Get serious about CO2!

Friends of the Earth is calling for local councils to:

• Commit to cutting emissions in their area by at least 40 percent by 2020
• Produce an action plan showing how they'll make the cuts.

What is our local council doing to meet this challenge?

Click here to find out more.....

Wiltshire Warm and Well scheme - reduce energy costs keep warm.

Loft insulation is one of the BEST first steps you can do to save money on energy bills and help reduce your carbon footprint! The transition team Marlborough hope to run workshops on this and making homes less drafty in the future. There is however, more good news today as well. GROW - The Support Service for Voluntary and Community Groups in Wiltshire, (See their website www.growwiltshire.org.uk ), recently highlighted in their newsletter, that Wiltshire Council has a New Free Home Insulation Scheme.

The new "Wiltshire Warm and Well scheme" is open to all home owners and private tenants and enables residents to improve the energy efficiency of their homes through installing loft and cavity wall insulation – saving money on bills and making homes warmer.

Energy efficiency assistance from the council

• Decent Homes Repairs Assistance for heating work.
• Warm Front Top Up (assistance provided to top up a Warm Front grant)
• Hard to Heat Homes Grant (assistance provided to improve the energy efficiency of your home)

Please follow this link for more details

Next Hub Meeting...

will be on Thursday 8th September at 8.30 pm, in the Wellie.  We will be finalising arrangements for the Public Meeting on Monday 12th September.

A Public Meeting Organised by Transition Town Marlborough

“Surviving the Future”

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Please come along to a public meeting, debate and discussion:

Marlborough Town Hall

Monday 12th September at 7:30 pm _________________________________________________________________________

• There are positive ways to deal with rising food & energy prices.
• Do you know about the new “Green Deal”?

(Could this help to reduce your domestic heating costs?)

• Is Marlborough's poor transport system restricting job and education opportunities for our young people?

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At the meeting you will be able to :-

• Vision a better future over the next 20 years.
• Get involved in community resilience projects.
• Question our local councillors and Wiltshire's Senior Climate Change Officer on what they are doing to help us survive the future. So for more information visit the website

Parking at Bedwyn Railway Station

Wiltshire Council is proposing to impose severe parking restrictions in Great Bedwyn in response to complaints from residents that their village is turning into a huge car park. The number of commuters from Marlborough who use this rail link has increased massively since the rises in fuel costs.  If these parking restrictions go ahead it could pose serious problems for us.  We have been invited to air our views at at Bedwyn's village hall on Wednesday 14th September at 7.30pm in front of the Parish Council and Wiltshire's Traffic Engineer.

An Exciting project

11:30 It was for me a very exciting moment to have members of the community stand up at a full town council and ask if we would consider as a council being involved with this project...

I now seem to have been sucked into working on the hub committee, but I think as a councillor I should stand up for what I believe in and show some leadership in the run up to the meeting of the 12th of September I hope to explain why and how I think this is a most important development in our community...

The first Public Meeting will be held on Monday 12th September at 7.30pm in Marlborough Town Hall

This will be a chance to vision the future over the next 20 years and to find out what our councilors are doing to build resilience in the face of peak oil and climate change.  We want to hear your suggestions on what you can do as an individual, what we can do as a group, what our councilors can do and what the government should do.

7.30 to 7.45 Introducing ourselves
7.45 to 8.45 Film: End of Suburbia
8.45 to 9.00 Calculating Marlborough's carbon footprint:  Wiltshire Council's Senior Climate Change Officer
9.00 to 9.30 Discussion groups: Food, Energy, Transport, Pledging