London Transition: February News




February Newsletter NEWS / TALKS / FILM / EXHIBITIONS / EVENTS / WORKSHOPS / COURSES To receive future newsletters via email enter your email address below and click on Subscribe. NEWS Food From The Sky Pilot food growing project on roof of Thornton's Budgens in Crouch End TALKS January Tue 26: Patrick Holden, Director of The Soil Association Can Britain Feed Itself, and if so, how? St. Mary's Church, St Mary's Road, Ealing W5, 7:30pm Wed 27: Wild Law Post Copenhagen Polly Higgins on her experience of Copenhagen Sir Richard Steele's pub, 97 Haverstock Hill, NW3 4RL, 7pm Thu 28: What will Tooting/London look when cheap oil runs out? With energy specialist and director of Solar Century Jeremy Leggett Mushkil Aasaan, 220-222 Upper Tooting Road, SW17 7EW February Tue 2: Delivering a Low Carbon London Isabel Dedring, environment adviser to the Mayor of London, discuss developing and implementing a vision for a low carbon London. Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House. LSE, Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE, 6:30pm Thu 4: Climate Crunch: making the economics fit What if there's no solution to climate change without freeing ourselves from our obsession with economic growth? Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House. LSE, Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE, 6:30pm Sun 7: Arcola Green Sunday Updated: Well-being, Health and Happiness. Arcola Theatre, 27 Arcola St, E8 2DJ, 1pm-7pm. Tue 9: Sustainable Housing How can we save 80 per cent of our energy use in existing homes? New Theatre, East Building, LSE, Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE, 6:30pm Tue 16: Can Lambeth feed itself? Panel discussion with Bonnie Hewson (Transition Town Brixton), Seb Mayfield (Capital Growth) & Sue Sheehan (Lambeth Borough) South London Botanical Institute, 323 Norwood Road, SE24 9AQ, 7:30pm Thu 25: Prosperity without Growth Tim Jackson considers the capability to flourish within ecological limits Sheikh Zayed Theatre, LSE, New Academic Building, Lincoln's Inn Fields Thu 25: Post Copenhagen Professor Mark Maslin of UCL discusses whether it up to individuals and communities to solve the problem of global warming? Highgate Society Hall 10a South Grove, N6 FILM January Tue 26: A Crude Awakening Civilization's addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with geology - our industrial society, built on cheap and readily available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled The Lexi, Chamberlayne Road, NW10 3JU, 6:30 to 8:30pm, £5 February Tue 2: There Is No Authority But Yourself with Penny Rimbaud Anarchist punk band Crass still exists today as a commune just outside of London for those who still live by the old punk slogan 'Do it yourself'. Permaculture Picturehouse, Passing Clouds, 1 Richmond Road, E8, 7pm Tue 2: The Power of Community Birchmore Hall,Highbury Quadrant Estate N5, £2 Wed 3: Pig Business Eco-campaigner Tracy Worcester's four year exploration of intensive pig farming Moors Bar, 57 Park Road, N8 8SY, 7pm, £3 Mon 8: Age of Stupid St. Mary's Church, St Mary's Road, Ealing W5, 7pm Wed 10: The Power of Community How Cuba dealt with life after oil Sir Richard Steele's pub, 97 Haverstock Hill, NW3 4RL, 7:30pm Sun 14: Community Organising Films on the Black Panthers, Haringay Independence Day, American style community organising (Michael Jacoby Brown) and Movement por Justice en el Barrio, a New York community group MOTH Club, Valette Street, Hackney, E9 6NU Mon 15: Food Inc Our food supply is controlled by corporations that put profit ahead of health The Lexi, Chamberlayne Road, NW10 3JU, 6:30 to 8:30pm, £5 EXHIBITIONS Until 7th of Feb: The Eco Home Ecology, the state of the planet and how this links to our homes and the way we use, decorate and inhabit them. Geffrye Museum, 136 Kingsland Road, E2 8EA EVENTS January Sat 30: Seeds Of Change Exhibition, films, talks about sustainability and environmental issues Council Chamber, Stoke Newington Town Hall, Church St, N16, 11am-4pm February Sun 7: Haringey Seed Swap Bruce Castle, Lordship Lane N17 8NU WORKSHOPS January Wed 27: Hard to Reach? - Engaging Diverse Communities Engaging diverse and excluded communities on climate change and the environment NCVO, Regent's Wharf, 8 All Saints Street, London N1 9RL Sat 30: Draughtbusting Workshop 28 Killieser Avenue, Lambeth, SW2, 11am-1.30pm February Mon 4: Pruning apple and pear trees training Pruning stimulates new growth, improves the quality of fruit Kilburn Library, 42 Salusbury Road Kilburn London NW6 6NN Sat 6: Fruit Tree Planting at Abbey Gardens Abbey Gardens, Bakers Row, Stratford, London E15 3NF COURSES January Sat 30, Sun 31: Permaculture Introductory Weekend Hornsey Rise Gardens, N19, £120 (sliding scale) February Sun 21: Basic Garden Training 180 Spa Hill, SE19 3TU, £30 Mon 22 (10 weeks): Getting started in the Garden Friday Hill House, Simmons Lane, Chingford Waltham Forest, E4 6JH, £118 Tue 23 (10 weeks): Introduction To Gardening Chestnuts House, 398 Hoe Street, Walthamstow, E17 9AA, £80 Sat 27: Gardening - Get Growing Your Own Friday Hill House, Simmons Lane, Chingford Waltham Forest, E4 6JH, £43 Sat 27, Sun 28: Permaculture Introductory Weekend Hornsey Rise Gardens, N19, £120 (sliding scale)