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Support the Bees&Seas Project
To raise the much needed funds for the Bees&Seas project, We Are FoodPioneers have set up a Spacehive Crowdfunder and they really need your support for additional funding to bring the project alive.
TTW at Goring Road Farmers Market 1st May
TTW are looking forward to running a stall at the great local Goring Road Farmers' Market on Saturday 1st May from 9am - 1pm.
Horsham Climate Café Presentation Follow-up
In case you missed this great presentation on the Adur & Worthing Council’s climate assembly organised by the Horsham Climate Café back in March, they have recently published a blog and the recordings of the event itself.
Seed Swap In A Box!
We have a variety of both vegetable (salad leaves, heritage beans, brassicas, tomatoes etc) and flower (perennials, annuals, wildflowers etc) seeds available and these will be placed in a box by the doorstep at the left of Henry House, 189 Heene Road, Worthing, BN11 4NN.
Register for Transport Transition Summit
Register for your place at the Transport Transition Summit, taking place on 11 & 12 May, to connect with a growing network of over 1,500 transport, energy and policy professionals mapping the next phase of the transport transition.
TTW Transport Group Meeting Minutes
Please see the minutes from the March meeting of the TTW Transport Group.
How to motivate for a socio-ecological transition? - 5x30€ vouchers as a thank you for study participation
Dear all,
Wandelwerk e.V. (www.wandel-werk.org) conjointly with an international team is currently investigating the question "What motivates people to actively engage in a social-ecological transformation?" If you are actively engaged in the social-ecological transformation yourself, we would be very happy if you could participate in our 15-20 minute questionnaire:
www.soscisurvey.de/Transformation/
As a thank you, you can win 5x30€ vouchers for a donation or the Ethical Superstore!
If you would like to support us even further, feel free to forward the questionnaire to other engaged people as well, so that our results become even more meaningful and relevant for the social-ecological movement.
Thank you very much and best regards,
Anna & Karen ... See MoreSee Less
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Does anyone have the space for a baby English Oak tree please, it's self seeded from our lovely oak at The Triangle and it's now in it's own little pot. I'd love to find a new home for it. ... See MoreSee Less
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Great opportunity to see the co-founder of the Transition Movement in conversation with Greening Steyning/Steyning Green Books - link to book your place is here: bit.ly/greenbooksrobhopkins ... See MoreSee Less
Rob Hopkins - Green Books - From What Is to What If
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Rob Hopkins book 'What If' asks why creative, positive thinking is in decline and suggests ways our communities can revive and reclaim it.Comment on Facebook
Adur & Worthing Councils are set to become the first local authorities in the UK to lease the seabed off their coast from the Queen in a pioneering project to invest in climate change measures and restore marine habitat.
The historic move could pave the way from an ambitious plan to create a Sussex Bay marine park along the entire county coast, east and west, to protect vital marine life, restore estuary habitat and even create a destination for eco tourism.
Backers of the scheme see it as the ‘blue mirror’ to the South Downs, with all the environmental protection, tourism and potential job opportunities that could be created.
The Crown Estate, which manages the land on behalf of the Queen, owns the coastal sea bed off the shores of the UK to a distance of 12 nautical miles.
The Crown is now in talks with the Councils to enter into a ‘natural capital seabed lease’ which would allow the authorities and their partners to create a ‘kelp blue carbon investment product’. Government bodies such as the Environment Agency, water companies and other companies can invest in kelp forests to help in their own bids to become carbon neutral.
The Nearshore Trawling Byelaw introduced by Sussex Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority (Sussex IFCA) was earlier this year approved by the government after effective lobbying by the Help Our Kelp partnership led by the Sussex Wildlife Trust..
It means that more than 300 square kilometres of seabed off the Sussex coast will now be protected from trawling - a measure which should allow essential habitats, such as kelp forests, to regenerate.
Coastal kelp beds also help combat climate change by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, reduce coastal erosion by absorbing wave energy and provide a haven for wildlife. If fully restored a kelp forest off the Sussex Coast could capture the carbon emissions equivalent to 66 million miles driven in a family diesel or the carbon emissions of 7,235 homes.
Once established, the ecosystem is expected to support sustainable inshore fishing with species such as bass, sole, black seabream, lobsters and cuttlefish, thriving in the conditions.
Now Adur & Worthing Councils want to move a step further by creating a Sussex Bay trust to attract investment in growing the kelp forest and restoring marine habitats. While the initial lease from the Crown would likely cover the seabed Adur & Worthing there is potential for it to eventually cover the entire Sussex coastline.
Worthing Borough Council’s Executive Member for Digital and Environmental Services, Cllr Edward Crouch, said, ‘This is a potential game-changing project which would help us cut carbon emissions, restore beautiful marine and estuarine habitats and perhaps even to create Sussex Bay as a destination for a whole host of sustainable marine activities.
‘I am proud that this Council is part of this project to become the first in the UK to lease the seabed from the Crown for this important environmental project. It shows that we have sustainability at the heart of everything we do.’
Adur District Council’s Executive Member for the Environment, Cllr Emma Evans, said, ‘We have a bold vision and that is to see the waters off our coast and our estuaries teeming with marine life again, growing kelp that will capture tonnes of climate-warming carbon and signal that this area is serious about wanting to restore natural beauty while helping the environment.’
Members of Adur & Worthing Councils’ Joint Strategic Committee on Tuesday (June 8) voted to contribute £50,000 to help development of the lease scheme with further external funding expected towards a launch of Sussex Bay in September. ... See MoreSee Less
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Very productive morning at The Triangle and then May Close allotment - tidying, weeding, planting, watering. It's all growing like fury!! Welcome to new team member Roberta at May Close today.
If anyone fancies coming along occasionally to help with watering, weeding etc, on either site, do email me: [email protected] ... See MoreSee Less
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Transition Worthing Greenspaces updated their information in their About section. ... See MoreSee Less
Transition Worthing Greenspaces updated their information in their About section.
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Celebrate the coming of Spring - TTW April newsletter out now! mailchi.mp/2f86fe2fc9a6/agm-4756918?e=080120563b Please do read & share ... See MoreSee Less
Let's sow some seeds to celebrate the coming of spring!
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Some of our members are already doing this, but just to say that we are a membership organisation and so if any signed up members are organising anything that aligns with TTW's ethos, we would be happ...Comment on Facebook