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East Sussex Credit Union
If you have long been meaning to join the East Sussex Credit Union, there is a new opportunity! You can now join online and save and borrow knowing your cash is staying local and going to help the community in East Sussex. You can still visit the Brighton office on...
Why support local shops?
At his workshop in Lewes last month, Rob Hopkins called the supermarkets "extractive industries" because they export wealth from the town. It can be estimated that Lewes people spend about £21 million pounds a year on food. (1) Most of that, maybe £16...
Should Transition Town Lewes actively support the Living Wage?
A proposal by Ann Link I have recently been inspired by the examples of York, Croydon and Brighton declaring themselves Living Wage cities and towns and I want to gauge support in TTL. Is it a ‘campaign’ (with political charge & therefore...
Good Health: Beyond Resilience?
Dirk Campbell July 2015 I have just been reading one of those rare books whose central concept seems so important and so universally applicable that one wonders why no-one thought of it before. It is a very simple observation and, like gravity and evolution,...
The Refugee Problem
Dirk Campbell January 2016 On Saturday January 9th Sacha and I went to the refugee camp in Dunkirk. We took warm clothes, blankets, gumboots and tents. They are mostly Iraqi Kurds, families living in unbelievable squalor - deep mud, freezing temperatures,...
The rise of the rain garden
Later this year, TTL will be looking to explore ways in which we can all work together to mitigate the risk of flood in our town, whether from rivers or surface water. Inspiration could come from the Brighton & Lewes Downs Biosphere Project, which has just...
Rob Hopkins on Brexit
With the EU referendum a month away, what would leaving the EU potentially mean for the transition movement? Transition founder Rob Hopkins presented his personal thoughts in MarchSee the original article and reader comments here... With the Transition movement...
Natural Flood Management in the River Ouse catchment – Sussex Flow Initiative
Sandra Manning-JonesAs the project officer for the Sussex Flow Initiative (SFI) I was very pleased to meet with members of TTL recently to discuss ways that Natural Flood Management (NFM) can help reduce flooding across the Ouse catchment and help with flood...
DOWN THE DRAIN: What can we do to stop surface water flooding in Lewes getting worse?
Thursday 27 October 2016, 7.30pm, Elephant & Castle As incidences of severe flash flooding in Lewes become more common, come and join Transition Town Lewes and a panel of experts to ask what we can do to keep water levels in our streets under control.Think...
CAMPAIGN: Get the town buzzing with Wildflower Lewes
Wildflower Lewes is a campaign to get Lewes buzzing with bees, fluttering with butterflies and brimming with stunning wildflowers. It's being initiated by local councillors, wildlife groups and ecologists - and your help is needed too. It's a well-cited fact...
One of the most important men who has ever lived…
One of the most important men who has ever lived has recently died. He is up there with Gandhi, Mandela, Churchill and Krishnamurti. Unlike them he was not widely acknowledged during his life, being so far ahead of the curve, but his ideas have been adopted by...
Move our pensions out of fossil fuels
Campaigners from around East Sussex have launched a new brochure and web tool to help members of the East Sussex Pension Fund (ESPF) lobby the County Council to reinvest the £172 million it currently has invested in the coal, oil and gas industries. See Fossil...
