Streetbank shows you all the things and skills your neighbours are offering. It’s a giant garden shed, toolkit, fancy dress chest, book and DVD library and skills bank for your neighbourhood.

How it works

1. Sign up for an account using your postcode.
2. Add one thing that you would be prepared to help with, lend or give away.
3. See people within one mile of you, and all their things.…

Collective Energy Switching Scheme

A new initiative led by Tunbridge Wells, Dover, Dartford and Gravesham Borough Councils, will offer residents assistance to get a better deal and save money on their energy bills. The collective energy switching scheme will enable residents to group together to harness their buying power and negotiate lower energy tariffs on their behalf. The aim will be to encourage as many households as possible to take up the money saving opportunity,…

The new newspaper for, about and by the Transition movement.Transition Free Press

See the first edition here

http://transitionfreepress.org/preview-issue/

Available here http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/all_publications/living_planet_report/

Bees, Butterflies and Blooms

If you didn't see the recent BBC2series by Sarah Raven you can watch it again here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01cktgq/Bees_Butterflies_and_Blooms_Cities/

We encourage pollinating insects in both our town centre plot and community allotment with lots of flowers and by providing places where the insects can live and hibernate.

Events and activites are planned across the country to highlight the climate issue. Details can be found at www.climateweek.com

Any ideas for Tunbridge Wells? A rally in the Victoria precinct, perhaps? Philip.

http://www.localskillswap.com/index.php?pageID=home

Our Tunbridge Wells community allotments are due for renewal before April. Last year the gate was padlocked and two keys only were issued to us, with no others allowed. Therefore the term "community allotment" is no longer valid.

I have enquired about the possible availability of Southborough allotments for the community. Currently there is a waiting list of 15, but many plots remain uncultivated.

Southborough Town Council has agreed to contact us should any plots become…

We're organising an energy saving evening on 25 January at Langton Green.

We'll be giving advice on saving energy, how to reduce your bills and information on renewable energy installations.

Full details are available at http://ttwells.ning.com/events/energy-saving-evening. 

Next week sees our last chance to get an international agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions before it's too late. Sussex MP Greg Barker, the Minister for Climate Change, is going to Durban with Chris Huhne and needs our support for a binding agreement to keep emissions below a dangerous level. You can send a message via:

http://www.38degrees.org.uk/email-chris-huhne  Philip.

Transition Network newsletter - November 2011

• Transition Model Leaps Ahead With Book and Ingredients
• NEWS
  • Round up of What's Happening in Transition
  • Volunteer Required for European Transition Learning Exchanges
  • Please help Transition US
• THINKING ALOUD
  • Tasting a Revolution in Shipping
  • #Occupy and Transition: Resources For Creating Lasting Change
  • The…

Have your say by 23/12/2011 here

http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/consultations/fits_comp_rev1/fits_comp_rev1.aspx

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Hi all,

I just wanted to tell you about a film I watched last week and found entertaining and enlightening at the same time! It's called the yes men, not to be confused with the yes man (starring jim carey). Rather than explain it's content here, I'd suggest looking it up and see if it appeals!

Simone

Coastal Oil and Gas Ltd, based in Mid Glamorgan, wants permission to drill an exploratory borehole at Woodnesborough in Kent to test coal and shale for gas. The company said it mainly wanted to extract methane from coal, but did not rule out shale extraction in future.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-13666638

Fracking is the process of using high powered jets of liquid containing chemicals to break up…

BBC Speechless As Trader Tells Truth: "The Collapse Is Coming...And Goldman Rules The World"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqN3amj6AcE&feature=player_embedded

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The draft National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) is set to overturn at a stroke 1,000 pages of planning law and 6,000 pages of planning guidance built up since 1947.

The NPPF came up for discussion with Greg Clark MP on the 16th and at the AGM of CPRE Tunbridge Wells on the 20th. The presumption in favour of sustainable development (para. 13) came up for widespread criticism and Greg pledged to define "sustainable" in the final draft.

The bigger question is: "How can a…

If you would like to pick free organic apples from a tree in Pembury phone 01892 822 964 or mobile  07718631912.

If you, or anyone you know, has a surplus of apples (preferably eating but cooking apples will be very acceptable) and would like to donate them to Pepenbury, please contact Mike Giles on 07973 379876 from the middle of September onwards. http://www.pepenbury.info/index.html