Showing results 1 - 5 of 20 for the month of November, 2011.
Our eighth object in the series illustrating some of the stories from ‘The Transition Companion’, posted before I head off to London for the London Transition Groups Gathering, is a small pennant from Monteveglio in Italy.
In the UK, the main Transition-related story to make the national news over the past month was the suggestion by Ian Jones, CEO of Volunteer Cornwall, that Cornwall should set up its own currency, the ‘Cornwall Pound’. The story made the national news and many references were made to the local currencies already in existence via Transition Towns Totnes (Devon), Lewes (Sussex) and Brixton (London). Jones told the Daily Telegraph “It’s no good if we endlessly talk about our problems, we need to start doing something positive now if we are to avoid being at the mercy of the global storm which is currently raging.”
Today sees the launch of a great new funding opportunity from the Big Lottery Fund. Called ‘Communities Living Sustainably’, it is framed as being about supporting communities in England to live and work in a more sustainable way. Grants of up to £1 million are being distributed between 10 successful projects. It is fascinating how resilience has now entered the criteria alongside sustainability, meaning that this could be an ideal funding opportunity for Transition initiatives. You can find more information here, but below are the salient points.
Today we have a guest post from Jo Homan of Transition Finsbury Park about Edible Landscapes London (originally published here). It is one of the many projects that appears in the Transition Network projects database. Do submit your projects! Let’s start with a short film about the project, before we move on to an article Jo wrote about it:
It’s a brisk Autumnal Monday morning. I’m at Edible Landscapes London, an offshoot of Transition Finsbury Park. This is the cutting edge of no-dig, agroforestry, predominantly perennial and definitely low-maintenance gardening and our practice challenges conventional gardening wisdom. I’m talking about deeply ingrained habits of digging and tidiness.
This is the last week of the Energyshare voting process, where the final shortlist of community energy projects in 3 categories, large, medium and small projects is now being voted for, the winner of each category receiving £100,000. There are four Transition initiatives in the running: in the large project category there’s the Hexham Hydro project, in the medium project category there’s the Portobello and Leith Community Wind Energy Project, and in the small category there’s are two, the Shrewsbury hydro project and All Saints Wokingham. Do please give them your support, and click on this link and vote for them. I’m sure they’ll all the very grateful…
