TRANSITION STROUD TRANSITION STROUD www.transitionstroud.org Transition Stroud is group of volunteers who work Eco-RenovationEco-Renovation “..for the benefit of the community of the Stroud District to take, and inspire others to take, collaborative actions that strengthen our local community and respond OpenOpen HomesHomes positively to the challenges of climate change and declining energy supplies.” 11th – 12th September 2010 As well as organising the Eco-Renovation Open Homes weekend, Transition Stroud initiatives include: • Over 20 open homes to view • Eco-Fair and café Changing Gear: a scheme that encourages • Preview Evening talks secondary school pupils to cycle to and from school • Guided walks, minibus tours and during National Bike Week and provides cycle training to pupils within six secondary schools. cycle rides www.changinggear.org.uk www.stroudopenhomes.org.uk SkillsGain: focuses on those self reliance skills we will need tomorrow and offers taster courses in these skills today. Contact [email protected] Stroud Pound: a local currency designed to benefit consumers, traders, businesses and local charities. www.stroudpound.org.uk Trip Switch: where the public is encouraged to use forms of transport other than the car www.stroudtripswitch.co.uk Working Groups: We have a number of working groups on themes such as energy, transport, business/government, textiles, lifestyles and livelihoods. www.stroudopenhomes.org.uk This programme is sponsored by ECO FAIR AND CAFÉ, STROUD JOIN A GUIDED WALK! Eco-Renovation As part of Stroud Walking Festival 2010, Stroud Saturday 11 September from 10am-4pm District Council have organised two guided walks Open Homes around a range of eco-renovated open homes. On The Exchange, Brick Row, Stroud GL5 1DF. Saturday there will be a walk from Painswick to After successful weekends in 2008 and 2009, the The Exchange is only 2 minutes walk from Stroud High Street. Stroud (5 miles) and on Sunday from Rodborough to 2010 weekend offers you the opportunity to visit over (Disabled parking only on site. Public parking at nearby Church Street car park). Stroud (3 miles). 20 homes around Stroud and find answers to some of Cost: £3.50. Tickets from Stroud Tourist Office. these questions: Meet eco-installers, view their products, discuss. Details from Debbie Hewitt 01453 756955 Inspect the heat pump, PV solar etc in the building. Full details of this and other walks How does solar thermal work? www.stroudwalkingfest.com Is a photovoltaic system the answer? Eco-installers will include: ECOTRICITY, electricity How much money can I save? company dedicated to changing the way electricity is made/ (Bisley), one of the UK’s leading Why install rainwater harvesting? GREENSHOP environmental retailers/ELITE HEATING, local suppliers JOIN THE MINIBUS ECO-RENOVATION SAFARI! What are feed-in tariffs? and installers of boilers, ground and air source On Saturday and Sunday a minibus run by Would a wood pellet boiler be worth it? heatpumps, solar and rain harvest systems/ORGANIC Gloucestershire Minibus Scheme ENERGY, the leading domestic scale wood pellet boilers (www.glosminibusscheme.co.uk) will leave The Stroud Open Homes in Europe/SWEA, a charitable company with a portfolio Exchange, Brick Row, Stroud GL5 1DF at 10.00 am and of projects and services to support energy efficiency. take passengers to a range of eco-renovated homes. Preview Evening Cost: £5. at The Exchange, Brick Row, Stroud Please contact Helen Royall on 01453 755509 or email her SUSTAINABLE HOUSING BOOK LAUNCH at [email protected] for details, booking etc. on Wednesday 8 September 7.30-9.30pm Chris Bird will be at The Exchange from 11am to 2pm to launch his new book about the obstacles to eco- With speakers from Severn Wye Energy Agency, renovation and how to make sustainable housing The Green Shop and Ecotricity. happen. JOIN A GUIDED CYCLE TOUR! On Saturday and Sunday there will be cycle tours to First steps to a more sustainable home featuring a home some of the Open Homes. There will be some hills! Nightingale’s Café will be serving delicious food and which will be open at the weekend. Cost: £3.50 drinks, home-made from local, organic and fairly How to generate your own energy and get For Saturday contact Steve Andrews on 07875 290396. traded ingredients where possible. paid for it. For Sunday contact Clare Sheridan on 01453 827286 [email protected]. Restricted numbers. Please call 01452 835076 or e-mail [email protected] to reserve a place. www.stroudopenhomes.org.uk OPEN HOMES OPEN HOMES OPEN HOMES OPEN HOMES OPEN HOMES OPEN HOMES OPEN HOMES STROUD Air source The Solar hot water, Solar hot Self-build heat pump, 6 Exchange 10 PV panels & 14 water & PV 18 house with 22 Solar hot water external PV panels, internal panels on wool 8 Bowbridge 1 insulation, super-double insulation modern insulation, Lane, Stroud sedum roof & glazing, 33 Rodborough detached red turf roof & GL5 2JW rainwater harvesting insulation & ground source heat Ave, Stroud brick house rainwater harvesting Sun 12th 10.00 18 The Hill, Merrywalks, pump GL5 3RR 17, Boakes Drive, The Retreat, Camp, GL6 7EU am – 1.00 pm / Stroud GL5 4EP Brick Row, Stroud GL5 1DF Sun 12th 10.00 am – 1.00 pm Stonehouse GL10 3QW Sat 11th 2.00 – 5.00 pm & Sun 2.00 – 5.00 pm Sat 11th 10.00 am – 1.00 pm / Sat 11th 10.00 am – 4.00 pm Sat 11th 2.00 – 5.00 pm 12th 2.00 – 5.00 pm 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm No parking. Please park in WESTRIP Thermal store, Wood pellet STANDISH boiler & solar 2 town centre. Tours at 2, 3 BRIMSCOMBE boiler & solar 23 PV on 16th and 4 o’clock. Wood pellet panels for hot Ground source century house boiler, solar hot 15 External wall water & space heat pump, 11 32 Bowbridge Co-flats – water & PV insulation 19 heating insulation, solar Lane, Stroud Wind turbine 7 panels 56 Bourne Woodborough, hot water & GL5 2JL 59 Lansdown Far Westrip Farm, Estate, Cranham rainwater Sun 12th 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm Road, Stroud Far Westrip, Brimscombe, GL4 8HS harvesting No parking in front of house. GL5 1BN Stroud, Glos Stroud, Sun 12th 2.00 – 5.00 pm Sat 11th 10.00 New Moreton GL6 6HE GL5 2SX Farm, Standish Lane, Moreton Internal insulation am – 1.00 pm Sat 11th 2.00 – 5.00 pm Sat 11th 2.00 – 5.00 pm BISLEY Valence GL2 7LZ on solid brick 3 Sun 12th 10.00 am – 1.00 pm walled Edwardian Internal Insulation The Green semi insulation of 8 STONEHOUSE on sloping 20 Shop – Solar & 24 Victorian semi ceilings biomass heating, 18 Bisley Road, NAILSWORTH Stroud, GL5 1HE 1 Henley Villas, Internal wall & LEDs PV panels, green Sun 12th 2.00pm - Uplands Road, insulation, wood 16 Red Lion roofs, rainwater Internal 5.00pm Stroud GL5 1UH burning stove, House, harvesting & Sat 11th 10.00 insulation on 12 condensing Swellshill, Brimscombe natural paints solid walls & PV External am – 1.00 pm boiler & GL5 2SR Cheltenham Road, Bisley, panels insulation on 4 green cone Sat 11th 2.00 – 5.00 pm Glos GL6 7BX 4 Cotswold solid brick walled Wood burning 14 Burdett Road, Sat 11th Shop open 9am – Cottages, Victorian semi stove, solar 9 Stonehouse GL10 2JW 6 pm. Tours at 11, 12, 2 and 3 Shortwood, 44 Bisley Road, water heater, Sat 11th 2.00 – 5.00 pm PAINSWICK, o’clock. Nailsworth, GL6 0SG Stroud GL5 1HF loft cavity wall CRANHAM, THE CAMP Sun 12th 10.00 am – 1.00 pm Sun 12th 2.00pm & underfloor Internal insulation – 5.00pm insulation & on listed building 17 Grid connected rainwater & secondary 21 RODBOROUGH PV panels Springhill Co- harvesting glazed windows on modern housing – 5 6 Castle Rise, Stroud 78 High Street, garage New build solar PV, triple glazing GL5 2AW Stonehouse Whitehall hot water, wood 13 & SUDS Sun 12th 2.00 – 5.00 pm GL10 2NT Cottages, pellet stove ECO FAIR 14 Springhill, Sat 11th 10.00 am – St. Mary's Mead, & rainwater Stroud GL5 1TN 1.00 pm / 2.00 – 5.00 pm Painswick GL6 6UQ STROUD harvesting Sun 12th 10.00 Sun 12th 2.00 – 5.00 pm Lawdale, 11th SEPT am – 1.00 pm / 2.00 – 5.00 pm Lower Spillmans, No parking on site. Rodborough GL5 3RJ See Over Afternoon pizzas at no. 15. Sun 12th 10.00 am – 1.00 pm No parking. SATURDAY am 10.00 – 1.00 SUNDAY am 10.00 – 1.00 More info at www.stroudopenhomes.org.uk 6. 18 The Hill, Merrywalks, Stroud GL5 4EP 1. 8 Bowbridge Lane, Stroud GL5 2JW 7. 59 Lansdown Road, Stroud GL5 1BN 5. 14 Springhill, Stroud GL5 1TN 8. 1 Henley Villas, Uplands Road, Stroud GL5 1UH 11. New Moreton Farm, Standish Lane, Moreton 10. The Exchange, Brick Row, Stroud GL5 1DF Valence GL2 7LZ 17. 78 High Street, Stonehouse GL10 2NT 12. 4 Cotswold Cottages, Shortwood, Nailsworth, 24. The Green Shop, Cheltenham Road, GL6 0SG Bisley, Glos GL6 7BX 13. Lawdale, Lower Spillmans, Rodborough GL5 3RJ 14. 33 Rodborough Ave, Stroud GL5 3RR SATURDAY pm 2.00 – 5.00 6. 18 The Hill, Merrywalks, Stroud GL5 4EP SUNDAY pm 2.00 – 5.00 10. The Exchange, Brick Row, Stroud GL5 1DF 15. Far Westrip Farm, Far Westrip, Stroud, GL6 6HE 1. 8 Bowbridge Lane, Stroud GL5 2JW 16. 14 Burdett Road, Stonehouse GL10 2JW 2. 32 Bowbridge Lane, Stroud GL5 2JL 17. 78 High Street, Stonehouse GL10 2NT 3. 18 Bisley Road, Stroud, GL5 1HE 18. 17, Boakes Drive, Stonehouse GL10 3QW 4. 44 Bisley Road, Stroud GL5 1HF 19. 56 Bourne Estate, Brimscombe, GL5 2SX 5.