Monthly Archives: November 2015

Lobby Our MP to Support a Safe Climate

25 Wednesday Nov 2015

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The governments of more than 190 nations gather in Paris in late November to discuss a global agreement on climate change.

Scientists have warned that unless greenhouse gas emissions start to fall, we will exceed a temperature rise of 2 degrees C above pre-industrial levels. Above this rise, global warming will become catastrophic and irreversible.

However, the UK and other nations with the biggest greenhouse gas emissions are likely to make commitments in Paris that will not be enough to keep the temperature rise within 2 degrees.

We have joined with Sustainable Hayfield in sending letters to our MP, Andrew Bingham, asking him to use his influence in parliament to work towards implementing a greater reduction in CO2 emissions in the UK and a transition from fossil fuels to renewables

Please sign our letter and send or email it to him by 10th December 2015.

Climate Change Letter to Andrew Bingham

If you would like to sign an online petition on this issue you can do so here

We will be in New Mills town centre, on the Prom and in The Torrs Butterfly Café between 10:30 and 12:00 on Saturday 28th November, to ask people to contact Andrew Bingham. If you can help at all with handing out leaflets or staffing the stall, please let us know at transition.newmills@gmail.com

There will also be a party going to the Climate Summit event in Sheffield on Saturday afternoon – meet at New Mills Central Station for the 12:17 train.

A Triumph for Trees!

21 Saturday Nov 2015

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Thanks to you all for a brilliant effort. Around 400 trees were planted on and around the Derby Road playing fields in New Mills on Sunday and Monday, in a joint project between Transition New Mills and Thornsett School.

Thank you to everyone who cleared the ground, put out the marker canes, planted trees, put on and checked the guards, contributed cakes and made tea.  Also thank you to those of you who turned up after we had finished on Sunday  – sorry  our volunteers were so efficient – and to those who expressed their interest and support but couldn’t help on the day.

Thank you to the head, staff, children and parents at Thornsett School. We hope you are proud of your contribution and excited about the prospect of watching the trees grow and seeing the wildlife thrive as a result. We are relying on you to keep an eye out for the trees and to help make the whole of your local community feel that the trees belong to them.

We hope that this is just the beginning of bring more trees back to the area. The Woodland Trust is giving away nearly 5 million trees to community and school groups in the UK over the next 3 years. We would be happy to bid for more trees and organise another event next Autumn.

All we need is some land – so if you have spare land yourself, or know someone who does, or can suggest a suitable plot, please let us know.

Christine Moore    chrism44ind@yahoo.com

Jane Ayres   janecampaign@gmail.com

Jill Hulme   jillhulme@gmail.com

 

TREE PLANTING THIS SUNDAY!

10 Tuesday Nov 2015

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SUNDAY 15TH NOVEMBER 10.00 – 3.00 AT DERBY ROAD PLAYING FIELD.

The trees have arrived and are eager to be planted in their new home, in a joint project between Transition New Mills and Thornsett Primary School!

Thank you to all who have offered to help. Anyone else who is free for an hour or so on Sunday, please come along. Please bring you own spade and gardening gloves if you have them.

Tea and coffee and cakes will be provided. Contributions of cake will be very welcome.

Derby Rd playing fields are at the end of Portland Rd (where there is some parking). If you are coming along High Hill Rd from Hayfield Rd, Portland Rd is the first right turn after the mini-roundabout.

The trees which have been provided by the Woodland Trust are oak, hawthorn, rowan, blackthorn, silver birch and hazel. These species have been selected to provide a range of food sources and habitats in order to increase biodiversity.

If you have any queries please contact one of us

Chris Moore   chrism44ind@yahoo.com  07860834908

Jane Ayres   janecampaign@gmail.com

Jill Hulme    jillhulme@gmail.com

Divest Derbyshire

10 Tuesday Nov 2015

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Please sign this petition (of which Transition New Mills is a named supporter) to urge Derbyshire County Council to divest from fossil fuels and join the new zeitgeist…

https://campaigns.gofossilfree.org/petitions/divest-derbyshire

Derbyshire County Council Pension Fund has £290 million invested in fossil fuel industries, including Royal Dutch Shell, BP and Rio Tinto. Fossil fuel industries make up nearly 6% of the pension fund.

The petition calls on DCC to immediately freeze any new investments in fossil fuels and divest from direct ownership and any commingled funds that include fossil fuel public equities and corporate bonds within 5 years.