This blog has now moved to Transition Guildford's exciting new website - with a forum, information about Guildford and the work we do there, new projects, contact details, and more! Check it out at www.transitionguildford.co.uk
See you there!
Emma
Tuesday 26 January 2010
Wednesday 25 November 2009
New Website!
This blog has now moved to Transition Guildford's very own website at http://transitionguildford.co.uk/blog/ where you can find information about events, projects, what we do, and yes, the new blog. See you there!
Saturday 26 September 2009
Manager of Surrey County Council's Climate Change Team to give presentation on 29th September
Lesley Harding, Manager of Surrey County Council's Climate Change Team is kindly coming to give the Guildford Environmental Forum a presentation on Tuesday 29 September at 1900 in committee room 1 at GBC's Millmead offices on "The Emerging Strategy for a Low Carbon Surrey". Very light refreshments will be available from 1830. All are welcome.
Surrey County Council (SCC) have been working with the 11 district council's in Surrey to come up with a coordinated approach to lowering our carbon footprint across Surrey and as to how we can reach the Holy Grail of decoupling carbon emissions, wildlife loss, water stress, etc from economic growth. This really centres around two National Indicators that Surrey have signed up to on our behalf - NI 185 and NI 186. Each council is actively working on a range of projects that will cut carbon emissions from their own estate. This is NI 185. Guildford Borough Council have been working intensively with the Carbon Trust (CT) and are well advanced on identifying capital projects to cut carbon. Waverley, Mole Valley and Reigate & Banstead have joined together in a similar exercise with help from the CT.
NI 186 is about cutting carbon emissions across the entire community - much more challenging. Please come along and be part of the solution to how we can achieve these desperately important goals.
See you there, John Bannister, Chair Guildford Environmental Forum
Surrey County Council (SCC) have been working with the 11 district council's in Surrey to come up with a coordinated approach to lowering our carbon footprint across Surrey and as to how we can reach the Holy Grail of decoupling carbon emissions, wildlife loss, water stress, etc from economic growth. This really centres around two National Indicators that Surrey have signed up to on our behalf - NI 185 and NI 186. Each council is actively working on a range of projects that will cut carbon emissions from their own estate. This is NI 185. Guildford Borough Council have been working intensively with the Carbon Trust (CT) and are well advanced on identifying capital projects to cut carbon. Waverley, Mole Valley and Reigate & Banstead have joined together in a similar exercise with help from the CT.
NI 186 is about cutting carbon emissions across the entire community - much more challenging. Please come along and be part of the solution to how we can achieve these desperately important goals.
See you there, John Bannister, Chair Guildford Environmental Forum
Saturday 5 September 2009
Age of Stupid Viewing Tonight (5th Sep)
Transition Guildford, with the support of the Guildford Environmental Forum, will be showing the Age of Stupid again tonight as part of the British Science Festival. The Age of Stupid stars oscar nominated Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055 looking at old 2008 footage asking "why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?" We will power this outdoor event using a mbile solar generator, so the event will be near zerocarbon. Say for the post-film debate on "climate change - how to be part of the solution."
The vieing will be from 7pm to 9pm, at Abbots Hospital, Guildford. Tickets cost £2, and you can book online at www.britishsciencefestival.org, by phone on 020 7019 4947, or at the Tourist Information Centre, Guildford. If you can't make this date, the Electric Theatre are showing this on 9/9/09 at 20:00.
The vieing will be from 7pm to 9pm, at Abbots Hospital, Guildford. Tickets cost £2, and you can book online at www.britishsciencefestival.org, by phone on 020 7019 4947, or at the Tourist Information Centre, Guildford. If you can't make this date, the Electric Theatre are showing this on 9/9/09 at 20:00.
Wednesday 12 August 2009
London.carfree holds first public meetings
Would you like to see parts of London go car-free? That is, to create streets which do not have cars on them, but are reclaimed as areas for people to "walk, talk and play in". Well, london.carfree (http://london.carfree.org.uk/) is a new association trying to do just that, and they have invited all those interested to attend their launch meetings on September 14th and 17th, 7:30pm, at Lambeth Town Hall, (Assembly Hall) Acre Lane SW2, and Islington Town Hall, (Council Chamber) Upper Street N1, respectively.
Tuesday 14 July 2009
Living Beyond Our Means: The Declining Aral Sea
Stephen recently spotted this horrific story on the European Space Agency (ESA) website, a clear example of humans living beyond our means and creating extreme environmental degredation in the process. The Aral sea (once the world's forth largest) has been effectively 'mined' for its water for 50+ years, and the result has been a drying inland sea with sandstorms and land poisoned by salt intrusion. The image at http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMGVT6CTWF_index_0.html shows the retreat of water between 2006 and 2009 - worth seeing.
Thanks to Dr Howard Lee!
Many thanks to Dr Howard Lee, from Hadlow College, on a fascinating talk on food production in the UK! The Millmead Offices were packed for the talk last night, showing the ever-increasing interest in "grow your own".
If you would like to get involved in growing your own food within Guildford, or want to help others do the same, then you can email us at e.white@surrey.ac.uk
If you would like to get involved in growing your own food within Guildford, or want to help others do the same, then you can email us at e.white@surrey.ac.uk
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