November Newsletter

Greetings Transition Towners.

First off, may I invite you all to our monthly Green Drinks, held first Thursday of the month at The Oakwood Pub, High Street West, Glossop, which means the next one is next week on Thursday 7^th November.

We will be joined by representatives of SPEED, the Charlesworth group that has been campaigning for 20mph speed limits. There are indications of support now from Derbyshire County Council so this is an exciting campaign. From a Transition perspective this is about more than just road safety, and could help us build communities based on people not cars. Dare I also say that as I’ve never heard a woman argue against reduced speed limits it could even be a feminist issue?

GTi is also getting back into showing films, and on 20^th November at 8PM, upstairs at The Oakwood,A Convenient Truth. Al Gore does not appear, but instead we have the city of Curitiba in Brazil demonstrating sustainable solutions for cities. If we have time we will also show A Time Comes about the Greenpeace occupation of Kingsnorth Power station in 2008.

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Then on Wednesday 27^th November, 8PM at The Oakwood (where else?) the Glossopdale Time Coop is having an inter-generational quiz night. Answer questions on the last six decades and win Time Credits.

Our sister group in Transition Buxton is hosting an Alternative Economics Seminar on Saturday 9^th November. If people want to go lifts may be on offer.

Finally, Glossop library is still open and not relocated, so why not go and use it. Amongst the books you will find there are the Transition Handbook and Feral by George Monbiot (or at least you will

find it once I’ve finished reading it). Both are worth a read and provide food for thought.

Meanwhile in the real world, the cost of not transitioning to alternatives to fossil fuels are coming closer to home. After mass protests against fracking for unconventional oil in Balcombe, the residents of Eccles are awaiting the imminent arrival of a rig on Barton Moss. 

There are alternatives. Let’s make them happen.

October Newsletter

October looks like being a quiet month for GTi, for a change.

It’s Green Drinks tomorrow night (Thursday) at the Oakwood, from 8PM, so come along if you want to meet the team the Committee.

The Time Coop still needs more people and is apparently awash with gardeners.  If anyone needs their garden tidied up for the winter, why not sign up?

You can sign up and meet a broker in person at the Glossop Volunteer Centre on Thursdays between 9AM and 1PM or at The Oakwood on Sundays between 2PM and 5PM.

The Glossop Community Group are having a get together at the Methodist Church at 7:30PM on Tuesday 15^th October, in which local groups (including us hopefully) will get to speak. 

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Meanwhile on the other side of the Snake Pass, the Bamford Community Pub/Hub is a go. Having thwarted an eleventh hour attempt by the owners of the former Anglers Rest pub to sell to a developer, the old pub is now in the hands of the Bamford Community Society and will hopefully it will be opening again soon.

In the big bad world beyond the High Peak though, Greenpeace is in the middle of its biggest crisis since the French Secret Service bombed the Rainbow Warrior in 1985. 

Having been seized at gunpoint in international

waters, the international crew of the Arctic Sunrise, including the former captain of the old Warrior, are now being held by Russian authorities. Two of the crew have now been charged with piracy. Unless Greenpeace were secretly flogging bootleg DVDs off the back of the ship, this looks like a blatant attempt by the Russian state to remove opposition to Gazprom’s drilling for unnecessary oil in the pristine Arctic.

Please, if you haven’t done so already, add to the one million plus emails that have been sent to Russian embassies around the world.

Martin

We are 'official'!

Yes, folks, we are now officially In Transition and Glossopdale is on the Transition Town website!

Thanks very much to everyone who made this possible, especially everyone who attended the World Cafe at The Oakwood in July.