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Entries from November 26th, 2009

Packed out Porty Buses to The Wave, & a packed out national Transition gathering in Glasgow

November 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Portobello WaveDD!!! At 9am on a wet Saturday morn­ing, 80 of us climbed onto the two buses near the Town Hall that Tom Ballantine had organ­ised and headed over to Glasgow to join the biggest ever demon­stra­tion against Climate Chaos in Scotland.  In all, about 8,000 people walked behind bright ban­ners  —  the huge Porty flower made […]

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Brief cartoon Video explaining Cap and Trade

November 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Food, events

[ November 26, 2009; 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm. ] The Story of Cap and Trade
Although they sound sim­i­lar, Cap and Trade and Cap and Share are entirely dif­fer­ent approaches to cli­mate change:

CAP and SHARE (www.capandshare.org) is a sys­tem which can be used to CAP (to limit and dra­mat­i­cally reduce the car­bon com­ing into the coun­try in line with the sci­ence), and to SHARE (to dis­trib­ute the […]

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Early Winter Newsletter — round up of what’s happening!

November 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

A brief round up of what’s happened/ what’s happening/ and what’s on it’s way (scroll down to find what’s com­ing up!)
1. Car Free Day was very suc­cess­ful in terms of num­bers in bike parade, the little mar­ket and a really well atten­ded Isle of Egg play. For next year we’ll try to be more ambi­tious and […]

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Next orchard workday

November 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Food, Orchards, events

[ November 22, 2009; 11:00 am to 3:00 pm. ] The next work­day at the Donkey Field Community Orchard will be on Sunday November 29th, 11am — 3pm.  The orch­ard is really start­ing to take shape now — BTCV have made a won­der­ful path, which, when fin­ished, will give wheel­chair access to the site.  Come along on Nov 29th and have a look!

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