Transition in Action
March 2008
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News – Award Winners
Two TTB collaborators won awards from Love London for their events coming up in the festival in June . Susan Sheehan won for the Hyde Farm Climate Action Network Open Evening ? Wednesday June 11th 7-10pm at Telferscot School, Telferscot Road, Balham. Mary Fee also won an award. Mary belongs to Lets-Link UK, a kind [...]
Robert Kennedy on the GNP
*** try and ignore the sentimental background music & the bombastic American rhetoric … March 18, 2008 is the fortieth anniversary of one of Robert F. Kennedy’s most famous speeches, given just months before his assassination. In it, RFK performed a rhetorical evisceration of the US national economic report card, Gross National [...]
March-April Events
TTB TALK EVENT ‘Brush up your Peak Oil’ Talk by Adam Dadeby of www.powerswitch.org.uk and Centre for Alternative Technology. Wednesday 30 April, 7pm, Room 8 Lambeth Town Hall – how is it connected with the current economic crisis? – will it affect Climate Change? – and more… followed by discussion. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TTB Programme [...]
local economy day
Lambeth Town Hall. June 19th. 11am-9pm What are the economic and structural obstacles to building sustainability into our communities? Transition Town Brixton is hosting a one-day conference aiming to examine in depth the economics of sustainability. We will spend the day unpacking the economic mechanisms that drive carbon intensive lifestyles and waste resources. Topics [...]
Other Urgent Built Environment Consultations
Friday 14 March for ideas for community benefit projects that might be funded out of Section 106 planning gain money that Lambeth gets out of big developers doing work in the area. Monday 17 March to identify any planning issues or policies that need revising in the Local Development Framework (see section below), the planning [...]
MAR 08 Bioregional One Planet Living brainstorm initial notes.
On Wednesday 3 TTBrixtonites joined people from Lambeth Regeneration and Sustainability teams, Stock Woolstencroft the architects/Master Planners, and consultants from Bioregional to brainstorm how we can build future sustainability right throughout the Master Plan. Download the initial notes. Some of them are a bit cryptic but there are some good ideas in there. Final report [...]
