Leamington Spa

This is my current list of to-do in ‘heart and soul’ (or psychology) in Transition: 1.  Fun. If someone is not having fun, they won’t last in Transition.  This heading includes celebrations and socialising (which of course is also a way to learn about each other).  But different people find different things fun, and at least some people actually prefer the meetings or the practical work sessions...

SCRIPT FOR POWER POINT  Slide 1 Look all around you and  it is easy to see why we depend on oil in our lives. Oil can be made into plastics(introduce picture)  which are used widely  in the home. Oil is   a major source of concentrated energy  and is made into diesel and petroleum which powers cars we drive,  trains which we take, trucks which deliver goods, ships which carry good around the...

STORYBOARD FOR THE POWERPOINT FOR TRANSITION TOWN LEAMINGTON INTRODUCTION Rap song by Hybrid arts SLIDE 1 Show the products which use oil     Cars plastics agriculture etc. SLIDE 2 Talk about peak oil and how it will effect us   show graph SLIDE 3 Talk about the causes of Climate change and the need to lower our ecological/carbon footprints. SLIDE  4 Talk about the  consequences of climate change...

Going to the meeting tonight 19/10/11 to present some ideas for the actual textural content of the power points. Hope to get feedback from the meeting to improve the power points.

Dear members of the Education  group,                                            I apologise for being laxed in the input into the group but the reason is that my book "Green Spirituality-one answer to environmental problems and world poverty" Pub authorhouse (see www.greenspirituality.org) came out this last February and I have been busy trying to promote it. This is easing off now and I intend...

Dear members of the Education  group,                                            I apologise for being laxed in the input into the group but the reason is that my book "Green Spirituality-one answer to environmental problems and world poverty" Pub authorhouse (see www.greenspirituality.org) came out this last February and I have been busy trying to promote it. This is easing off now and I intend...

From surgery to acupuncture and IVF, the former GMTV presenter enthuses about her new role as a parent and her battle to regain her figure   Blinking back tears, Clare Nasir took in every last detail of the tiny newborn cradled in her arms. It was November 2009 and this moment had often seemed an agonising impossibility. The former GMTV weather girl had been told by doctors she was possibly...

My family has just acquired an allotment at St Mary's Road in Leamington which we want to design and develop as a permaculture garden. We did Richard Perkins permaculture course at the SYDNI Centre a while back. We have only had the allotment for a week and we've just been given an old shed which we hope to build and convert to a summer house.

Canalside Community Food, a pioneering CSA based outside Leamington Spa, is looking for a new part-time grower to join our team, producing organic veg for over 110 members every week.  The role will be a supporting one and involves working with the head grower and Canalside manager.  Experience of field scale veg production, both outdoors and in protected cropping, is ideally preferred. The...

Canalside Community Food, a pioneering CSA based outside Leamington Spa, is looking for a new main grower! We are seeking an experienced grower to join our team producing organic vegetables throughout the year for our community of over 100 members. We currently have 7 acres of field scale vegetables and 5 polytunnels for protected cropping and planted up a fruit field/forest garden last winter...