Transition Town Louth
Lincolnshire
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Transition Town LouthLincolnshire | |
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Transition Town Louth Constitution 
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Transition Town Louth is an inclusive grouping of people who recognize the reality of Peak Oil and Climate Change, but are
determined not to cry doom and gloom into their beer but rather develop the transition to a sustainable community, resilient in an
uncertain future, where the quality of life in our lovely town is maintained and improved. To contact Transition Town Louth,Send Mail
 Join the Louth Food Group facebook page |
Louth St James Market, Sunday 25th July 2010 |
Next meetings of Transition Town Louth:Harmony WorkshopTuesday 3rd August all day at the Trinity Centre |
Beach Hut PartySunday 22nd August at Beach Hut 47, south Promenade, Sutton-on-Sea See The Minutes Page |
Natural environment: an invitation to shape the nature of EnglandA message from Defra: Our natural environment underpins our economic prosperity, our health and our wellbeing. As a result, protecting the environment and enhancing biodiversity is one of Defra’s top 3 priorities, as outlined in the Department’s Structural Reform Plan. A key commitment under this priority is the publication of a White Paper on the natural environment by spring 2011. We want all interested parties to have a say in shaping the development of the White Paper. On 26 July 2010 we published our discussion paper “An invitation to shape the Nature of England” and we invite all comments and submissions from anyone with an interest in the Natural Environment White Paper. You may wish to develop these in response to the discussion document or there may be other issues you feel that we should focus on. Discussion document summary (PDF, 100KB) Discussion document “An invitation to shape the Nature of England” (PDF, 850KB)All comments should be received by 30 October 2010. Improving East Lindsey's Energy Self-relianceEnertrag UK are proposing to build a windwarm with eight 3MW turbines to the south-east of Baumber, near Horncastle. A planning inquiry is to be held in October but there will be a Pre-Inquiry meeting on July 30, 2010 at East Lindsey District Council’s Manby offices at 10am. Details here. A description of the proposal can be found Ecotricity are proposing to add five more turbines to their Fen Farm site near Conisholme. Details can be found at their webstite and navigating to the Fen Farm II link. Their is clearly a great deal of opposition to both these developments by those who do not understand the threats that peak oil and global warming pose to our livelihoods in the short term and to our, and our children's, lives in the longer term future. Foremost in opposition to wind energy are our MEP Roger Helmer and our MP, Sir Peter Tapsell who is patron of the Baumber (anti) Wind Farm Action Group.A New Website for a Sustainable Lincolnshire
Take a look round this great new website created by Groundwork Lincolnshire and join the Forum for discussions about building a sustainable and resilient Lincolnshire. Louth Town PartnershipThe new Board of the Town Partnership was elected on Monday 21st June. Biff is looking after the Environment brief and welcomes any comments, advice and offers of involvment. One of the first issues being looked at is possible plans for pedestrianising the town centre or investigating whether Shared Space might be a way forward. For a full list of Board Members see the temporary Town Partnership website. (A much flashier one is being planned.)
Transition Network Conference 2010Transition Radio is a great opportunity to listen to interviews and talks from the conference workshops. And here's the Transition Blog to keep you up to date on what's going on. Totnes and District Energy Descent Action Plan
Transition Handbook Discussion GuideFrom time to time I hear about people doing Book Clubs based around the Transition Handbook. Thankfully, and entirely in a self- organising “wouldn’t-it-be-great-if-there-was-a-study-guide” kind of way, Joann Kerr, Susan Gregory, and Leo Brodie of Sustainable NE Seattle (the 19th officially-recognized Transition Initiative in the United States), decided to take matters into their own hands and create one. Rather wonderful it is too, packed with activities and exercises to do with a group of people, it is quite special to think that my humble lil’ ole Transition Handbook would enthuse people sufficiently to create such a great resource. Download it here, take it, use it, let them know how it went….Rob Hopkins Transition Network UK conferenceThe 2010 Transition Network UK conference was held at Seale Hayne, (an old agricultural college in Devon), just outside Newton Abbott, over the weekend of 12 to 13-June. Latest reports from the Conference blogspot is here. 
Take a little time to read Life After Growth by Richard Heinberg
10:10What can I do? - Click here for 10 ways to reduce by 10%
10:10 unites every sector of British society behind one simple idea: that by working together we can achieve a 10% cut in the UK’s carbon emissions in 2010. 10:10 is the perfect opportunity to discover what’s possible when we work together. Let’s get started. |
  Wave bye-bye to the melting Arctic ice. The blue line, updated daily, shows the extent of sea ice is less than ever before at this time of year in the satellite record. Ice thickness is also lower than in previous years.  The Bumpy Plateau of Peak Oil What's On
Tuesday 3rd August, all day 9am till 4pm, Trinity Centre, Eastgate 
Gill is on tour around Britain and after visitung us moves on to lead workshops in Horncastle and then Lincoln for the Transition Initiatives there. Gill is taking some time out from her usual work (see her website) to walk, and sometimes catch a train, around Britain, delivering workshops as she goes. The workshop will be free but numbers are limited so please book a place by e-mailing or phoning 01507 358413. Please bring lunch to share. Sunday 22nd August, 1pm onwards. Sutton-on-Sea, at Beach Hut 47 South Promenade. 
There will be opportunity to discuss with David Fleming his new book, The Lean Economy, and the latest climate research from Erica Thompson of Imperial College who is currently researching extreme weather events and Chris Vernon of Bristol University who is researching melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Or you could just play in the sand. Saturday September 18th Tickets from Mark Merrifield at Off The Beaten Tracks in Aswell Street. October 7-9th Sunday 31st October On all the time
Farmers' Markets are on the second Friday and fourth Wednesday of the month |
zerocarbonbritain2030 provides political and economic solutions to the urgent challenges raised by the climate science, outlining how we can transform the UK into an efficient, clean, prosperous zero-carbon society.
This is an important report, 384 pages, and all downoladable for free from the Centre for Alternative Technology.
Nicholas C. Arguimbau, writing for Countercurrents.org 23 April 2010, explains what this US government graph shows and what it's
implications are.
We are on our own. We are rapidly going to have to deal with less and less oil, since there has been no forewarning and no planning. It is a time for communities to prepare for community energy independence, because only that way will be safe. This means relying on the sun and wind and water that have always been with us. It means cooperation with each other to get through seriously difficult times. It means finding altenatives to oil throughout our lives as quickly as possible - the oil that runs our cars, the oil that heats our houses, the oil that runs generators for our electricity, the oil from which chemical fertilizers and insecticides and plastics and polyester are made, the oil that brings countless manufactured goods to us from overseas, the oil on which farmers depend for irrigation pujmps, for transporting produce to market, for working the soil to bring us food. If you believe the graph, it will almost all be gone in 20 years.
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Transition Town Louth has launched the area's own Freegle group. If you have something to give away or want something for free just sign up and get freegling. Part of The Freegle Association  |
Transition Town Louth is acting as a focus for Landsharers in the area. Let us know if you would like to join Landshare and meet others to share ideas. 
Go places with  For skill
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Louth Time Bank. |
Join the Transition Town Louth Facebook Group.
Communicate on our Yahoo Message Group. Follow TTL on 
Other pages on this website:Zing ~ The Incredibly Light Railway Council Matters is where we report on stuff to do with Louth Town Council and East Lindsey District Council. What's on The Big Ideas Page: Get involved with The Action Page Get gardening with The Louth Community Food Garden Transitition Town Louth Constitution The Minutes Page is where you can read minutes of meetings. The Training Page has information about training for transition. The Archived Stuff is where you can find older stuff What's new on The Opinion Page:
Letters from India Transition Town Louth becomes virtually Twinned with Transition Town Katoomba. Links to Louth based organizations that form parts of The Solution rather than parts of The problem Louth Views Some pictures and films taken in and around Louth. |
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There are now over 300 Transition Initiatives, Louth being the ninety-ninth. Transition Towns are completely autonomous organizations, linked by the Transition Network, which provides and shares ideas, resources and support. The common thread is a belief that energy security in the time following the peak in oil production and the risk of global warming, present threats so large that we will be forced to make a transition to a very different world from that to which we are accustomed. The Transition movement is driven by optimism and a determination to learn to adjust to whatever the future brings. Preparing in good time to meet the challenges is the wise approach. Our government, driven by the need to address the climate change issue and knowing that fossil fuels will be increasingly hard to come by, has a policy of reducing CO2 emissions by 80% by 2050. Even that drastic change may be understated as we compete for what little fossil fuel remains. This is not a target that can be missed but a reality that we are forced to accept. Indeed, the problems may press harder and faster than the government is prepared, as yet, to admit. It behoves each of us, as individuals or working through community groups and within local government, to accept that reality promptly, and to work together to make the transition as painless as we can, moving positively to a future where life may actually be better. Transition Town Louth is a grassroots grouping of people who share a determination to act. We are not concerned with debating whether global warming caused by man's actions is a problem, nor whether energy security is soon to be the most significant constraint on economic activity. We have accepted the issues, moved beyond debating the realities, and are ready for actions. |
| generate enough electricity from its Fen Farm, Connisholme and Baumber Farm, Mablethorpe wind parks to power about 40% of East Lindsey's homes. |
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To contact Transition Town Louth, Send Mail
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Cornmarket, Louth, Sunday 26th October 2008 |
Town Hall, Louth, Friday 5th December 2008 |
Town Hall, Louth, Saturday 7th March 2009 |
Listening to David Fleming's talk, August 2009.
