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The next TBH Forum meeting is at 7.30pm on Wed 24 September at The Werks, 45 Church Street, Hove (map). TBH Forum meetings are always held on the last Wednesday of each month. Each interest group should send a representative to report on their group's progress, but everyone else is also welcome. Dates of TBH meetings can always be found on the main page of the website.News
Transition Network
The 100 mark has been passed – the 100th official transition initiative was Fujino in Japan. That's up from 50 in April, and the number of communities "mulling it over" has also almost doubled to nearly one thousand.
TBH secures Community Voluntary Sector place on the City's Sustainability Partnership
At a packed meeting in the main hall of The Brighthelm Centre on 10th September 2008, Jacqui Cuff, standing for Transition Brighton and Hove, was elected onto Brighton and Hove's City Sustainability Partnership. This was a pleasing result, especially since TBH's membership of The Community Voluntary Sector Forum has been very recent and we may not yet be as well known as some of the other member organisations providing candidates. More details here.
Green New Deal paper launched
In a recently published paper from the New Economics Foundation, the Green New Deal Group, drawing inspiration from Roosevelt's response to the Great Depression, propose a modernised version, a ‘Green New Deal’ designed to power a renewables revolution, create thousands of green-collar jobs and rein in the distorting power of the finance sector. Authors are Andrew Simms, Ann Pettifor, Caroline Lucas, Charles Secrett, Colin Hines, Jeremy Leggett, Larry Elliott, Richard Murphy and Tony Juniper. You can download a PDF from here.
Car Free Walks
Car Free Walks is a website for people who love walking and want to reduce their impact on the environment. They offer easy-to-use guides for walks throughout the UK that are accessible via public transport. This site is run by a group of Brighton-based walkers who are concerned about the environmental impacts of driving cars to walks, and the lack of information about alternatives to cars. All the walks are submitted by our users – you can help the website to grow by adding your own favourite car-free walks to the database! www.carfreewalks.orgRequests for help
TBH is about helping people initiate their own transition projects, and providing help to others with their projects. This could just as well be a project that's part of an existing organisation as something completely new – TBH simply aims to be a network of everyone who has the same goal of energy resilience and reduction. If you have an energy-reducing project that you need help with, if you have a pie-in-the-sky dream and you want to throw ideas around with other people, please advertise them here (by replying to this email), and it will go out in the next newsletter.
Feedback wanted from the One Planet Living workshops on 23-27 September
A number of TBH members are planning to attend these workshops (see Upcoming Events below), and TBH would like to capture transition views to assist with their input to the council/bioregional process and our Energy Descent and Resilience Plan. If anyone attending would like to provide feedback, please email to Doly at edrap*at*transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk. In particular:
• any observations on process/content of special relevance to transition
• any follow up actions/gaps you thought were not and should be covered
• any contacts you made that may be useful to transition/membership
• anything else?
Help required manning TBH stall at Brighton University to encourage undergraduate transitioners
The Community University Partnership Programme (CUPP) runs an undergraduate module at the University in which students undertake 30 or 50 hours of community-based work as part of their degree. These students aim to make a significant contribution to the organisation while gaining important real world experience and putting skills learned on their degree to practical use. The CUPP is holding an event to interest undergraduates in voluntary groups on Wed 15 & Thu 16 Oct . Help needed manning stall frrom 2-4pm on 15 Oct and 11-1 on 16 Oct (16th would be most useful as this day is on the environment). Please reply by 29 Sep to Jacqui at jac.cuff*at*talktalk.net if you can help.Transition Interest Groups
The dates of all Transition Interest Group meetings are on this website. (If you want to see meetings just for the area you are interested in, click on the link under 'Search Events by Subject', further down the home page in the right hand column.)Upcoming events
For Upcoming Events see the main page of the website.General information
Joining Transition Interest Groups (Food, Transport, Energy, etc): either sign up in the Usergroups on the forum – how to do this here – or contact the group coordinators directly, see here.
Forum: please remember to add your news, opinions and suggestions to the discussions on the forum – this is the place where ideas for projects and collaborations can begin.
Brighton & Hove Green organisations index: the TBH website has a updated directory of green Brighton organisations, including campaign groups, awareness-raising literature and training, local produce suppliers, transport alternatives and lots more.
Transition Library: there is a category on the forum when people can offer to lend, and borrow, books on transition-related subjects. If you have books on climate change, peak oil and other relevant subjects and think others will benefit from reading them, please offer to lend them out. Lending/borrowing arrangements at the top of the forum
Contact details: contact emails for all hub members and group coordinators are available here.
TBH newsletter – September 2008
