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Energy Saving Week 25 – 31 October 2010

Our friends at the Energy Savings Trust are promoting Energy Saving Week, 25 – 31 October.  It is worth visiting their website at  www.energysavingtrust.org.uk where you can find information about: easy ways to stop wasting energy and save money an online energy check for your home grants and offers for home improvement insulation and heating solar [...]

Bicycle Maintenance Workshop

What to do when something goes wrong with your bicycle!?!  Here’s a chance to find out how to deal with some of those problems yourself. There will be a bicycle maintenance workshop on Friday 11 June at the Forum on Barton Road starting at 6:30 PM and running for approximately 2 hours.  It will consist [...]

Inspiring Permaculture Course in Cottenham

Hi there, just back from the Introduction to Permaculture Design weekend at The Cambridge Sustainability Centre at Fen End Organic Farm, Cottenham - http://www.flickr.com/photos/50060221@N07/for pictures and www.cambridgesustainability.co.uk for more info. A really welcoming, fun, and inspiring weekend – in the blossoming apple orchard, in yurts, round the campfire and on the farm.  Camping brought us closer into contact with nature – and [...]

Locally Grown Plants

 Several people have told us about a new enterprise ‘Locally Grown Plants’ which has been set up by David Freeman at the Fruit Farm in Chittering (on the A10 between Ely and Cambridge) and will be open each weekend from now on.   They have a good selection of garden and vegetable plants all sourced from very local [...]

Blossom Walks

What a beautiful day we had on Sunday 18 April for the Blossom Walk.  It truly felt like spring and the flowers on the trees were gorgeous.  Fabiola Blum, Biodiversity Co-ordinator for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and Bridget Halford, Landscape Officer and Tree Wardn Co-ordinator, Huntington District Council, led us on the gentle stroll around 60-acre  Heath [...]

Fruit and Veg at Local School

On the 5th of March Transition Ely, St. Mary’s Junior School ‘Eco Warriors’, staff and parents planted 8 apricot trees at the school as part of a plan to grow fruit and vegetables with the children at the school. Lezley Blackburn of the Transition Ely Food Group raised funds from the Green Grants scheme to buy the trees and tools for [...]

Jeff Rubin at the Business of Climate Change Conference

Jeff Rubin, the former Chief Economist of CIBC World Markets and the author of Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller built his reputation as one of Canada’s top economists based on a number of successful predictions including the housing bust of the early 90s and the rise of oil prices. [...]

Visions of Transition

Andreas Teuchert filmed a series of interviews at the 2009 Transition Network conference, which he edited together around three key questions. Here they are for you viewing and listening pleasure! What’s your vision of a post transition world?

Rob Hopkins speaks to TED

Rob Hopkins speaking to TED Talks audience earlier this year. A short and sweet introduction to Transition.