London Transition: July News 2010




July Newsletter TALKS / FILM / EVENTS / WORKSHOPS / COURSES EXHIBITIONS To receive future newsletters via email enter your email address below and click on Subscribe. TALKS June Sun 20: Energy and Water saving in a Victorian terraced house Nick Hartley invites you to see and hear about his successes (and failures) in his own home in reducing fuel bills Hopefield Avenue, NW6 Tue 22: Building conservation or Carbon Reduction? Discussion examining the issues and challenges posed by eco-renovation of historic buildings Drayton Park Pub, N5 1ND2, 6:30pm-9:30pm Wed 23: The Facts about Climate Change Brent Campaign against Climate Change with climate expert speakers Willesden Green Library Centre, 95 High Road, NW10 2SF, 7:30-9:30pm July Wed 14: Smart women choose 'Green' careers Caponata Restaurant, 3-7 Delancey Street, NW1 7NL, 6pm-9pm Wed 14: Feeding Highgate, Feeding London with Patrick Holden 10a South Grove, Highgate London N6, 7-9pm Thu 15: Insulating Victorian Homes Learn about how to insulate our old, solid-walled Victorian homes 240 Bellenden Road, Peckham, SE15 4BY, 8pm to 9pm Sat 31: Practical loft insulation talk Practical talk about loft insulation by Jack Kelly and Clyde Watson FILM June Mon 28: Earth Whisperers New Zealand project to heal the environment through a shift in consciousness Blue Beetle Hall, 28 Hendon Lane N3 1TR, 7:30-9.30pm, £3 July Thu 8: The 11th Hour Leonardo DiCaprio's feature length documentary concerning the environmental crises The Forge Arts Venue, 3-7 Delancey Street, NW1 7NL, 6pm-9pm EVENTS June Sun 20: Mid-summer Skills Share celebration. Crafts, knowledge, food, games, discussions, Dr Bike, music and performance Tottenham Chances, 399 Tottenham High Rd, N17, 11am-9pm Thu 24: Recycle for London give and Take Bring items you no longer need and swap them for things you do The Greenside Community Centre, 24 Lilestone Street NW8 8SR Thu 24: Beekeeping Course King Henry's Walk Garden, N1 4NX, 7-8pm Fri 25: Recycle for London Give and Take Bring items you no longer need and swap them for things you do Space 2 (upstairs), Willesden Green Library Centre, 95 High Road, Willesden NW10 2SF Fri 25: Healing Native Plants Walk on Tooting Common, looking at wild plants and learning how they are used in herbal medicine, organised by the South London Botanical Institute Tooting Common, 7pm to 8:30pm Fri 25: Wild Food Foraging Child-friendly stroll along Parkland Walk where we will identify and collect edible wild food Parkland Walk, N4 3HA, 10:00-11:30am Sat 26: Give And Take Day Bring items you no longer need and swap them for things you do Francis Peek Centre, Dulwich Park, 11-3pm Sat 26: Stoke Newington Fruit Tree Mapping Day Project to map fruit trees in Stoke Newington area Pangea Project, Stamford Hill, N16 6XS, 11am Sat 26: Recycle for London Give and Take Bring items you no longer need and swap them for things you do Golden Lane Estate Community Centre, Golden Lane Estate, Fann Street EC1Y 0RJ Sat 26: Recycle for London give and Take Bring items you no longer need and swap them for things you do Windrush Square, Brixton Road, Brixton SW2 1JG Sun 27: Recycle for London give and Take Bring items you no longer need and swap them for things you do Celebrating Fulham event, Jerdan Place and St. John's Church, SW6 1PB Sun 27: Crouch End Growing Spaces Tour of Naturewise Forest Garden, Alexandra Palace allotments and The Meadow Orchard Project July Sun 4: Tooting Trashcatchers Carnival Carnival led by 35 artists and working with over 600 local residents make entirely from recycled materials Sivayogam Hall, 26b Tooting High Street, SW17 0RG, 12-4pm Sun 5: Simposium: How Do Societies Learn? Sivayogam Hall, 26b Tooting High Street, SW17 0RG, 9.30-12.30pm Sun 4: Grow Your Own in Dulwich Village Grow Your Own demonstration and picnic at a large plot converted from waste ground 5 Roseway, Dulwich, London, SE21 7JT Sat 10: Organisations in Transition - An Opus Scientific Meeting Event exploring the psychology of personal and organisational transition Hughes Parry Hall, 36-45 Cartwright Gardens, WC1H 9EF 9:30am-4:30pm, £60 Mon 12: Transition Town Tooting's Big Launch Tooting 'unleashes' at their Big Launch with Rob Hopkins Sivayogam Hall, 26b Tooting High Street, SW17 0RG, 7pm-11pm Tue 13: London Low Carbon Communities Network Open Space event Bring your ideas and question to the open space get together of London Low Carbon Communities Network City Hall, The Queen's Walk, SE1 2AA, 6pm-8pm Sat 17: Invisible Food Walk Wild food walk around the green spaces of Loughborough area of Brixton Loughborough Centre, Brixton, SW9 7PD, 11:45am-3pm Sun 18: The Big Lunch A one-day get together with your neighbours WORKSHOPS July Thu 1: Transition Towns and Tradable Energy Quotas David Fleming and Shaun Chamberlin discuss Tradable Energy Quotas - Frameworks to support a diversity of small-scale solutions to the large-scale problems of peak oil and climate change London School of Economics, 14:00-16:30pm Thu 15: Creation woodland food growing area workshop Dulwich Upper Wood, London, SE19 1SS, 10:30am-3:30pm Fri 16: London Totnes Energy Descent Action Plan Reading group Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, SE1 8XX, 7pm COURSES June Mon 21: Food growing training for women Four weeks free training (six hours per week) in organic food growing skills John Scurr Community Centre on Bekesbourne Street, Limehouse, London E14 7JQ Wed 23: Understanding Soils and Soil Life Part of Capital Growth's urban food growing training programme The Regent's Park Allotment, 5:15pm-7:45pm Fri 25: Growing for Schools Food growing and how to link to learning in the school environment The Regent's Park Allotment, 10.30am - 3pm Sat 26: How to build a bike trailer Hackney City Farm, 1a Goldsmith's Row, 10am-5pm, £60 July Fri 2: Climate Change: Effective Communication Course Course designed for communicating messages on climate change confidently and effectively St. Ethelburga's, 78 Bishopsgate, London, EC2N 4AG, 10am-4pm Sat 3: Compost Toilets The course will look in depth at compost toilets and how they work Fri 9 - Sun 11: Straw Bale Building Hackney City Farm, 1a Goldsmith's Row, 10am-5pm Sat 10 - Sun 11: Introduction to Permaculture Permaculture ethics and principles and introduction to design tools and methods 1 Daubeney tower, Pepys Estate, Bowditch, SE 8 3QN, 9:15-5:30pm Sat 10 - Sun 11: Solar Hot Water Theory and practical demonstrations of how to install your own solar hot water systems Hackney City Farm, 1a Goldsmith's Row, 10am-5pm Sat 10: Soil Feeding And Care Capital Growth urban food growing training programme The Regent's Park Allotment, 10.30am-1pm Sat 10: Bicycle Maintenance Classes for Wandsworth residents Learn to keep your own bicycle in good working order Tooting Broadway, Wandsworth, 2-4pm Wed 14: Facilitation Training Gain the tools and techniques to make your facilitation engaging and dynamic. St. Ethelburga's, 78 Bishopsgate, London, EC2N 4AG, 10am-4pm Wed 14: Soil Feeding And Care Capital Growth urban food growing training programme The Regent's Park Allotment, 5.15pm-7.45pm Fri 16 - Sun 18: Canoe Building Hackney City Farm, 1a Goldsmith's Row, 10am-5pm Fri 16 - Sun 18: Veg Oil Vehicle Conversion Hackney City Farm, 1a Goldsmith's Row, 10am-5pm Sat 17: Bicycle Maintenance Hackney City Farm, 1a Goldsmith's Row, 10am-5pm Sat 17: Introduction to Beekeeping King Henry's Walk Garden, N1 4NX, 10am-5pm Sat 17: Bicycle Maintenance Hackney City Farm, 1a Goldsmith's Row, 10am-5pm Sun 18: Bicycle Maintenance Hackney City Farm, 1a Goldsmith's Row, 10am-5pm Tue 20: Hard to Reach? Engaging Diverse Communities This course is for anyone who wants to work better with diverse communities and groups on environment and climate change. Contemporary Urban Centre, 10am-4:30pm Thu 22: Introduction to Passivhaus Introduces concepts involved in Passivhaus design, both refurbishment and new build Hackney City Farm, 1a Goldsmith's Row, 9:30am-5:30pm, £100 Fri 23 - Sat 25: Rammed Earth Construction Hackney City Farm, 1a Goldsmith's Row, 9:30am-5:30pm, £180 Fri 23 - Sun 25: Preserving Food Hackney City Farm, 1a Goldsmith's Row, 10am-5pm Fri 23 - Sat 24: Ecological Sustainability and Climate Change: Denial Stories and Visions Develop personal strategies for dealing with denial responses and to learn how to avoid triggering them Central London, contact sandra.white@makingessentialconnections.co.uk Sat 24: Building a pond / puddling clay Hackney City Farm, 1a Goldsmith's Row, 10am-5pm Fri 30 - Sun 1: Family Bushcraft Hackney City Farm, 1a Goldsmith's Row, 10am-5pm Sat 31: Raw/ Living Food Hackney City Farm, 1a Goldsmith's Row, 10am-5pm EXHIBITIONS Ongoing: The Ministry of Food Exhibition examining how the British public adapted to a world of food shortages Imperial War Museum London, Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ July Wed 28 - Sat 31: Electric Vehicle Exhibition Exhibition of latest electric vehicles on from leading manufacturers Kingston's Market Sqaure