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Sourdough recipe
Sourdough recipe used in the workshop 17th March, taken from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall: http://www.channel4.com/4food/recipes/chefs/hugh-fearnley-whittingstall/...
The baker at River Cottage wrote this book with a similar but slightly more developed sourdough method, which I suspect Hugh tweaked http://www.rivercottage.net/users/River%20Cottage%20Bread%20Handbook/
It's well-worth looking at for straightforward instructions and bready recipes.
WANTED - WOOL AND TEE-SHIRTS
WANTED URGENTLY!
For the Fun with Fabrics workshops, we are in need of:
WOOL - for the Knit, Crochet & Repair
session on 7th March
OLD TEE-SHIRTS - ideally nice
colourful ones, for the Rag Rug making on
14th March
If you can help with these please contact Penny
WASTE PACKAGING - empty fruit tetrapaks and coloured carrier bags (not the bio-degradable ones) - clean please! Offers to Janet
UNIVERSITY GO GREEN DAY
THURSDAY 14TH FEBRUARY
GO GREEN DAY, UNIVERSITY DOME
We had a fun day at Buxton's very own University, joining all sorts of green groups for an event in the Dome. As well as the usual display and books, we took along the Carbonopoly game - that's the one where Buxton ends up fully greened, with solar panels, orchards, wind turbines and electric buses, and all the players have more money than they started with. We were joined briefly by a visitor from far away, Paula Bear, who was with the Greenpeace team campaigning to Save the Arctic. She was delighted to find she'd won a crossword competition.
- JanetMiller's blog
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TOWN TEAM UPDATE
TOWN TEAM UPDATE
9th NOVEMBER 2012
Work on setting up Buxton Town Team community interest company is well on the way. A community Interest Statement has been written, the Articles of Association are in final draft and the first interim team of directors have been chosen - Alan Thompson, Tina Heathcote, Janet Miller, Joe Dugdale, Roger Floyd and Roddie MacLean. They and a few others are wrestling with setting up procedures and terms of reference and all the other lovely administrative stuff that goes with being a registered company.
Meanwhile there is an Ideas & Vision Group, led by Mike Bryant, working on assessing and prioritising the many, many suggestions for projects the team could support. In parallel with that, a Communications Group is sorting out Buxton Town Team website and email systems, logos and letterheads, and also looking at how Buxton as a whole is marketed, and a Scrutiny Group to make sure the whole thing is done transparently and ethically and does not stray from its original purpose.
The Town Team even has some money, signing up as a Town Team Partner with Andrew Bingham MP was all that was needed to access a grant of £10,000 to go towards some of the proposals in the original Portas Pilot Bid.
There is a massive overlap between Buxton Town Team's stated aim - 'to advance the prosperity of Buxton and the well-being of its community' - and Transition Buxton's ideas to revive the local economy.
Anybody can join the Town Team, email pilotgroup@buxtontownteam.org.uk
WINTER FILM SEASON
WINTER FILM SEASON
PAUPERS PIT, OLD HALL HOTEL
It's that time of year again, when we can look forward to spending our evenings in front of a good film.
Dates this year are:
THURSDAY 11th OCTOBER
THURSDAY 22nd NOVEMBER
THURSDAY 17th JANUARY
THURSDAY 21st FEBRUARY
THURSDAY 21st MARCH
For a list of what films we are showing contact Neil
Website new user registrations
I've never been sure why but the Transtion Buxton website has always been a target for spammers (or at least, it has for all the time I've been working on it)
I spend most of my days working with websites now, from personal blogs to public facing sites for international companies and this site gets more malicious attacks than all of them put together. For example, today has seen 77 fake user signups (yesterday saw 91) - most of these are stopped by the CAPTCHA (squigly images that you have to enter to prove that you are human) but even these can be got past by spammers.
- Matt Rose's blog
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Bushey Heath Farm
Short tour of a Peak District farm which uses its own wind turbine and ground source heat pump for more sustainable energy, as well as rain water harvesting to save water. The farm owner gives his own account of the realities of renewable energy on a small scale. Informative and myth-busting in a beautiful setting in the Peak District, England.
- Aggie's blog
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Website problem after update
EDIT : All sorted now!
After a routine update of the website internals a strange issue has cropped up meaning that the nice links that the system uses are broken. I've had to change it to the default (ugly) link system until I can sort it. So:
http://transitionbuxton.co.uk/node/118/
is now
http://transitionbuxton.co.uk/?q=node/118
and
http://transitionbuxton.co.uk/contact/
is now
http://transitionbuxton.co.uk/?q=contact
Energy of Downloads
Hello all,
Found this very thorough article while scanning the internet.
http://www.katescomment.com/energy-of-downloads/
A wonderful bit of calculator magic to discover that the webservers she looks after use 5.9 Watt hours of electricity for every 1MB of data downloaded.
Meaning that "you could drive about 2 miles (in an electric car) on the energy required to download and deliver a music album, or do the tea round for 12 people"
- Matt Rose's blog
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Bespoke Wind Turbine
About a year ago, Cath suggested to the Energy group that they might be interested in making a wind turbine out of an old bicycle wheel - so it's all her fault. The article that started it all is in the Permaculture magazine that came out in Spring 2010 - issue number 63, pages 8 to 11.
