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The people of County Durham & North East region are doing amazing things to reduce the impact on our planet. Green Durham provides free information about these local green businesses, projects and organisations. #LocalFood #TransitionNetwork #Permaculture
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Green Durham administers the following community email networks and social media, sharing news on local green action in our region. List members can send emails to the network and will receive, typica...
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We're part of the #TransitionNetwork and also run the Transition Durham email list and Facebook group. greendurham.org.uk/networks/
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November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Look, there is a nice story in the news: Hip-hop group Arrested Development 'saved' by repair cafe www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hip-hop group Arrested Development 'saved' by repair cafe - BBC News
Volunteers at Falmouth Repair Cafe fix vital equipment just in time for Arrested Development gig.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Look, there is a nice story in the news: Hip-hop group Arrested Development 'saved' by repair cafe www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Green Street Pioneers Newcastle initiative is a programme dedicated to helping businesses become more environmentally sustainable. We’re working with 40 independent businesses in the heart of Newcastle to help them become greener and build a sustainable community
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November 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Green Street Pioneers Newcastle initiative is a programme dedicated to helping businesses become more environmentally sustainable. We’re working with 40 independent businesses in the heart of Newcastle to help them become greener and build a sustainable community
greendurham.org.uk/green-street...
greendurham.org.uk/green-street...
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🌱 Step into Transition Launch Training a free, self-paced course to learn, act, and connect through the heart of the Transition Movement.
8 modules, global community, endless inspiration to turn ideas into action. 🌍
👉 courses.transitionnetwork.org/courses/cour...
8 modules, global community, endless inspiration to turn ideas into action. 🌍
👉 courses.transitionnetwork.org/courses/cour...
October 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
🌱 Step into Transition Launch Training a free, self-paced course to learn, act, and connect through the heart of the Transition Movement.
8 modules, global community, endless inspiration to turn ideas into action. 🌍
👉 courses.transitionnetwork.org/courses/cour...
8 modules, global community, endless inspiration to turn ideas into action. 🌍
👉 courses.transitionnetwork.org/courses/cour...
Out next Green Drinks is on 16th October with and into talk of "Housing - Staying cool in summer and warm in winter" greendurham.org.uk/listing/durh...
October 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Out next Green Drinks is on 16th October with and into talk of "Housing - Staying cool in summer and warm in winter" greendurham.org.uk/listing/durh...
Northeast England Permaculture Map - Green Durham's map of projects inspired by the ethics and principals of #Permaculture. If you know of a project that should be on the map, please let us know. greendurham.org.uk/listing-cate...
August 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Northeast England Permaculture Map - Green Durham's map of projects inspired by the ethics and principals of #Permaculture. If you know of a project that should be on the map, please let us know. greendurham.org.uk/listing-cate...
Join us for July's Green Drinks, where this month's theme is Local Food greendurham.org.uk/event/green-...
July 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Join us for July's Green Drinks, where this month's theme is Local Food greendurham.org.uk/event/green-...
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Twelve mayoral authorities signed up to a new safer routes to school initiative. Great to see this and hope it is more successful than the last attempt at this in the late 1990s. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Twelve of England’s regional mayors back plan to create ‘national active travel network’
Exclusive: Unprecedented move to focus initially on helping children to walk, cycle or scoot to school safely
www.theguardian.com
July 2, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Twelve mayoral authorities signed up to a new safer routes to school initiative. Great to see this and hope it is more successful than the last attempt at this in the late 1990s. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Do you use a wheelchair or a mobility scooter?
We at #SlowWays have proven a method for finding and sharing the best walking routes.
Would you like something similar for wheelchair and scooter routes?
Take a look 👉 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways @slowwaysuk.bsky.social 💫
We at #SlowWays have proven a method for finding and sharing the best walking routes.
Would you like something similar for wheelchair and scooter routes?
Take a look 👉 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways @slowwaysuk.bsky.social 💫
July 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Do you use a wheelchair or a mobility scooter?
We at #SlowWays have proven a method for finding and sharing the best walking routes.
Would you like something similar for wheelchair and scooter routes?
Take a look 👉 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways @slowwaysuk.bsky.social 💫
We at #SlowWays have proven a method for finding and sharing the best walking routes.
Would you like something similar for wheelchair and scooter routes?
Take a look 👉 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways @slowwaysuk.bsky.social 💫
Volunteering for an environmental group can help you gain practical skills or be an opportunity to share your knowledge, while connecting with like-minded people.
Our map shows opportunities around County Durham & the North East region
greendurham.org.uk/listing-cate...
Our map shows opportunities around County Durham & the North East region
greendurham.org.uk/listing-cate...
June 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Volunteering for an environmental group can help you gain practical skills or be an opportunity to share your knowledge, while connecting with like-minded people.
Our map shows opportunities around County Durham & the North East region
greendurham.org.uk/listing-cate...
Our map shows opportunities around County Durham & the North East region
greendurham.org.uk/listing-cate...
The theme of our next Green Drinks is volunteering opportunities
Come and tell people about the opportunities to volunteer for your "Green" project, the type of volunteering work you’re looking for or tell us about interesting volunteering tales you have to tell
greendurham.org.uk/event/green-...
Come and tell people about the opportunities to volunteer for your "Green" project, the type of volunteering work you’re looking for or tell us about interesting volunteering tales you have to tell
greendurham.org.uk/event/green-...
Green Drinks June - Volunteering
Green Durham’s own meet-up event based on the greendrinks.org model.
The aim is to give people involved with or interested in environmental organisations an opportunity to network and share ideas.
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June 1, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The theme of our next Green Drinks is volunteering opportunities
Come and tell people about the opportunities to volunteer for your "Green" project, the type of volunteering work you’re looking for or tell us about interesting volunteering tales you have to tell
greendurham.org.uk/event/green-...
Come and tell people about the opportunities to volunteer for your "Green" project, the type of volunteering work you’re looking for or tell us about interesting volunteering tales you have to tell
greendurham.org.uk/event/green-...
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BBC bans Evan Davis from informing the public on heat pumps. “As the world has ‘progressed’ in the past few months” the BBC “has become concerned that anything like this - informing people about heat pumps - can be interpreted as treading on areas of pulic controversy” youtu.be/RJPKgngqoX0?...
20. The final episode...
YouTube video by Happy Heat Pump Podcast
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April 22, 2025 at 8:02 AM
BBC bans Evan Davis from informing the public on heat pumps. “As the world has ‘progressed’ in the past few months” the BBC “has become concerned that anything like this - informing people about heat pumps - can be interpreted as treading on areas of pulic controversy” youtu.be/RJPKgngqoX0?...
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Volunteering is a great way to donate your time and skills to nature! Our volunteers carry out a huge range of tasks:
🌼 Caring for nature reserves
📋 Office admin
🛒 Gift shop sales
🔍 Species surveying
Learn more 👉 www.durhamwt.com/volunteer
🌼 Caring for nature reserves
📋 Office admin
🛒 Gift shop sales
🔍 Species surveying
Learn more 👉 www.durhamwt.com/volunteer
April 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Volunteering is a great way to donate your time and skills to nature! Our volunteers carry out a huge range of tasks:
🌼 Caring for nature reserves
📋 Office admin
🛒 Gift shop sales
🔍 Species surveying
Learn more 👉 www.durhamwt.com/volunteer
🌼 Caring for nature reserves
📋 Office admin
🛒 Gift shop sales
🔍 Species surveying
Learn more 👉 www.durhamwt.com/volunteer
Green Durham is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company (CIC) which aims to help the people of County Durham and wider Northeast, live a more sustainable life.
greendurham.org.uk
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April 6, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Green Durham is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company (CIC) which aims to help the people of County Durham and wider Northeast, live a more sustainable life.
greendurham.org.uk
greendurham.org.uk
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Bird nesting season runs from March to September each year. Learn more about nest boxes in this blog. 🐦🏠
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February 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Bird nesting season runs from March to September each year. Learn more about nest boxes in this blog. 🐦🏠
https://buff.ly/4hVpIBf
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There is a Slow Way near you!🫵
We believe that all of us should be able to walk safely, reliably and directly to any neighbouring community, so we’re working to make that happen.
Visit our website or download the Slow Ways app to view (and hopefully walk!) a route near you today 🗺️ 🐌
We believe that all of us should be able to walk safely, reliably and directly to any neighbouring community, so we’re working to make that happen.
Visit our website or download the Slow Ways app to view (and hopefully walk!) a route near you today 🗺️ 🐌
January 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
There is a Slow Way near you!🫵
We believe that all of us should be able to walk safely, reliably and directly to any neighbouring community, so we’re working to make that happen.
Visit our website or download the Slow Ways app to view (and hopefully walk!) a route near you today 🗺️ 🐌
We believe that all of us should be able to walk safely, reliably and directly to any neighbouring community, so we’re working to make that happen.
Visit our website or download the Slow Ways app to view (and hopefully walk!) a route near you today 🗺️ 🐌
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Pedestrian and cycle tunnel update for next week.
www.tynepedestrianandcyclisttunnels.co.uk/2024/12/20/o...
www.tynepedestrianandcyclisttunnels.co.uk/2024/12/20/o...
December 20, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Pedestrian and cycle tunnel update for next week.
www.tynepedestrianandcyclisttunnels.co.uk/2024/12/20/o...
www.tynepedestrianandcyclisttunnels.co.uk/2024/12/20/o...
The GreenDurham.org.uk site has had a bit of an upgrade. We're still working through the odd issue, so let us know if you find anything that needs fixing.
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December 20, 2024 at 10:24 AM
The GreenDurham.org.uk site has had a bit of an upgrade. We're still working through the odd issue, so let us know if you find anything that needs fixing.
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Not sure if folk elsewhere have seen this - the urgent closure of the Gateshead Flyover for structural reasons now also means there are no metros crossing the Tyne. Key transport links across the region have been severed.
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
Gateshead Flyover crisis deepens as Tyne and Wear Metro system cut in half
Tyne and Wear Metro bosses have tonight suspended services between Monument and Gateshead Stadium, after being advised that they should not travel underneath the closed flyover
www.chroniclelive.co.uk
December 20, 2024 at 6:46 AM
Not sure if folk elsewhere have seen this - the urgent closure of the Gateshead Flyover for structural reasons now also means there are no metros crossing the Tyne. Key transport links across the region have been severed.
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
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Local news of the day is an early Christmas present for local rail - new services to Newcastle Central Station & Newcastle Manors Railway Line as the Northumberland Line is now officially open! 🚞
Transport Secretary opens 'crucial' Northumberland Line railway
Passenger services between Newcastle and Ashington are set to begin this weekend
www.chroniclelive.co.uk
December 12, 2024 at 7:45 PM
Local news of the day is an early Christmas present for local rail - new services to Newcastle Central Station & Newcastle Manors Railway Line as the Northumberland Line is now officially open! 🚞
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Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
usa.streetsblog.org
December 10, 2024 at 7:27 AM
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
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Could not get the cheap action camera to focus properly, but you get the idea. I don;t expect a knock on the door from Mr Anderson anytime soon
Could not get the cheap action camera to focus properly, but you get the idea. I don;t expect a knock on the door from Mr Anderson anytime soon
November 30, 2024 at 11:51 AM
By special request.
Could not get the cheap action camera to focus properly, but you get the idea. I don;t expect a knock on the door from Mr Anderson anytime soon
Could not get the cheap action camera to focus properly, but you get the idea. I don;t expect a knock on the door from Mr Anderson anytime soon
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The type of Tram TfNE/Nexus have looked at for their long term aspirations of street running in Newcastle, and between South Shields and Doxford Park in Sunderland
#FutureTransport #TfNE #Nexus #Trams #Streetcars
#FutureTransport #TfNE #Nexus #Trams #Streetcars
November 29, 2024 at 10:13 AM
The type of Tram TfNE/Nexus have looked at for their long term aspirations of street running in Newcastle, and between South Shields and Doxford Park in Sunderland
#FutureTransport #TfNE #Nexus #Trams #Streetcars
#FutureTransport #TfNE #Nexus #Trams #Streetcars
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Weirdly I found this out as I was thinking about middle-aged, grey-haired cycling women and wanted to see how old Heidi Alexander was, and then I realised she’s also a geographer.
(And she wears a gold helmet!)
(And she wears a gold helmet!)
November 29, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Weirdly I found this out as I was thinking about middle-aged, grey-haired cycling women and wanted to see how old Heidi Alexander was, and then I realised she’s also a geographer.
(And she wears a gold helmet!)
(And she wears a gold helmet!)