Three new permaculture videos online

The latest Permaculture Association newsletter brought news of 3 new short films about Permaculture that can be viewed online – including one narrated by Stephen Fry…

New course in Leicester on green living from January 2010

Information on the WEA’s new Go Green course…

Responses to the climate change email hacking story

There have been quite a few interesting pieces written in response to all the media coverage of the hacked emails from climate researchers at the University of East Anglia…

Dec 17th: Transition lighting a candle at Leicester cathedral for Copenhagen vigil (and a few other Copenhagen bits)

Leicester Cathedral is maintaining a candlelit vigil throughout the Copenhagen climate talks, and has invited local people and organisations to take a turn lighting a candle for one day during the two week vigil. Transition Leicester’s Anne Scott will be doing the honours on our behalf in the

Local events: recycled bicycle art workshops and Ecohouse organic gardening training

Here’s some news of local events taking place over the coming months, including monthly sessions to make recycled art out of bicycle bits and courses on organic gardening at Leicester’s Ecohouse…

New tools to help you set up climate change projects – including one just for trade union members

We’ve recently heard of two new initiatives to help people take action on climate change: a new resource from COIN (Climate Outreach and Information Network) that will help people set up 6-month Climate Action Groups, and the Climate Solidarity initiative, aimed at trade union members…

Resilient universities and linking places of education with Transition Leicester

De Montfort University’s e-learning co-ordinator Rich Hall recently put together a thoughtful article exploring the prospects for increasing the resilience of higher education, including the role that the ideas from the Transition movement could play. You can read it here: http://www.learnex.dmu.ac.uk/?p=1882.

Transition Leicester Transport Group Update

Transition Leicester Transport Group will be holding its second meeting on Saturday 16th January 2010. As this will be part of the overall review taking place on the day in the Transition cafe, in Bishop Street Foyer, a full transport agenda will not be possible. Instead, a “drop in” surgery is proposed, so that anyone from across Transition, from whatever interest or perspective, can pose transport questions (some of which might be answerable at the time, others may lead to fruitful further future investigation). Visit the Transport table.

Transition Aylestone Glen Parva update

News from Andy Brooks from Transition Aylestone Glen Parva…

Transition Aylestone Glen Parva is having a brief winter recess from the normal outdoor meeting place, which closes for the winter. Meetings will resume in a new format, monthly, starting after Easter 2010. Details nearer

Launch of community news agency in Leicester focussed on green issues

Leicester’s Citizen’s Eye and Community Media Hub have announced the creation of a new news desk for reporting locally on green issues. Take  a look at the link below for more info, and contact Claire Hudson if you’ve got any stories to share. http://www.citizenseye.org/2009/11/21/green-issues-claire-hudson