Food Inc - Tue 23rd March

Starts 7.30pm. Tickets £5 from Brewhouse Box Office 01823 283244. All profits go to help the Brewhouse achieve it’s 10:10 pledge.

Following the screening of ‘Age of Stupid’ last November, The Brewhouse and the Taunton Transition Town group team up again on Tue 23rd March to bring you Food Inc a look under the rather disturbing lid of the American food industry to expose the highly mechanized underbelly of a system that puts profits before consumer health.

"You look at the labels and you see farmer this, farmer that. It's really just three of four companies that are controlling the meat. We've never had food companies this big and this powerful in our history."

- Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation


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Food Inc - Tue 23rd March

Following the screening of ‘Age of Stupid’ last November, The Brewhouse and the Taunton Transition Town group team up again on Tue 23rd March to bring you Food Inc a look under the rather disturbing lid of the American food industry to expose the highly mechanized underbelly of a system that puts profits before consumer health. Directed by Robert Kenner, it features interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield’s Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms’ Joel Salatin. Food, Inc. reveals surprising—and often shocking truths—about what the US diet is really like, how it’s produced and what the future might hold.

Think it doesn’t happen over here too? Join in the post-film panel discussion to share your own views on how we feed ourselves now in the UK, and what we need to do to make our food supplies both sustainable and ethical into the future. Find out more about food co-ops, ‘People’s Supermarkets’, community supported agriculture schemes and more. Our local guest panelists will include Ian Tremain, Nuffield Farming Scholar; Tom Nielson, gardener, environmental designer and permaculturist; and Beth French, consumer representative on the Board of Taunton’s Farmers Market.

Starts 7.30pm. Tickets £5 from Brewhouse Box Office 01823 283244. All profits go to help the Brewhouse achieve it’s 10:10 pledge.

Continue the conversation about how we might set up our very own Community Supported Agriculture scheme in Taunton at 1.30pm at our drop-in the following Saturday – relocated to Richard Huish College to partner up with Sustainable Somerset’s all-day celebration of things green. Contact chrissie@visionjuice.com for more details.

Transition Drop In Cafe - Saturday 27th March

Taunton Transition Town are relocating this month to join Sustainable Somerset at Richard Huish College.

Starting at 10am the day will be packed with workshops, demos and talks. At 1.30pm we will show a DVD about Strouds' Community Supported Agriculture scheme before a discussion about setting up our own CSA in Taunton.

BBC Breakfast Show interviewed some members of Stroud Community Agriculture in February 2009.

Plus at some point through the day Paul Zeal, pyschotherapist, will be giving a talk about the psychology of change.

All that plus the usual tea, cake and discussion. Join us to discover what TTT are doing and some of the exciting projects that are unfolding.

Richard Huish College, Taunton 10am-5pm

  • 1.30pm - DVD - Community Supported Agriculture
  • TBC - Paul Zeal on the psychology of change.
  • 10am-5pm - TTT stall with plenty of information.

Find out about the whole day organised by Sustainable Somerset including the Uk’s most eco-friendly junk band, A – Z of your new Apple tree, 'Rags to Riches' fashion show plus much, much more.

Find out about the latest courses you could attend in the conferences, workshops and training section.

Plus there are plenty of events planned for the future - check the events section

Or alternatively go to Facebook and join the Taunton Transition Town group to find out all about the latest news.

Make a difference to Taunton's CO2 emissions

Warm Streets

Taunton is part of the Warm Streets pilot scheme which will be running for a year.

This is an opportunity for us to make a real difference by reducing CO2 emissions and dependence on fossil fuels, and bringing these issues to the fore to save people loads of money.

Together with the Centre for Sustainable Energy, we will be spreading the word about subsidised loft and cavity wall insulation for householders. Taunton Transition Town is looking for a band of volunteers willing to give up just 2 hours a month to implement this in Taunton by

• telling your neighbours about the project

• talking to parents about the project at your child's school

• putting up posters in your neighbourhood

• leafletting

• emailing friends and contacts

• giving a talk about it at your local club or society

• holding a Warm Streets street party

• collecting and sharing stories of Warm Streets working well in your area to inspire others

And what's in it for us all? In return for referrals, the Centre for Sustainable Energy will

- run energy education workshops for our local primary schools

- carry out a feasibility study for a local micro renewables project in our area

- provide opportunities for group members to receive training through NEA’s City and Guilds in ‘Energy Awareness’ course

- deliver tailored training according to the groups needs, for example ‘Finding Funding for a Community Energy Project’

• provide access to support networks, stakeholders and other similar communities

• provide access to quality information and advice; for example on carbon saving measures, funding and training courses

• demonstrate tangible carbon savings and share our experiences with other people helping on the project

We may also get money towards helping create other sustainable energy projects in Taunton.

Our neighbouring Transition initiatives also have events open to all

SOURCE LOCAL, COOK LOCAL Recipe Book Project

This is an opportunity for interested people to produce a recipe book, and also any ideas for spin-off projects throughout the year that get people ‘cooking local’. The book will include a number of “guest chef” recipes from local chefs who ‘source local’. The first of these comes from Simon Beaumont of the Rendezvous Cafe, where our monthly drop-in meetings are held.

To find out more about TTT:

Contact Vic Watson vicwatson@tauntonbroadband.co.uk

Visit Taunton Transition Town blog here

Click here for a map to find local contacts