Transition Monmouth Latest and Solcer House Visit

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Nov 102015
 

See the latest Transition Monmouth news and upcoming events:-

http://www.transitionmonmouth.org/transitionmonmouth.org/News+Views.html

There was a visit recently to Solcer House, designed and constructed by a team from the Welsh School of Architecture as part of a Low Carbon Research Institute programme.  It is Britain’s first ‘energy positive’ house + built in just 16 weeks.  Batteries store electricity generated from the solar panels that function as the roof, and with massive amounts of insulation to reduce energy use together with state-of-the-art building materials it should be able to export electricity to the national grid for eight months of the year.

http://sites.cardiff.ac.uk/architecture/news-items/solcer-house/

 

Community Canteen raises money for ATT

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Aug 172014
 

 

The Community Canteen on 16th August raised over £276 for ATT. This money will be used to pay for the annual insurance premium which covers events run by community groups affiliated to ATT.

A message from the ATT treasurer

‘Please extend the thanks and gratitude of ATT to the community canteen workers and punters who have, again, raised the money for the ATT Insurance premium. Last year numerous events run by transition town affiliated groups in Abergavenny were covered by this insurance policy. We hope that similar will be the case this year.’

 

Successful bid to create traditional garden at Abergavenny Museum

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Mar 062014
 

Dear All

I’m pleased to report that Abergavenny Transition Town has successfully obtained funding for creating a traditional garden in the grounds of Abergavenny Museum. We have  obtained the following funds:
– £150 garden vouchers from Keep Wales Tidy to kick things off and create pollinator friendly wildflower garden
– £3k from National Lottery via Kew Garden for a much bigger project between March and October.
As I mentioned in a previous email we are going to kick this off with a weekend of digging, turf stripping, preparing a seed bad and scattering seed (in a gardening sort of way) on the 29 and 30 March. Probable times are 10-4 on Saturday and 12-4 on Sunday although we will confirm these times nearer the date.
When we have this first weekend out of the way (using the £150 garden vouchers from KWT) we will  be planning the bigger project.
If anyone can spare an hour or so on the Saturday or Sunday to help out please let me know. I know there’s other stuff going on that weekend (including Mothers Day) but a condition of the scheme is that we spend the vouchers and complete the project by the end of March.
Thanks

Organic Centre Wales Video

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Feb 242014
 

This video highlights projects nearby and includes references to ATT

 

Our video is finally published, see http://organicfoodandfarming.org.uk/projects/working-with-communities/. I hope you like it, and please do publicize it if so.

 

from Jane Powell of OCW