by Transition Town Lewes | Nov 25, 2019 | Resources
How can we act on the continuing bad news on the climate crisis? Ideally, to keep within a 1.5 degree rise in global temperature, climate gas emissions should start to go down in the next year or two and be cut globally by 45% by 2030. Even this is not safe, as we are...
by Transition Town Lewes | Nov 22, 2019 | Resources
Personally speaking… Christmas is coming and the toiletries manufacturers are gearing up for mass sales of soaps, creams and other personal lotions and potions. Most will have expensive packaging and be made with a cornucopia of chemicals. A few TTL friends...
by Transition Town Lewes | Sep 19, 2019 | Resources
By Julia Waterlow of TTL For some people it may come as no surprise that most of our electricity is generated from gas and that the majority comes by pipeline from the continent. Renewables are gaining ground but we have a long way to go. I have mentioned it before...
by Transition Town Lewes | Sep 19, 2019 | Resources
Myths about Electric Cars The Charging Infrastructure Batteries Why you should/shouldn’t buy an electric car Electric cars available in the UK Examples long journeys taken by cars at the Lewes show Car Sharing MYTHS ABOUT ELECTRIC CARS Myth: Source of...
by Transition Town Lewes | Sep 19, 2019 | Resources
Types of electric cars Fully electric cars (EV) These are cars that run entirely on electricity. Instead of an engine, they have an electric motor that gets its power from on-board batteries, which you charge by plugging the car into a power source. Extra...
by Transition Town Lewes | Jul 24, 2019 | Resources
Julia Waterlow discovers that doing less in the garden can reap greater rewards for everyone. For some years now I have been leaving a large part of my small lawn un-mown. The result has been a really lovely patch of long grasses and wildflowers that appear without...
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