The old Jesters (Malaap etc) site on the Cheltenham Rd could become a Tescos. Planning permission has been granted for a change of use of the building which would open the door for them to set up shop there.
There are brilliant shops in Montpelier many of whom are supporting the work we do and who [...]
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Tescos! Campaign, polls and meeting news
February 5th, 2010 · No Comments · General
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What’s Transition all about?
January 26th, 2010 · No Comments · General
Some excellent interviews with Transitioners explaining what Transition is:
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Core team meeting January 2010
January 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Events, Minutes
A good meeting with a strong sense of moving on into 2010 with a bunch of lessons learnt and desire to get on with some projects.
Click on this link to download the minutes:
Transition Montpelier core meeting Minutes 20-1-10
Agenda:
Actions and Agreements:
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Discussions on ‘Community’
January 21st, 2010 · No Comments · General
Some food for thought – there has been an excellent discussion on ‘what is community’ on the ‘blogosphere’ which good stuff.
It goes in a sequence – 1 publishes, 2 responds to 1, 3 responds to 2 and 1, etc…
John Michael Greer (Arch Druid): The costs of community
Sharon Astyk (Science blogs): On the problem of community
Rob [...]
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Training for Home Energy Auditing
January 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Energy, General
The Energy Saving Trust’s Green Communities team will be providing Training for Home Energyu Auditing to Transition Groups in Bristol at The CREATE Centre March 22nd. Click on the link here for details training. For more info contact Dan at danweisselberg@yahoo.co.uk
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Core team meeting minutes December 2009
December 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Events, Minutes
OK so firstly, we discussed the use of the word ‘core’ team and the possibility that this word ‘core’ might make people think that there is some exclusive cabal or private group or something like that.
It’s not like that at all – we are open, welcoming, keen and happy for people to help us out [...]
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Clean advertising off our streets meeting
December 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Events
Tom Crompton and some of his chums have had enough of all the corporate advertising everywhere and are convening a meeting in Montpelier to discuss some plans they have been brewing. This is likely to be a very interesting gathering with some exciting projects, so we recommend it.
Here’s the blurb:
Fed up of not being able [...]
News from our friends in Easton
September 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Events
Dates for your diary – from our friends in Easton:
Events
1) Love Easton Community Café: 5 Stapleton Rd, Bristol, BS5 0QR – around the corner from the Trinity Centre.
Opens to the public for one month from Saturday 3rd October 2009
DROP BY – Come and say hello to us throughout October
A community cafe will open at the [...]
Newsletter 2: July 2009
July 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Newsletters
July 2009 – Newsletter 2 – Inside:
Introduction
Announcements
Academy of Urbanism – best neighbourhood award 2010
A Montpelier Community Energy Efficiency Programme
The Streets/Picton Square Group
Are Green Space plan – Ashley, Easton, Lawrence Hill (affecting Montpelier)
Montpelier Park update
Green Spaces group
Film club action
Advice from Sustainable Redland
Home Improvement workshops
Download the .pdf version of the newsletter here
Introduction
Hello everyone
We had our [...]
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Advice from Sustainable Redland
July 25th, 2009 · No Comments · General
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.
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 [...]
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