News
Zero Waste Cupboard
Lewes Friday Food Market have introduced a range of loose store cupboard essentials as part of their committment to reduce waste (especially plastic) and minimise their impact on the environment…
Why I love the Lewes Friday Food Market
By Ann Link, TTL Lewes Friday Food Market will be ten years old in July this year, so to many people it has always been there. But things were very different in 2009, when the Transition Town Food Group was given the opportunity to set up a weekly market under the...
It’s not all bad
Zero Carbon Britain
It’s easy to feel despairing but there are serious and realistic solutions such as the Zero Carbon Britain report by the well-respected Centre for Alternative Technology which demonstrates that a zero carbon Britain is entirely possible…
BBC news worth a click…
A round up of relevant news from the BBC
Eco cleaning
From Jill Goulder: I've been updating my eco house website, with a new page on eco cleaning, and I thought that TTL readers might like to have a look: Eco Cleaning. I'm particularly enthusiastic about loofah washing-up scourers and cellulose cleaning sponges - no...
OVESCO ‘2nd Use Solar’ project
Get in touch with OVESCO, if you have a project which could benefit from ‘2nd Use Solar’. All applications to be received by 31st January 2020.
Watch HempTank’s talk at Lewes HempEvent
A huge thank-you everyone who came to Lewes HempEvent at Lewes Town Hall in November, hosted by Plastic Free Lewes.
Hemp – the planet friendly plant
Discover the multiple benefits of this remarkable plant in Daphne Lambert’s (Greencuisine) new video…
Supporting British farmers
A Sussex pasture: the Hook & Son dairy herd on Pevensey Levels ((c) Emli Bendixen) By Jill Goulder of TTL I offer this Guardian piece about cattle in the confident hope of calm, constructive and balanced comment from the Transition Town Lewes readership:...
Land for tree planting
Do you know of any landowners in and around Lewes who might be prepared to allow trees to be planted on their land?
Building waste
Lewes District Council deserve a round of applause for ensuring 98.71% of demolition waste from one of their developments has either been recycled or re-used.
KIIGL petition
KIIGL and Divest East Sussex have been collecting signatures to a petition asking the East Sussex County Council Pension Committee to divest its £145 million holdings in fossil fuel companies. We finally collected 5000 signatures…
