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Transition Derby

Get Cutting and Start Sewing

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Transition Derby & Derby LETS invites you to.. “Get cutting and start sewing” …What would you like to do? Following on from Mig…

Derby’s Community orchard project takes shape

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Before in December 2010 What a difference a year makes. Twelve months ago the first picture  shows the frost covered field to the left of Moor…

Buy locally and prosper with the new economic paradigm

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  Mike Payne Transition Derby and Friends Mike’s talk was based on how are we going to build a new form of prosperity within an economy that…

United, We Can Make a Difference

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Durban Climate Conference – Derby feed-back Peter Robinson of the ‘UK Climate Alliance – for jobs, climate and communities’ and convenor of…

Clothing Renovation/Recycling

Put some new life into your old clothes! Talk/practical session facilitated by Mig Holder, Saturday 29th October 6:30 pm at Friends Meeting…
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Blagreaves Project

April 3rd 2010

“What do we want to see in Blagreaves in 2020 in the light of Climate Change and Peak Oil?”

In the beginning, way back in late 2009 we were invited to tender for a relatively...

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Report from Farm Visit by Graham

So-called modern farming methods, entirely reliant on ready availability of cheap oil and oil-based products, will become increasingly unsustainable and vulnerable as oil prices rise and supply...

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Paved Paradise & Put Up A Parking Lot

Who will grow our food?Ans: My friendly neighborhood agribusinessman will grow my food on a plantation the size of Wyoming using nearly enslaved eastern european folks who are deported minutes after...

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Perma-Action Day in Alvaston - Report by Trugs

I was sceptical about the idea of a permaculture blitz. It sounded like a contradiction in terms because one of the principles in permaculture is to use small and slow solutions. In fact the ...

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The Forest Garden City Project

Derby – Forest Garden City What is a Forest Garden?

A garden that is deliberately planted to mimic a natural forest ecosystem, except that the species chosen are mainly edible rather than...

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The Forest Gardening course - Report by Michael

I’ve never been to a school that keeps chickens or that actively composts, so my Saturday immediately had a novelty of its own. I estimate that about 15 people besides Steven, the course leader...

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Report from Visit to Prof Tony Marmont’s Beacon Farm

Here's a doc describing our visit to Proffessor Tony Marmont's sustainable energy farm. enjoy.

 

Visit to the School of the Built Environment, University of Nottingham

As part of a Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire chamber of Commerce presentation on Environmentally Sustainable Construction at the unique state-of-the-art Sir Colin Campbell Building, there was an...

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good turnout, great event!

TDUK Team  June 5 09 090.jpgAfter the turbine event and curry outing I was inspired to write up the website section on 'community', it was great having people all working together like that, never mind there was no wind!...

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