Melbourne Area Transition UK

As part of the National Forest Walking Festival, MAT and Melbourne Civic Society is offering a walk to local woodlands, a permaculture project and proposed community woodland site. Meet Melbourne Leisure Centre 11am. Finish 4pm. Bring packed lunch. http://www.thenationalforestwalkingfestival.org.uk/

Come and learn the latest on the community woodland project and input into its direction. Venue: Church House.

Melbourne Area Transition group Meeting Wednesday April 11th 2012 Speaker Roger Hoskins of Highfields Happy Hens at Etwall What do you say to an angry teenager who has just thrown a stack of loaded egg trays at you?  Roger Hosking’s reply was, “Why did you do that?” and this low key response led to a positive exchange about the youngster’s problems, illustrating the exceptional nature of Roger...

The Food Forest for Melbourne Schools has been given the green light.  Sarah Spencer from Melbourne Area Transition, a parent at the school, went in to Melbourne Junior School today to talk to the “Eco Warriors” about what a Food Forest is and what trees and plants could be incorporated.  The talk was such a success that she has been invited back to talk to the whole school in...

As a contribution to Climate Change Week MAT has recently planted a carbon capture bottle tree and you can help it grow! Make a pledge to save carbon over the next 12 months in any of the simple ways shown below. For each pledge we receive a “Leaf” will be added to the bottle tree. A MAT event held earlier this year has already produced pledges to save over 3 tonnes of carbon. You can see the...

A free talk about how to save energy and money in large and small buildings.  Also a presentation on the results of the energy audit on the Bill Shone Leisure Centre (Melbourne Assembly Rooms). 

  Free Open Day at Greenwood Days.  Signposted on the B587 between Melbourne & Ashby-de-la-Zouch 15th March 2012  10-30 – 2.30   Come and see what happens out in the wood!  Try your hand at the many traditional skills available to learn. Try your hand at cleaving wood, or turning on a traditional foot powered lathe.  See steam bending in action!  See the coracles you could  make. ...

Chris Bird from Transition Totnes and the author of `Local Sustainable Homes: how to make them happen in your community’, visited last week to film our church project for the Transition Network and his own renewable energy blog. Here’s the result: http://www.renewableenergyblog.org/2012/01/30/12th-century-solar-energy Short films are a great way of explaining what we are doing...

Melbourne Area Transition is hosting Alec Duthie, one of Britain’s leading experts on local food, as part of an ambitious series of events, projects, actions and meetings in 2012.  Alec will discuss food production and community supported agriculture projects, as well as cooperation with landowners like the National Trust and the National Forest.  He will explain why financial crises,...

Venue: Church House (next to Melbourne Parish Church). Everyone welcome.