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Tag Archives: Transition Town
Crystal Palace Transition Town ‘Festival of Ideas’, May 25
What do the Crystal Palace Food Market, the Christmas Craft Fair at The Alma, the SE Art Trail, Guided Bicycle Commutes, proposed solar panels at Crystal Palace Station, Palace Pint, tree-planting in Crystal Palace Park, Palace Buds, the Edible Garden … Continue reading
Help fire-up Palace Power at energy meeting, Oct 13
Crystal Palace railway station will soon be home to a community-led Energy Garden, combining plants and flowers with renewable energy sources. Join the local community, Palace Power community energy group and the Crystal Palace Transition Town movement for an evening … Continue reading
Transition Town Give and Take, Surrey Street, Sat May 2
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Friends of the Earth Green Beanfeast, Green Dragon, Dec 15
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Sensible is as Sensible does, as the Captain unveils his bench
“It has always been hard being known as ‘Sensible’ when sometimes I’m not,” Raymond Burns said on Saturday, wearing a bright Hawaiian shirt, baggy shorts and trademark red beret. “But it helped me in my career so I shouldn’t really … Continue reading
Let’s be a borough of old scrubbers, says Captain Sensible
Captain Sensible has called on the people of Croydon to “get up off their arses” and take up their scrubbing brushes, their brooms and buckets, and start to get the borough cleaner, doorstep by doorstep. The former Damned frontman is … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Environment, Fly tipping, Gardening, Music, Refuse collection, South Norwood, South Norwood Tourist Board, Stuart Collins, Transition Town, Upper Norwood Library Trust
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Wandle Park sows seeds for a community with flowers and veg
By Catherine Graham Wandle Park Community Garden will be sowing the seeds of future success next weekend when the park’s annual garden party is staged on Saturday, July 27. The garden party, in its second year since the revamped town … Continue reading
Help with South Norwood’s Sensible Garden, June 25
South Norwood Tourist Board and Crystal Palace Transition Town will be back at the Sensible Garden tomorrow, June 25, at 6pm to work at creating what they call “a pocket park on this verdant gateway site to South Norwood”. They say, “You, … Continue reading
Crystal Palace Transition Town annual meeting, June 11
It has been an incredible year for Crystal Palace Transition Town. Come along to the CPTT’s annual meeting at the Salvation Army Hall on Westow Hill on June 11 (doors open 7.15pm; the venue is upstairs, but there is a … Continue reading
Crystal Palace screening gets Fairtrade Fortnight underway
Fairtrade Fortnight gets underway in Crystal Palace tonight with a film screening that features an introduction by local comedian Mark Thomas. Bananas Unpeeled is a 26-minute documentary shot in Latin America and the Caribbean, investigating the social and environmental issues … Continue reading
Crystal Palace set to go bananas for… Fairtrade bananas
It is Fairtrade Fortnight at the end of this month, from February 24 to March 9, and during those two weeks, people who live or work in and around Crystal Palace will be hearing a lot about “Foncho”, as the area … Continue reading
Miliband visits Crystal Palace for his small business message
Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, is in Crystal Palace today to show that, while the Conservatives are the party of big business, his party is backing small business. Accompanied by Streatham MP and his shadow business spokesman Chuka Umanna and … Continue reading
Transition Town publishes guide to local businesses
Crystal Palace Transition Town is backing its local economy and celebrating Crystal Palace community life by launching The Local & Fair Guide to Shopping and Eating in Crystal Palace this Saturday. The guide celebrates the myriad of shops, artisan work shops, pubs, … Continue reading
Transition Town team ready to open community garden
SUSAN OLIVER on a couple of important Green events around the borough in the coming week Chard and turnip greens have already been reaped. The onions are coming along, the potatoes are starting to peep, and the calendula and cosmos … Continue reading
Stuff and no nonsense at book launch in Crystal Palace
What does a Transition Town do? It does “stuff”, as Rob Hopkins underlined this week on his visit to Crystal Palace. Hopkins is the co-founder of the Transition Network and was visiting for the British launch of his book The … Continue reading
Transition Network founder to launch book in Crystal Palace
Rob Hopkins, the co-founder of the Transition Network, is coming to Crystal Palace next month for the British launch of his book The Power of Just Doing Stuff. “We are particularly pleased that Crystal Palace Transition Town is mentioned and … Continue reading
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Join the celebration for Crystal Palace’s transition: May 8
The Crystal Palace Transition Town group is inviting residents from near and far to join them tonight for their annual meeting and celebration tonight at The Salvation Army Building, 58-60 Westow Street, SE19 3AF from 7.30pm. “It’s been a very … Continue reading
Making a change and saving the planet, one step at a time
SUSAN OLIVER explains why Croydon needs to become a Transition Town You don’t have to look hard to find bad news about the state of the planet today. Whether it’s droughts, or floods, or Greenland’s ice melting, or the oceans … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Addiscombe West, Community associations, Education, Environment, Susan Oliver, Transport
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