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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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