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Transition Liskeard is the first active group under the Transition Caradon umbrella. Primary contact is Klaudia van Gool
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Liskeard News
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Saturday, 19 July 2008 11:01 |
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On Friday the 11th July we ran anOpen Space event at Liskerrett. In the very lively event, people came forward to propose areas of discussion, which included energy, food, transport, Heart and Soul and more. The full schedule will be posted here. Individuals took responsibility for their discussion, fed back to the whole and took away notes for a write up so you can all share what was discussed. These notes will also be posted here. |
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Friday, 27 June 2008 16:48 |
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On Saturday 21st June several members of Transition Caradon and Liskeard braved the wet misty weather to visit Trerieve Organic Farm to hear first hand from Jim Candy about how he is reacting to increasing energy costs and the effects of climate change.“Higher diesel prices are causing problems on organic farms, as a lot of weed control relies on frequent cultivations, either to create stale seedbeds or inter-row weeding, or topping weeds on grassland. However the depletion of fossil fuels is having a bigger impact on conventional farmers, who are seeing huge increases in the cost of artificial fertilizers and sprays. I believe agriculture will have to become less reliant on chemical inputs, and people will have to use local produce if we are going to conserve oil stocks for essential priorities,” he said. Klaudia van Gool, who helps organise Transition Caradon meetings, said “ It was great to see how Jim collects rainwater to provide drinking water for the cattle, saving the energy embedded in mains supplies, and manages his farm yard manure by composting to enable maximum uptake of the nutrients for his crops. This visit gave us the chance to look at how agriculture must adapt in future, but more importantly allowed us to look at practical answers to these challenging problems.” The event was covered by the Western Morning News. Our press release (above), which was taken up by the Cornish Guardian this week. |
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Wednesday, 18 June 2008 19:01 |
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At the 9th May meeting of Transition Caradon, a fascinating event about money, with the film Money as debt, we called for a more local Transition project, to enable us to start focussing in on practical projects. So a new steering group was formed which met a the end of June. The first event as Transition Liskeard was held at the Town Halls' Long Room, where we showed How to Save the World, a film about biodynamic farming and had a chat about what is happening locally. To add to the food theme, we are also holding a farm walk at Trerieve Farm Saturday 21st June at 6 p.m. You can find a poster for it here. |
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Sunday, 02 December 2007 11:21 |
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Our second screening in Liskeard was The Power of Community, a film about Cuba when oil became scarce and how they coped with that. It is a very inspirational film which shows how the community went through big changes and adaptations to ensure they had food. Transport and the location of institutions were also completely changed. The film screening and discussion at Liskerrett attracted an audience of nearly 50 people, an excellent turn-out. The film be shown next in Torpoint on the 12th December, see poster in document section.
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