Lyme Regis from the sea.

News from the Turn Lyme Green HQ.

Pride of Place - A chance to commission a piece of Community art with our own theme & influence!
Well, Candida and Mark sat in Sturminster Marshall munching the local bread and cheese, sipping the local apple juice, and trying to chat to some of the folks who had been involved in judging this Pride of Place Award - all elusive...We scanned the shortlist - the others both being Community Orchards. We thought one of them would be bound to win, otherwise why shortlist two?
In trepidation we sat through lengthy presentations and photos of churches and playgrounds in some of the Best Kept Villages...... and finally we found out that Turn Lyme Green won the Pride of Place Award! They will recruit the artist in the next few weeks... If you know any local artists who may be interested, have them contact TLG ASAP!
Also, please let me know whether you would be interested in principle in being part of the artist selection team, and then go forward to work with the artist to design the artwork? (and would be available on the 4th and 25th November for short-listing and interviewing). We can then decide who will represent TLG.
Green Technology Event - You are cordially invited to a 'Green Technology' Event at Bridport Town Hall on Wednesday 29th October.The event is FREE and will enable local sustainable businesses to showcase innovative renewable energy and energy efficiency products and services to members of the public. The day will be organised by Ecos Trust in partnership with the Energy Saving Trust. Following the Exhibition the evening will include workshops for local professionals involved in the building industry. Hannah Lovegrove from TLG will be hosting a stand for 'EcoDeveloper' and we shall carry a report of this event in next months newsletter.
Transition Towns
The Marine Theatre was the venue for the first "Transition Lyme Regis" meeting last Thursday. The Transition is not run by TLG, but very closely supported and facilitated as much as we can. It had some very useful feedback from the floor during the evening, and plenty of interest was shown by those present, as they watched the two short films regarding Peak Oil and Transition Towns. The next meeting is in the Masonic Hall (behind Jalito's in Broad St) on Thurs 23rd October. If you would like to find out more, get involved, or just understand the basics of energy descent, call Fran on 01297 445078.


Transition - Credit Crunch
Following on from Transition Towns really... TLG doesn't do financial advice, but please be very aware of the changes that are going on in the Financial world this week / month / year. Transition is about becoming more resilient to 'energy shocks', we also need to make sure we spend some time thinking about becoming resilient to 'fiscal shocks' too.


Turn Lyme Green's Mission (should we choose to accept it..)
After having a bit of an editorial cut & paste crisis, the TLG mission statement was lost completely to last month's Newletter. Find it here. If you remember, we have previously done some work on what we would like to have as our 'Vision / Mission' - and we would like your feedback for;
Emphasis
Extra scope
Reduced wording
Overall Impact
How well we have done keeping to it, over the past 12 months... etc
We will hopefully discuss this at the next meeting (see below)

Radio.
Finally, Turn Lyme Green had a mention on Lyme Regis Radio program "Friday Night Live", hosted by Alan Vian and Nomad. These are really good sessions and are recorded for subsequent pod-cast over the 'old inter-web' if you miss them 'live'.
Last Friday, Claire Old from TLG was interviewed, you can hear the program by clicking here.


Next Turn Lyme Green Meeting is this Wed 8th October at 7pm in the LRDT Office. The Minutes of the last meeting are here.

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Check the Website.

As always, there is lots more information on the website, and a chance to leave your feedback on the items raised in this month's newsletter.

See you at the TLG meeting on the 8th October (7pm LRDT) !

Regards
Mark Jenkin

Turn Lyme Green.