The Energy Descent and Resilience Action Plan meeting will be at the Werks, 45 Church Street, on Monday 29th September from 6PM to 9PM.
The agenda for the meeting will be:
1. Introductions
2. Definition of Energy Descent Action Plan and assumptions
3. Brief discussion of the proposed skeleton for the plan (see attachment)
4. Division of the task among functional groups: energy, economic issues, food, waste and others
5. Our collaboration with the One Planet Living Plan
Nibbles will be provided, but if you can please bring food for sharing.
Energy Descent and Resilience Action Plan meeting – Mon 29 Septmeber
Farmer's Market, George Street, Hove - Sat 27 September
The George Street Farmer's Market in Hove (map) takes place from 9am-2pm on the fourth Saturday of every month. Fresh and baked produce from around Sussex, organic meat and vegetables, goose eggs, Japanese vegetables grown in Lewes, seasonal fruit and more. This month on 27 September. More info here.
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Brighton Cohousing workshop – Sat 27 September
Design a cohousing site with Brighton Cohousing. Sat 27 September 2-5.30pm at Phoenix Arts Association, 10–14 Waterloo Place, Brighton BN2 9NB (map).
Cohousing is clusters of homes with a shared site and resources managed by residents. Brighton Cohousing is trying to get a cohousing project going in or near Brighton. In this workshop you will be given (imaginary) site plans to work out in small groups what you want there for yourself and what you could share, and there will be discussion about how to make it real. Donations of £3-£7 to cover costs. Numbers are limited, so please email us at info*at*brightoncohousing.org.uk to reserve a place.
More information on www.brightoncohousing.org.uk
Notes from TBH Forum meeting – Wed 24 September
Notes by Martin Grimshaw
Present: Jim A, Stephen Wa, Dave G, Stephen Wh, Aaron S, Martin G (minutes), Doly G, Scott, Chris C, John K, Graham E, Ian L, Maureen W, John B.
Updates were shared from Transport, Energy, Heart & Soul ('resting' / re-starting), Waste, Food, Local Government, Textiles (inactive - looking for co-ordinator), Business & Economics (up and running after a summer rest), Buildings & Construction (looking for co-ordinator), Energy Descent Planning (EDRAP) Groups.
Most groups are now generally quite active, with lots of encouraging interest, plans and projects slowly germinating and some early milestones reached. All groups are always looking for more input, whatever your experience or skills. Many groups have now established their aims and purpose and have launched their own introduction pages, accessible from the front page of the website. Updates, details and general direction of the next meetings of each group are normally found via links on those pages or on the web-forum >> GROUPS TO ENSURE THERE IS SOMEONE RESPONSIBLE FOR UPDATING THE WEBSITE / FORUM PAGE.
A new Talks group is setting up to support TBH's programme of public talks and awareness raising - INPUT IS INVITED, ALL EXPERIENCE, SKILLS AND FEEDBACK WELCOME. Contact john.bristow1*AT*btopenworld.com
A new Promotions and Publicity group is setting up to help make sure that any leaflets, posters or other material is of a high standard - INPUT IS INVITED; DO YOU HAVE, OR WANT TO LEARN, SKILLS including illustration, image locating, desk top publishing, communication...or have opinions on how we can use media better? Contact martin*AT*greenspeak.org.uk .Scott also raised the idea of making a film(s) about TBH and wished to explore sharing his skills and experience for that purpose. This might become a project or group in its own right eventually. In the first instance contact scott*AT*parsleyproductions.co.uk
A group is starting to design and initiate a series of introductory evenings for people who are new to Transition or who want to know more about it, with a view to later providing other workshops for deepening our understanding or giving presentations to external groups. We will need to build our capacity among the group so that we have a variety of members able to meet demand. INPUT IS INVITED - DO YOU HAVE OR WISH TO DEVELOP PRESENTATION SKILLS or learn more about the Transition concept and methods?
Frank Jay has offered to facilitate a special aims & principles meetings - DAVID G TO ARRANGE.
CAN ALL CO-ORDINATORS INFORM CHRIS OF THE NEXT 3 MEETING DATES AND PUBLICISE.
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There was a discussion about ensuring openness, inclusivity and projecting a good face to the outside world by using our website / forum as it was intended when designed. It is clear that it is not being used frequently by groups, sometimes with long periods of inactivity which do not reflect the work that is going to outsiders, newcomers, those who are less involved or those who only have time to be involved with one group. It is also clear that there are also probably very good and expected reasons for this. All involved with TBH will benefit from some effort made to explore those barriers and find solutions to them. ALL GROUPS TO ENSURE THAT CONTENT IS UPDATED. CHRIS C / MARTIN G TO ASSIST THIS PROCESS.
Ian L gave feedback from the Transition network event near Forest Row, Sussex. Sadly only one person from TBH made it, but there was some feeling that opportunities like this, as well as being enjoyable, are an important time for bonding, rejuvenating and deepening our connection to the Transition process.
TBH newsletter – September 2008
If you wish to receive this newsletter as an email each month, please register on the forum – this will put you on our mailing list. Or email the website requesting that you be added to the list.
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.
Workshops: Brighton & Hove – A One Planet City? – Tue 23–Sat 27 September
Brighton & Hove City Council, Bio Regional and the 2020 Community Partnership invite you to a week-long series of workshops on sustainability. This sustainability planning week, being delivered on behalf of 2020 Community Partnership (the Local Strategic Partnership for Brighton & Hove), provides the opportunity to participate in the policy creation process for the city's proposed 'One Planet Living Plan'. At Dorset Gardens Methodist Church, Dorset Gardens, Kemptown, Brighton BN2 1RL (map). Download a programme here (PDF), or see more info here.
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Streets for People: Car Free Day 2008 - Sun 21 September
Brighton & Hove City Council invite you to Streets for People, a free event to celebrate European Mobility Week 2008 which aims to promote healthier and more active ways of living in Brighton & Hove. They'll be creating a pedestrian friendly space in the centre of Brighton and providing music, dancing, entertainment and lots of activities for all ages. They'll be encouraging residents and visitors to come to the event and enjoy our city at its best. More info here.
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Film: The Power of Community + An Evening with Roberto Perez – Sat 20 September
A screening of the film The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil with an illustrated talk by Roberto Perez, a Cuban permaculture expert featured in the film. Doors open 6.30pm, film at 7pm and talk at 8.30pm, on Sat 20 September, at the Sallis Benney Theatre, Old Steine, Brighton (map). £5–£2.
Presented by Brighton Permaculture Trust in partnership Brighton and Hove Food Partnership, and Transition Initiatives Brighton and Hove, Lewes and Shoreham.
For more information see here.
Report on Liaison with Local Government Meeting of 16th Sept 08
Those present: Joyce, Maureen, Vicky, Jacqui, Ted
1) EDRAP state of play
Doly is co-ordinating the EDRAP. It will also be the subject of an October Talk:
How do we live well and sustainably without cheap energy?
What are the most effective community responses to this challenge?
A talk by Dr David Fleming, the Founder Director of the Lean Economy Connection, and an independent writer in the fields of energy, environment, economics, society and culture. Thu 9 October, 7pm for 7.30 start, until 9.45 at the Brighthelm Centre, North Road,
On the panel will be Gordon Mackerron, Director, Energy Group, SPRU, Sussex University, and Doly Garcia, Transition Brighton and Hove – Energy Descent and Resilience Plan
ACTION POINT: Vicky and Jacqui to attend next EDRAP meeting. We would urge that the design of the EDRAP takes account of the work that has gone into The Council’s Core Strategy, supporting the parts of the document which are compatible with our aims (even if other parts are not). Similarly, we would encourage attendance at The One Planet Living Workshops, which provide residents of Brighton and Hove with the opportunity to participate in the policy creation process for the city's proposed 'One Planet Living Plan'. We ought to find elements in One Planet Living’s plan, which it would be beneficial to apply to our own Energy Descent and Resilience Plan for the city.
The Liaison With Local Government Group sees its role as clarifying what is happening with regard to local decision making. If Transition Brighton and Hove is truly to form a bridge with Local Government, an important and integral part of the Transition process, then it logically follows that we should play a part in Brighton and Hove City Council’s Consultation on its strategic planning document (THE CORE STRATEGY), as we have done. The workshops being organised in late September 2008 by One Planet Living and providing the opportunity to participate in the policy creation process for the city's proposed 'One Planet Living Plan', are directly related to Transition Brighton and Hove’s main purpose.
2) One Planet Living Workshops – these run between Tue 23–Sat 27 September 2008.
We decided not to pin ourselves down to attendance of specific workshops.
ACTION POINT. However, our intention is that participants (for TBH) offer feedback on the sessions they attend, and that this information should be collated. Chris Callard will be asked to encourage people to take notes and report back to Ted who will collate them.
3) City’s Sustainability Partnership.
Vicky has distributed a useful LSP Agenda Item document “Sustainability Report for 2020 Community Partnership Meeting”, which includes the terms of reference for the new City Sustainability Partnership on to which Jacqui has been elected. Jacqui reported that her briefing was on 18th September 2008. The first meeting of The Sustainability Partnership does not take place until November.
4) Forthcoming Events
AGM of The United Nations Association 2pm on 25th October 2008 at The Friends Centre, Ship St, Brighton,
William Maxwell, from the University of Sussex will speak on:
“Why we need the UN to solve the food crisis.”
A screening of the film The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil with an illustrated talk by Roberto Perez, a Cuban permaculture expert featured in the film. Doors open 6.30pm, film at 7pm and talk at 8.30pm, on Sat 20 September, at the Sallis Benney Theatre.
CUPP, which promotes partnerships between the University of Brighton and local communities, is planning an event on 15th October for students interested in joining voluntary organisations.
Action point: TBH could possibly have a stand. Jacqui to pursue CUPP.
The Guardian/New Economics Foundation debate, 19.09.08, The Guardian Newsroom, 60 Farringdon Road, EC1R 5ER, 5.30pm-7.00pm
Triple Crunch: Can we solve the credit crunch, climate change and energy price shocks with a Green New Deal?
High oil prices, soaring food and energy bills, accelerating climate change. The global economy faces a triple crunch that could develop into a perfect storm to rival or surpass the Great Depression. Time is short. A year on from the near-collapse of Northern Rock, this special debate, hosted by nef (the new economics foundation) and The Guardian, will gauge the outlook and determine what should be done. When politicians and the market fail us, and the world slips further into financial and environmental freefall, our panel of experts will ask: is it time for a Green New Deal?
Speakers: Adiya Chakrabortty, leader writer, the Guardian, Andrew Simms, nef policy director, Professor Jayati Ghosh, Jawaharal Nehru University and Executive Secretary of International Development Associates, Larry Elliott, economics editor, the Guardian, Will Hutton, Chief Executive of the Work Foundation and Stewart Wallis, executive director, nef
5. Publicity – Ted to make an accessible web-based INDEX for all Liaison with Local Government posts and records of meetings, so that we can track our progress and to prevent important posts, which are no longer recent, from disappearing into inaccessible folders This has now been done. The editable Liaison with Local Government Group Home Page is here.
The Index to all LLG posts is here.
Transition Gathering Camp – Fri 19-Sun 21 September
This first transition gathering will provide a space to meet transitioners from other places at an event that welcomes all the family. The location is a camp site on a beautiful organic farm in the heart of Sussex at the end of the Bluebell railway line and close to the Ashdown Forest. Elena's kitchen will offer delicious food and a there will be a yurt sauna. Children most welcome. Suggested donation for the weekend camp Friday and Saturday nights: Adult £25 and child £10 family £50. (no day tickets)
The timing of the gathering leads up to the autumn equinox which will mark the emergence of transition initiatives.
From a basic framework of activities, the gathering will also provide space for sessions you would like to offer. Unplugged music, story telling, skills, questions, debate, open fires and much more. It will be a time to gather together, a time to celebrate, to share good food, visions for our future, skills and knowledge, have fun, to connect and just be with each other.
Register on the website: http://transitiongathering.ning.com/
Event Flyer: http://www.changingworlds.info/TransitionFlyers/Tgathering-flyer.pdf
For more details contact Mike Grenville
contact*at*transitionforestrow.org
www.transitionforestrow.org
01342 825169
http://southeasttransitioninitatives.ning.com/
Transition Brighton and Hove wins 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. Congratulations Jacqui!
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This Partnership provides the city and its key stakeholders with strategic leadership on the environmentally sustainable development of Brighton & Hove.
Three places on this Partnership are allocated to The Community Voluntary Sector. TBH now has one of these. Other representatives are drawn from business, trusts and other areas of activity, where 'sustainability' might be defined somewhat differently.
The three elected representatives for The Community Voluntary Sector ought to work well together, since they all share a direct interest in combatting Climate Change i.e. putting environmental concerns to the fore in defining 'sustainability'. The current review of the city's Climate Change Strategy by One Planet Living under the auspices of The 2020 Community Partnership (also known as the Local Strategic Partnership) ought to focus attention where Transition Brighton and Hove wants it to be. The profiles which helped to secure their election are as follows:
Chris Todd, Brighton & Hove Friends of the Earth / South Downs Campaign
I have been heavily involved with environmental issues (particularly landscape, planning and transport) in Brighton & Hove for 15 years. I have extensive experience of setting up and working in various environmental networks, including my current job coordinating the South Downs Campaign, a network of over 150 organisations. I represented the regional environmental network (South East Forum for Sustainability) at the South East Plan’s Examination in Public. More recently I appeared at the re-opened South Downs National Park Inquiry.
Until the recent change in Council structure I was co-opted onto the Sustainability Commission and prior to that in the late 1990s I was a co-opted member on the Brighton & Hove Planning Committee representing sustainability issues on behalf of the Brighton & Hove Environment Forum. More recently I promoted establishing an Environment Network within CVSF. I have also led on persuading the LSP to prioritise climate change and I currently chair the working group on this. I have good communication skills, which combined with my networking and information sharing experience, means that I am ideally placed to represent a broad range of views on this exciting new partnership.
Jacqui Cuff, Transition Brighton and Hove
The challenge of climate change and peaking oil prices affects all of us – that means all 500+ members of CVSF, from the young, the old, the blind or refugees. Transition Brighton and Hove (TBH) is a growing group of volunteers working on a community led response to the effects of climate change and peak oil. If TBH is elected to the CSP this will help ensure that climate change issues continue to have a high profile within sustainable development strategies for Brighton and Hove.
My expertise: A Brighton resident, I am a founding member of the TBH liaison with local government group. Formerly a lawyer, advocacy, influencing and meetings on sustainability have been my professional bread and butter. Since 1992 I have worked on sustainability for the voluntary sector, Parish Councils, RSPB and the Government agency for the countryside. I have worked with central and local government officials frequently and “know the language”. I am politically astute, an excellent communicator and networker. Choose me and you will get an effective and professional voice for sustainability. I will combine my professionalism with the right amount of “fire in the belly” – on behalf of the voluntary sector.
Michael Creedy, Brighton Peace and Environment Centre
I am a member of the Environment forum and represent Brighton Peace and Environment Centre. We are an education centre and act as a hub for a large number of environmental groups in Brighton and Hove. We would support the development of the partnership and it embracing greater community involvement.
I have been active in Environmental campaigning for the last 20 years and have been a member of Bricycles and Friends of the Earth. I am the Outreach Officer for BPEC and have been part of the organisation for over 10 years. I am also a trustee of Brighton Permaculture Trust. As such we raise awareness of environmental issues and encourage sustainable solutions.
Chris, Jacqui and Michael will remain as the representatives for a two-year period. They will commence their roles from mid September, following a full induction on 18th September 2008.
Conference on Sustainable Design Education (London & Brighton) – Fri 19-Sun 21 September
How do we teach sustainable design in the UK, around Europe, and beyond? This is the question posed by a three-day event organised by the Faculty of Arts & Architecture at the University of Brighton between Friday 19th September and Sunday 21st September 2008. 360o will include a day of workshops and talks at 100% Design in London (Friday 19th Sept), a one-day conference at the University of Brighton (Saturday 20th September), and an optional tour of eco-architecture sites around Kent and Sussex (Sunday 21st September).
The conference brings together international design and architecture educators in sustainable design education; practitioners interested in higher education and continuing professional development (CPD) in sustainable design, and students of design.
360o forms part of the work of DEEDS (Design Education for Sustainability), an EU-funded project that aims to integrate sustainability into mainstream design education and practice across Europe by providing new educational models and tools (www.deedsproject.org). The project lead is ICIS (International Centre for Creativity, Innovation and Sustainability, Denmark) with other project partners: Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland; BEDA (the Bureau of European Design Associations); SERI (the Sustainable Europe Research Institute, Germany), and the Faculty of Arts & Architecture, University of Brighton, UK.
Speakers over the two days at 100% Design and the University of Brighton include: Anne-Marie Willis, design educator from Sydney, Australia, who was a Founder-Director of the EcoDesign Foundation and now works with Tony Fry at Team D / E / S (www.teamdes.com.au/whoweare.htm); Alastair Fuad-Luke, author of the Eco-Design Handbook (Thames & Hudson); Karen Blincoe, Director, Schumacher College, Devon; William Wong, Clore Leadership Programme Fellow, Royal Society of Arts & Manufacture (RSA); Susannah Hagan, author, Taking Shape: A New Contract Between Architecture and Nature (Architectural Press) and Head of the MA Architecture: Sustainability+Design at University of East London (UEL); Jonathan Crinion, Jonathan Crinion Associates; Jonathan Chapman, co-director of the Inheritable Futures Laboratory, If:Lab; Anne Chick, educator and Director, Sustainable Design Research Centre, Kingston University, and Rob Holdway, Director, Giraffe Innovation, currently working with L’Oreal, Sainsbury’s and British Airways.
Designers from disciplines such as * graphic design * communication design * architecture * product design * retail design * interior design * landscape architecture * consumer electronics design * furniture design * fashion design and * system design are asked to contribute to the DEEDS programme and meet for discussion and conference.
The conference will be a dissemination of the work of DEEDS over the last two years and will bring together academics, students and practitioners from across Europe to discuss latest sustainable design thinking, teaching and methodologies. There is also an invitation to contribute to DEEDS with a ‘pod’, discrete units of information and Teaching & Learning (T&L) resources, which will add to the emerging body of knowledge and resources in sustainable design education.
Karen Blincoe, DEEDS Director, says: “The 360o conference is a chance for sustainable design practitioners to meet from various disciplines - academics and practitioners – to introduce new thinking into the process of designing, to understand and explore current and new methodologies and practices with the aim to future-proof the design profession. This is the first phase of the DEEDS project and we want DEEDS to act as a ‘resource stop’, a ‘wikipedia’ for Design, Education and Sustainability.”
For more details, press passes or interviews with speakers, email jo*at*jomoulds.co.uk, DEEDS Project and Environmental marketing & PR, or call 07968 801467.
Conference website: http://artsresearch.brighton.ac.uk/events/deeds-360degrees
London Design Festival partner: www.londondesignfestival.com
100% Design / 100% Sustainable: www.100percentdesign.co.uk/page.cfm/link=316
Delegate Fees:
Early-bird discount £80 (includes registration to 100% Design and VIP lounge, one-day conference at
University of Brighton and optional tour on Sunday 21st September)
Conference fee (after 1st September): £120
(For those travelling from overseas, a small number of bursaries will be available for delegates without institutional funding, to help cover travel expenses and accommodation.)
For more information and to book a place, email info*at*deedsproject.org
Next TBA Liaison with Local Government Meeting Tues 16th Sep 2008 7.30
Our next meeting will take place at 7.30 pm at The George in Trafalgar St (near St Peter's Church) Brighton. All welcome.
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AGENDA (to date)
1) EDRAP state of play (contacts with other Transition Groups, timescales etc), what form should the plan take, who should be involved? what inputs? This item could include mention of potential inputs such as green new deal document by NEF
2) One Planet Living workshops (who's going to what? how are we going to make use of the info?)
3) City's Sustainability Partnership: issues relating to Jacqui's role as TBH (CVSF) representative; relevant opportunities of liaison with Chris Todd and Mike Creedy (bodies they are on & the institutions they represent).
4) Forthcoming events - a round up of relating initiatives and events relating to our purpose i.e. with inputs Local Government
5) Publicity - a TBH LLG Home Page which we can update and use as an INDEX to important info and posts.
Meeting of the 2020 Community Partnership: Tuesday 16 September at 4pm
The next meeting of the 2020 Community Partnership will take place on:
Tuesday 16 September at 4pm at The West Pier Suite, umi Brighton (formerly Belgrave Hotel), 64 Kings Road, Brighton, BN1 1NA
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Agenda
[Agenda PDF 53kb]
Welcome and Introductions
[Minutes PDF 119kb]
Dr Tom Scanlon and Terry Blair-Stevens will present on the public health and inequalities within Brighton and Hove, as well as the proposal to apply for World Health Organisation Healthy City status (Phase V)
Presentation and discussion to be lead by:
Supporting Papers:
Public Health and Inequalities [Briefing paper PDF 527kb]
Healthy City Report [Briefing paper PDF 45kb]
The next LSP meeting takes place on Tuesday 2 December.
(Agenda Items to be submitted to Simon Newell by Friday 14 November)
If you would like to attend a 2020 Community Partnership meeting and have any particular needs, please contact the Partnership and we will do all we can to assist you.
How to contact the partnership
Food group meeting – Tue 16 September
The next food group meeting is on Tue 16 September from 7:30-9:30pm at Simon’s house – 7 Beaufort Terrace in Hanover (map). Food group meetings always take place on the 3rd Tuesday of each month, 7:30-9:30pm.
We’ll discuss:
- 7:30 – 8:30: the Transition Allotment – progress, design & development; setting a regular workday
- 8:30 – 9:30: our programme of events, developing our mission statement, planning a food ‘open space’ event
As ever, please bring a dish to share (veggie and vegan only please – cakes welcome!).
For more information, email Ann at food*at*transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk
The Great Food Debate - food prices, food crisis? – Thu 11 September
This year’s debate, organised by the Brighton & Hove Food Partnership as a part of the city’s annual Food & Drink Festival, will explore the consequences of rising food prices. Speakers include Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy at City University, Carolyn Steel, author of Hungry City and Rob Lyons, Deputy Editor of Spiked. The debate will be chaired by Simon Fanshawe. Thu 11 Sep, 7pm for 7.30pm (NOT 3PM AS WAS SAID PREVIOUSLY) at the Thistle Hotel, Brighton seafront (map). Tickets £3 on the door or free for members of the Brighton & Hove Food Partnership (membership forms will be available at the door).
Food prices are on the rise and everyone is starting to feel the difference. But have we been paying too little for too long, or should food remain inexpensive? What is the real price of food and who pays? Consumers are increasingly aware of food’s social and environmental impacts, but do rising prices make ethical choices a luxury?
For more information please contact Ann Baldridge at the Food Partnership on 01273 431700 or email ann*at*bhfood.org.uk.
Waste & Recycling meeting – Tue 9 September
The next Waste & Recycling group meeting is at 6.30pm on Tue 9 September – Waste & Recycling meetings are always on the second Tuesday of the month at The George in Trafalgar Street, Brighton (map). All welcome – for more information contact waste*at*transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk
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Notes from Energy group meeting – Tue 9 September
Notes by Jim Adams
Present Jim Adams, Chris Boocock, Graham Ennis, Doly Garcia, Dave. John Kapp
1 Government Renewables consultation paper.
It was agreed to form a working party to co-ordinate our response before the deadline on 24.9.. It will meet at Revitalise café on Tues 16.9.08 at 730. Action. Participants to e mail their drafts beforehand, and attend meeting. Chatham House rules apply.
2 Centre for Sustainable Development, University of Brighton. It was agreed that TBHEG wishes to be a stakeholder in this. Action Jim to inform John Bristow.
3 Energy Descent Resilience Action Plan (EDRAP)
It was agreed to form a working party to draft this, The first meeting will be held on Tues 28.10.08 at Revitalise café at 730. John offered to be secretary. The target date for producing the EG’s contribution to the EDRAP to the TBH Forum is Easter 2009.
Action Graham to produce 2 pages of ideas for discussion, to be taken together with the ‘skeleton’ document already produced at a previous meeting.
4 Wind and Tidal power for Brighton and Hove
It was agreed to take up the offer of Garry Murray, (manager of Iberdrola’s Shoreham power station) to arrange for a delegation to meet his colleagues at Iberdrola Renewables offices in Glasgow. Our agenda should be the promotion of the EG’s aim to make Brighton and Hove’s power 100% renewable by 2020 by means of the following projects:
a) The Ecotricity proposal for 3 X 4MW wind turbines south of Aldrington basin
b) To develop proposals for wind turbines on the South Downs
c) To promote the obtaining of a licence for a wind/tidal farm off the Sussex coast feeding power into the grid at Shoreham power station busbars.
Action Chris to contact Garry Murray to arrange meeting. Delegation will include Graham, Chris, Ron Holford, John Kapp, and others by arrangement.
5 Letter to prime minister.
It was agreed to write to the prime minister informing him of the EG’s target of making Brighton and Hove’s power 100% renewable by 2020, and urging him to make the UK’s target the same. Action Jim.
6 One Planet seminars
It was agreed to promote this council initiative by attending the seminars at Dorset Gardens Methodist Church hall to be held every evening from Tues 23.9 to Sat 27.9 . The programme has already been circulated. Action all to attend
7 Talk by David Fleming Thurs 9.10.08
It was agreed to support this, at Brighthelm Centre 730-830. Action All
8 Next meeting of EG
Tues 14.10.08 at Revitalise café at 730pm.
Brighton & Hove Farmers Market – Sun 7 September
The Brighton and Hove Farmer's Market (map) takes place from 9am-2pm on the first Sunday of every month, at Ralli Hall, Denmark Villas, round the corner from Hove station. This month: Sun 7 September
Organic seasonal fruit & veg, chilli peppers, flavoured vinegars, cakes, authentic curries made from local produce, freshly baked breads, fruit smoothies, sauces, mustards and relishes, honey and preserves, goats and sheep cheeses and locally made Parmesan etc. Enjoy sitting on the benches eating hot bajis drinking fair trade latte and taking in the unique atmosphere of one of the biggest markets in the South. Inside the Health Zone you will find free nutritional advice, hemp products, natural skin products plus head and back massages. More info here.
Food group allotment work day – Sat 6 September
Your help is needed at the Transition allotment! The first official work day on the plot will be Saturday 6 September, starting at 12:00
The plot needs lots of work as it’s largely covered in brambles – but before we can get planting we need to clear some space. But, before that we need a plan for how we want the site to look, where we want to build a shelter, where we want to plant things, etc. So therefore, the day will be divided into part work, part design. We’ll be taking a Permaculture approach to designing the site, so if anyone has any knowledge of Permaculture principles, please join us. But everyone is welcome – regardless of experience, knowledge, etc!
Please bring some food, to share if possible. Other things you might bring include gardening gloves and other articles of clothing to protect against brambles.
Hope to see you there! The plot is right next to the Whitehawk Community Food Project. Here’s a link to directions: http://www.thefoodproject.org.uk/howtofindus.html. For more information contact Ann at food*at*transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk
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