CCA Newsletter Issue 16

Hi Everyone

This week, for the first time EVER, it cost me over £60 to fill the tank of my car with diesel. I am pretty sure Peak Oil has arrived and it spurs me on into taking ACTION to get the Crediton area up and running as a vibrant, exciting and effective Transiton Town AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

There are lots of opportunites for you to help and get involved below. Please don't sit on the fence. Join us in whatever way you can, even if you only have time to write the odd letter or send an email (for which there are two requests below)

Paula

Dates for your Diary
21st June	Midsummer Cycle Ride
23rd June	Womens Environmental Network Meeting
23rd June	ScHou Group Meeting
24th June	Plastic Bag Group Meeting
26th June	Energy Group Meeting
26th June	Hearts & Minds Group Meeting
29th June	Car-Free Sunday!
2nd July	Transport Group Meeting
3rd July	Tree and Food Group Meeting
10th July	Womens Environmental Network Meeting
16th July	Steering Group Meeting
3rd September	Film Showing: Message in the Waves
11th September	Film Showing: Message in the Waves
1st December	Tree-Planting Week

Feedback from the Core Values Meeting

14th June

Review of Teddy Bears Picnic

About 70 people came along with a dish to share, and Rosa Rebecka performed an acoustic set, as t ...

News Highlights

G8: TIME TO LEAD ON CLIMATE CHANGE

This is an urgent appeal to sign a global petition demanding the G8 stop efforts to derail progress towards a new international treaty to tackle global warming. Climate change hangs in the balance at the 2008 G8 Summit. Everyone is looking to G8 President Japan for bold leadership. But the ...

Our own regular column in the Crediton Courier

We have approached Alan Quick the editor of the Courier about the idea of having a regular column in the Courier giving ideas, making suggestions and exploring issues in relation to climate change, peak oil and becoming a Transition Town. Many people in Crediton read the Courier so it is a gre ...

Transiton Town website

We now have a presence on the Transiton Town website! ...

Report on Lobbying of our MP, Angela Browning

Sent in by Charles Mossman (it took Charles and Laura 9 months of trying to get this slot with Ms Browning at her clinic at the Boniface Center): "Laura Conyngham and I met with our MP Angela Browning on the 7th June, to lobby her regarding the Climate Change Bill currently being discussed ...

News from the CCA Steering Group

We have now met three times since the AGM held in February this year, meeting approximately every 6 weeks. We have had a full agenda of topics to discuss, and have already had a change of Chair; as reported in a previous newsletter. The main issues taking up our time are: CCA leaflet: ...

Help us with Boots!

We have begun negotiations with the multiples in the town about giving up the supply of plastic carrier bags when we launch as a plastic carrier free town in the autumn. They all have national guidelines that they follow but Somerfield and Tesco Express are looking sympathetically at Crediton ...

Tell Gordon Brown you want him to look at the issue of Peak Oil

In a matter of about 10 seconds you can sign up to petition Gordon Brown to look into the issue of how Peak Oil will affect the UK. If enough people sign up, then the government will have to issue a response. What it says is "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to undertake a reassessment ...