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.

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

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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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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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

Defra is running an on-line Questionnaire on Sustainable Development Indicators. This is open from 1-9th September 2011, as part of the Government's review to ‘streamline’ the existing 68 Sustainable Development Indicators.



Have your say by filling in the Questionnaire here:

http://sd.defra.gov.uk/progress/national/indicators-survey/ by Friday 9 September…

Post your comments here to ensure the future of our planet and all who live on it is not jeopardised by the introduction of voluntary codes rather than legislation.

http://www.redtapechallenge.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/home/index/

http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/08/05/have-we-crossed-the-9-planetary-boundaries/

Also check out http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2011/08/carbon-facts-dont-tell-the-whole-story

Please take part in these TWBC consultations and submit your ideas by 30 September 2011

Before 26 June http://consult.tunbridgewells.gov.uk/portal/

Before 22 August http://www.kentforum.org.uk/vision-for-kent-consultation/

Weekend training session: ‘Planning Law Taster Session’ including the Localism Bill and getting involved in your Neighbourhood Plan. Full residential place £75

For booking and further information see…