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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…
How green is my council?
With 261 local authorities now declaring a climate emergency, the race is on to push them to greater efforts to cut carbon emissions. Friends of the Earth has collected data on key climate indicators and compared Lewes against similar local authority areas. How does Lewes measure up?
East Sussex County Council rejects calls to divest from fossil fuels and targets carbon neutrality by 2050
Despite a petition signed by more than 5,300 East Sussex residents, the county council has chosen not to take action to freeze and divest the £145 million invested in fossil fuel companies by the East Sussex Pension Fund.
Getting It..
This piece was sent to TTL by Judith Knott, one of our supporters, who was inspired by XR
Extinction Rebellion
Like many others in Lewes, I have been up to London during the fortnight of rebellion in October…
Greta
Why don’t all of us act according to the facts? …Few people seriously doubt that we are facing a climate catastrophe that would make everyone’s life awful.
Five things we learned at the Lewes Electric Car Show
One of the big highlights of this year’s Lewes Electric Car Show, which featured more than 20 electric and hybrid vehicles, was being able to talk to real-life electric vehicle owners and experts…
Hemp growing reduces climate damage
It’s not about getting stoned. Industrial hemp, which is not psychoactive, can help reduce climate damage. So why is it not more widely grown?
Urge ESCC to divest and declare a climate emergency on 15 October
By Juliet Oxborrow of TTL Following a public petition, East Sussex County Council is set to debate whether the East Sussex Pension Fund should divest out of fossil fuels at its next full council meeting on Tuesday 15 October. Additionally - although it had not been...
