Past Events
Eco Fayre - Wirksworth
9am - 2pm (Alongside the Farmers Market)
An Eco Fayre to show that everyone can do something, however small
Day-to-day actions for using less fossil fuel
- switching to green alternatives in our houses for heating and generating electricity, and in our transport
- how to make things last longer using the four R’s, Recycle, Repair, Re-use and Re-fill.
- grow some of your own food and even find it in the roadsides,
- increase the dwindling biodiversity in our gardens, verges and countryside.
Chlldren will be catered for at The Maltings: making bug houses and boats. A locally-produced guide to the Energy Switch Initiative will be launched on how to change to a Green alternative energy supplier. Planet-friendly refreshments and recipes will be provided.
Stalls will be outside and in, around the heart of the town centre and The Maltings on St. Mary’s Gate. Nothing will be sold or bought but experience and ideas will be shared.
Sponsored by Wirksworth Churches Together in collaboration with the Wirksworth Transition Community Land Trust, Wilder Wirksworth, and Wirksworth Transition
Derbyshire Youth Climate Discussions
7-9pm
The Hub, Gladstone buildings
Clay Cross, S45 9JW
A new youth group for all smaller climate groups and individuals to come together & create one big mass of passionate ideas. Meetings will be hosted bi-monthly, along with socials, camp-outs and veggie BBQs. Turn up, make friends & make some Change!
07429 253800
Plastic Bottles and Sustainability: What's really going on?
Monday 27th September, 7pm
Via Zoom
Organised by Plastic Free Chesterfield
FREE
Plastic Free Chesterfield is proud to welcome Dave Lamont of Plastic Free Home as well as a speaker from Plastics Rebellion to explore how drink companies are evolving the way they market their plastic bottled drinks. Short presentations followed by a Q&A panel discussion.
Register: https://bit.ly/3hiFIjN
The Great Big Green Week
The Great Big Green Week (18th – 26th September) will be the largest climate and nature event ever in the UK. Thousands of events will celebrate how communities are taking action against climate change and protect green spaces.
Local Activities Include:
- Shipley Eco-Action Group
Moonlight Walk in Shipley Wood
Clothes Swap at the Community Garden
https://bit.ly/2X6Y2pk
- The Belper Bucket Challenge
Raising money for a dam in Kenya to store precious rainwater.
https://bit.ly/3E0P11H
- Baslow WI's Great Big Green Wednesday
Local walks and talks, including a tour of the Baslow allotments
https://bit.ly/3C4Bep3
Find more events: https://bit.ly/3nmbQqG
Rewilding
Countdown to COP26 workshop
Saturday 25th September
11am - 12.30pm
Via Zoom
Organised by Transition Chesterfield, Chesterfield Climate Alliance, Derby Climate Coalition, and Derbyshire Climate Coalition
FREE
This is the seventh in a series of Zoom events designed to celebrate and prepare for COP26 in November.
This session will explore rewilding from a local, national, and international perspective. You will learn about the theory behind rewilding, its relevance to a carbon zero future, one individual’s experience of rewilding land that was agricultural, and more. The online session will be followed by Q&A.
Speakers:
- Andrew Ramsey
Head of Discipline Environmental Sciences
University of Derby
- Matt Buckler
Head of Nature Recovery Networks for Derbyshire Wildlife Trust and Councillor for Derbyshire Dales District Council
- Dawn Ward
Local Rewilding PioneerPeople attending the talk will have a chance to visit Dawn’s land the same afternoon to see for themselves the transformation in progress.
Save the date for future events (last Saturday of the month)
Go Electric!
Thursday 23rd September, 7pm - 8pm
Organised by Derbyshire Dales District Council
FREE
Residents of the Derbyshire Dales are invited to ‘Go Electric’ – a electric vehicle webinar.
This 1-hour session aims to help you understand how you can 'Go Electric':
- Learn about electric vehicles, including types, charging options, and the financial incentives available.
- Have your questions answered by independent specialists at Energy Saving Trust.
- Learn about the benefits of choosing an electric vehicle.
Register: https://bit.ly/3jrOEn3
Queries:climatechange@derbyshiredales.gov.uk
Chesterfield Repair Café
Saturday 18th September, 10am – 1pm (Last orders at 12.30pm)
Organised by Transition Chesterfield
Chesterfield Baptist Church, S40 4ST
FREE
Transition Chesterfield’s Repair café is reverting back to drop ins and offering refreshments in September. This will continue for future months unless otherwise stated on our website.
All types of repairs are possible – furniture, textile as well as electrical.
For more details, please contact: repairs@transitionchesterfield.org.uk
COP26 Climate and the Hope Valley
Monday 13th September, 7pm – 9pm
Hope Valley College, S33 6SB
Organised by Hope Valley Climate Action
FREE
COP26 is billed as humanity's last best chance to agree ways to avoid catastrophic global heating (especially in light of IPCC’s damning report).
With the global conference only two months away, Hope Valley Climate Action invites you to join them to discuss what we can and should be doing to prepare. Keynote speaker is Dr Chris Jones from Tyndall Centre at the University of Manchester. All are welcome.
Nottingham Green Festival
Sunday 12th September, 12pm – 6pm
The Arboretum, Nottingham
FREE
This Sunday, the 28th Nottingham Green Festival will be held at the Arboretum to celebrate all things environmentally friendly and ethical. The festival, organised and run by volunteers, will be a completely vegan event with everything powered by renewable energy.
Transition Belper Eco Market
Sunday 12th September, 10am – 3pm (music till later)
Market Place, Belper
FREE
Also this Sunday, Transition Belper will be taking over the Market Place and the Memorial Gardens in Belper to bring you food, music and sustainable market stalls from Belper’s talented traders. The Market will have over 20 stalls as well as the Belper Repair Café at Number 28.