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TTL looking for help with social media
We're looking for a volunteer who Tweets and/or uses Facebook - to enhance the social media aspect of our website and newsletter. Please email Adrienne if you can help us. Thank you.
A takeaway – without the side order of polystyrene
Could we do this in Lewes? Transition Town Hastings are starting an initiative to encourage local takeaways and food outlets to use more eco-friendly packaging than plastic or particularly polystyrene. This is part of a wider campaign to reduce litter on the...
Join Keep It In the Ground Lewes
Keep It In the Ground Lewes is looking for more people to re-launch the group. There are now groups all over East Sussex asking the county council pension fund to divest, and hopeful signs from other pension funds. And 43 UK universities have pledged to dump...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
When I’m 84
It will be 2030. My about-to-be grandson will be a large hungry teenager and our world will have changed hugely. Zero Carbon Britain 2030 (Centre for Alternative Technology) calculates that we can reach zero carbon emissions using current technology, and still have a...
Keep It In the Ground
The Guardian has thrown its weight behind the global divestment movement and they have even chosen the same name as our group (a coincidence/great minds etc)! So please act local and don't forget to sign our petition to the East Sussex Pension Fund
Global Divestment Day
Members of Keep It In the Ground Sussex (KIIGS) started our local petition with 55 signatures on Saturday 14th February despite the showers for Global Divestment Day. Thanks to all who helped. We are asking East Sussex County Council's pension fund to divest from...
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...
