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    Climate Action Day
    Transition Leytonstone
    • Nov 12, 2021
    • 2 min

    Climate Action Day

    This year Climate Action Day took place on 6th November and was organised by XR Waltham Forest and kindly hosted by St John's Church...
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    A Hub of Resilience in Leytonstone
    Amy Scaife
    • Feb 21, 2021
    • 4 min

    A Hub of Resilience in Leytonstone

    Back in February 2020 it was impossible to imagine what the year ahead had in store for us. I was already a couple of months into...
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    People & Permaculture - a book review
    Sandra
    • Feb 6, 2021
    • 4 min

    People & Permaculture - a book review

    Transition Leytonstone holds a fantastic collection of books on topics from ecology to gardening, renewable energy to social justice....
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    Love local, shop local: part 1
    armstrongrebecca
    • Dec 5, 2020
    • 4 min

    Love local, shop local: part 1

    I want to share a couple of statistics. One: every £10 spent at a locally owned shop generates £25 for that area; the same spent in a...
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    The Community Fridge latest news
    Diana Korchien
    • Sep 25, 2020
    • 1 min

    The Community Fridge latest news

    The Community Fridge continues to go from strength to strength - securing grant funding and attracting donations of food from local growers.
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    An introduction – why I got involved with Transition Leytonstone
    armstrongrebecca
    • Sep 15, 2020
    • 2 min

    An introduction – why I got involved with Transition Leytonstone

    The latest member of Transition Leytonstone takes a moment to introduce herself and talk about what she hopes to do with the organisation.
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    Nature privilege - exploring the journey from knowing to acting
    Sandra
    • Jul 27, 2020
    • 3 min

    Nature privilege - exploring the journey from knowing to acting

    Sandra reflects on how a lack of opportunity to learn about and spend time in Nature might lead to a lack of engagement with 'green' issues.
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    Coronavirus, community resilience and the future
    Sandra
    • May 9, 2020
    • 2 min

    Coronavirus, community resilience and the future

    Initial thoughts on what the current crisis might mean for Transition towns and for local communities.
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    A new garden for the Methodist Church
    Sandra
    • Jan 10, 2020
    • 1 min

    A new garden for the Methodist Church

    Leytonstone Methodist Church asked Transition Leytonstone to help them design and create a new garden at the front of the church.
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    Why we all need more mushrooms in our lives
    Sandra
    • Sep 1, 2019
    • 3 min

    Why we all need more mushrooms in our lives

    Do you grow your own food? How about mushrooms? - highly nutritious but also crucial to the health of soils and ecosystems.
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    Museum of London – Phyto-Sensor: an air quality garden workshop and walk
    Sandra
    • May 1, 2018
    • 3 min

    Museum of London – Phyto-Sensor: an air quality garden workshop and walk

    An account of a recent workshop at the Museum of London on air quality and plants which help clean our air of pollutants. On 17th March I...
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    Education, education, education
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    • Nov 27, 2014
    • 2 min

    Education, education, education

    Vertical Veg Workshop The next event in our Community Garden will be a suitably seasonal affair, with free soup, artisan bread, cake, and...
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    WORKSHOP: To make a Solar Dryer
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    • Jul 30, 2014
    • 1 min

    WORKSHOP: To make a Solar Dryer

    The newest and most energy-hungry methods of food preservation are well known to all: refrigeration and freezing – and of course,...
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    Cultivate 2014 - the Power of Community
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    • Mar 19, 2014
    • 2 min

    Cultivate 2014 - the Power of Community

    SHARING FOOD, SEED AND SPACE Waltham Forest’s very first urban food growing festival, will be kicking off on Friday March 21 with Grow...
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    Community Garden Launch Day!
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    • Feb 16, 2013
    • 2 min

    Community Garden Launch Day!

    Last Sunday’s weather was miserable, marked by bone-chilling humid air, an absent sun, sodden, squelchy soil, with a monotonous pall of...
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    Transition Free Press
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    • Feb 9, 2013
    • 1 min

    Transition Free Press

    Cool, new and in your area now! Finally…there’s a newspaper that sees the world from our standpoint. Issue 1 of Transition Free Press is...
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