Year: 2024

Mini-seminar number eighteen was on Buxton Wild Weeks We were told about all the exciting activities that are being planned to help our schools and community get wild about Buxton. Buxton Wild Weeks are open for everyone to enjoy…

Our seventeenth seminar was on recycling. Joel Rawlins from Alliance Environmental, the firm who handle most of the recyclable waste we generate locally on behalf the High Peak Borough Council area spoke about what actually happens to our ‘recyclables’, what happens..

Number sixteenth was Zero Carbon Britain. Paul Allen from the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) in Wales spoke about the CAT Zero Carbon Britain plan, roadmap, and courses. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHJbdiKYYYU&t=26s

Number fifteen of our seminars was Me and My Electricity. Peter Ranson shared his non-technical story of how he has been able to establish a home energy system which minimises the use of electricity from the grid whilst maximizing..

Number fourteen of our seminars was A Neighbourhood Plan for Buxton with Joe Dugdale, Jane Reynolds & Richard Silson. Buxton is unusual in not being ‘Parished’, i.e. it does not have its own Town Council – that means that all..

Number thirteen of our seminars was Participatory Budgeting Alan Budge, who lives in Buxton and helped to write the Buxton Economic Resilience Study (2016) has worked to support the development of Participatory Budgeting (PB) across the UK for the..

Our twelfth mini seminar was a little different as it started with a very entertaining and considered Ted Talk entitled A Healthy Economy Should be Designed to Thrive, Not Grow in which Kate Roworth spoke of the Donut Economy after which we..

Our eleventh mini-seminar was Sustainable Travel A dynamic duo of expert speakers working on sustainable travel: Tina Heathcote; Buxton Town Team will soon be consulting on the first ever whole-town all-inclusive Sustainable Travel Plan in the country to keep Buxton..

Our tenth mini-seminar was Electric Cars Aren’t the Future, They’re Here. Nicolas Raimo spoke about how much electric cars have changed over 3 years, and their likely development over the near-future. He discussed what role hydrogen may play as..

Our ninth mini-seminar was ‘Excellence in Consumption’ Dr Terry Newholm, Reader in Consumer Ethics, University of Manchester.  Our life is in a consumer culture with all the threats that poses to our survival; not an easy proposition for us humans…