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March 19, 2024

Local Transition:

Building Transition Together in Lancaster -

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Transition Volunteer Groups for Action -

Monday, January 31, 2022

Community Energy -

Thursday, October 28, 2021

OUR Community – a new economy for working together -

Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Can we Relearn our Eating Habits? -

Wednesday, September 1, 2021

A New Vision For TCL? -

Thursday, July 1, 2021

Astroturf – a covering over of nature? -

Monday, June 28, 2021

Starting Again -

Thursday, May 20, 2021

Climate Assembly UK Final Report -

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

  • Building Transition Together in Lancaster

    It may come as no surprise for you to hear that climate change hasn’t been fixed yet! We can’t actually leave this job to governments and large global corporations to sort out for us. Certainly it helps that finally, after decades of ignoring environmental activists and climate scientists, the media and mainstream organisations are now recognizing the need to bring down carbon emissions as soon as possible. However, what we can all agree on is that individuals, families and SME’s also need to be actively involved in changing their lifestyles and business models to lower their carbon footprints. This is…

  • Forming a Climate Hub

    What Is A Climate Hub? Community-led climate hubs are springing up across the UK. They’re a response to inaction by global governments on the climate crisis, and the realisation that to avoid the worst we need to take action ourselves, while constantly pressing governments for ambitious policy matching the scale of the challenge. Climate hubs, Ecohubs, Climate Emergency centres: whatever you want to call them, their goal is the same. They are community-led spaces aiming to bring together residents, businesses, councils, universities, churches and schools, to build a local climate action plan that can protect the future of the communities…

  • Online Courses from Cafs

    Cumbria Action for Sustainability are putting on some excellent online courses these days. You may not have found them yet so here is a link to be able to sign up and take part https://cafs.org.uk/events/ The one we are particularly keen on that you can join in for free this month is about How to do an Eco fit for Householders. This is something that we have a great need for in Lancaster since so many of our older houses are draughty, lack proper insulation and cost a fortune to keep heated during the long cold winter. Don’t worry if…

  • Transition Volunteer Groups for Action

    Would you like to volunteer for one of our new Action Groups? Carbon Footprint Reduction – using cafs.org.uk as a starter and showing families and businesses how to use their carbon calculators – businesses and organisations encouraged to display their progress on their websites Community ENERGY Start Up – using Solar Mapping Tool from cafs Carbon Literacy Courses – receiving training from cafs.org.uk and offering these online through LERNIN Cold to Cosy Homes Model – free advice line for helping people with tips on making their homes warmer and using thermal imaging Tree Planting – see aafaf.uk Wildflower Meadows –…

Issues

Do we want Self-Driving Vehicles on UK Roads?

One of the most controversial changes coming our way in the near future to British Roads, are autonomous vehicles. These are electrically powered vehicles that need no driver. Already available in a few major cities in the USA, including Phoenix, Arizona and Los Angeles, California, autonomous taxis can be called using the Waymo App to pick you up and drive you to somewhere within the city. The advantages of this mode of transport are many. The most important being safety, which might seem contradictory to anyone who hasn’t yet had the opportunity to try one. Check it out on Youtube,…

An Idea for Insulation of Older Houses

This is an idea in which the bill for insulation an older house will appear rapidly to a seller but can be easily sorted out. Explanation It is an innovative way from realising that a lot of people generally don’t insulate their houses because it is just too much trouble and they put up with the bills. The UK has a large numbers of houses that are sold every 6 years.  These are now tending to be the cheaper ones, and the endless terraces are a good example and as such the ones with the lowest EPC ratings. Method A…

Hemp

Much of the prejudice against growing hemp is caused by the confusion between hemp and other cannabis plants. Hemp is a member of the cannabis genus but with distinct differences. Cannabis is a genus containing cannabis sativa, cannabis indica and cannabis ruderalis. Hemp is cannabis sativa – a tall single stalked plant, which has been cultivated for centuries for use as an industrial fibre, seed oil, food and medicine. Mostly used for its long fibres, each part of the plant is harvested differently, depending on the purpose of its use. Cannabis indica is a much shorter, many branched plant and…

Lies about Inflation

Have you noticed the increase in news about inflation in your daily updates recently? Perhaps you have noticed increases to certain prices of regular items you purchase in your shopping trolley or in renewal prices for insurance, for utilities and the latest gadgets on the internet? How about fuel for your vehicle? Maybe you are conditioned to prices going up as a result of a lifetime of seeing the pound in your pocket be worth less and less. Nowadays it’s become rare for anyone to even carry coins in their pocket. We have become convinced, like everyone else, that plastic…