Transition Town Hackney

Working together to reduce oil-dependency and re-localise in Hackney

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Alison Thorpe

Steering group members needed – December social - and ideas for next year *”*PLEASE REPLY BY FRI 27 NOVEMBER***

Hi transitioners Your TTH steering group needs you! The steering group is just 2 active members at the moment (Alison and Neil, with Anna supporting). How about joining to get this thing going mo...

Started by Alison Thorpe 10 hours ago.

Anna O'Brien

A Hackney Pound ? - your views ? Responses needed by midday Monday (9th Nov) 3 Replies

Some senior members of Team Hackney, our Local (multi-agency) Strategic Partnership are in the very early stages of looking at this issue and are informally consulting among a number of local commu...

Started by Anna O'Brien. Last reply by Anna O'Brien 10 hours ago.

Jon Theo

Great way to organise meetings - Doodle

Go to Doodle - It's really easy! - You can set up various possible dates and times - You don't need to set up an account if you don't want to - You just need to cut'n'paste the link onto your disc...

Started by Jon Theo 13 hours ago.

Alison Thorpe

talking about peak oil - Richard Heinberg

short video about engaging about peak oil - go to videos section.

Started by Alison Thorpe 19 hours ago.

Members

  • Charlotte Dove
  • hannah wardle
  • Ashley Erdman
  • Robyn Kimber
  • Anna O'Brien
  • Alison Thorpe
  • Jon Theo
  • Ian Westmoreland
  • Helga Jennings
  • Ralph Allen
  • sonia rai
  • Laura Laker
  • Henry Muss
  • Nigel Hinds
  • Julia Clarke
  • AJ McConville
 
Transition Town Hackney is a group of individuals concerned about the future, and particularly with how we are are going to continue to live comfortably, well within in a huge urban metropolis, as supplies of oil and coal dwindle, pushing prices of everything up.

We aim to educate ourselves as to the facts of this impending crisis, prepare, and put in place systems to insulate ourselves and our wider community from the worst effects. We do this through educational events: talks and film screenings followed by discussions, and by forming working groups who meet regularly and focus on a specific topic.

If you are interested in what we are doing, please check the calendar for the next event (not all events on our calendar are organised by TTH, but all are relevant) and better still join the one of the working groups on this page and help them in their work. A few hours a week is all it takes.

One of the main benefits to a TT group is getting to know people who live in your local area, so please also join one of the local area groups and say hello to your neighbours.

A few links to relevant documentation:

www.transitiontowns.org
Transition Primer - having a read of the PDF is a great place to start
Transition Handbook - the full ride
Transition Culture - Rob Hopkins' own site

Email us here

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Jon Theo

Email to Gillian Nicks at Hackney council planning dept re proposal to build a hotel on the site of The Foundry bar

Dear Ms Nicks –

Once again I find myself having to write to express my concern about yet another worrying development in our beleaguered borough. The Foundry Bar is a contemporary classic and a much welcome haven from the rampant commercialism of downtown Shoreditch. The values and ethics that the management of the Foundry display are those that echo the ideas and attitudes of Hackney residents past and present, the very same which have made the borough such a popular destination for the arts a… Continue

Posted by Jon Theo on November 17, 2009 at 4:46pm

Alison Thorpe

10:10 Reducing my family's C02 by 10%

I wanted to let people know what we're doing here (my little family of 5), trying to reduce our carbon footprint, having signed up to 10:10 and also becoming increasingly concerned about the sheer level of climate change being witnessed, right now, around the world, and also the frightening scientific predictions and concerns. (and that's without peak oil.....).

However, in case anyone is thinking that transition town people are all living in super-insulated homes with renewable energy forms of… Continue

Posted by Alison Thorpe on October 15, 2009 at 11:50am — 1 Comment

Jon Theo

Great meeting on transport last night

So last night's "meeting" - they are really talk events now - was by Carl Pittam of Sustrans. Sustrans have been going for over 30 years and do projects such as re-designing residential streets to make them more friendly to people and less car-centric, slowing down or stopping traffic and adding planters and other greenery. There are 2 pilots in Hackney of the "DIY Streets" project which gets residents to meet and talk about problems on t… Continue

Posted by Jon Theo on September 17, 2009 at 6:11pm — 3 Comments

Anna O'Brien

site set up

Thanks for your work on this Jon,

Been right round the site and all seems easy to use.

a. Re: your ? about setting up new groups, I'd be for allowing people to set up their own new groups without chking with the SG or a moderator (that would be you right now:) because I think it's important to empower people as far as possible. Having said that I know it'd be more of a pain for you and all of us to have to remove a nuts group once its set up. Your call I reckon as a key part of the work would… Continue

Posted by Anna O'Brien on September 14, 2009 at 6:45pm — 4 Comments

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All the best with it Laura & Jon x
7 hours ago
hannah wardle might attend Robyn Kimber's event
Food meeting (wed 25t) at Spurstowe pub
November 25, 2009 from 7pm to 8pm
Spurstowe pub 7-8pm Who is able to come?
7 hours ago
Sorry you can't make it Laura, good luck with the planning application stuff, all the best, Anna
10 hours ago
Alison Thorpe added 2 discussions
10 hours ago
Thanks Phil, the meeting that was due to take place between 2 of the local third sector leaders about this last wk got postponed as one of them fell ill, will post again here once I hear of any progress. If you've got the time to set up a discu...
10 hours ago
Jon Theo added a discussion
Go to Doodle - It's really easy! - You can set up various possible dates and times - You don't need to set up an account if you don't want to - You just need to cut'n'paste the link onto your discussion or comment or whatever and then others in y...
13 hours ago
Will do, we might set up a petition to "keep the George" as the owner wants to turn it into a gastropub, apparently, like the one round the corner. Great.
15 hours ago
Damn. Let us all know how we can help with that.
16 hours ago
Hello everyone, sorry I've not posted anything for a while, the good news is that the LETS software - cclite - is now installed on my server and appears to work. The bad news is that my partner Laura and I have just received a planning application...
17 hours ago
Hi Robyn, Alison, Anna et al... I'm sorry but can't now come tomorrow eve. We have just been hit sidewards by a big planning application to expand the pub next door (proposing to build onto our house etc etc) and need to write our objections tonig...
17 hours ago
Alison Thorpe added 2 videos
19 hours ago
Group for people who live in Clapton and Homerton to discuss issues relating specifically to their local area.
yesterday
Helga Jennings and Ralph Allen joined Transition Town Hackney
yesterday
Anna O'B :)
yesterday
Robyn Kimber added an event
Food meeting (wed 25t) at Spurstowe pub
November 25, 2009 from 7pm to 8pm
Spurstowe pub 7-8pm Who is able to come?
yesterday
Robyn Kimber added a discussion to the group Food
Spurstowe pub (68, Greenwood Rd, London, E8 1AB) 7-8pm Who is able to come?
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