Comments on: 10 First Steps for a Transition Town Initiative #7. Facilitate The Great Reskilling. http://transitionculture.org/2007/01/18/10-first-steps-for-a-transition-town-initiative-7-facilitate-the-great-reskilling/ An Evolving Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent Wed, 23 May 2012 01:53:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Linda Hull http://transitionculture.org/2007/01/18/10-first-steps-for-a-transition-town-initiative-7-facilitate-the-great-reskilling/comment-page-1/#comment-16905 Linda Hull Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:00:10 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/2007/01/18/10-first-steps-for-a-transition-town-initiative-7-facilitate-the-great-reskilling/#comment-16905 Glastonbury’s Green Fair looks set to fill the Town Hall on Friday 23 February, from 11am to 5pm, with 30 environmental organisations invited, including green companies, now confirmed, and more showing interest in taking part.

Among those at the Fair will be the Eco Friendly Shop, a local mail order business run by Amy Lawson from Meare, who supply a wide range of popular home, fashion and baby goods for sale, made from recycled, organic and vegan materials, with Fair Trade and Forest Stewardship peace of mind – all of which are less damaging to the environment in the way they are made.

The National Trust’s Sally Plummer will be recruiting green volunteers for local conservation work. Ecologist Dr Pat Hill-Cottingham will be signing copies of her latest book “The Somerset Wetlands: An Ever Changing Environment� and talking during the day about the effects of climate change on local wildlife.

Jon Cousins, from Avalon Fair Shares, will be at the Fair encouraging visitors to join their Time Bank scheme. He said: “This Green Fair really shows just how many local green groups and active projects we have in and around Glastonbury, there’s so many. If we had a ‘one-stop-shop’ environmental centre then all of these people could display their work and involve even more residents and visitors in caring for our environment.�

After the Fair closes, doors will open again in the evening at 7pm for a public meeting about climate change. Among those addressing the audience will be Ruth Baker, Somerset County Council’s climate change officer, and local Glastonbury resident Melanie Merrill, who with her family were featured on ITV’s The Green Life series, seen by millions of viewers last spring.

Both the Green Fair and climate meeting are free entry as the organisers, The Sustainable Environment Company CIC and Avalon Fair Shares, want to encourage as many as possible to attend.

The Sustainable Environment Company CIC seeks to re- connect people with their environment to achieve a sustainable future and promote greener ways of living

]]> By: Nadia Hillman http://transitionculture.org/2007/01/18/10-first-steps-for-a-transition-town-initiative-7-facilitate-the-great-reskilling/comment-page-1/#comment-16768 Nadia Hillman Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:09:07 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/2007/01/18/10-first-steps-for-a-transition-town-initiative-7-facilitate-the-great-reskilling/#comment-16768 <p>hello linda</p> <p>can you say more about the event in Glastonbury? i live in bristol and would like to help promote it on my blog and through my networks. i may not be able to make it myself but would still like to know more. i dont know how i would get hold of the paper you mentioned. thanks and best of luck with it all.</p> hello linda

can you say more about the event in Glastonbury? i live in bristol and would like to help promote it on my blog and through my networks. i may not be able to make it myself but would still like to know more. i dont know how i would get hold of the paper you mentioned. thanks and best of luck with it all.

]]> By: Linda Hull http://transitionculture.org/2007/01/18/10-first-steps-for-a-transition-town-initiative-7-facilitate-the-great-reskilling/comment-page-1/#comment-14912 Linda Hull Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:51:56 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/2007/01/18/10-first-steps-for-a-transition-town-initiative-7-facilitate-the-great-reskilling/#comment-14912 <p>Hi Lily</p> <p>Whereabouts in Somerset are you? I'm in Glastonbury and trying to get stuff off the ground here. We have an event in the Town Hall on February 23rd. Come along! Check out this week's Central Somerset Gazette for more info</p> Hi Lily

Whereabouts in Somerset are you? I’m in Glastonbury and trying to get stuff off the ground here. We have an event in the Town Hall on February 23rd. Come along! Check out this week’s Central Somerset Gazette for more info

]]> By: Lily Raphael http://transitionculture.org/2007/01/18/10-first-steps-for-a-transition-town-initiative-7-facilitate-the-great-reskilling/comment-page-1/#comment-13838 Lily Raphael Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:03:00 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/2007/01/18/10-first-steps-for-a-transition-town-initiative-7-facilitate-the-great-reskilling/#comment-13838 <p>Hi there, I have for a while now, been itching to get a project started up in my college in Somerset and outside it but have been feeling slightly too un-informed and succumbing to the whole 'impossibility' of it which is exactly what I want to eliminate. Your project has definately inspired me to get things started and opened the doors which felt closed. I hope you don't mind, but are rather flattered, if I use your project as a basis for running mine. I've always felt the potential of a college but in mine there is a severe lack of enthusiasm or responsibility which I also need to tackle, this is something I'll work on with the Student Support Team. You have cracked the shell for me, thank you and so well done!</p> Hi there, I have for a while now, been itching to get a project started up in my college in Somerset and outside it but have been feeling slightly too un-informed and succumbing to the whole ‘impossibility’ of it which is exactly what I want to eliminate. Your project has definately inspired me to get things started and opened the doors which felt closed. I hope you don’t mind, but are rather flattered, if I use your project as a basis for running mine. I’ve always felt the potential of a college but in mine there is a severe lack of enthusiasm or responsibility which I also need to tackle, this is something I’ll work on with the Student Support Team. You have cracked the shell for me, thank you and so well done!

]]> By: Mark Forskitt http://transitionculture.org/2007/01/18/10-first-steps-for-a-transition-town-initiative-7-facilitate-the-great-reskilling/comment-page-1/#comment-13800 Mark Forskitt Fri, 19 Jan 2007 04:06:03 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/2007/01/18/10-first-steps-for-a-transition-town-initiative-7-facilitate-the-great-reskilling/#comment-13800 <p>Spot on Rob. In fact I think this goes deeper than you write. Its not just that we have lost skills as a society, but we have lost our attitude and understanding of the value of those skills. Today you don't have a skill unless its atested to by a 'professional' body and can therefore be traded on for money at a later date. That leads to the attitude that you can't and shouldn't undertake anything unless you are trained, tested, examined, approved and certified. Thus you get IT people with 24 bits of paper and no clue about wiring a plug.</p> <p>I'll be arguing for indentured apprenticeships and craft guilds next ;-)</p> Spot on Rob. In fact I think this goes deeper than you write. Its not just that we have lost skills as a society, but we have lost our attitude and understanding of the value of those skills. Today you don’t have a skill unless its atested to by a ‘professional’ body and can therefore be traded on for money at a later date. That leads to the attitude that you can’t and shouldn’t undertake anything unless you are trained, tested, examined, approved and certified. Thus you get IT people with 24 bits of paper and no clue about wiring a plug.

I’ll be arguing for indentured apprenticeships and craft guilds next ;-)

]]> By: adrienne http://transitionculture.org/2007/01/18/10-first-steps-for-a-transition-town-initiative-7-facilitate-the-great-reskilling/comment-page-1/#comment-13758 adrienne Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:54:49 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/2007/01/18/10-first-steps-for-a-transition-town-initiative-7-facilitate-the-great-reskilling/#comment-13758 <p>Great stuff, Rob. In my neighbourhood there is an old man who tells me he used to grow the vegetables for his family. There's also someone who knows all about wood and woodlands. This kind of wisdom stays in the body for life; at last a chance to consult the elders!</p> Great stuff, Rob. In my neighbourhood there is an old man who tells me he used to grow the vegetables for his family. There’s also someone who knows all about wood and woodlands. This kind of wisdom stays in the body for life; at last a chance to consult the elders!

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