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South London Low Carbon Communities

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The South London Low Carbon Communities (LCC) group first met in parallel with the LCC national conference in October 2008. This Project Dirt group is to help provide better links between the groups and enable us to see what each other is doing!

Location: South London
Members: 37
Latest Activity: Nov 20

Information on all our member projects

There are a lot of groups in South London! Here are some of those we know about:

Balham Composters - for more details click here
Food Up Front - for more details click here
Hyde Farm CAN - for more details click here
Landfit - for more details click here
Project Dirt - for more details click here
Pepys Estate composting project - for more details click here
Sustainable Merton - for more details click here
The Teddington Society - for more details click here
Transition Town Brixton - for more details click here
Transition Town Colliers Wood - for more details click here
Transition Town Tooting - for more details click here
Wandsworth Environment Forum - for more details click here

And we were joined by some guests from outside South London, or from projects with a wider geographical focus, who came to join our conference! Including:

Climate Camp - for more details click here
Fulham Green Fields - for more details click here
Global Generation - for more details click here
Plane Stupid - for more details click here
Women's Environmental Network - for more details click here

Please let us know if we've missed you out! (leave a comment below).

This shared folder will contain more information on all of our projects; please upload your own completed template or email it to Nick or Sue: (to upload one yourself, you'll need to join box.net by clicking on the special link here)

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Comment by Emma on November 18, 2009 at 6:08pm: Calling all Wandsworth Residents!

Transition Town Wandsworth would like to invite you to an open meeting on 23rd November at 7pm, at the Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill.

We'll be discussing...
- Our aspirations for a sustainable Wandsworth
- How we can make it happen?
- Who can do what?

We hope to agree working groups on different topics e.g. Energy, Food Growing and Transport, and taking forward plans for our community garden.

There will be many opportunities for all to get involved in everything, so come along with your ideas and enthusiasm!

More info here: http://www.projectdirt.com/events/transition-town-wandsworth-5

To locate Battersea Arts Centre, click here: http://www.bac.org.uk/your-visit/finding-us/

Look forward to seeing you!

Comment by Sue on January 20, 2009 at 2:25pm: There is a public meeting on the Sustainable Communities Act at the Houses of Parliament on 10 Feb.. I've put it on the events listing

Comment by Sue on January 8, 2009 at 10:35pm: There's now a Transition Lewisham e-mail group, to allow the people in various parts of the borough who are mulling over doing smthg to share ideas etc. To join the group send an e-mail to transitionlewisham-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. There are people from New Cross, Brockley, Ladywell, Lee Green and Sydenham on it, but not quite enough in any one area to get going yet.

Comment by Denny on December 8, 2008 at 4:38pm: Hi Sue

I've been speaking with Wandsworth and they are almost certain to 'opt-in' to the Act too. I'm now trying to discuss how they will involve Wandsworth Environment Forum members. I will let people know more once I know myself.

In my day job at the SDC, I have had some involvement with the Act which has left me slightly sceptical about how much energy it will be worth us all putting into engaging with it but, that said, it's still worth having a go!

Best wishes

Denny

Comment by Sue on December 5, 2008 at 5:22pm: Wow.. will try to get a friendly councillor to do the same in Lambeth then..
Sue

Comment by Sue on December 5, 2008 at 12:44pm: Lewisham has already opted in to the Sustainable Communities Act - I proposed a motion to full council about 6 weeks ago that was passed unanimously. Text of motion can be found on p339 of agenda: http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/776A6233-F200-4CE4-853E-5AD587DBFE3F/0/2dc6a48e831445c6a0c1c8f0c612662dAgenda229September2008.PDF. We also organised a public meeting with Steve Shaw from the Local Works campaign, which went well. Important to get Councils to opt in. Potentially powerful piece of grassroots up legislation, rather than top down.

Comment by Sue on December 5, 2008 at 12:33pm: At the networking day we talked briefly about the Sustainable Communities Act, but no-one seemed to know much about it. We thought it might be something we could cooperate on.

The Localworks website (http://www.localworks.org/) has some useful resources.

Does anyone have time to look at this and suggest a course of action for our networks? It seems that in the first place we need to persuade our councils to opt in to the Act.

Sue

Comment by Sue on October 16, 2008 at 11:50pm: Anyone in this group going to the Urban Transition Initiatives thing in Nottingham at the end of November? See: http://transitionculture.org/2008/10/16/transition-cities-conference-a-vital-event-for-urban-transitioners/
?

Comment by Sue on October 15, 2008 at 12:06pm: There's a Community Action for Energy conference in Oxford on Tuesday 11 November. We could book a stall to showcase our projects. This is a good example of how we can cooperate. On our own we might not be inclined to book a stall but as a group of projects it seems more worthwhile.

http://lowcarboncommunities.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/conference-2008.pdf

I am happy to coordinate taking stuff (assuming there will be a couple of us travelling up there from South London).

let me know what you think and whether you might go yourselves.

Comment by Sue on October 7, 2008 at 5:06pm: Some Lewisham stuff:
www.landfit.org, a project aimed at matching those who want to garden with those who have front gardens they don't want to look after.

Also, the great work Nico and the Pepys Community Forum are doing composting food waste on the Pepys Estate in Deptford: http://pepyscommunityforum.org.uk/recycle/index.html.

And DAGE (Deptford Action for the Elderly), Emmaus and Lee Oasis are all doing great work recycling and reusing furniture: www.dage.org.uk, www.emmaus.org.uk, www.leeoasis.org.uk