Sustainable Living

Green Redeem

Green redeem (www.greenredeem.co.uk) is an internet-based initiative which rewards people for taking everyday green actions, like recycling. With the backing of Ealing council, it has just launched locally. In other parts of the country, councils have reported a 30% increase in recycling rates after the launch of the scheme.

Green-Redeem

Once you are registered (note: one per household) you can receive points for your efforts, and redeem these for rewards at local shops and businesses.

Alternatively you can donate your points to a local community group! Ealing Transition has been accepted as a beneficiary of the scheme, specifically to fund the cost of distributing the Transition Free Press, a newspaper devoted to positive stories about the nationwide effort to create a sustainable future.  

If you would like to help us, when you log on to become a member, just use the ‘Advocate ID’ for Ealing Transition which is AYE. When you join, you will be given 100 points. By using the Advocate ID, ETI will get 25 points per subsequent log on. Each week you recycle, you log on, click to report your action and gain 10 more points. To donate your points to ETI, log on to your Green Redeem account & click on ‘Donations’ at the top of the page. You will see that you can earn additional points through various actions, including getting your friends to sign up to Green Redeem.

Community, Food, Gardening

Planting Day

We are organizing a planting day on Saturday 29th March from 10-1pm at the Lammas Enclosure, between Walpole and Lammas Parks (near Will to Win Tennis)

With the kind support of the Walpole ward we will be planting fruit trees and bushes adjacent to the petanque playing area. This is the first wave of planting for what will, in time, become a forest garden – a food-growing space based on the structure of a young forest.

We will also be weeding and re-mulching fruit trees in the orchard, dead-hedging with recently-felled brush wood, and taming the brambles.

Orchard PlantingDo join us to get some fresh air, get your hands dirty, give the kids a run-around and help create a unique growing space. All welcome: no gardening experience necessary.

Please bring gloves and tools, branch cutters, secateurs etc if you have them

Building, Energy, Talks

UWL Sustainable Buildings Evening

If you attended our showing of Gasland 2 on Sunday, you may have met with the MSc. researchers from University of West London who are studying the adaptability of new and old houses to Climate-Change related weather patterns; e.g. more frequent and hotter heat-waves, and more extreme rainfall events.

Thanks if you agreed to help them with their research!

On Tuesday 25th March, UWL, conjunction with West London Business are holding an evening of talks about the work of the University in this area, covering energy efficiency and adaptability, and some of the state-of-the-art tools used for studying and planning adaptations.

The event is aimed at the Building Industry, but open to those with a strong interest in this area.

The event runs from 6pm to 8pm, at the St.Mary’s Road campus, with drinks and canapés after the talks in the award-winning Pillars restaurant (which, if you attended Edible Ealing’s 1st Birthday celebration, you know will be good!).

Tickets are free, but strictly require booking on a “first-come-first-served” basis.

Please contact Ali Bahadori-Jahromi at Ali.Bahadori-Jahromi@uwl.ac.uk to book a place.