CONTENTS

Events

* Tuesday 09 July: Energy Group Meeting
* Thursday 11 July: Weekly Healthy Walking
* Saturday 13 July - Sunday 21: Vegetable Festival
* Saturday 13 July: CropShare - Be an organic farmer for a day
* Sunday 14 July: Empty Common Community Garden
* Sunday 14 July: The Work that Reconnects
* Saturday 20 July: Let's make it circular: Waste, recycling and the circular economy
* Sunday 21 July: Transition Cambridge's Summer Social - all welcome
* Wednesday 24 July: Transition Cafe Evening - How to Make Your Own...
* Saturday 27 July: Permaculture Party 2019
* Thursday 01 August - Saturday 31: Transition Cambridge's summer break!

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* Building materials needed for community building project
* Events for your calendar

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Events

Tuesday 09 July: Energy Group Meeting

20:00-22:00, tbc

At this meeting we will continue to discuss radical policy changes. What would be the impact of a price on carbon? What does cost effective mean? What changes in policy could unlock significant carbon reductions? All welcome, Contact Nicola for venue details. More details here.

From: Transition Cambridge Energy Group

Thursday 11 July: Weekly Healthy Walking

10:00-11:00, Wandlebury Country Park

Weekly Healthy Walking every Thursday throughout the year: 10am and 10.30am. Each walk lasts around 30 minutes and covers about 1.5 miles. This social group meets all year round at 10am every Thursday morning, with the slower walk starting at 10.30am. Walks are well-attended, with 50-60 people joining most weeks. Some people like it so much they do both walks! Teas and coffees are available afterwards. NB: Free of charge and no need to book. If you want to take part for the first time then please arrive 10 minutes early to register. The meeting point is the Stables Education Centre. Donations towards the upkeep of the park are always welcome. Directions: Wandlebury Country Park is on the A1307, 2.5km south of the Addenbrooke's roundabout. CB22 3AE. Parking is available on site and costs £3 per vehicle, members free. For queries: email us or call 01223 243830 extension 207. More details here.

From: CambridgePPF

Saturday 13 July - Sunday 21: Vegetable Festival

09:30-17:00, variousin and around Cambridge

The Cambridge Vegetable Festival is a city-wide celebration of local and seasonal vegetables, bringing people together to grow, cook, eat and enjoy delicious veg! It's the finale to CSF's year-long 'Veg Cities' campaign, and they hope to inspire you to eat more veg and less meat and dairy to reduce your impact on climate change. With an action-packed week of free events and activities, there's something for everyone! Look out for Cropshare on Saturday 13th, the pop-up Farmers' Market on 20th, as well as community meals from Foodcycle and a celebrity chef allotment tour. Lots of the events are free, you need to book for some. More details here.

From: Cambridge Sustainable Food

Saturday 13 July: CropShare - Be an organic farmer for a day

09:30-16:00, Willow Farm, Lode, Cambridge, CB25 9HF

Join Transition's community farming project, CropShare, to experience life as a real organic farmer... This week we will be having fun helping out on the farm from 10:00am to 12.30pm, and 2pm to 4.00, sharing a lunch and a chat in between. You can join us for the morning or afternoon session, or both. Everyone is very welcome! See our website to get a flavour of what workdays are like. It will be good healthy fun, a great chance to see our local countryside, and how food is grown on a large scale. Please fill in this form if you would like to take part, and we'll also help you arrange travel to the farm. If you can't make this Saturday, join our mailing list to get farm session updates... Hope to see you soon!

From: Cambridge CropShare

Sunday 14 July: Empty Common Community Garden

10:30-12:30, Empty Common Community Garden

There is generally a group of us in the garden on Sunday mornings from 10.30 am to 12.30 or later, and people are also coming and going during the week - you don't even have to garden just come and enjoy the space! More details here.

From: Transition Cambridge - ECCG

Sunday 14 July: The Work that Reconnects

10:30-17:30, Romsey Mill, Hemmingford Road, Cambridge, CB1 3BZ

"The Work that Reconnects" is an experiential process designed by Joanna Macy to help us connect with our energy and motivation to act for life on Earth. If, like many others, there are times when you feel overwhelmed, angry, fearful or numb in the face of the current global crises, this workshop is for you! Taking time to acknowledge and honour our (often conflicting) emotions in relation to the global challenges can help us find the energy to act on behalf of life on Earth, and can inspire a sense of connection, belonging and renewed hope for the future. During this workshop, we will dive deeply into a sense of wonder and gratitude for the precious gift of life on Earth, before facing any difficult emotions that may be arising in us. We will also connect empathically with the perspectives of others, including those who hold opposite views to us, as well as members of other species, and we will explore positive ways forward. This workshop is being offered by Anna McIvor and Nicholas Wilkinson. For more information and to book, please see the eventbrite page here. There is a suggested donation of £15-25 to cover costs.

From: Transition Cambridge

Saturday 20 July: Let's make it circular: Waste, recycling and the circular economy

11:00-14:00, Storey's Field Centre, Eddington Avenue, CB3 1AA

A family event, with lots of hands-on activities explaining to children what the circular economy is all about, including food waste, plastic waste, upcycling, re-using paper and of course a toy swap. There will be storytelling too. More details here.

From: A Toy's Life and Beyond

Sunday 21 July: Transition Cambridge's Summer Social - all welcome

14:00-17:00, Empty Common Community Garden, Brooklands Avenue

Join us to celebrate the summer and meet up with Transition friends old and new! Our summer social is a 'bring and share' picnic, so do bring something to eat/drink if you can. There will also be a barbecue - separate barbecues for veggie and meaty. This year, we're planning a 'vegetable creatures parade' - so, if you can make a creature from a vegetable, please bring it along! And if you'd like to join in with taking care of this beautiful community space, the gardeners will be at work in the morning from 10.30 to 12.30. If you're not sure where the garden is, here's a map.

From: Transition Cambridge

Wednesday 24 July: Transition Cafe Evening - How to Make Your Own...

19:00-20:45, OtherSyde, The Engineers House, Museum of Technology, Riverside, CB5 8LD

During this cafe evening, local people will share simple "How to Make Your Own" practical, homemade tips for a more sustainable lifestyle. You will walk away with three recipes each for cleaning products, cosmetics and food, which you can test at home. Spaces are limited, so please make sure to book on Eventbrite here. We invite donations of £2-£3 per person to cover venue hire. Transition Cafe is a monthly event series with lively conversations, talks, films, workshops and presentations about all the things we're passionate about to build a great community in our city. The bar will be open before and after the event, and you're invited to stay on afterwards to meet like-minded people, network, explore new ideas, and get to know others involved with Transition Cambridge. More details here.

From: Transition Cambridge

Saturday 27 July: Permaculture Party 2019

12:00-21:00, Foxy's Place aka. 74 Foster Road, Trumpington, Cambridge CB2 9JR

The Permaculture Party is back! From 12pm until 9pm, music, poetry, food and fun. Fundraising for The Permaculture Association and Extinction Rebellion. Entertainment will include, John Hegley, Mal Webb and Kylie Morrigan, James Southwick, Allotment, Sam Walker and Carry Akroyd (reading the poetry of John Clare). All this, a tour of the allotments and free vegan food from Arjuna. Water and local apple juice will be available, but if you want to sup something else then do please bring it (careful, you might have to share it!). Admission is £15/£20 (depending on how much you can afford) for over 16's and anyone younger gets in free! If possible please arrive by means other than a car as it is a residential street. If cycling please leave your bike at the front of the house, not in the garden or public cycleway. Please email Iain for more information.

From: Iain Webb

Thursday 01 August - Saturday 31: Transition Cambridge's summer break!

Transition Cambridge takes a summer break for August - it's 'traditional'!. Some of our events will continue (Cropshare, Empty Common community garden...) during August, and events can be added to our website listings in the usual way. However the bulletin writers will be dabbling their toes in the Cam, so the last fortnightly bulletin will be at the end of July and the first one when they get back will be early September.

From: Transition Cambridge

News

Got any scaffolding boards lying around? Or construction timber? Empty Common Community Garden are creating a community building, and are seeking building materials to re-use or recycle. Contact Nick on 07815 126227. More details here.

From: Empty Common Community Garden

Events for your calendar

• Saturday 07 September: Eversden Repair Cafe
• Saturday 07 September: Cambridge Dragon Boat Festival
• Tuesday 10 September: Cambridge 2030 - meeting the zero carbon homes challenge
• Sunday 22nd and Saturday 28th September: Open Eco Homes 2019 - save the dates
• Friday 04 October: Ladies' Clothes Swap

Have a great couple of weeks, and hope to see you at some of these events!

Anna and the TC bulletin writing team