Details of Food Growing Workshops in August by Cornwall Neighbourhoods for Change follow. FOOD GROWING WORKSHOPS If you would you like to grow your own food, these workshops give the basics of how to grow vegetables at home “Loved it … Continue reading
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Cornwall Waste Action (CWA), a non for profit organisation based in Redruth, is currently looking for volunteer “Compost Mentors” in Truro and St Austell to take part in a project that aims to encourage more people to compost their food … Continue reading
The Transition Truro January event was presented by Fran Box of Effective Micro-organisms Ltd, based in Devon. She talked about the uses of these products in the home, garden, in agriculture, for animals and even for human health. EM is … Continue reading
The Cornwall Diet – can Cornwall feed itself in the 21st Century? Why the Cornwall diet? Reduction in carbon emissions from the reduction in food miles (25% of emissions from food in the UK is from transport and food transportation … Continue reading
A group of people in the Kingdom of Fife, in east Scotland, have been engaged in an experiment for the last year or so to see if they can source 85% of their diet from within Fife. Their reasons are … Continue reading
The battery recycling tube situated in Truro Post Office was emptied for the first time last week. Although slow to take off, used battery recycling is now gaining momentum and Post Office staff report that people are expressing their support … Continue reading
Transition Truro secured funding from Truro City Council to pay for a household battery recycling tube. Thanks to the Post Office, it has a convenient site – just inside the door. A TT member has undertaken to transport the batteries … Continue reading
The latest Transition Truro meeting was looking at how climate change and peak oil could impact upon health and healthcare. Anyone who has worked in the health service will know how heavily dependent upon oil it is – energy to … Continue reading
Cornwall CRAG (Carbon Rationing and Action Group) and Transition Truro engaged shoppers in looking at their energy use. Saturday 26th April was the warmest day of the year so far, luckily for us, as it can be a bit Siberian … Continue reading
Short excerpt from and article in Western Morning News about Satish Kumar – a Gandhian ecologist, editor of Resurgence magazine and programme director for Schumacher College. “At a time of global warming and climate change we face a tremendous challenge … Continue reading