July newsletter
Below is the text of our July newsletter. If you would like to be added to our mailing list to receive our monthly newsletter, or get in touch via email, please use the contact form on the contact page of this website.
CHANGES WE’D LIKE TO SEE AND MAKE
It was great to see over 30 people gather at the Hornbeam Centre on Friday 26 June to watch the film ‘End of Suburbia’. The film clearly got us all thinking about the implications of peak oil, and the discussion that we had afterwards generated many ideas about what we could do individually and as a community. These thoughts were gathered on sticky notes, and you can find them in the post below on this site.
Four clear themes emerged from the discussion: Food, Transport, Energy and Community. Please do get in touch with us if you have been inspired to take action, or would like to develop any of these ideas. Here are some further suggestions about what you can do in each of the areas:
FOOD: If you are interested in food growing, you can join a work day at OrganicLea on the 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month. Contact OrganicLea – info@organiclea.org.uk , www.organiclea.org.uk
TRANSPORT: Plenty of options here, ranging from the Waltham Forest Cycling Campaign (www.wfcycling.org.uk), Family Bike Club rides (the next is 13.00 Sun 19th July), and plans to set up a local branch of Living Streets (www.livingstreets.org.uk).
Contact: Paul via the contact form
COMMUNITY: Raise awareness across the borough, by helping us organise film screenings, talks and by whatever other innovative, fun ways you can think of! Contact: Olivia via the contact form.
ENERGY: One of our Transition team runs the innovative HEET project which helps residents reduce home energy use (www.theheetproject.org.uk). Perhaps you would like to help start an Energy theme group which works with HEET and explores other possibilities such as renewable generation.
NEXT FILM SCREENING
We are just finalizing details for our next film screening, which will be ‘Power of Community’, looking at how Cuba survived Peak Oil in the 1990s, so will let you know about that very soon.
And don’t forget that you can come along to the Hornbeam Centre (http://www.hornbeam.org.uk) on Saturdays between 2.30 and 4pm to have a chat with us about anything Transition-related over a cup of a tea.
