Next SusMo & Kings Heath Transition meeting: Thursday 20th June, 7:30pm

Please note the invitation from SusMo. We would love to see you at KGC on Thursday 20 June at 7.30.
Or if if you cannot attend but there is something you would like to comment on, or draw to our attention, please let us know.

regards
The Transition Core Group

–Kings Heath Transition – community resilience, facing up to peak oil and climate change: www.kingsheathtransition.org.uk

Twitter : @KHTransition
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Postal Address : 73 All Saints Rd, Kings Heath, Birmingham, B14 7LN
Telephone : 07010 065548 (50p/min)

On 17 June 2013 21:20, Sustainable Moseley <sustainablemoseley> wrote:

Use this area to offer a short preview of your email’s content. View this email in your browser Next SusMo & Transition Kings Heath meeting – all welcome! Thursday 20th June – 7:30pm – Kitchen Garden Cafe, York Road, Kings Heath Join us and our friends from Transition Kings Heath for our second joint meeting. Last time, we discussed the progress of a variety of local sustainability initiatives – Birmingham Energy Savers, the Highbury Orchard Project, CoRE50 – as well as live issues relating to preserving street trees and maintaining planters. If that sounds interesting to you – or if you’d like to join us in discussing something else – come along We’ll be in Kings Heath again this month, but will be meeting in Moseley in July. Save the date: A Green Vision for Moseley & Kings Heath Thursday July 4th, 7pm, Moseley Exchange Members of SusMo, Transition Kings Heath and CoRE50 have been invited to steer and facilitate discussions at a ‘community conference’ that Moseley & Kings Heath Labour Party is organising. Taking Birmingham’s ‘Green Vision‘ statement as a start, we have decided to shape the discussion into three broad themes – Social, Environmental and Economic – encouraging attendees to decide on their own specific topics within those themes. In attendance will be the Cabinet Member for a Green, Safe and Smart City, Councillor James McKay. As such, this will be a great opportunity to shape the work of the ongoing Green Commission, and to champion the interesting work that goes on in the Moseley & Kings Heath areas. This conference is open to everyone, so please let us know if you would like to come. Copyright © 2013 Sustainable Moseley, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you asked to be added to the Sustainable Moseley mailing list. Our mailing address is: Sustainable MoseleyMoseley Exchange 149-153 Alcester Road Birmingham, West Midlands B13 8JP United Kingdom Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences

1st South Birmingham Green Drinks: 23rd May, 6pm @ ORT

1st South Birmingham Green Drinks: Thursday 23rd May, 6-9pm

ORT cafe, 504 Moseley Road, Balsall Heath, B12 9AH

Pop in for a drink and meet those at the forefront of the transition to a low-carbon Birmingham. Discover opportunities to work with local environmental projects including OnePlot urban farming, Transition Kings Heath, Plot153, Northfield Ecocentre, Rubbish Craft, Old Print Works and more. Informal networking starts at 6pm. From 7:30pm there will be a free screening of ". The film explains how burning the known reserves of fossil fuels will certainly lead to a wildly unstable climate, and looks at the growing movement to ‘divest’ from fossil fuel companies. No agenda, free entry, all welcome. On the 50 bus route, ample bicycle parking directly opposite. A range of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, food and cakes will be on sale. Please invite your friends!

More info and trailer: http://tinyurl.com/sbgd1

Cheers,

Jonathan MelhuishPS: I’ve attached an image that you might like to post on your Facebook wall.. thanks!

–Kings Heath Transition – community resilience, facing up to peak oil and climate change: www.kingsheathtransition.org.uk

Twitter : @KHTransition
Facebook : Kings Heath Transition

Postal Address : 73 All Saints Rd, Kings Heath, Birmingham, B14 7LN
Telephone : 07010 065548 (50p/min)

News from Kings Heath Transition

Hi Everyone

We are trialling a joint meeting with SusMo (Sustainable Moseley) for our next monthly meeting. They are joining with us at the Kitchen Garden Cafe on Thursday 16 May, 7.30 pm in the upstairs room, and will share their 3-year strategic plan with us. Everyone welcome.

We will also give you a catch-up on how the Birmingham Energy Savers Green Deal project is coming along, and news about our GROFUN scheme, and the Big Dig Big Lunch, at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens.

We will also have some news about the Kings Heath Floral Trail. Even though most of the High Street planters have gone, there is still a role for Transition planter carers to play in helping to manage the Floral Trail, if you are interested in continuing to volunteer.

In fact we are probably needed more than ever now!

Hope to see you next week at the Kitchen Garden Cafe. If you can’t attend but are interested in learning more about anything in particular, please let us know.

Transition Core Group

Kings Heath Transition – community resilience, facing up to peak oil and climate change: www.kingsheathtransition.org.uk

Twitter : @KHTransition
Facebook : Kings Heath Transition

Postal Address : 73 All Saints Rd, Kings Heath, Birmingham, B14 7LN
Telephone : 07010 065548 (50p/min)

Announcing OnePlot urban farming!

I’m pleased to announce an exciting new social enterprise that I’m starting up nearby: OnePlot urban farming.

Unhealthy food is a massive problem in a society dominated by fast food outlets and supermarkets that transport ‘fresh’ goods from across the world. We believe that everyone should be able to eat nutritious, organic food that’s grown locally and sustainably. We pioneer growing techniques that make the best use of limited space in urban environments, using closed-loop design and renewable energy.

In a few weeks, we’ll start delivering training classes that give people the all the knowledge you need to grow, cook and preserve food – from seed to plate. We will also produce and sell healthy, high-quality ‘food parcels’ at affordable prices to our local community. We hope later to open the world’s first aquaponic restaurant, where diners eat among an abundance of green leaves and burbling fish tanks.

If you’d like to follow our progress and get exclusive early-bird discounts on our classes, sign up to our email list. You can also like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.

Maybe you’d also like to get involved as a volunteer? I have some good news: we’re now participating in the ClimateKIC programme that I mentioned a few weeks ago. So if you’re a professional and have any experience in the ‘low carbon’ or Transition projects, you could be eligible for up to €8000 to let you to work with us for a month and then travel to another EU country to do a one-month placement there. You’ll also receive free training and support. The catch is that you need to move fast: the application deadline is on Friday! Email me if you’d like more information, and please feel free to forward this email on.

Cheers,

Jonathan

PS: do you use Facebook? Do me a favour and post this photo (attached) on your wall, or the wall of a friend. There are still plenty of spare placements, but only a few days left to apply for them. Thanks

–Kings Heath Transition – community resilience, facing up to peak oil and climate change: www.kingsheathtransition.org.uk

Twitter : @KHTransition
Facebook : Kings Heath Transition

Postal Address : 73 All Saints Rd, Kings Heath, Birmingham, B14 7LN
Telephone : 07010 065548 (50p/min)

GROFUN and other gardening events in March

Dear friends,

We are trying to limit the number of mailings we send out per month, so as not to bombard you – but this month there is so much going on, it was just not possible. So apologies if you are feeling overwhelmed. I hope the rest of you are feeling pleased and excited at so many interesting things to do!

All best

Liz

This coming weekend there’s the Sustainability Spring Fair at the Botanical Gardens on Saturday 9 March.

Bring along a copy of the attached flyer (either printed or on your smart phone/tablet) and get into the Botanical Gardens for FREE on the day. There’s plenty of interest for all the family. Little people will love playing and making things from scrap at the Scrap Store supervised by the Birmingham Play Care Network whilst older kids can learn new tricks at the circus workshop, play with the giant games on the lawn or have a go at sumo wrestling! There’s entertainment all day on the two stages with local bands, belly dancers and a magic show. Browse the many stalls in the fair-trade and ethical market and there’s the chance to sign up for the Birmingham Green Deal. Finish off a great day out with a stroll around the beautiful Victorian glass houses, aviaries and grounds of the Botanical Gardens.

Transition GROFUN Meeting, Kitchen Garden Cafe, 14th March 7.30

We don’t often blow our own trumpet, but Kings Heath Transition GROFUN event has been an annual success and lots of you turn out for it. It’s a chance to meet fellow gardeners and find out about the many support projects that are operating this year. You can also sign up to GROFUN! Each year, Growing Real Organic Food in an Urban Neighbourhood form a new "team" of up to ten people, who support one another establishing new or improved patches of garden that are given over to growing fruit or vegetables. You get to visit each other’s gardens and give a hand. (It has a kind of "you scratch my yard and I’ll scratch yours" ethos.) We usually incorporate a seed swap into the meeting, so bring your spare seed packets along, and share tips and problems too.

Big Dig Events 16th March Seed Event at Martineau Gardens, Priory Rd Edgabston 13.00 to 16.00 Birmingham City Council Rangers Service The Big Dig “Growing School” gardening course at Kings Heath Park, starts on Sat 16 March 2013 Learn how to grow your own fruit and vegetables : We are offering small growing plots to people who want to learn how to grow their own food in a supportive and friendly environment – with workshops and demonstrations Contact Jan Tomlinson for further details (direct line 0121 675 0937 or email jan_tomlinson

–Kings Heath Transition – community resilience, facing up to peak oil and climate change: www.kingsheathtransition.org.uk

Twitter : @KHTransition
Facebook : Kings Heath Transition

Postal Address : 73 All Saints Rd, Kings Heath, Birmingham, B14 7LN
Telephone : 07010 065548 (50p/min)

CDP1228_Sustainability Spring Fair FlyerA52013v5.pdf