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Transition Derby & Derby LETS invites you to.. “Get cutting and start sewing” …What would you like to do? Following on from Mig Holder’s very interesting talk on how she recycles clothes into some useful and creative objects last November, we are having a “Get cutting – start sewing” practical workshop. With oil prices now around $100 a barrel, and clothing prices rising and likely to rise...

Before in December 2010 What a difference a year makes. Twelve months ago the first picture  shows the frost covered field to the left of Moor Lane in Littleover, which is the beginning of Millennium Wood, and twelve months later the picture below of a whole host of people planting the 101 fruit trees. Now in December 2011 All of this is courtesy of Blagreaves Neighbour Forum, led by Cnclr...

  Mike Payne Transition Derby and Friends Mike’s talk was based on how are we going to build a new form of prosperity within an economy that does not allow for growth. He started off talking about our patterns of consumerism and that all our earnings tend to form a river of money, which then is diverted off into various tributories for different purchases, some local and some further afield....

Durban Climate Conference – Derby feed-back Peter Robinson of the ‘UK Climate Alliance – for jobs, climate and communities’ and convenor of Derby Climate Change Coalition gave a feedback session on his return from the ‘outside space’ events of the Durban UN Climate Conference. He set the scene by showing clips of ‘actionaid’ footage of rural women farmers. A woman from Lesotho gathered 6 bags of...

Put some new life into your old clothes! Talk/practical session facilitated by Mig Holder, Saturday 29th October 6:30 pm at Friends Meeting House.  Bring along some old clothes to repair/alter or re-model into something completely different.I can bring a basic sewing kit along with me and a few fabricremnants, but if anyone else can bring their own needles, thread, etcthat would be much...

July 27th 2011 Midday and here we were at Sunningdale Park in Littleover with Stevie Rosso chatting to the local Constabulary, Lucy Care making fruit dishes out of used fruit juice containers and William Barron eating home-made cake from the various other stands. We were all here at the Friends of Littleover Parks or FOLP for short, which as you would expect includes King George V and Millennium...

Derby Carbon Initiative supported by Transition Derby and hosted by Derby College invite you to consider enrolling in one or more of the five new Sustainability Lifestyle Courses starting October 1st at the Round house.   Derby Carbon Initiative hosted by Derby College and supported by Transition Derby are breaking totally new ground for the UK by launching a whole range of new...

Now that the holidays are over here is the second invitation please put this date in your diary September 24th just 3 weeks to hear Mike Payne talk on how "Prosperity without Growth" can be achieved Bearing in mind the Thameslink situation, it is even more important to have new ideas as to where Derby is going. An interactive evening exploring ideas such as 'umbrellas', 'chocolate money' and '...