Transition Town Shrewsbury

Shrewsbury Green Doors Feedback

Mr Smith — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:06:34 +0000

The first Shrewsbury Green Doors event was held on24th and 25th March 2012 and was a great success!

A total of 22 properties opened up their doors to over 100 separate visitors, andboth home-owners and visitors had a great day – we have received loads of positive responses!

The property is beautiful and inspiring..
We learned a lot, thanks for talking things through
Very well done, with much research, very informative
Helpful info on PV’s
Still thinking and taking it all in..
Fascinating and different interpretation of energy efficiency..
Hope to pick bits out to use
Inspiring, can we have a Co-op to buy equipment?
Wonderful, well done with so much stuff;
Most impressed, given us lots of ideas;

We will be running the event again next year, check here/TTS website/local press etc for dates, and if you’d like to open up your place please get in touch!

Transition Town Shrewsbury Buildings Group

Trees for Transition Course!

Mr Smith — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:01:22 +0000

Trees for Transition Course at the Green Wood Centre,
near Ironbridge, on Thurs 24 May.

Please see http://www.acreswildwoodlands.co.uk/courses/course.shtml?c=AW011
for full details.

Many thanks in advance
Lynn

Course co-ordinator
Acres Wild Woodlands
01746 766465 / 07932137305
www.acreswildwoodlands.co.uk

SHREWSBURY HYDRO EXHIBITION

Paul Davies — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:00:00 +0000

An exhibition to show what a locally-owned hydro scheme in Shrewsbury would look like including a 1:100 scale model of the proposed Shrewsbury Hydro site, commissioned after winning the national Energyshare competition.

Free Entry 10 am – 5 pm each day except on 7^th and 9^th when it is from 6 pm – 9 pm.

There are three venues:

Town Centre

5th – 6th April at Shrewsbury Baptist Church Central, Claremont Street, SY1 1QG

Castlefields

7th – 8th April at Castlefields Community Hall, New Park Street, Castlefields SY1 2LD

Underdale

9th – 10th April at St. Peter’s Church Hall, Monkmoor Road, Monkmoor SY2 5BC

TTS Film Nights – Spring Season

Mr Smith — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:09:23 +0000

TTS Film Nights, Spring Season kicks off after the AGM with Earth Pilgrims – one man’s journey through a world swamped in problems, searching for a way to reconnect with a deeper, more meaningful way of life…

April’s film is Terry Gilliam’s classic dystopian satire – a bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state…

And May’s offering is is Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai – which tells the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai whose simple act of planting trees grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, protect human rights, and defend democracy, a movement for which this charismatic woman became an iconic inspiration…

See you there!

Transition Town Shrewsbury

Paul Davies — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:33:17 +0000

Transition Town Shrewsbury is part of the growing international movement seeking to tackle the twin challenges of diminishing oil and gas supplies and climate change. We want to imagine and create a future that addresses these problems, and creates the kind of community that we would all want to be part of here in Shrewsbury.

The challenges presented to us today by global warming and peak oil (and gas) are perhaps the greatest that humanity has faced. This time brings a great opportunity for rethinking the way we live and making conscious choices about what kind of community and world we would like to live in. Change is coming whether we like it or not – and a planned response to the change will leave us in a much stronger position than if we wait until change is upon us. To find out more about Transition Culture, visit: www.transitionculture.org.

This change will affect every part of our lives, so we’re forming groups to look at the issues. So far we have groups working on food, energy, the economy, change and why we don’t like it, buildings, education, transport and local government. The idea of these groups is to identify what needs to change to make it easier to live a low-carbon lifestyle here in Shrewsbury and give us the skills and confidence to make that change happen.