Southend-on-Sea in Transition

As a result of our meeting on the 5th of May a group is forming to take forward the agenda of making local and regional food more available locally and build local resilience through food initiatives. The first meeting of the group will take place at the TWIG shop bottom of Hamlet Court Road (next to Nat West) Fri 18th May 1pm. Please email Matt at chiefexec@trustlinks.org to confirm you are...

Faith and Sustainable Technology – The Barrel-Ponics® Manual tags: transition aquaponics food appropriatetech Don’t Throw Away Your Wealth tags: transition energy biogas Institutions for collective action | www.collective-...

Click to view slideshow.This mushroom growing in coffee grounds business began last autumn, when i had unsuccessfully tried to produce white oyster mushrooms from toilet tissue (fresh of course) These ‘failures’ became the starter spawn for a tray of spent coffee, and 8 months later, has produced a healthy crop. No energy inputs applied, just natural ambient warmth, no maintenance,...

How to design more resilient, food producing systems (without money and fossil fuels) | Permaculture Magazine tags: transition food design permaculture systems fossil money fuels resilience palletmorph tags:...

The latest batch have grown from an empty ginger beer bottle and coffee grounds. Its taken about 5 months for colonization, but the first flush is here and weighs in at 100grams, about 10% of the total weight. 100grams of oysters would cost nearly twenty pounds, and wouldnt be as fresh Click to view slideshow.

EXTREME Do-it-Yourself Resilience: A Home Scale Waste Water Treatment Plant tags: transition resilience water treatment plant scale Borage is Bold | VintageGardenGal tags: transition food borage recipes...

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The ideas is to provide cheap, good quality food, produced as locally as possible to reduce energy use in the food production chain and to avoid waste locally, hopefully resulting in behaviour change locally to further reduce energy use and waste. Essentially, this would be a social enterprise / community supermarket that provides good quality and fresh food from local producers, as well as a...

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Al Jazeera TV report – Spanish co-op weathers financial storm : Shift Change: Putting Democracy to Work tags: transition democracy coop business Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.