Past Events
Transition: Bounce Forward
Transition: Bounce Forward
Organised by Transition Network
Free
Transition Network has developed a programme of support, “Transition: Bounce Forward”, for transition towns that will be delivered over the coming months.
As the first step, they have been running a series of online 'What Is?' events this week (7th - 10th of September). These have been exploring how Transition groups can respond to the combination of COVID-19, socio - economic issues and the ongoing climate crisis:
- Reinventing and revaluing projects in changing times.
Thursday 10th September
7pm – 8.30pm
Chaired by Yaz Brien of Transition Network.Join representatives from Crystal Palace Transition Town, Deal with It and Transition Town Wellington to explore how their projects are adapting to recent events, to pandemics, and to the upsurge of concern around climate change.
To book, visit: https://bit.ly/3bBQ9Lg
This will be followed by further sessions in October and November, during which they will be looking at ‘What If’ and ‘What Next’.
Fighting Climate Change in the Peak District
Thursday 10th September
7.30pm – 9.30pm
Organised by Café Transition New Mills
Led by Jody Vallance, join this zoom to learn more about Moors for the Future Partnership restoration work in the Peak District and South Pennines moors - some of the most degraded landscapes in Europe. This event is part of the New Mills Festival 2020.
For more information and\or joining instructions: https://bit.ly/3lTeDEB
Free Virtual Expert- led Mini-Seminars
Free Virtual Expert- led Mini-Seminars
40 – 60 minutes
Via Zoom
Organised by Transition Buxton
To join in, please register for each session in advance via awareness@transitionbuxton.co.uk. You will then receive an ‘invitation’ to join via a Zoom link.
- Serpentine Community Garden: Past Present & Future
Madeline Hall & Steve Philips
Thursday 13th August, 7:30pm
Madeline Hall & Steve Philips will talk about what the Serpentine Community Garden (SCG) is and where it’s going. After 5 years’ activity as Serpentine Community Farm CIC and its earlier genesis as the Food Group within Transition Buxton, SCG has big ambitions to continue to grow an increasingly wide range of plants, and improve our knowledge and understanding of the natural environment, as well as providing social and therapeutic support in our community and more.
- ‘Excellence in Consumption’
Dr Terry Newholm
from University of Manchester
Thursday 27th August, 7:30pm
Our life is in a consumer culture with all the threats that poses to our survival; not an easy proposition for us humans. We’ll get some advice from an austere Victorian art critic, a couple of contemporary American philosophers and the prime UK advocate of eudemonics. This seminar asks the question - what happens when we take a ‘moral turn’ and begin to talk about what is not mentioned in polite American circles: CONSUMPTION?
For more information on Transition Buxton: https://bit.ly/3aLp727
You can watch recorded versions of previous mini seminars if you missed them here: https://bit.ly/3f43ZGU
Introduction to Permaculture Course
Introduction to Permaculture Course
Organised Belper Permaculture Network
Belper Permaculture Network are offering a pay-as-you feel, online introduction to permaculture course - starting 8 August! They are extending their invitation particularly to people who live in the wider Belper area, but anyone is welcome to join.
Led by experienced teachers Jennie Lindop and Ryan Sandford-Blackburn, the course will be delivered online across three interactive sessions:
- Saturday 8th August
11.30pm - 3.30pm - Wednesday 12th August
11.30pm - 3.30pm - Wednesday 19th August
11.30pm - 3.30pm
There will be plenty of opportunities to share and ideas discuss in between sessions.
Online Meeting for Climate Change-focused Community Groups
Tuesday 18th August*, 7pm - 8pm (from 6:45pm if you would like some help with Zoom)
Log on via this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89398109545
Meeting ID: 893 9810 9545
Organised by Community Climate Action Network/Marches Energy Agency
We are running regular monthly Zoom meetings to give community groups a chance to informally meet and share ideas. Our next Zoom meeting will be on Tuesday 18th August* from 7pm till 8pm.
The Government finance statement in July 2020 included an announcement about the new Green Homes Grant scheme.
In this Zoom, we will detail what we know so far about the scheme and what we would like to know. It will also be chance to discuss what we think about it - can we envisage any problems that may arise? Is the scheme a strong enough government response to the climate emergency?
As usual, you will be able to share what you have been up to, hear about what other community groups are doing, and ask for any support you would like from us.
*N.B:- Please note the change of date to avoid clashing with a Plastic Free Chesterfield event.
Online Meeting for Climate Change-focused Community Groups
Tuesday 18th August*, 7pm - 8pm (from 6:45pm if you would like some help with Zoom)
Log on via this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89398109545
Meeting ID: 893 9810 9545
Organised by Community Climate Action Network/Marches Energy Agency
We are running regular monthly Zoom meetings to give community groups a chance to informally meet and share ideas. Our next Zoom meeting will be on Tuesday 18th August* from 7pm till 8pm.
The Government finance statement in July 2020 included an announcement about the new Green Homes Grant scheme.
In this Zoom, we will detail what we know so far about the scheme and what we would like to know. It will also be chance to discuss what we think about it - can we envisage any problems that may arise? Is the scheme a strong enough government response to the climate emergency?
As usual, you will be able to share what you have been up to, hear about what other community groups are doing, and ask for any support you would like from us.
*N.B:- Please note the change of date to avoid clashing with a Plastic Free Chesterfield event.
Hope Valley Climate Action (HVCA) Monthly Meeting
Hope Valley Climate Action (HVCA) Monthly Meeting*
Monday 10th August, 7.30pm
Log on via this link: https://bit.ly/31h1CLq
Organised by HVCA
*normally meet every second Monday of the month
HVCA is continuing to have monthly general meetings via Zoom. The focus of their next meeting will be on travel and transport:
- Steve Platt, HVCA treasurer and a member of the Energy and Transport Group, will share the results and analysis of the travel survey they conducted last month in Hope Valley.
- Roger Clarke, HVCA secretary and convenor of the travel and transport group, will report on the work of the Travel and Transport action group.
Virtual Tour of a Low Carbon Self-Build
Thursday 6th August, 6pm - 7.30pm
Organised by Centre of Sustainable Energy (CSE)
FREE
This is the third event in CSE’s ‘Bristol Green Doors Retrofit Stories,’ which is a series of virtual tours of properties that have been transformed to be more energy efficient.
Here, you will virtually explore the thermally efficient, airtight, timber frame home that Jim built when he couldn't find an older property to retrofit. The house is fitted with measures and features such as:
- Airtight with Mechanical Ventilation and Heat Recovery (MVHR)
- Lightweight steel roof covering
- Wet downstairs underfloor heating with conventional radiators upstairs
- Thermal mass and acoustic isolation to first floor
- Solar powered electric vehicle charging
You can read Jim’s case study for full details of the measures installed.
There will be plenty of opportunity throughout to ask Jim questions.
For more information and/or register: https://bit.ly/3gqJftU
Climate Conversations | Workshop
Saturday 1st - Sunday 2nd August, 2pm - 3.30pm
Organised by Low Carbon Oxford North (LCON)
Do you want to have difficult conversations about the climate with friends and family, but don’t know where to begin?
Led by Rebecca Nestor (climate psychologist and LCON trustee), this workshop aims to help build your confidence in talking with friends and family about the climate crisis. It is based on materials created by Rosemary Randall, long-standing expert on climate psychology, and by Climate Outreach.
By the end of the workshop, you will have planned and maybe even scripted a climate conversation that is relevant to your own situation.
You need to attend both parts of the workshop.
How to stop funding fossil fuels? | Webinar
Thursday 23rd July, 7.30 - 9.00pm
Organised by Low Carbon Oxford North (LCON)
To fight the climate crisis, most of the fossil fuel reserves need to stay in the ground.
In this webinar, Ben Caldecott, Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme and leading expert in Sustainable Finance, together with student campaigner Anna Olerinyova, looks at fossil fuel divestment. Ben and Anna will discuss the fossil fuel industry’s central role in the climate crisis, what can be done to stop funding it, and how we can all play our part.
To register: https://bit.ly/31QqN9J