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HOME ENERGY AUDITING TRAINING

danw — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:08:41 +0000

On Monday 22nd March, 25 people from various Transition Bristol neighbourhood groups (including 5 from Montpelier) attended a Home Energy Auditing Training run by the Energy Savings Trust’s Green Communities team at the CREATE centre. The aim of the training was to develop teams of known, friendly and approachable people who can support and advise people on domestic energy efficiency within their neighbourhoods.

27% of the UK’s CO2 emissions are from our homes. This needs to be reduced significantly.

We had an excellent day and our enthusiasm and passion was commented on by our trainer Bev. Comments from some of the delegates include: “Thanks for the great event on monday”, ” I really enjoyed the part of the course I attended on Monday-thanks for organising it”, Monday was an excellent day, Thank you”.

The training course content was put together by people from Transition Montpelier’s energy group (TMEG) and the Easton Energy Group and is strongly informed by the success of the Household Energy Service in Shropshire who have just been awarded a significant grant to furthur the excellent work they are doing with communities in their county. We are hopeful that this training, combined with some significant other work going on in Bristol, can hasten the way forward to our city becoming more energy efficient, secure and sustainable.

Futher information:

Cavity Walls

Programming Central Heating

The follow up document from the training here features links to many other useful sites.

Montpelier Growing Group Resources

Sally — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:32:33 +0000

The Growing Group is currently identifying spaces in Montpelier to plant trees, fruits, vegetables and wildlife friendly plants. We welcome all residents to get involved.

As well as our most valuable resource – people power (!) – we are also in need of materials to transform these spaces. If you have anything to offer, or know of a great place to get things (either for free or at good value) then please let us know by posting a comment below or emailing shiona_macp@hotmail.com. The most obvious items we will need are:

Compost
Well rotted manure
Top Soil
Wood and other materials to make raised beds
Screws/nails etc
Water butts (or equivalent)
Seeds
Plants
Trees for replanting
Organic plant food (eg comfrey tea, seaweed extracts)

Any ideas on sources of funding for these items would also be extremely welcome!

Many thanks, the Growing Team

Advice from Sustainable Redland

admin — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:04:18 +0000

Hamish from Sustainable Redland kindly came to our open meeting and gave us a short outline of what they are up to, and some of this top tips.

Hamish from Sustainable Redland

Here are some of them:

It’s difficult but rewarding
Have to learn to work together – it’s new
It’s very exciting to see your work unfold
Main symbol for them is the farmer’s market
Maintain public profile at at events: fairs, schools, talks
Only a few of them are really active – but that’s all you need
140ish people on the mailing list – a rich resource of knowledge
Keep selves informed – invite experts to talk at meetings

And on some of the benefits of being a Transition Initiative:

Tap into Transition Bristol
More in touch with other initiatives
Share resources with other initiatives
Visit other initiative meetings

Thanks Hamish!