Transition Highbury

Community Learning and Planning for a lower carbon world

Members

  • Francesca Leadlay
  • manisha abeyasinghe
  • Chris Wood
  • tom hitchman
  • Christopher D Freudenberg
  • Susie Hayes
  • Steering Group Member
  • Islington OrganicGrowers Network
  • Tom
  • Chris Heaton
  • Nell Boase
  • Rob Minto
  • Simon Mann
  • LINDA COB IN THE COMMUNITY
  • Fiona Dunlop
  • Isabel Hankart

Blog Posts

manisha abeyasinghe

The London Orchard Project

Hello

Just a quick brief on what is happening here.

Lo and behold the council need to do a consultation of the residents about the orchard. Their plan is to cut down old trees and plant new ones.

Now it is too late and the council will add this to their plans next year.

Carina at the London Orchard Project would like to find some possible space in Islington to grow an orchard.

Is anyone free for an adventure. They really would like to see trees planted now and I think so would we. If we get… Continue

Posted by manisha abeyasinghe on November 23, 2009 at 4:42pm

Cinzia

Children's Books in the Transition Library

The Transition Highbury Library now stocks Green Titles for Children.
"10 Things i can do to help my World","Herb the Vegetarian Dragon" and "The Beeman" are among the books we are now proud to stock.
We welcome book donations .
To borrow a book and for enquiry contact Cinzia at cisarigu@hotmail.com

Posted by Cinzia on October 21, 2009 at 9:41pm

Robert Barker

New local service, www.farm-direct.com

Hi All,

My name is Robert Barker, and I have just started a new lcoal service called www.farm-direct.com.

The service is exclusive to Islington, and aims to enable local residents to buy more produce from their local farmers on a weekly basis.

The service allows people to order produce from 14 participating local farmers / food producers, anytime upto Thursday 1pm each week, and then they can recieve their order anytime over the weekend from 9am on a Saturday morning. Their are two ways that… Continue

Posted by Robert Barker on October 13, 2009 at 4:00pm

Tom

The Urban Future?

See article for a possible solution(partially,anyway!)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/opinion/24Despommier.html?_r=2&emc=eta1

Posted by Tom on August 25, 2009 at 4:02pm

 
 

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