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ABOUT US
Building a Greener Future Together
Transition Buxton is a group of local people concerned about the environment working to improve our community’s resilience through practical actions and projects.
Community Resilience
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An important part of managing our collective resources responsibly is the adage: Reduce, Reuse, Refill, Repair & Repurpose, Recycle.
The Buxton Library of Things provides affordable access to over 100 useful resources and things that you don’t need to own.
Plastic pollution is evident all around us, blighting our lanes, paths and hedgerows, ending up in waterways and contributing to climate change.
Energy is fundamental to our modern way of life. But energy – specifically fossil fuels – is the main driver of climate change.
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Welcome to the September and October 2026 issue of our E-Newsletter full of news, views and information.
It’s Potato Day time again! Yes, We are running a Potato Day again this year. If you are a grower, or might be interested in growing your own read on……
We Want Your 2nd Hand Halloween Costumes On Friday 23 October Transition Buxton volunteers are returning to the Crescent Assembly Rooms by popular demand with their ‘Upcycling With A Spooky..
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Nature's resilience is inspiring!
Hadrian's Wall Sycamore Gap tree stump shows 'encouraging' signs
www.bbc.co.uk
A thick layer of growth surrounds the stump three years after the landmark was illegally felled.
Buying your seed potatoes and other veg seeds etc through this local scheme save you money (no mark up at our end), ensures you get great choice and excellent quality, and provides a Buxton pick up point (no delivery cost). Place your order this month and get you spuds etc at the end of January.
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This new UN report doesn’t pull any punches.
Overshoot explained: 5 things to understand about a world beyond 1.5°C
www.unep.org
Exceeding 1.5°C must not mean abandoning the goal. UNEP explains five things to know about climate overshoot and the choices that will shape what happens next.
Do you have some costumes or bits of costumes that no longer fit or you just don't need any more? We will be making new Halloween costumes out of bits of old ones and donated materials in the Assembly Room on 23 Oct as part of the Buxton Green Assembly event. Please root out those used costumes etc and drop then into one of our collection boxes located in the Pump Room, Library, and the station waiting room.Come along to the Buxton Green Assembly on 23rd October at the Buxton Crescent for lots of free fun for the whole family! HPBC will be there chatting all things climate, nature and energy!
Big Buxton Conversation 3 on 14 November 1:30-5pm in the Methodist Church on the Market Place.At a time when if feels like a great deal is changing locally and globally the We Are Buxton Community Forum (of which Transition Buxton is a member) want to check, refresh, and define our collective vision for Buxton. What sort of place do we want to create together? Live in? Invest and learn in? Raise our children and grow old in? This is a rare opportunity to step back from the detail of the present and look at the big picture and long term. We will not be discussing the merits or otherwise of various big built environment developments currently proposed or on the horizon. We will be looking at what sort of place this is, and could become. With a clear Vision, proposals for change can be viewed in the context of going towards, or away from, where we want to get to. If we don’t know where we want to get to, we could wind up anywhere.
Remember our Spring Fair stall when we sold loads of great stuff gathered for us by the team at Waterswallows Recycling Centre? You loved the bargains and saving things form going to landfill or incineration. It is truly amazing what people throw away! Gleaning the stuff for our stall was a bit of a practice for the Suez team. Now the Reuse Shop is up and running at the recycling centre, take a look, you may find you leave with more than you arrived with.