As part of the Transition Initiatives movement (a community response to rising energy costs and climate change) we run projects in Stourbridge (West Midlands, UK) promoting sustainability in the community. For contact details view the ‘About’ page above.
Invitation to Energy Saving Workshops
Marches Energy Agency will be running free energy saving workshops on two
evenings this month:
11th and 18th November (both Wednesdays), 7 – 9pm, in the Coffee Shop at the Glasshouse College.
This is a great way to learn about energy use – at home and for transport – to pick up ideas for our ‘energy descent’. For people who have signed up to 10:10, there will be ideas on how to achieve a 10% (and more) reduction in carbon emissions.
Please let us know via email if you’d like to attend.
If you would like to attend but can’t make these dates, please also inform us, as there will probably be further workshops in the future.
For the workshops, you need to bring energy bills (gas, electricity, oil etc) and an idea of annual car mileage if you can, plus a calculator.
It will be an enjoyable and informative evening!
Film on Fishing Industry – this Friday
End of the Line “a powerful film about one of the world’s most disturbing problems – over-fishing.”
This Friday, 13th November, 7.30 pm, Glasshouse Arts Centre.
Donations requested. More details see poster earlier in blog or email us.
The Wave – Come together to stop climate change: London, 5th December 2009
Some of the group are planning to join in the UK’s biggest ever demonstration in support of action on climate change. If you would like to link up, send us an email!
Success at the ‘Race Against Climate Change’ Half Marathon
Clare and Margy finished in 2h 09 mins and 2h 12 mins respectively last Sunday at the Birmingham Half Marathon, and hugely enjoyed the run (but not the ensuing sore legs!).
Working together with Neighbours’ News
Pam and Odilia recently met with Malcolm Blatchford and his colleague Amanda from Neighbours’ News which is a community newsletter covering areas in and around the Black Country.
As you may remember we were planning a newsletter for Stourbridge to publicise local positive and community news. Hearing that Neighbours’ News also plan to do the same (and already have a wealth of experience) we have decided to work together with them rather than reinvent the wheel.
So the plan is that we will feed into their publication and be part of the editorial meetings, sending in articles from projects that we run or hear of in the area.
It is clear that a lot of hard work and commitment goes into producing Neighbours’ News, which for the past eight years has been run on a voluntary basis by Malcolm and Amanda. We are looking forward to getting involved and contributing to the Stourbridge issues in the near future.
Reminder – Film this Friday
THE AGE OF STUPID:
This Friday, 16th October, 7.30 pm, Glasshouse Arts Centre.
Suitable for young people over the age of 12. Donations
requested. More details see poster earlier in blog.
Margy & Clare to ‘Race Against Climate Change’
Margy and Clare will be running in the Birmingham Half Marathon’s Race Against Climate Change on the 11th October.
If you would like to go and cheer them on, you’ll need to be there for the 10am start from Cambridge Street. The finish line is on Broad Street. More details at: http://birminghamhalfmarathon.com.
LETS Launch: Saturday 3rd October, 2–5 pm
Transition Stourbridge is launching LETS – ‘Local Exchange Trading Stourbridge’. This is a local trading scheme, where you can trade goods and services with other members without spending conventional money. You are warmly invited to the launch, where you can enjoy a drink and homemade cake, meet other members, and sign up if you wish! The venue is in Stourbridge’s Old Quarter. Please call Laurence on 440345 for details.
Plans for a local ‘Positive News’ type publication
We ourselves are working on getting a small community publication going for the Stourbridge area which will feature local people and organisations who are contributing to the community through looking after the environment, charity-work, or social enterprise.
The aim of the publication is to help projects and people connect. We are sure there are many good things happening in and around Stourbridge, but not everyone knows about it. We’d like to change that.
Anyone interested in helping us out, do get in contact.
