Past Events
Power Up Online: Empower yourself with skills to win campaigns through planning
Weekly, Begins Friday 1st May (repeated Saturday 2nd May)
Organised by Friends of the Earth
This free online training programme, led by experienced Planner Naomi Luhde-Thompson, aims to explain how you can use the planning system to help protect your local environment and to campaign for green development. It will outline your rights under the planning system, and how you can successfully influence planning decisions to win your campaign.
The programme will consist of 6 weekly modules. Each module will consist of:
- An online 90 minute Zoom call including presentations, films and an opportunity to ask questions.
- A follow-on online discussion forum on Slack
- For some modules, a dedicated, region specific Zoom online surgery to discuss regional campaigns and local plans.
These will run:
- Every Friday evening, 6pm – 7:30pm
- Repeated every Saturday mornings, 10am - 11:30am
You need to attend 1 session each week, either Friday evening or Saturday morning. You are able to change your choice during the course.
If they are over-subscribed, they will prioritise individuals and groups that are currently under-represented and disadvantaged in the planning process.
For more detail on the course and to book*: https://bit.ly/2zA2row
*Please complete the booking form before Wednesday 29 April.
Online Meeting for Climate Change-focused Community Groups
Wednesday 17th June, 7pm-8pm (log on from 6:45pm if you’re new to Zoom and would like some help with understanding how it works)
Log on via this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88433862796
Meeting ID: 884 3386 2796
Organised by Community Climate Action Network/Marches Energy Agency
This will be:
- A follow up on our meeting last month
- An informal opportunity to ‘meet’ with people from other climate change-focused community groups in the Nottingham/Nottinghamshire/Derby/Derbyshire area.
- A chance to hear about what other community groups are doing
- An opportunity to talk about what support you might want from the Community Climate Action Network in the next few months (while life is very different to normal) and in the future. This could be more Zoom meetings, more content on our website or something else.
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 Wednesday 17th June from 7pm till 8pm. As usual, this will also be an opportunity to let us know what support you would like from us.
Go Electric! & Virtual AGM
Saturday 13th June, 10.30am - 12pm
Log in via*: https://bit.ly/3duiYcw
Organised by Transition Chesterfield
- Go Electric event, 10.30am - 11.30am
Have you considered buying an electric car or bike but don’t know where to start? Then, join this virtual event where local electric car (including a Leaf, Twizy, i3, Zoe and Kia Soul) and bike owners will give you the realities of buying and owning electric vehicles. The owners are all Transition Chesterfield members and supporters.
If you would like to share your own experiences, please contact
transitionchesterfield@yahoo.co.uk.
- AGM, 11.30am - 12pm
Straight after, Transition Chesterfield will be holding its Annual General Meeting.
Two core group members, including the Secretary, are stepping down. They are looking for enthusiastic people to join/step up to fill these roles.
If you are interested or just want a chat about the role, please contact Lisa at transitionchesterfield@yahoo.co.uk
* If you are joining the AGM only, you can use the same login as above, but join just before 11.30am instead.
'How to Give Up Plastic' webinar
Wednesday June 10th, 7.30pm – 8.30pm
Organised by Plastic Free Chesterfield
To mark their first birthday, Plastic Free Chesterfield is hosting a free webinar with Will McCallum, author and Head of Oceans at Greenpeace UK.
Will McCallum has been at the heart of the anti-plastics movement for the past three years. He set up, and is leading, the global Greenpeace campaign to create the world’s largest protected area in the Antarctic Ocean.
Will has put everything he’s learnt into his book, 'How to Give Up Plastic: A Guide to Changing the World, One Plastic Bottle at a Time'. In this webinar, he will share tips and tricks to help you reduce your plastic footprint.
To register for this webinar: https://bit.ly/3eIXfOe
The National Forest – a new model for sustainable living
Wednesday 10th June, 7.30pm - 8.30pm
Organised by University Of Derby
The University of Derby is continuing its series of webinars about climate change science and action hosted by the Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, in collaboration with local partners. In this webinar, they welcome Louise Driver - Director of Operations from the National Forest Company.
With the climate crisis now threatening humanity, the National Forest provides a real example of how we can mitigate and adapt to develop the foundations for more sustainable living. Louise will explore the National Forest’s ambitions, its role in helping us to re-imagine our society, and the need for hope in an uncertain world.
Louise has spent 20 years in local government developing economic and rural policy, strategy and effective partnerships, before moving to the National Forest Company in June 2019.
To register:https://bit.ly/2XSe0zU
Trio of Free Virtual Mini-Seminars
Transition Buxton will be holding three short interactive sessions via Zoom for free. Each session will start with a presentation (approx. 20mins) from a guest speaker who is an expert in their respective field. This will be followed by Q&A.
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.
- ‘What We Need To Do Now’ by Chris Goodall
Thursday 7th May, 7:30pm
Chris Goodall’s book offers a set of solutions to each of the main challenges posed by global heating including energy supply, housing, food, clothing and manufacturing problem areas, such as cement and steel. It finishes by looking briefly at the opportunities for direct capture of CO2 from air, a carbon tax and dividend system, and the possible benefits and costs of tinkering with the reflectivity of the Earth’s atmosphere.
- People Powered Retrofit’ by Jonathan Atkinson
Thursday 21st May, 7:30pm
Jonathan Atkinson from Carbon Coop in Manchester will talk about a community led project for improving comfort and lowering carbon in existing housing. Instead of the top-down one-size-fits-all approach taken in some government initiatives, the Carbon coop take a bottom up approach to retrofit. They look at local needs and resources to build partnerships between households and local firms.
- ‘From Consumer Culture to Sustainability’ by Dr Terry Newholm
Thursday 4th June, 7:30pm
From Consumer Culture to Sustainability, Dr Terry Newholm will illustrate the complex challenge we face in trying to address climate change and species loss. Dr Newholm who was co-author of The Ethical Consumer in 2005 is currently Hon. Reader in Consumption Ethics at University of Manchester. One of his key areas of interest is in ethical consumption in a world where human activity is increasingly seen as having a detrimental effect on our environment.
https://bit.ly/2KItHUc
For more information on Transition Buxton: https://bit.ly/3aLp727
Leading the Energy Transition Webinar Series
Organised by Regen
Over the coming weeks, Regen will be hosting a series of in-depth interviews with key players in the transformation of our energy system. The first two interviews are open to booking:
- Operating a zero carbon energy system
Fintan Slye, Director of the System Operator at National Grid
Monday 11th May, 4.00pm
Book here
- Raising the ambition of international climate action
Nigel Topping, UK High Level Climate Action Champion
Tuesday 2nd June, 11.30am
Book here
To keep up-to-date with Regen events: https://bit.ly/2z7FgBO
Climate Change and Our Forests
Wednesday 27th May, 7.30pm - 8.30pm
Organised by University Of Derby
The University of Derby is resuming the series of events about climate change science and action hosted by the Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, in collaboration with local partners. They have adapted their new events to an online format.
This is the second of three new online seminars planned. Professor Rob MacKenzie, Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Birmingham, will explore and explain the impact that rising CO2 levels have on forests around the world. He will also talk about one of the largest global change experiments in the world which investigates how trees are affected by changes in our atmosphere and how these changes are propagated to other animals, plants, and microbes living in forests.
Professor MacKenzie has the academic lead for BIFoR FACE, a £15M research project that led to the establishment of the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research and assesses how increasing CO2 levels affect forest ecosystems.
Online Meeting for Climate Change-focused Community Groups
Wednesday 20th May, 7pm-8pm (log on from 6:45pm if you’re new to Zoom and would like some help with understanding how it works)
Log on via this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83741971389
Meeting ID: 837 4197 1389
Organised by Community Climate Action Network/Marches Energy Agency
This will be:
- A follow up on our meeting last month
- An informal opportunity to ‘meet’ with people from other climate change-focused community groups in the Nottingham/Nottinghamshire/Derby/Derbyshire area.
- A chance to hear about what other community groups are doing
- An opportunity to talk about what support you might want from the Community Climate Action Network in the next few months (while life is very different to normal) and in the future. This could be more Zoom meetings, more content on our website or something else.
- A chance to meet the new project lead - Peter Burgess - Allen. Peter will now be running our work in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, especially with the Local Authority Energy Partnership and community groups.
A huge thank you to everyone who joined our first community Zoom meeting last month. We hope that it was useful. We discussed how you wanted to be supported through the COVID-19 crisis and in the future. It was also great hearing about what community groups in the region were doing to move forward.
There was a strong sense that many of you would like to be in better communication with similar groups in the region and with your local MPs. We are planning ways in which we can support your communications with local MPs and make sure your concerns are being raised with relevant policy makers in your region. We’ll let you know about that soon!
In the meantime, we are aiming to run Zoom meetings regularly to give community groups a chance to informally meet and share ideas. Our next Zoom meeting will be on Wednesday 20th May from 7pm till 8pm. This will also be an opportunity to let us know what support you would like from us.
As an example of the kind of support we might offer, we organised a Zoom conference on the topic of Community-led Sustainable Transport back in June 2018. You can see a recording of it here. There is the potential for us to run this kind of event again (with different topics) if groups feel it would be of use in this time.
Are Emerging Diseases Part of Climate Change?
Wednesday 20th May, 7.30pm - 8.30pm
Organised by University Of Derby
The University of Derby is resuming the series of events about climate change science and action hosted by the Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, in collaboration with local partners. They have adapted their new events to an online format.
This is the first of three new online seminars planned. Dr Richard Williams, from the University of Derby, will summarise the history of disease pandemics, discuss how disease distributions are affected by climate and examine what evidence exists that disease distributions will change as climatic conditions change. Richard is a researcher at the University of Derby who works on the ecology of bird viruses. The talk will be followed by a Q&A with Richard.
Once you have signed up, you will receive a link to participate. If you can no longer make it, please let them know as places are limited.
You can register to this and future online climate change events here. (Note: booking for this event will open Thursday 7th May).