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“Get Involved Reading” Event – Accessing Local Media.
Get Involved Reading – Accessing Local Media, Thursday 22 November, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon. 5 Queens Walk, Reading, RG1 7QF. Today’s event was attended by Ornella, Chris B and myself, and was a great success. Alan Bunce, the Community Editor of the Reading Post and James Ashford, its Web Editor, were there as instructors […]
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“Reading Means Business on Climate Change.”
I did put some thoughts together prompted in part by a chat I had with Tony Pettit, who is a consultant for Reading Council, and whom I met at the above entitled event on January 12th (2012) at Reading University, “Transition Town Reading and London Commuting”, http://ergobalance.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/trasition-town-reading-and-london.html, in reference to the daily commute. In part […]
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Can Solar Fuels Prevent an Imminent Petroluem Fuels Crisis?
In a nutshell, the answer to the question posed in the title of this article is, “No”. The full article can be found at http://ergobalance.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/can-solar-fuels-prevent-imminent.html It will also be published in the next issue of the journal Science Progress. I am merely putting the concluding section here, which refers to localisation and Transition Towns. Overall […]
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Transition Play to be Performed at Reading Water Fest (2012).
Members of the fanSHEN theatre company (www.fanshen.org.uk) are making a play entitled “Green and Pleasant Land”. As they describe it: “this is the story of a search for a happier, more environmentally sustainable future. Audience members will pedal bicycle-powered generators to play pre-recorded sound, all set and props will be recycled and it will tour […]
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Approach from Dr Richard Nunes at Reading University
This is my response to an email from Dr Nunes asking if we might be interested in his research on Transition in society at Reading University. The links are below his message if anyone is interested, along with his contact details.. I don’t see any direct connection between what they are doing and TT Reading […]
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Forums unleashed!
Why not sign up to the Transition Town Reading Forums and join in with the lively discussions about all things Transition-related? To get your own forums account, please send an e-mail request to: communications@transitionreading.org.uk (Unfortunately, we’ve had to turn off self-registration due to the large number of bogus accounts that were being created.) We look […]
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Swallowfield Parish Council’s Community Orchard
I was very happy to be present at the planting of Swallowfield Parish Council’s community orchard last weekend. The parish council put on a very friendly and social welcoming event for their planting, which took place in a green space owned by the Wellington Estate, just next to Riseley Memorial Hall. They provided delicious cake […]