Past Events

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 .  You will then receive an ‘invitation’ to join via a Zoom link.

• ‘What We Need To Do Now’ by Chris Goodall
  Thursday 7^th 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.

https://bit.ly/2zEShTF

• People Powered Retrofit’ by Jonathan Atkinson
  Thursday 21^st 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.  

https://bit.ly/35bY9PS

• ‘From Consumer Culture to Sustainability’ by Dr Terry Newholm
  Thursday 4^th 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

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.

https://bit.ly/3cUGQWN  

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).

Saturday 25^th April, 9.45am – 1.00pm
Imperial Rooms, Matlock  
Organised by Derbyshire Climate Coalition
Free

This is an expert-led workshop to explore how a zero carbon transport system in Derbyshire could be created. It is part of a series of workshops designed to support Derbyshire’s communities and councils to develop and implement the evidence-based carbon reduction targets needed to achieve a zero carbon society. The event will bring together experts and examples of best practice with councillors, council officers and grassroots groups. Confirmed speakers are:

• A radical transport response to the climate emergency
  Lisa Hopkinson, Associate of Transport for Quality of Life
   
• A sustainable transport system for Derbyshire – putting the Green New Deal into action?
  Alistair Kirkbride, freelance transport consultant.
   
• School streets – creating traffic-free space and promoting walking and cycling to school
  David Clasby, Partnership Manager, Sustrans East Midlands
   
• Planning for active travel – how to better integrate walking and cycling into the planning process
  Alastair Meikle, Secretary Chesterfield Cycle Campaign

For more information about the speakers and/or to register, please visit this Eventbrite

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Feedback from September 2019's “Our Zero Carbon Reality: Housing” workshop include:

"It was really energising"                              "Brilliant morning at "Our Zero Carbon Housing workshop"

                              "Interesting and knowledgeable speakers"

"Lively discussion between councillors and local people learning together and discussing solutions to achieve zero  carbon housing".

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