London Transition: March News 2010




March Newsletter NEWS / TALKS / FILM / EXHIBITIONS / EVENTS / WORKSHOPS / COURSES To receive future newsletters via email enter your email address below and click on Subscribe. NEWS Transition South East Conference, Sat 13 March, Brighton Calling all Permacultualists - London Permaculture Festival Steering Group TALKS February Wed 24: Growing Food in a Small Garden Talk by five times RHS Gold Medal Winner, Cleve West. Highgate Library, 1 Shepherd Hill, N6 5QT, 7:15pm-8:30pm Thu 25: Prosperity without Growth Tim Jackson considers the capability to flourish within ecological limits Sheikh Zayed Theatre, LSE, New Academic Building, Lincoln's Inn Fields Thu 25: Post Copenhagen Professor Mark Maslin of UCL discusses whether it up to individuals and communities to solve the problem of global warming? Highgate Society Hall, 10a South Grove, N6 March Tue 2: Sustaining Transition Town Initiatives With Rob Hopkins (Transition Network), Liz Cox (New Economics Foundation), Mark Brown (Transition Town High Wycombe), Alastair Donald (mantownhuman) Earls Court Exhibition Centre, Warwick Road, SW5, 14.30pm-16.00pm Thu 4: Beyond Consumerism Pleasure, politics and the good life in the age of Climate Change with Kate Soper from London Metropolitan University Culture Cafe, Rose Theatre, 24-26 High Street, KT1 1HL, 6pm-7.30pm Fri 5: Maintaining soil fertility in gardens while protecting the environment Guy Barter of the Royal Horticultural Society examines controlling soil fertility in ways that are benign or even beneficial to the environment B01, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck College, WC1E 7HX, 6:30pm Sun 7: Arcola Green Sunday Workshops with Magnificent Revolutions and Engineers Without Borders plus films Arcola Theatre, 27 Arcola St, E8 2DJ, 12:30pm-7:30pm. Wed 10: Can we buy our way out of climate change? "Green" consumption and carbon-offsetting debate with short film Cheat Neutral C-Scaipe, Kingston University, Penrhyn Road, KT1 2EE, 7pm-9pm Thu 11: Low carbon energy - is nuclear the answer? Is nuclear safe now and for future generations? With Dr David Lowry C-Scaipe, Kingston University, Penrhyn Road, KT1 2EE, 7.30pm Thu 18: 21st century:a global water crisis? Implications for global society and development, with Dr Ros Taylor John Galsworth Building, Kingston University, Penrhyn Road, KT1 2E, 6.30pm FILM February Sat 27: Collapse Investigative reporter Michael Ruppert and his journey through Peak Oil Green Lens Studio, 4a Atterbury Road, N4 1SF, 8pm-10pm March Tue 2: The Argicultural Rebel Permaculture in Salzburg Alps Permaculture Picturehouse, Passing Clouds, 1 Richmond Road, E8, 7pm Tue 2: Transition Town Tooting Film Night Mushkil Aasaan, 220-222 Upper Tooting Road, 7pm-9pm Tue 9: Transition 1.0 Eco Film Club with speakers from Transition Town Stoke Newington and "Anyone for Finchley Council?" with Harriet Copperman OBE Blue Beetle Hall, Hendon Lane, N3 1TR, 7.00pm-9.30pm Wed 10: Vanishing of the Bees With keynote listener will be Beatrix Campbell, the Green Party candidate Sir Richard Steele's pub, 97 Haverstock Hill, NW3 4RL, 7:30pm Mon 15: Dirty Oil Deep behind-the-scenes into the strip-mined world of Alberta, Canada The Lexi, Chamberlayne Road, NW10 3JU, 6:30-8:30pm EVENTS March Tue 2: Climate Change After Copenhagen Public meeting with speakers from national campaign groups and trade unions Willesden Green Library Centre, 95 High Road, NW10 2SF, 7:30pm-9:30pm Sat 6: Transition Town Kingston Seed Swap Seed swap, films, local food plus advice from experienced local growers Market Place & Market Hall, KT1, 1pm-4pm Wed 10: Business Waste Recycling Event Free business waste recycling event run by the Islington Chamber of Commerce Sadler's Wells Theatre, Rosebury Avenue, 11am-1:30pm WORKSHOPS February Wed 24: Greening Your Home - Saving Water How to save water and money with expert advice from the Energy Saving Trust Muswell Hill Friends Meeting House, Church Crescent, N10 3NE, 7pm-9pm Sat 27: Draught-busting workshop 6 Rastell Avenue, Streatham Hill SW2, 10.45 for 11.00am, 12.45 for 1.00pm Sat 27: Introduction to Biogas Hackney City Farm, 1a Goldsmith's Row, E2 8QA, 10am-5pm, £60 Sat 27: Mini Orchard Preparation John Scott Health Centre, N4 2NU, 10:30am-12:00 March Sat 6: Low Carbon Eating workshop How to eat a healthy and low carbon diet. Sir Richard Steele's pub, 97 Haverstock Hill, NW3 4RL, RSVP essential Sat 6: Kilburn Draught Busting Workshop Callcott Road, Kilburn, 10am-12pm, RSVP essential Tue 9: Haringey Spring Garden Skills Event Share skills, ideas and spread the word about guerilla and community gardens Hornsey Library, Haringey Park, London, N8 9JA, 7-9pm Thu 11: Haringey Spring Garden Skills Event Camspace, Campsbourne Estate, N8, 7-9pm Sat 13: Solar Electricity Hackney City Farm, 1a Goldsmith's Row, E2 8QA, 10am-5pm, £60 Sat/Sun 13/14: Gardening Workshop Hornsey Town Hall, N8, 11am-2pm Sat/Sun 27/28: Gardening Workshop Camspace, Campsbourne Estate, N8, 11am-2pm COURSES February Sat 27: Gardening - Get Growing Your Own Friday Hill House, Simmons Lane, Chingford Waltham Forest, E4 6JH, £43 Sat 27, Sun 28: Permaculture Introductory Weekend Hornsey Rise Gardens, N19, £120 (sliding scale)