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Summary of ‘Food Group’ meeting
On Monday 24 May we welcomed some new members, identified lots of ideas and actions, and also took the opportunity to recommend names of favourite local suppliers to each other. Discussions ranged from farmers markets, pros and cons of car-parking, harvesting local mussels, how to define ‘local’, promoting seasonal vegetables e.g. in greengrocers and the Co-op, gardeners’ problems with slugs and snails, possible ways forward with the garden-share scheme, the importance of including children, and the Teign Estuary Transition’s summer picnic. We had a busy and enjoyable evening – and hope to meet more of you at the next Food Group meeting on 30 June.
Transition Network Training
Mike and I were very pleased to receive financial support from the group to attend a Transition Network training weekend in April, 2010. We’ve each produced a summary of key points highlighting aspects of the training that felt particularly significant to us, and we’re keen to cascade the information we’ve learned. Notes are available here:
Pub meeting, Thursday 8 April 2010
Starting on Thursday 8 April we plan to hold regular pub meetings on the 2nd Thursday of each month, at the King’s Arms in Teignmouth from 8pm onwards. Please join us for an informal chat over a pint, to find out more about the Transition movement.
Review of Earth Hour, Saturday 27 March 2010
Local establishments intending to join in included the Colosseum, Owl and the Pussycat, Decks, the Bay Hotel, Trade Winds, Naz, and the Courtenay. This event received good press interest, with a preview in Friday’s Teignmouth Post, and a photographer from the Herald Express in attendance at the Bay Hotel for a review due later this week.
Bay Hotel guests and members of public in the bar were interested to hear about Earth Hour while we lit dozens of tea-light candles. Promptly at 8.30pm barman Jason switched off lighting in public areas. All guests responded positively to the event, and at 9.30pm when Jason offered to put lights back on, several people requested that the bar could remain in candle light. In the Hotel’s lounge bar, a group were holding a private birthday party for a woman from Tasmania. She was delighted that we were observing Earth Hour: the event started in Australia and she hadn’t expected it to have reached Teignmouth! We shared our candles and she was enthusiastic about having her party in the dark.
Teignmouth Science Festival, Friday 19 March 2010
Fran Hamilton describes how “members of Teign Estuary Transition shared a table with Carbonsense who showed a video illustrating climate change which generated interest and discussion. Our display included the new National Curriculum for primary schools that takes effect from 2011, which seems to be almost underpinned by the 6 principles of the Transition movement and gives hope to the direction that education is moving in. We also showed the cross curriculum for key stage 3 & 4 (secondary level) which also looks enlightened. The display gave much opportunity to engage with the public and teachers in particular, and fitted in well with the festival’s science theme. It was a really good day which illustrated the appropriateness and need for the Transition message to be out there with the public. Our next move could be to visit schools and ask teachers how best we can help them.”
For further details of the Festival, see http://www.teignmouthsciencefestival.com/Teignmouth_Science_Festival/Home.html
We support Earth Hour 2010, Saturday 27 March
Earth Hour is an international event. It offers a chance to stand up, get involved and help to lead the way towards a sustainable future. People across the world will turn off lights and join in this celebration of our planet. In previous years landmarks including the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Toronto’s CN Tower, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, and Rome’s Colosseum have all stood in darkness as symbols of hope.
We have signed up to Earth Hour 2010 and are encouraging people to join us. Please turn off some lights for one hour, Earth Hour, 8.30pm, Saturday 27 March. We’ve also invited pubs and restaurants across our area to switch off and help put Teignmouth on the Earth Hour map.
For more details see http://earthhour.wwf.org.uk/about_earth_hour/aboutearthhour/
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