Local Events
Keeping Warm in Winter: Community Action on Fuel Poverty Workshop
Wednesday 11 th January, 9:45 arrival for 10am start-1pm, to include lunch
The Nottingam Mechanics, 3 N Sherwood St, NG1 4EZ
Organised by NEA
You are invited to join an interactive workshop to introduce a new resource - the Community Action on Fuel Poverty website. Designed with local groups in mind, the workshop will guide you through the website to relevant information and free resources, to assist you to help your members who might struggle to keep their home warm affordably this winter. Find out about what can be done and how the resource can help community groups to plan, develop and deliver their own fuel poverty activities.
To secure your place: http://bit.ly/2j0D3xM
Queries: Nicky Swetnam@ nicky.swetnam@nea.org.uk
Talk: Climate Change in the Pacific
Tuesday 24th January, 7pm
The Methodist Church, 94 Ashbourne Road, Derby. DE22 3AG
Based in Fiji and a Mission Partner with the Methodist Church in Britain, Dr Julia Edwards has been researching climate change in the Pacific and advocating for climate justice globally since 2010. Working alongside communities, as they relocate, and market vendors, so badly impacted by Cyclone Winston, Julia has a wealth of stories and information to share. http://bit.ly/2jqoP6q
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Chesterfield Potato Day
Saturday 28 th January, 10am-2pm
The Pavements Shopping Centre, Chesterfield
Organised by Transition Chesterfield
Come and get your seed potatoes, onion sets, shallots, garlic, peas, beans and more. All proceeds to Transition Chesterfield’s work. If you placed a pre-order it will be available for collection. www.potatoday.org.uk
Loughborough Potato Day
Saturday 28 th January
Loughborough Market Place
Organised by Transition Loughborough
Come and get your seed potatoes and onion sets from a stall on the market. All proceeds to support Transition Loughborough’s work. If you placed a pre-order it will be available for collection. If you’re buying on the day come early - last year the stall sold out by 11am! http://bit.ly/2dR5uuO
Seed Swap
Saturday 4 th February, 10m-12pm
Loughborough Library Meeting Room
FREE. Organised by Transition Loughborough
Ahead of the growing season bring and take seeds that you and others no longer need. Bring excess packets, unwanted varieties, self-saved seeds, out of sate packets, magazine packets and partially used packets. You can just bring seeds or only take them if you want. http://bit.ly/2je2YQl
Renewable Energy: Keeping the Lights On
Tuesday 7 February 2017, 7.30pm-9 pm
Saints Parish Centre, St Mary’s Gate, Chesterfield S41 7TD
FREE, Organised by Transition Chesterfield & Chesterfield Climate Alliance
Presentations by Emma Bridge of Community Energy England and David Berry of Sheffield Renewables on how renewables, coupled with energy efficiency, can keep the lights on, as well as providing jobs and energy security. Find out what is happening in the region in terms of community energy projects and what can be done to help meet our energy needs in ways that are better for our communities and the planet. www.transitionchesterfield.org / info@transitionchesterfield.org.uk
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Fruit Tree Masterclass and Workshop
Masterclass: Sunday 19th February, 10:30am-2pm
Southwood Farm, nr Ticknall
Workshop: Sunday 26th February, 10:30am-2pm
Whistlewood Common (between Ticknall and Melbourne)
£45 for both sessions, £30 for the masterclass only, £20 for the workshop only (ask if you require a concession)
Organised by Melbourne Area Transition
Hands-on masterclass with a National Trust expert professional gardener – Paul Simpson. The follow on workshop will be led by two experienced Permaculture designers – Graham Truscott and Sarah Spencer. No prior knowledge necessary. A chance to get hands-on experience in assessing the health of trees, deciding on a strategy and more unusual fruit such as medlars, quinces and nuts. Includes soup (cooked on rocket stoves) and bread lunch, refreshments and an optional tour of Tollgate Brewery on the same site. Book essential: 01332 862028 / info@whistlewoodcommon.org
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Local News
Hundreds Gather to Oppose Sherwood Forest Fracking Plans
Around 300 people gathered in Sherwood Forest at the weekend to protest against plans to survey Sherwood Forest to see if the area is suitable for fracking.
The gathering followed an investigation by Friends of the Earth which revealed that INEOS - via their land surveyors, Fisher German – has been in correspondence with the Forestry Commission since August 2016, regarding access to its land. INEOS wants to carry out "seismic surveys" on numerous public forestry sites – the first stage of prospecting for shale gas, and a precursor to potential fracking. One of the many shown in the maps and documents released is Sherwood Forest national nature reserve, on land owned by the Forestry Commission and by Lord Inglewood. If these plans progress, INEOS' seismic surveys would pass within a few hundred metres of the Major Oak, an 800-year-old tree under whose canopy, legend has it, Robin Hood's merry men and women are said to have slept.
Numerous other sites across Nottinghamshire and the East Midlands are in line for INEOS' seismic surveys. The Forestry Commission documents also reveal INEOS to be planning an exploratory well at Thieves' Wood, south of Mansfield. No planning application has yet been lodged. In the correspondence, Forestry Commission officials advise INEOS' surveyors that the site they propose would get "less push back from the public", but also demand a compensation clause be inserted in their agreement "to cover the costs of protestors".
http://bit.ly/2je9mqz
See a video of the event in Sherwood Forest on the Nottingham Post website: http://bit.ly/2jyWa31
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Tinker Lane Fracking Application to be Considered on 24th January
In the last edition of this newsletter we wrote that an application for exploratory shale gas at Tinker Lane between Blyth and Barnby Moor, would be considered by Nottinghamshire County Council on 20 th Dec 2016, or at a standalone meeting near this date. We now know that this application will be considered on 24 th January 2017.
New Online Directory of Eco Community Groups
A new online directory of community groups in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire is currently being created for the Everybody's Talking About Climate Change website. If you would like your group to be included please fill in the short form on the website.
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National News
Christian Aid Big Shift Training
Various locations around UK, including the following close to the area covered by this newsletter:
We all want to save for a rainy day. But what if our savings are causing the storm? The biggest banks in the UK, the ones that most of us rely upon to look after our money, are not using that money to look after God’s earth, our shared home. Rather than building the better world we know is possible by supporting clean and sustainable energy, big banks are much more heavily involved in the use of dirty and dangerous fossil fuels. Join Christian Aid to find out why your bank is key to stopping climate change and what we need to do to make it a reality.
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