Links

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@Transition

• Blog by the founder of the Transition movement, Rob Hopkins
  Unique insight into ‘head, heart and hands’ of Transition to a better low energy future – also records history of the movement. Search the site for answers to most Transition related questions

@TTB projects

• Brixton Energy
  Installing community owned renewable energy generation in Brixton
• Brixton Pound
  Brixton’s local currency
• Community Draught Busters
  A team of individuals that are committed to the reduction of energy use in domestic homes and business premises – a not-for-profit organisation.
• Remade in Brixton
  TTB’s waste as resources group
• Remakery, Brixton
  Brixton’s re-use centre

Brixton

• Brixton Life
  ‘A guide to all things Brixton’ with lots of video material

Food&Growing

• Brixton City Farm
  A distributed farm that gets together several times a year and is looking for a larger home
• City Harvest – urban agriculture
  City Harvest is an online resource which demonstrates the wide range of benefits associated with urban agriculture.
• Community Food Growers Network
  Network launched in 2010, meets quarterly
• Diggers 2012 and the Eco-village at Runnymeade
  Lots of background about land rights. Details of the new Eco-village. Sustainability vision gallery.
• Fairshares
  Herbs, studying herbs and food coop near Elephant and Castle, SE17
• Garden For a Living London Project
  Useful guides to help transform the capital’s three million gardens into a network of nature reserves.
• Garden share scheme: TT Keynsham
  Details of their own local scheme matching people with gardens.
• Garden share schemes – how to
  A guide to setting up a garden share scheme from TT Totnes
• Incredible Edible Lambeth
  A collection of people and organisations who work together to make healthy, sustainable, locally produced food available to everyone living in Lambeth, regardless of income, now and in the future.
• Landshare
  Online site connecting growers to people with land to share (countrywide) – set up by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Channel 4
• Local Food Hub – Action Pack For Schools
  All a school needs to know to get them started with their own food hub, which can then: provide work experience for the pupils; earn an income for the school; build the local food economy
• Making Local Food Work
  Helps people to take ownership of their food and where it comes from by providing advice and support to community food enterprises across England
• Smallholding Courses
  Chicken and bee keeping and such-like urban appropriate small scale farming skills courses.
• TTB South London Fruit and Nut Tree Map
  Place to find out about and log fruit and nut trees (and some other perennial wild food) in public places in S London

General

• Climate Camp
  The Climate Camp is a place for anyone who wants to take action on climate change; for anyone who’s fed up with empty government rhetoric and corporate spin; for anyone who’s worried that the small steps they’re taking aren’t enough …
• Ecologist report on biofuels
  Europe’s push on biofuels ‘no better than fossil fuels’

Videos

• 'Farm For the Future' BBC film
  BBC documentary on the precient global farming and food crisis, filmed in the UK.