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TTK at the Carnival - your help welcome
 We will be there, in the Green Zone, and if you can help on our table for an hour or two between 12.00 and 5.00pm on the 2nd , please get in touch with Alison ›
COMING SOON: Donald TRUMP vs Al GORE - Who will win the fight of our lifetime?
It’s up to us. Shar Olivier, sustainability activist and campaigner will be at Kingston Quaker Centre from 6.30 pm on the 28th September to share her recent experience of working with Al Gore at his climate reality coalition training camp in California .Shar’s visit is a catalyst to a wider conversation: What is the current state and what are the shifting tectonic plates at the global level? What is happening in the UK? What are we doing locally and how does this wider picture inform us? How do we need to re-view; re-consider; re-connect; re-act? Whether an individual, a group, a business leader, a politician, in charge of CSR or the CEO. the future view of the planet requires more attention and you have a role in leading that. As a community, Kingston upon Thames has a history of environmental action and focus. What will it’s future be?
Find out more and book your FREE place › (donations towards expense welcome)
Abundance Kingston is a not-for-profit organisation aiming to reduce local food waste. The volunteers harvest seasonal gluts of local fruits and vegetables and then redistribute the produce wherever it can be used within the local community. They also have 2 presses which they use to make juice at local community events, or loan out to allotments, schools etc. wanting to make their own juice. To offer your produce or time, or for more info call or text: 07749 633973.
 Kingston Green e-Directory - help us to keep it up-to date. Is your green business in our Green Directory? Can you tell us about your new green business or one you use? Get in touch via the website.
See sections below and the Events column for updates on other ongoing TTK projects. If you'd like to suggest new ones, or help plan and implement TTK activities over coming months please contact the TTK management team via the website › or come along to one of our monthly management meetings on the last Tuesday of every month at 6.30pm (just before Green Drinks) in Woody’s pub by Kingston riverside - next meetings: Tuesdays 31 July, 28 August
Find out more about TTK ›
Find out more about the wider Transition Network ›
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1 Kingston Road, Fountain Roundabout, New Malden
KEC website ›
SPECIAL EVENTS coming up at KEC
REGULARS AT KEC
Kingston Green Radio is based at KEC - listen online at any time on the website › .
New Malden Garden Taskforce meets at KEC every Friday, 3.00pm - 4.00pm, to plan activities.
KUTLETS social and trading evenings take place at KEC. Exchange goods and services for the local currency Beaks. Find out more › or contact Simone ›
Volunteering drop-in sessions every Wednesday at Kingston Environment Centre, 10.00am to 2.00pm. Help with a variety of tasks, indoors and outdoors.
For other KEC events and meet-ups see the Events column on the right.
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News
As of the last Networking Meeting on the 18th July 2018 the Kingston Biodiversity Network has set up as an independent Community Group. Please support us through our Patreon Page › and help us to continue providing the newsletter, quarterly networking events, social media and information and advice on nature conservation. You can sponsor us directly (the payment is in dollars but please don't let that put you off) and you will get early and exclusive content from our podcasts as well as membership voting rights at our AGM.
Join us on The People's Walk for Wildlife
At the last Networking evening we agreed that it would be fun to go to the Peoples Walk for Wildlife › together. KBN agreed to co-ordinate meeting up but this an event for everyone so come alone or as part of a local group and tell the govenment how vital wildlife is for us. We will be meeting under the big clock at Waterloo Station at 9.15 am on the 22nd September - or you can find us at Hyde Park. Alison Fure will be bringing the Seething Wells Banner and loads of extra wings and masks for children of all ages. So polish up your props, burnish your wings and join us for a bit of dress up fun at the Walk!
Please complete our survey › and let us know what you think of our delivery over the past year. This information helps us to do better. We also use it to report back to our funders at the City Bridge Trust.
The next Kingston Biodiversity Networking Meeting, Wed 17 Oct 17, 7.00 - 9:00 pm, Clattern Lecture Theatre, Room PRMB0012. Kingston University Penrhyn Road Campus, KT1 2EE, will include: “Why Urban Biodiversity?” by Edward Mayer, who gave us a very entertaining talk on swifts recently. updates from the floor and nteworking, “Future Urban Nature” by Mathew Frith.
Find out more about KBN activities and events on KBN Facebook Group › and website › and Cemetery Nature Group › or sign up to our newsletter ›
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Waste matters
 The tide is turning on plastic pollution...
When it comes to tackling the single-use plastic issue, Refill London › is working with businesses to make tap water accessible for people on the move. Switching from single-use plastic water bottles to reusable bottles and refilling with tap makes a world of difference. The average adult buys about 175 plastic bottles annually and fewer than half of these ever make it to recycling - which in itself is a difficult energy consuming process. There are different ways to get involved, whether you want to volunteer, sign your business up or simply just find tap water on the go.
Good news on plastic bags: the 5p levy on plastic bags reduced use, and now ministers are considering doubling the levy to 10p and imposing it on even the smallest stores, The Guardian, 24/8/18 ›
The Secret Life of Landfill: A Rubbish History on BBC 4
A fascinating BBC TV programme on the history of rubbish › and how what we throw away tells us about the way we live. Do the items we throw away today have any value for tomorrow's world?
Award-winning documentary “A Plastic Ocean” coming to Surbiton on Sunday 9th September. See Events column or find out more and book here ›
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Sowing, growing and eating
Join in The Urban Harvest › on Saturday 22nd September, Capital Growth’s annual autumn open day (also part of Urban Food Fortnight ›) and a great opportunity to gather the community together, celebrate the harvest, accomplish big garden tasks as a team and maybe even bring in a few new volunteers! Log in to the Capital Growth member's area › to take part or find an Urban Harvest near you.
Hogsmill Community Garden has had a great summer with lots of support from local community and we thank all our volunteers for all their hard work, and the Methodist church and Mill Street residents association for £500 donations. We applied successfully for Council funding for a new compost toilet. Bees and butterflies have been abundant this summer, with the butterfly count up from last year. Weekly sessions with local primary school children start next term, as well as two corporate work days and possible design input from architecture students. More raised beds, a shed, a children's grow and play area and seed-saving are planned.
For more info and dates see the Facebook page ›
Canbury Community Garden welcomed Good Gym in July - they did an excellent job, helping with watering and other heavy work/good exercise . Helpers enjoyed a BBQ at the beginning of August, including our own potatoes and some delicious gelato donated by our neighbour, Canbury Secret cafe. Some crops enjoyed the hot summer more than others: tomatoes and runner beans are doing well, and our two hop plants are flowering and will flavour some very local beer, we hope. The chicken run, which has been made mostly out of up-cycled materials, is almost finished and is currently being equipped, ready for our next project, Canbury Community Chicken Co-op. Find out more on Facebook ›
Peter Mason at work on the chicken run
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Money, money, money 
Kingston Pound
Printed notes will be available soon. Buy your K£ notes here › and check out K£ deals in Salmon Magazine during the K£ October FiverFest.
Your Kingston Grants 2018-19 - deadline for applications Friday 7th September. Local voluntary and community sector organisations and not-for-profit organisations are invited to apply for a Your Kingston Grant, which has an upper limit of £750. All applications need to be for new projects to support local projects or activities that will engage communities, benefit the Borough's residents and help to deliver at least one of Kingston Council's Community Outcomes. Full details about the grants programme can be found here ›
Greener City Fund Community Grants
Applications are now open for round two of the Community Green Space Grants › deadline 5.00pm on Monday 1 October. The London Assembly is looking for projects across the capital that will make the city greener and give Londoners the chance to get involved: creating or improving a green space in your neighbourhood, improving access to nature, greening your school playground…. Projects should take place between January 2019 and January 2020.
EIRIS › the ethical investment charity, offers advice on how to manage your investments, savings and pensions to match your ethics. Are you, for example, inadvertently investing in fossil fuels?
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Energy updates
Have your say
10:10 tell us that the government has published a call for evidence a bout small-scale renewable energy in the UK and a consultation on their plan to close the Feed-in tariff scheme: “The proposal is worse than expected. The government are also planning to axe the export tariff. This guarantees households who install solar a fair price for the electricity they generate but don’t use. Cutting it means anyone installing solar panels at home will essentially donate their extra power to big energy companies. For most people, installing solar just won’t make sense financially.”
10:10 is preparing a response to the government, and requests that you do too - the deadline for the call for evidence › is the 30th August, and the FIT consultation › closes on the 14th September.
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On your bike!
Love to Ride Kingston is a year-long programme of promotions, prizes, events and support to help people to cycle more in Kingston. For the life of the campaign, there will be up to £6,000 worth of prizes for people who sign up to the Kingston platform, in addition to the prizes that are available for Love to Ride more generally.
The main event is Cycle September, a fun, free team-building competition between workplaces to see which can get the most staff to try riding a bike. It's completely free for organisations and individuals to take part, everyone can join in (it doesn't matter if you ride daily or haven't been on a bike in years) and there are fantastic prizes up for grabs for riding and encouraging others.
Find out more and register ›
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More things we like this month
- Bristol Makershed › a creative space for doing, making and learning new skills. Could someone set one up in Kingston?
- Fossil Free News › a twice-monthly global digest.
- Green Light, The Guardian's weekly green news roundup › recently on geoengineering, megafires and 'hothouse' Earth
- My Green Pod's interesting discussion on putting a value on nature ›
- REconomy › a new kind of local economy - help it take shape. What are its features? How might the change happen? What enterprises and places are already doing it? What can you bring to the party?
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» Visit our websites: Transition Town Kingston › and Kingston Environment Centre ›
» If you have local environmental news or an event to share, please email the next editor.
» Come to one of our events or join in an activity...
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Last Tuesday of every month (apart from public holidays) from 7.00pm to 9.00ish, Woody's riverside bar, Rams Passage, KT1 1HH
