Herefordshire Green Network

Very late notice and only available to those of you who receive our daily rather than weekly mailings… but a chance not to miss!

Are you, or is someone you know, interested in organising community-led gleans?

And by that we mean – groups of people rescuing surplus fruit & veg from farms.

If that sounds interesting and you want to learn how to organise a gleaning day, then why not come to training in Redditch – led by food waste charity Feedback.

Date of Training: Tuesday 17th September, 2pm ’til 5pm.

Please RSVP to Alistair for more information: wardrobewalls02@hotmail.com

For more general information about community led gleaning, click here.

The venue is The REDI Centre, South Street, Redditch. B98 7DQ
Here’s the How To Find the venue: http://www.ryce.org.uk/contact-us/

You are warmly invited to come to a dedicated evening session to inform, welcome new and re-affirm existing members.This will be a well organised evening, skilfully led by Dr Kristina Jamieson with plenty of information, small group discussion, questions, laughter, cake and sense of gathering.You can find where you can best fit your skills and interests within the XR family and feel empowered to act.

Monday September 2nd Tea & cake from 6.30 for 7pm start

The Friends Meeting House (Quakers) King StHereford

Transition Network UK are currently working on a funding bid to the National Lottery Community Fund for a 5 year programme developing regional and thematic networks in England, Wales and Scotland.

As part of that bid, they have developed a survey to bring in as many voices from Transition across the Country as possible.

And they would be delighted if you lovely people from Herefordshire and the Marches would fill in the survey… They need multiple perspectives and different experiences.

And as an incentive they are offering a prize draw for three copies of Rob Hopkins’ new book From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want – due to be published in October 2019.

Here is the survey link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JFFM98H Please complete by: Saturday September 7th

Thanks!

In response to the climate emergency, Transition Leominster is working to create a Zero Carbon Leominster Energy Descent Action Plan.

Jenny and Silke, from Transition Leominster, said, “Thank you to everyone who came to our public launch meeting on 13th June to kickstart our plan. We had a great presentation from Gordon Coppock and Nick Read on Zero Carbon Herefordshire, and afterwards Mary Burton kept us all focused for a brainstorming session where we started collecting ‘big ideas’ for our action plan.”

The meeting identified the following themes:

• Sustainable transport
• Energy generation and energy saving
• Buildings and the built environment
• Biodiversity and green spaces
• Food and land use
• Education and awareness

Based on this, the group has created a survey to invite suggestions for how Zero Carbon Leominster can become a reality. Please take a minute to fill in the form, and contribute your big ideas to the project!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfYO9f1lRVb7l7XpngNqSngi65tMIWCLMimB6BdcOugmG2y9w/viewform

As we begin to regroup after the summer, we’re delighted to announce a special addition to our programme of HGN gatherings: CULTURAL EMERGENCE TALK AND WORKSHOP with Looby Macnamara Wednesday 18 September, 7.30pm @ Left Bank Village, Hereford Cultural Emergence is a toolkit designed to create cultures of personal leadership, collective intelligence and planetary care. The toolkit has been developed by Looby Macnamara in collaboration with other global visionaries. Join Looby to find out how Cultural Emergence can support you in creating regenerative cultures in your own life and relationships, as well as how it can ripple out into the wider world. Discover a message of hope and tools for empowerment. Looby Macnamara is an experienced permaculture teacher, author and designer, and runs Applewood Permaculture Centre in North Herefordshire. She is running a weekend ACE (Activating Cultural Emergence) course from 4-6 October at Applewood, which you can explore in more detail with an online, free/pay as you wish Cultural Emergence taster course. For more details of all the courses online and at Applewood see www.applewoodcourses.com

Those of you who came along to our July HGN Gathering about local food security will be pleased to see more information here from Kristen Prichard. Kristen works as a Health Improver Practitioner with Herefordshire Council and is currently moving Herefordshire towards a Sustainable Food City (SFC) award.

Across the globe, communities at every scale have recognised the key role food can play in dealing with some of today’s most pressing social, economic and environmental challenges and are taking a joined up approach to transforming their food culture and food system.

From obesity and diet-related ill-health to food poverty and waste, climate change and biodiversity loss to declining prosperity and social dislocation, food is not only at the heart of some of our greatest problems but is also a vital part of the solution.

The Sustainable Food Cities approach involves developing a cross-sector partnership of local public agencies, businesses, academics and NGOs committed to working together to make healthy and sustainable food a defining characteristic of where they live.

Kristen is in the initial stages of mapping activity across the county and is really keen to celebrate the great things going on by achieving a SFC award for the county.

Further information can be found here: http://sustainablefoodcities.org/about