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Finding Local Solutions to Global Problems

Local Food Directory 2012

TEV is proud to announce the launch of the latest Local Food Directory outside the Word of Mouth Cafe, Vine St, Evesham on Monday 23rd of April. Full details on our Events Page

WELCOME TO

TRANSITION EVESHAM VALE

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Local Food Directory

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Can we Imagine living in the Vale of Evesham without Oil?

How can our community respond to the twin challenges of diminishing oil + gas supplies and the effects of Climate Change?

TEV Press Release

Alan Coxon Celebrity TV Chef is to open the Local Food Festival

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See full details on our News page and photo on our Events page

The Uk's Transition Movement is seeking to explore and find practical ways to answer these questions.

What kind of Practical choices can we make? And will they make a difference?

We believe we can make a difference, and some of the changes you can read about here, are already changing things for the better !

TEV response to the

South Worcs Development Plan

To read the full response, please download the pdf file HERE

Wychavon has come out on top of the list of installing Solar Panels in the County!

To find out more please download the latest Worcestershire Partnership Climate Change Newsletter, HERE

Please click on our FAQ page to find answers to these questions -

What is Peak Oil?

What is the Carbon Footprint of Worcestershire?

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'Welcome to the second of what we hope will be a regular newsletter from Transition Evesham Vale (TEV). Our aim is to keep you updated on what we've been up to, let you know what we will be doing in the coming months and provide links to other events, articles and organisations that may be of interest.

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You can view it now, and sign up online to receive the TEV e-mail Newsletter.

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Th Big Match

Supermarkets versus Farm Shops!

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Transition Evesham Vale (TEV) has during August conducted a comparison between the costs of fruit and vegetables at local farm shops and the Evesham supermarkets. For a full report please see the TEV News Page

TEV Response

to the

South Worcestershire Development Plan

'Given our purposes we welcome the fact that the Government is placing localism at the heart of the planning system. Strong local engagement and control over development decisions is to be welcomed. But it should also be recognised that there are some issues which will require consideration over a wider area than that of an individual local authority if appropriate decisions are to be made. The potential impacts of some development may extend over an area far greater than that of a local planning authority. Specific examples in the Vale of Evesham are developments which increase movements of heavy goods vehicles and developments which increase disproportionately commuting to other parts of the West Midlands'. 

To read the full TEV response, please download the pdf file HERE

Dire Consequences of Climate Change impacts on Water Supplies to Growers

Following on from the above TEV Press Release on September 21st 2011 - (Please see the News Page 2 for full details) 2 major reports have recently been released which address the concerns about the future of our water supplies here in the UK. After what has been the driest year recorded here in the Vale of Evesham, this matter of water availability will increasingly affect all of us locally. So maybe this is a good time to look into the ways we manage water both individually and collectively?

Here are the 2 major reports to view and download as pdf files -

The case for change - current and future water availability

Water for Life - government white paper

You may also like to read -

Getting to the heart of horticulture

This report has been designed to give a comprehensive review of the state of the horticultural industry in the West Midlands in 2011.

UK Environment Agency

Conserving Water in Buildings

A practical Guide

This useful 26 page pdf file to download covers the following -

1 - Toilets

2 - Urinals

3 - Showers and Baths

4 - Domestic Appliances

5 - Taps

6 - Gardening

7 - Reusing greywater and harvesting rainwater

8 - Detecting leaks and metering

9 - Plumbing and heating system design

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Conserving Water in Buildings

A practical Guide

See the no-nonsence guide to help people understand when food is safe to eat, for the average family throws away £50 of good food a month.

To explore the Love Food Hate Waste website, please click HERE

The new

TEV Promotion PDF File

Could you help us to get the message out and tell people about what Transition Evesham Vale is all about?

Please see the pdf file and 'how to send it to your friends' on the

About Us page

BBC Radio 4 - Costing the Earth

'Pushing Water'

An investigation into the future of our water supplies.Why are the water companies so reluctant to trade with each other? There is a drought in most of England but plenty of water elsewhere.Is it possible to move water around Britain?

Listen again HERE

Download the New

TEV Food Directory

with Transition Pershore

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For full details of the Event,

please click HERE

FUTURE EVENTS

tapwater.org.uk

Tapwater.org is a non profit organisation promoting the drinking of tap water in the UK. Their aim is to reduce the use of expensive and environmentally damaging bottled waters, by making it easy and convenient for you to access free tap water wherever you are.

Did you know that we throw away 53,000,000 single use plastic bottles every day in England and we throw away 20,000,000 single use plastic cups.

Tap water costs 65p for 1,000 litres, bottled water costs about £1.20 for just half a litre. Only 17% of plastic bottles in the UK are recycled. It takes 6 litres of water to produce 1 litre of botted water. I litre of bottled water produces 0.185kg of CO2 in production and at least 0.086kg of CO2 in transport from factory to shop.

For full details of just how tapwater.org.uk is beginning to make a difference and how we can learn more and take part in the change, please download the tapwater pdf file, or visit their website.

Something for your Diary

The second

'Vale First' Local Food Festival

will be held on

Sunday June 17th 2012

in All Saints Churchyard,Evesham.

Latest Web Links

The Rough Guide to Community Energy

What can we do to create sustainability in our own communities?

Download the Guide HERE

Please click on Logo for details

The New Economics.org

Full of innovative ideas for the

future, including -

'The Wisdom of prevention'

Down the pdf file HERE

The Do's and Don'ts of Backyard Composting

It's International Compost Awareness Week, where more news and interesting articles can be found here at treehugger.com

The Royal Society

'People and the Planet'

April 2012

Summary pdf file

Full Report pdf file

We Hope you will enjoy exploring this web site.

It is our intention to continue to select the most interesting and relevant information we can find and then share it with others, in the hope that this will allow us all to be better informed in finding ways to create a sustainable future for us all. If you know of any other interesting links please let us know and we could add them to our growing data base. To contact the webmaster please click HERE

As the site grows, it is inevitable that some links will fail, we would be very grateful if you could let us know if you spot any errors or breaks in links, so that improvements can then be made by our webmaster. To let us know of any faults please click HERE

Please look out for the new TEV Food Label, when you next eat out or purchase food locally. The label says

30 % of Local Food served here. All grown and collected within 30 miles radius of Evesham.

The Secrets of Frugal Innovation

Listen to this BBC Radio 4 programme 30 mins long.

Please click HERE

The Green Alliance Policy Insight

January 2012

Find out what the public thinks about Green Issues.

More discussion and links on the Green Alliance Blog

Energy Share News.com

Keep up with the latest ideas and information

Transition Evesham Vale is completely non partisan in its set up, organization, and operation.

BBC Radio 4

'Greening the Teens'

How do you get teenagers to care about the environment they are going to inherit?

Please click HERE to listen again

WCC

Let's Waste Less Campaign

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A New Website has been set up so that people living across the county can find all the information they need to help reduce what they throw out and make their waste work for them !

Please visit

www.letswasteless.com

How can we use Energy in our homes more efficiently?

For more details, please click HERE