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FILM: Schooling the world at Village Hall

September 23, 2011 from 8pm to 10pm
"An impeccable and gorgeous piece of work... It shook me awake." ~ Joanna MacyIf you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? You would change the way it educates its children.Beautifully shot on location in the Buddhist culture of Ladakh in the northern Indian Himalayas, the film weaves the voices of Ladakhi people through a conversation between four carefully chosen original thinkers; anthropologist and ethnobotanist Wade Davis, a National Geographic…See More
Sep 23, 2011
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Rowena commented on Mike Grenville's group Car Club
"Great - what I liked about the Moorcar example is that it is working in a small rural community and is set up to spread to other similar areas. thanks for putting the spiel up! x"
Aug 10, 2011
Rowena commented on Mike Grenville's group Car Club
"Dear Tony and Alan... is it time for the parish council to look into installing an electric car charging point at the community centre?  or trying to persuade the garage to do so? (more space at the cc...) xRowena"
Jun 7, 2011
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Hens need homes at Phone Sue asap

January 30, 2011 at 6pm to January 31, 2011 at 7pm
Homes needed for free range, organic "end of lay" hens who will all goto slaughter if we can't re-home them.   These hens are still layingbut just not enough to be commercially viable.  Also the shells, whichcan have gritty bits on them or ridges and bumps, are unacceptable forthe supermarkets!We need to know final numbers for the farmer by 31st January and we'llbe catching the hens on the farm in Ditchling, Sussex from Sat 12thFeb through til Thurs 17th Feb.  The hens are 50p each.Please offer…See More
Jan 30, 2011
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Rowena commented on Mike Grenville's group Food & Land
"Hens need  homes   Homes needed for free range, organic "end of lay" hens who will all goto slaughter if we can't re-home them.   These hens are still layingbut just not enough to be commercially viable.  Also the…"
Jan 30, 2011
Rowena commented on Rowena's blog post Stand by for the return of rationing
"The idea is clearly one that has been around for some time and the article mentioned that it was first discussed in the house of lords back in 2004.... these things always take some time to get going.  I was aware of them but was surprised to…"
Jan 25, 2011
Mike Grenville commented on Rowena's blog post Stand by for the return of rationing
"Tradeable Energy Quotas (TEQs), the brilliantly simple carbon rationing approach was developed by the late Dr. David Fleming with the support of ‘Transition Timeline’ author Shaun Chamberlin.   You can read more about the concept,…"
Jan 25, 2011
Rowena posted a blog post

Stand by for the return of rationing

The Sunday Times today has a 1/2 page article in the business section about a report last week from the all party parliamentary group on peak oil and gas.   They recommend tradable personal energy quotas and it contains phrases such as 'we are running into danger. Energy shortages will occur.  We do not know when but the event is undoubted and it is not far distant.'   The tone of the article is that it will be pretty hard to introduce such things.... but awareness raising and mainstream media…See More
Jan 23, 2011
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I live just north of Ashurst Wood near Hammerwood and have been involved with Transition Forest Row since Mike G held a 'Changing worlds' day way back in March 07. I was Wealden District Councillor for Forest Row 2004-2007 and am still very interested in politics, local democracy and what happens around here. This year I have joined the school Council at Michael Hall as an independent. I have 2 daughters and a husband Sean who is a naval barrister. In past years I have worked as a management consultant in change and network industries and as a primary school teacher.
A long time supporter of Tablehurst farm and small scale chicken keeper myself (very small, only 2 girls!), I am hoping to embark in Autumn 08 on a local food directory with Juliet in the Transition food group.
I am currently reading 'The last food of England' which I bought on a recent trip to the Weald and Downland Open Air museum - highly recommend it! Let me know if you would like to borrow it...

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Stand by for the return of rationing

Posted on January 23, 2011 at 21:00 2 Comments

The Sunday Times today has a 1/2 page article in the business section about a report last week from the all party parliamentary group on peak oil and gas.  

 

They recommend tradable personal energy quotas and it contains phrases such as 'we are running into danger. Energy shortages will occur.  We do not know when but the event is undoubted and it is not far distant.'  

 

The tone of the article is that it will be pretty hard to introduce such…

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Fascinating programme on Algae house research on Radio 4 Material World programme

Posted on November 19, 2009 at 22:39 1 Comment

I caught this programme today and found it fascinating - I had never heard of algae being incorporated into the fabric of a house before!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00nw3rq/Material_World_19_11_2009/

Natural Swimming Pond

Posted on March 21, 2009 at 21:48 0 Comments

Last year we finally got around to building a natural swimming pond -literally that, the water is cleaned by the plants within, wildlife is encouraged (except fish and birds - they have to enjoy the adjacent

fish pond!). As it was only completed last September, we have only swum in it the once, though the children did try last weekend but it was rather cold.... but it is just wonderful.



This week in the sunshine I counted 26 frogs/ toads in the bottom of the deeper swimming area… Continue

Transition network newsletter Sept 08

Posted on September 7, 2008 at 22:26 2 Comments

I am on this mailing list of national Transition news and not sure who else might be....

Loads of interesting things including launch of Lewes pound, Mike Grenville speaking on transition communities in London and a great little line draw cartoon...



Here you go... (as I paste this I'm not sure the links will work - if they don't please let me know and I can forward the original email)



So much has happened since the last newsletter an (embarassingly long) while ago.… Continue

Comment Wall (21 comments)

At 18:16 on May 17, 2008, Mike Grenville said…
welcome onboard Rowena!
At 15:18 on May 21, 2008, Mike Grenville said…
excellent - glad you like it. As I use it more I am liking it better.

I see it as a way that will do something that can reduce some emails while at the same time making information available to a wider audience.
At 8:05 on June 17, 2008, BradScott said…
There isn't a Festival 2008 site yet. We're probably going to put it all up on forestrow.org. We already have a long list of events, but the challenge is going to be putting together the schedule, and I doubt if that will be possible until remarkably close to the actual event, since there are always some significant late additions to the line up.

Anyway, the important thing is to have the weekend (and probably the whole week) in your diary.
At 22:44 on July 7, 2008, Hugh Salvesen said…
Thank you Rowena. I have put 30 July in my diary (time?). I have not joined the energy google group yet. How do I do that?
At 22:34 on July 16, 2008, Charlene Collison said…
Hi Rowena. Building on our conversation at the energy event on a vision building event in October, I'd like to invite you to meet this coming Monday at my house to kick off the conversation about it. Can you make it? Say an 8:00 for an 8:15 start. I hope to see you here.

Charlene
At 23:47 on July 28, 2008, Rowena said…
I've just found this gentle but clever little film - A World without Jam.. made by the WI.... have you seen it? May be helpful in a visioning type event with others....? Something to show during the film festival?....worth watching to the end of part 2 ! ;-)

http://www.thewi.org.uk/standard.aspx?id=11536
At 13:45 on September 2, 2008, Nir said…
I already let steve knowm I will be meeting him tomorrow and discuss it.
The Owl hoots great and it is good to hear there is another type on monitor. it will be good to find one that keeps some record of usage (daily/weekly or more...)

Thanks,
Nir
At 22:23 on November 2, 2008, Mike Grenville said…
Glad to hear that the Permaculture weekend went well and that there will be a repeat.

I took the chat off as it takes up space on the front page and I didn't think it was being used but can easily add it again - which I will now for a trial. I'll send an email round to alert people and see if that helps.

No progress on the library idea beyond donation of the Handbook. That is one of the things we could do if we had some more funds - must organise the fundraising event.

Mike

Mike
At 9:31 on November 4, 2008, Nir said…
Yes it is good,

I might be interested in going to a course but cannot think now about May, July or August...
I am happy to talk plants and go through the catalogue also Plants for a future is a good reference site though they don't sell plants but have an extensive database.
At 22:29 on November 6, 2008, Tali said…
Hi Rowena, thanks for thinking of me. I've actually had lots of lovely people passing on the course stuff for me, but if you want to add me to your contacts list it's merietflain@hotmail.com x

Tali

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