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Apply for a small farm lease with the Ecological Land Cooperative
Over the next two years ELC will be creating a number of opportunities for new entrant farmers to establish ecological farm businesses at our upcoming sites in East Sussex, Somerset and South Wales. They're on the hunt for passionate landworkers, farmers, growers and...
Tingle’s Way
Connecting with the ecosystems that naturally sustain and nurture the world and enhance our wellbeing In early March, the team behind Tingle's Way held an event for its major stakeholders. The objectives were to present the concept in a tangible way, to demonstrate...
Councillors and climate emergency
TTL wrote to councillors and candidates asking what actions they will take on climate change…
KIIGL update
The campaign to get organisations, companies and Pension Funds to divest from Fossil Fuel Companies is gaining momentum all over the world. So far investments totalling $8.7 trillion have been divested. Just some of the major organisations that have taken or resolved...
Extinction Rebellion
Approximately 200 people joined the Extinction Rebellion (XR) funeral march in Lewes on 16th March. XR is a movement with the aim of averting climate disaster. The week starting 15th April 2019 is International Extinction Rebellion Week. More on the XR website
Questions for council candidates
1. Will they go public about the need for rapid action on climate change? 2. Will they say this requires big changes in our lives and a change in direction for the country as if it were at war? 3. What kind of actions would they take? 4. For advice on other issues,...
Ask your MP to sign Early Day Motion (EDM) 2177
Caroline Lucas has put forward a motion to Parliament calling for a UK-wide climate emergency, and recognising that solutions to this climate crisis are widely available. EDM
Storing renewable energy
For a 100% renewable electricity system to work, we need reliable storage to cover days when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine. Paul Allen from Centre for Alternative Technology looks at how power-to-gas back-up could transform the energy grid. Factories...
Plastic Free Lewes – a year in review
Juliet Oxborrow and Sue Fleming, co-ordinators of Plastic Free Lewes, look back at its first year of plastic action and what’s happening in 2019.
Shoppers urged to unpack the plastic
Following on from the success of Lewes' first Unpack the Plastic event outside Waitrose in May 2018, shoppers in town are being urged to take back their plastic packaging to supermarkets on every first Saturday of the month as part of a national campaign spearheaded...
Jill’s talking rubbish
Jill Goulder shares her findings following a tour of the Hollingdean Materials Recycling Facility, operated by Veolia as are the Newhaven and Whitesmith sites.
Lobbying for onshore wind
Two Lewes constituents went to Parliament to lobby Maria Caulfield, MP for Lewes, about allowing more wind turbines on land.
