpA_8vZ5qDUoP3HlAZHOk_-S3OCDp4-ZoY86U6KrtGhM/s1600/growth-monster-e1321993871720-1024x763-300x224.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 224px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYSWqbVl2Abb8psy33-6dnszGvcrB-gAoEOkpvh4tirc7rSi02wIZ-Ph_7Flbs7o-3AjzvAoOMYkta3KSR2AtS8lNxkdAXK1zRpA_8vZ5qDUoP3HlAZHOk_-S3OCDp4-ZoY86U6KrtGhM/s320/growth-monster-e1321993871720-1024x763-300x224.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5723355587666064658" border="0" /></a>“Nafeez”, I remember Dean telling me. “I think this could be a feature film.” I was obviously thrilled. A film of my book? It’s any author’s dream come true.</p><p class="Standard"> The process of working with Dean and Lucca on a shoe-string budget to make the film was enlightening and exhilarating. For nearly a year, we worked to find ways to translate my ideas about civilizational crisis and the necessity of a radical transition to post-carbon societies into the format of a documentary feature film. It was an exercise in breaking down what in the book presents itself as a rigorous, complex and interdisciplinary argument drawing on hundreds of academic and industry sources, and articulating a sophisticated holistic theoretical framework; into an accessible one hour twenty minute narrative, chock full of startling stock footage imagery, modern newsreel, and colourful animations.</p><p class="Standard"><em></em><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivnDi1S7xlXKc41kBOViypz6lIh7-SpKWUdgN-3y6E-KmRF_J-O8hyA6FwbGrF7f2npCjnwPY-MA6MDBSBjxYvzJq61M0N5yrRskd6vr5ms_KwlqtUA-3wbLwF9G-JGwZi9FQtOS-ViUM/s1600/NAFEEZ-300x169.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 113px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivnDi1S7xlXKc41kBOViypz6lIh7-SpKWUdgN-3y6E-KmRF_J-O8hyA6FwbGrF7f2npCjnwPY-MA6MDBSBjxYvzJq61M0N5yrRskd6vr5ms_KwlqtUA-3wbLwF9G-JGwZi9FQtOS-ViUM/s200/NAFEEZ-300x169.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5723363527727146802" border="0" /></a>The message of the film, like the book, is ultimately simple. If we are going to overcome the convergence of civilizational crises we are now facing, we need to address the fundamental fragmentation in our approaches, and take a much broader, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holism">holistic view</a>. But this needs to be done not just in a purely epistemological sense to do with the way we pursue knowledge – requiring joined-up and systemic thinking; but also in a practical sense, related to the way we do policymaking, and perhaps more importantly, activism.</p><p class="Standard">Currently, we are simply not talking to each other. Our economists, politicians, agricultural experts, ecologists, business leaders, artists, and activists operate largely in self-contained silos – we rarely communicate across and between disciplinary boundaries, and even less do we actually actively coordinate our efforts. This fragmentation afflicts not just the way we pursue knowledge, it also characterises the way we devise policy, and accordingly, the way our societies end up functioning. As activists, then, there is a dire need for us to ensure that we counter this by making our activism holistic.</p> We made <a href="http://crisisofcivilization.com/">this film</a> as a tool which could help people get a better handle on the systemic interconnections between multiple, converging crises, and the urgent need for civilizational transition; but more importantly, to help activists and transitioners already somewhat aware of these issues to communicate them more effectively, powerfully and positively to a wider audience. The idea was to give people a solid framework with which to both understand everything that’s going wrong in the world, and thus recognise the necessity of radical systemic transformation in order for us to survive and perhaps even prosper in the twenty-first century.<p class="Standard"> <iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/32074939?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" mozallowfullscreen="" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="225" width="400"></iframe></p><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/32074939">The Crisis of Civilization: Trailer</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/crisisfilm">thecrisisofcivilization</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</p>We hope that we’ve succeeded, We have been running a fantasic and eye opening community screenings intuitive since October and we’re proud to announce that we’re giving this film to you, for free online and available to purchase on DVD with loads of extras in Bio degradable/ recycled pakaging , <a href="http://crisisofcivilization.com/get-involved/">to run with and show</a> to your friends, families, colleagues, communities, elected and unelected representatives. Aware. Alert. Alive!<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:85%;">Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is Executive Director of the <a href="http://www.iprd.org.uk/">Institute for Policy Research & Development</a> in London. His latest book is <a href="http://crisisofcivilization.com/book/">A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It</a> (Pluto/Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). He is the writer and narrator of the documentary film, </span><a href="http://www.crisisofcivilization.com/"><span style="font-size:85%;">The Crisis of Civilization (2011)</span><br /></a></strong><p></p><span style="font-weight:bold;">The Crisis of Civilisation will be shown at 7.30pm at Bacon's Farm, St Michael South Elmham, NR35 1NF.</span> <span style="font-weight:bold;">For further info contact Eloise Wilkinson at eloisewilkinson@gmail.com(01986 788785)</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Charlotte Du Cannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216522431894543642noreply@blogger.com0