London Transition: August News 2010




August Newsletter EVENTS / WORKSHOPS / COURSES EXHIBITIONS To receive future newsletters via email enter your email address below and click on Subscribe. EVENTS July Sat 24: Nature Awareness Walk Nature-awareness walk in the Meadow led by Mary Hogan. 151 Park Road, City/Town: Crouch End, N8 8JL, 3pm-4pm Sun 25: Sustainable Haringey Summer Gathering Promoting and celebrating sustainable food policies, practices and projects in Haringey Railway Fields Nature Reserve, Green Lanes, N4 Mon 26: Friends of Loughborough Park Nature Walk Dr Iain Bolton of Lambeth Council leads a nature walk through a secret haven for plants and animals in the heart of Brixton Loughborough Park, Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, 6pm-8pm Tue 27: Capital Growth Summer Networking Event Event focuing on Engaging the Local Community, including using social media, successful events and hard to reach groups Golden Lane Estate Community Hall, Golden Lane Estate, EC1Y 0TN, 6pm-9pm Fri 30: Meadow Orchard Lammas Gathering Festival at Meadow Orchard Project 151 Park Road, City/Town: Crouch End, N8 8JL, 6pm-11:45pm August Wed 11: Why we should end domestic flights public meeting Water: aquatic ecosystems, pollution and human usage 1pm- 6.30pm Free entry, open to all Arcola Theatre, E7 2DJ, 1pm-6:30pm How we can fight the expansion of aviation and hear the case for ending domestic flights Fri 13: Urban Harvest meeting Planning foraging and harvesting of neglected fruit trees Jai Shri Krisna Resturant, 10 Turnpike Ln, Haringey, N8 0PT, 6:30pm-8pm Sun 22: London Permaculture Festival Festival to bring together all groups directly or indirectly related to Permaculture and Transition in and around London Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park Road, Camden, NW1 7AY, 11am-11pm WORKSHOPS July Mon 19 - Sat 31: Brixton Skill Share Workshop space for teaching and learning practical and creative skills. 4th Avenue, Granville Arcade, Brixton Village, Coldharbour Lane, SW9 8JX Fri 23: Social Startup Labs comes to Brixton Practical workshop for people who want to make a lasting social impact in their communities Unit 67-68, 4th Avenue, Brixton Village Market, Brixton, SW9 8JX Sat 24: RBS Teach in and Affinity Group Training Participatory workshop exploring financial and environmental crises and action group training School of Oriental and African Studies, Russel Square, WC1H 0XG, 1pm-17:30pm Sat 31: An introduction to using story-based strategy How to win 'the battle of the story' in campaigning, movement organizing and changing the world Stephen Lawrence Centre, 39 Brookmill Road, London, SE8 4HU, 3pm-6pm Sat 31: Practical loft insulation talk Practical talk about loft insulation by Jack Kelly and Clyde Watson August Fri 6: Summer Tree ID Trees and woodland - Tree identification Dulwich Upper Wood, London Thu 12: Woodland food growing area workshop Creation of a woodland food growing area in Dulwich Upper Wood. Thu 19: Insulating Victorian buildings the Ar'Chic way Energy tour of Victorian house 98 Bellenden Road, Peckham, SE15 4RF, 7.30pm Thu 19: Summer Tree ID walk Free native summer tree ID walk in Dulwich Upper Wood COURSES July Fri 23 - Sat 25: Rammed Earth Construction Hackney City Farm, 1a Goldsmith's Row, 9:30am-5:30pm, £180 Sat 24-Sun 25: Transition Training Weekend Training course run by the Transition Network Fri 23 - Sun 25: Preserving Food Hackney City Farm, 1a Goldsmith's Row, 10am-5pm Fri 23 - Sat 24: Ecological Sustainability and Climate Change: Denial, Stories and Visions Develop personal strategies for dealing with denial responses and to learn how to avoid triggering them Central London, contact sandra.white@makingessentialconnections.co.uk Sat 24: Building a pond / puddling clay Hackney City Farm, 1a Goldsmith's Row, 10am-5pm Wed 28: ISO 14001 Introduction and Awareness Overview of the purpose and requirements of ISO 14001 as a tool for the management of environmental aspects and impacts Tuition House, 27-37 St. George's Road, Wimbledon, SW19 4EU, 9:30am-12pm Fri 30 - Sun 1: Family Bushcraft Hackney City Farm, 1a Goldsmith's Row, 10am-5pm Sat 31: Raw/ Living Food Hackney City Farm, 1a Goldsmith's Row, 10am-5pm August Thu 5: Environmental Policy Workshop What you need to do and how to go about getting the correct Environmental Policy for your organisation Tuition House, 27-37 St. George's Road, Wimbledon, SW19 4EU, 9:30am-12pm Sat 7: Winter Growing/ Seed Saving The Regent's Park Allotment, 10.30am-1pm Wed 11: Winter Growing/ Seed Saving The Regent's Park Allotment, 5.15pm-7.45pm Tue 17: An Introduction to Pond Life and Management Lavender Pond, Rotherhithe, London Sat 21-Sun 22: Make your own natural soap Learn to make your own soaps Hackney City Farm, 1a Goldsmith's Row, 10am-5pm Tue 24: Introduction to Wildflower ID Stave Hill, Rotherhithe, London Thu 26 - Fri 27: Woodland Management Trees and woodland - Ecology and management Dulwich, London EXHIBITIONS July Wed 28 - Sat 31: Electric Vehicle Exhibition Exhibition of latest electric vehicles on from leading manufacturers Kingston's Market Sqaure Ongoing The Ministry of Food Exhibition examining how the British public adapted to a world of food shortagesduring the second world war Imperial War Museum London, Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ