Welcome to Liverpool in Transition
TRANSITION LIVERPOOL invites you to share ideas on practical responses to Peak Oil and Climate Change. Hear the latest facts and insights into the issues and discover how people are responding to them locally and nationally. Find out how we can unleash our creativity to shape Liverpool’s transition from energy dependence to a sustainable, resilient and positive future.
Come and help make Liverpool a city ready for climate change and peak oil in a friendly atmosphere!
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Next Monthly meeting - Sunday 7th February
Venue:
The Domino Gallery
11, Upper Newington
Liverpool
L1 2SR
(we usually meet on the seventh day of each month, unless this date clashes with other events)
for more info contact:
mark.shooter@yahoo.co.uk
Minutes from previous meetings
2010 Next events:
New Heat for Old Bricks;Insulation and sustainable energy for Old and Listed Buildings
Doing something locally about climate change
On Tuesday, February 9th, two local organisations - TANN, the Avenues Neighbourhood Network, and Transition Towns Liverpool South are planning to run a day workshop on what can be done with older houses to reduce carbon emissions and promote the growth of locally produced renewable energy. It will be led by a trainer from the Energy Saving Trust, and will hopefully lead to some local initiatives to reduce our impact on the planet’s climate.
It will be held at St Agnes’s church hall at 1, Buckingham Avenue, L17 3BA (at the junction with Ullet Road), from 9.30am to 4.30pm. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
If you’d like to attend, please contact either Dinah Dossor on 733-8282 email dinah.dossor@talktalk.net or John Garrett on 733-9949 email john.garrett@blueyonder.co.uk.
booking form for – Green Communities training - New Heat for Old Bricks – Insulation and Sustainable Energy for Old and Listed Buildings
Lets talk about Zero Carbon
Speaker: Cynthia Dereli
Date: February 10th
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: The Quaker Meeting House, 22 School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BT (located, right next to the Bluecoat)
The talk will start with some practical ideas about how we start to approach moving towards Zero growth. It will then look at some of the underlying causes of our current situation and what this could mean for the work and for ourselves.
Cynthia will then give some thoughts on whether our current approaches are the answer to what is happening.
Understanding our personal carbon emissions
Date: March 10th
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: The Quaker Meeting House, 22 School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BT (located, right next to the Bluecoat)
This presentation will start by looking at the level of carbon dioxide in the air over the last thousand years and suggest some of the contributing factors to the level of increase.
The talk will then focus on our use of fossil fuels and our energy consumption today, looking at our every day use for travel, heating and use of household appliances to help us understand our own personal carbon footprint. The talk draws on the work of Professor David MacKay, author of "Sustainable energy without the hot air".
Guerilla Gardening.
Jo Tremarco (jotremarco@yahoo.co.uk) writes
A few people have begun the guerilla gardening at the wasteland on slater street/ par street junction. I have a fantasy of a turfed area emerging so that it becomes inviting even to the most rusty principled authority.
I am leaving town now for twelve days and i feel irresponsible leaving this baby that i have begun... it really is just a beginning if anyone wants to go down there and add plants or turf or compost as we have a lot of raised bed potential but not much compost it would be greatly appreciated.
Yesterday I was there all afternoon and into the night and 10 people who visited the site stopped to play/plant a while. thus telling me that it has massive community potential. If you go down, remember it is a wasteland so take care!
Where are we?
'every month, on the seventh, at seven'
we generally meet every month at the same time, 7pm on the 7th at the 'Green Fish Cafe', 11 Newington Street
Now we are well into our second year, we are concentrating on practical work through our subgroups (see to the left of this screen) but also have a monthly meeting to touch base.
New groups are hoping to get started in Allerton (contact Michael Galbraith on michael.galbraith@lycos.co.uk); Kensington (contact Karen Lucas - kazz_67@hotmail.co.uk) Toxteth at Dingle Community Learning Project (contact Alex Wilson alex@afmanagementservices.com) and North Sefton (contact Danny McGowan dannymcgowan@blueyonder.co.uk).
We began in South Liverpool, focussed on the Sefton and Princes Park areas, but we have expanded now to Wavertree, the City Centre, and Kensington, to name a few. We don't draw tight boundaries. We would LOVE to hear from groups wanting to do things in other parts of Merseyside, and are happy to help set up other more local groups. We can offer advice and support, tell you what we have done, and lend the relevant DVDs. 'Transitioning' a whole city is too big a job for any one small group alone. For ideas, see the 'recent events' section to the left of this screen.
If you would like to keep in touch, join our email list: Join at http://groups.google.com/group/transition-town-liverpool (you will need to register with googlegroups first, which is easy), or send a request to join to Peter North at P.J.North@liverpool.ac.uk
Other Information
Transition Handbooks... if you'd like a copy at the discount price of £7.50 (unwaged) or £10 (waged) - compared to £12.95 in bookshops; get in touch with Jo Blackman: jblackman@phonecoop.coop
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