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Community-owned Solar Powers Brewery
A project to put solar panels on the roof of Harvey’s brewery in Lewes is tantalisingly close with only about £20,000 still to be raised to be able to place the order.
The Harvey’s array on the beer chill roof will be one of Britain’s first
Grow your Group
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How thriving is your group?
* Is it in the first flush of action and enthusiasm? How will you keep it so?
* Is it shrinking into a small core of overwhelmed people?
* Does it have a large email list and
Free Trees for communities
The Woodland Trust is offering free trees for communities to plant in their neighbourhoods in order to double the number of native trees in the UK.
We’re big fans of this fantastic offer and encourage you to participate whole-heartedly. As well as being a practical and affordable way
Peak oil is still a HUGE story
As the oil juggernaught (aka world economy) keeps chugging along, let’s not forget the bigger picture
Here’s a hard-hitting and well researched 12 minute documentary by ABC in Australia. This news station was one of the first to start talking about peak oil back in 2006.
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Job: part-time grower at Norwich Community Supported Agriculture
This is from our friends in Norfolk who are setting up a Community Supported Agriculture project:
Norwich FarmShare, a brand new Community Supported Agriculture scheme based on 2 acres at Hewett School and 5 acres in a field near Postwick, is looking for a part-time grower to join us,
Treehouse project: UK community design competition
Just received from a consultant with good green credentials
“Sky Television is planning to televise – and promote massively – a community design competition that will feature the design and delivery of three new tree-houses that are popular, sustainable and hopefully in slightly counter-intuitive locations. The idea is that the