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January Repair Cafe this Saturday!
Saturday 17 January, 12 – 4:30pm, Repair Cafe at Jacksons! Jacksons 1-9 Kings Road, Reading, RG1 3AS The event is run entirely by volunteers and anyone can pop in to get help to repair a wide range of items covering areas such as: Electronics Mechanical items Computers (hardware / software) Bikes Clothing / textiles Tool…
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October in Transition!
Apple Picking at Clearwater Court: Wednesday 1 October: 5pm until dusk / we can’t reach any more apples Come and help us pick apples for the Harvest Day Apple Pressing! The venue is the Thames Water Building on the south-side of Reading Bridge. Bring a hi viz jacket if you can. (on your left hand…
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Steering Group meeting cancelled tonight!!
IMPORTANT!! Steering group meeting this evening is cancelled. Too many people still on holiday methinks… a few steering group members will be at Reading Green Drinks tomorrow at RISC if you would like to catch up on what’s happening in Transition this Autumn though!
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September in TTR!
Steering Group Meeting: Monday 1 September, 7:30pm, Great Expectations Pub (33 London St) Business meeting where we look at our communications, review finances and funding and looking at how we can be more effective as a group. We don’t really look at specific projects in this meeting, so not the most interesting for first timers. Targeted…
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Events in July
Repair Cafe at rLab Sunday 20 July, 12noon – 5pm Come along, get things repaired, or learn to repair them yourself. ElectronicsBikesClothing / textilesMechanical itemsTool sharpening and moreHomebaking, tea and coffee also available. No charge for Repair Cafe, but donations very welcome to help continue Repair CafeSee more at www.readingrepaircafe.org.uk or www.facebook.com/ReadingRepairCafe Repair Cafe aims to be on the 3rd…
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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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