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I was a bit late, coming from work, and when I got there the others were in the little copse to the west of the Green, talking about maybe taking down a few of the trees to put apple trees in there instead and my heart sank as I wouldn't really want to be part of removing any healthy trees.

Anyway in the end we were favouring Wendy's plan to plant trees along either side of the path just beyond the swings which would be a great plan, I feel, as it would add something new to…

Mieke Vierling has spent the last two years restoring her 19th-century home, a former doctors' surgery in Lewes Road.

She is turning it into an "educational centre" where she will carry out yoga and acupuncture.

But outside she is creating a space for residents to "take responsibility for their own healing", with a garden full of medicinal plants and herbs.

The edible hedgerow has been planted alongside a public path, made up of trees including…

Friends in Forest Row,

Transition Network Newsletter - December 2011

CONTENTS

• Transition News Round-up
• Introduction to ‘The Transition Companion’
• SOCIAL REPORTING
  • Food and Health
  • Inner Transition
  • Economics
  • Navigating Community Chaos
  • People and Connections
• THINKING ALOUD
  • The Seven Ages of…

This outline of "Transition Companion" was compiled to help guide discussions in our local book groups. I thought other people might find it useful as an overview of this rich and dense work. There are links to any sections of the book that are online. The …

Copies available of the inspiring new book “The Transition Companion: making your community more resilient in uncertain times” by Rob Hopkins.

RRP is £20 and available for £15 - contact Mike

The Transition Companion draws on over three years’ experience of the worldwide Transition movement and gives a new, easily accessible approach to creating change.  It builds on the success of the bestselling The Transition Handbook (over 25,000 copies sold in the UK) and is…

Transition Network newsletter - November 2011

• Transition Model Leaps Ahead With Book and Ingredients
• NEWS
  • Round up of What's Happening in Transition
  • Volunteer Required for European Transition Learning Exchanges
  • Please help Transition US
• THINKING ALOUD
  • Tasting a Revolution in Shipping
  • #Occupy and Transition: Resources For Creating Lasting Change
  • The…

The Yurt and the Labyrinth - Transition Camp 2011…

September 2011 Transition Network Newsletter

CONTENTS

EXPLORING THE TRANSITION WORLD

~ August Round-ups 

~ Travels visiting Transition Initiatives 

~ Transition Fujino — Prospects for a better future

~ Cycling to raise money for Transition and Sustrans

THINKING ALOUD

~ Coming Round The Dark Mountain 

~ Why do so many people believe in the fantasy of infinite growth on a finite…

August 2011 Transition Network Newsletter

As you know, your MP Charles Hendry MP is a government minister responsible for the Energy Bill which is going through Parliamentary Committee over the next few weeks. The Bill is a crucial opportunity to improve energy efficiency of our housing stock, and to get local authorities playing an ambitious role in cutting carbon. We are getting MPs to table amendments to the Bill in the Committee to make the Bill more effective.

We need Mr Hendry to support them or at least not to oppose…

 A project to put solar panels on the roof of Harvey's brewery in Lewes is tantalisingly close with only about £20,000 still to be raised to be able to place the order.

The Harvey's array on the beer chill roof will be one of Britain’s first community-owned solar power stations. Guaranteed for 25 years, there is no reason why the panels assembled in Wales should not go on…

A SWARM OF BEES!!  HOW CAN WE HELP THEM?

Dear Fellow Residents of Ashurstwood, East Grinstead and Forest Row

The time of year when honeybee colonies start swarming will be upon us soon. If you have never witnessed the exciting spectacle of a swarm of bees in the air, the experience can be a little unsettling. But there is nothing to worry about.The bees in…

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…