Eco-Enabler Alliance CIC

15/07/2025

Vive La France!

🇫🇷💨 France is reimagining wind power — no blades, no noise, no moving parts.

On a breezy hill in Normandy, engineers have developed a bladeless wind turbine that silently vibrates to generate electricity. Called a vortex wind generator, it ditches spinning blades for a slim, sculptural column that uses vortex shedding — turning air flow into oscillations, then into clean energy via magnetic induction and piezoelectric systems.

🌀 No gears. No grease. No danger to birds.
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🔌 One unit powers small devices, but grouped together, they can support entire buildings.

This minimalist marvel could soon reshape how we generate clean power in tight, off-grid, or urban spaces.

23/05/2025

This. We are The Eco-Enabler Alliance (TEA), and believe in problems being able to be resolved over a nice cuppa! It's best served properly, however....

A statement from British Embassy, Washington.

18/05/2025

It was a great day out at Highams Park for the Spring Festival. James Nicol's plant stall almost deserved an award for its style!!

put on a very good display. It outshone the one presented by , which is sad given Epping Forest Heritage Trust is manned by volunteers and relies on subscriptions and grants funding. The CEO from Epping Forest Heritage Trust (Peter Lewis) was there too, asking people what they know about it. It was a good show!

Sadly, no one important was there at the stall from City of London Epping Forest, however. A single employee of the corporation fielded questions as well as she could, but she could have done with more support - and there was nothing there to draw you to the stall. Few seemed to stop at it. Are City of London Epping Forest holding back on funding and support for such events to show what they themselves do besides relying on volunteer organisations, and despite the revenue they draw in from parking and many other sources?

It was good to see a few other environment care organisations there too, but it's clear that there is not a common understanding that they all face problems arising from reliance on the same organisations and people not doing their job at Central Government level - and a lack of it because of an inability to engage and align holistically on common impact and problems which could be addressed by one group looking at things from a commons perspective and then sharing responsibilities out.

However the chat with Highams Park Planning Group was interesting at least, and we hope we can chat more with them about means for care and education locally about the Forest nearby, like we have chatted about with Toni and the other good people from , and a base where everyone locally could start to have meetings in a unique setting conducive to addressing environmental concerns holistically - and starting to overcome Central Government dysfunction that impacts places like this everywhere across the UK.

12/05/2025

The sun shone brigjtly over The Traveller's Friend on Sunday, 11/05, when we visited Epping Green Chapel to understand more about what is happening with it as well as broader community considerations and concerns.

We went there in order to learn more about the local community interest around The Traveller's Friend, and challenges faced witn restoring it in some way as a place for the community to meet up and get to know one another but also as a hub for some convenient shopping, hospitality and entertainment that can be used by people of Epping Green and passers-by.

it was great meeting some of your congregation, including Frances and Michael who seem to really care about you as well as the wider community around there, and prepared to embrace visitors who want to know more about Epping Long Green and its history along with Nature there.

We look forward to speaking with Pastor Thanos as well as engaging with other churches in the parish to find out what we can do to not just help The Traveller's Friend but also help people in the villages retake the B181 - and perhaps even make it the start of the long, green road across England, like is sung about in the hymn connected with this post.

Together, we can make England good again. Not great, just good - and in the classic, humble way that England and English folk were once renowned for. Why not start with a place aptly named for that, including it being a centre for all that can be good and sustainable with living and working down this lovely green road just outside Epping?

We thank the good people from for also suggesting we talk to the parish and other churches in the area, as well as people in the community generally.

Hopefully with all these good people and organisations coming together, we can actively build on a spirit of positivi-tea - like that shown on one of the posts on Instagram site.

Certainly, let's try and spread the idea of "let's love where you live" (llwyl) as a concept for visitors coming to a place taking as much care as they would back home, but just "lwyl" by residents too, and so perhaps create 2 new Welsh words for such things.

11/05/2025

It may still be showing as a location, but the tea hut no longer stands at it. After 50 years, the tea hut at High Beach in Epping Forest is gone.

We understand it was due to a lack of capability to take card transactions, and so its decline in business is perhaps indicative of the switch to a more contactless society that has arisen since the pandemic.

Charges for parking are also being blamed, as it is believed that less people drove up to High Beach during the week because of them. The hut was therefore reliant on walkers, runners and cyclists who had cash on them.

There was sadness about seeing it go from several people we spoke to at the church, as well as The Original Tea Hut down the hill near the roundabout. It is felt there is a need for something up there which makes great coffee and tea as well as decent pastries or sausage rolls, and particularly allows people to stop and enjoy the view from the picnic tables and bench there too.

what are the plans for that space there now?

04/05/2025

has produced toys, scarves and baskets using her crochet skills which can be souvenirs from visits to places where looks to take people on sustainable holidays through its TEA Travel Club.

TEA is also looking at other ways to market and sell art and crafts as part of revisiting ideas first shared by Sir William Morris over 125 years ago, in seeking to ensure that businesses and people did not lose sight of Nature as a thing of beauty to be cared for - and not just a resource used in mass production of goods and services. As such, products were more personable, and made to last a lifetime as well as repaired or restored rather than thrown away

We are seeking to set up a Cottage Crafts Alliance where we encourage people to make their own crafts from sustainable materials sourced from places like , and even exchange or trade them for what they need to make their own and others' lives brighter and happier. It's a far cry from mass production and more about a labour of love to help raise the spirits of a community - which also can help a lot to enable sustainability.

We laid them out on a table at to get an idea of what they might look like at a place where they would be suitable to be sold. Dog not included, of course!!

16/04/2025

Some highlights from Everything Electric.

Some of the vans may work for us in taking the roads not taken, and helping them to be retaken - just as long as we can get and other Councils who Care to highlight where we can or should put EVCP down the roads that need revitalising as well as where The Eco-Enabler Alliance (aka TEA for short) can help to align and better integrate Sustainability in their area - but also in line with other Councils too.

The need to remove silos and better align and integrate Sustainability was raised by Claire Miller, Vicky Edmonds from , Chris Demetriou from and Matthew Adams from Renewable Energy Authority in their late afternoon talk on EV for local and regional authorities

15/04/2025

We have been "acknowledged" by automated response from social media of Enfield Council that we just made it onto their weekly engagement list by being one of their top engagers.

We have still not heard back from them in response to the key concerns we've raised by email, and interest in our proposal to address issues with littering and flytipping along the walk down Boundary Brook Park to Charlton Park! 🎉

22/10/2024

Get ready for a night of wild flavours, inspiring connections, and conscious consumption! Join us on 1st November 2024 from 7pm - 10pm at the Hobo Club for an exclusive event hosted by the Eco-Eco-Enabler Alliance CIC with a focus on a new brand and image for Real World Food and Travel.

Enjoy complimentary organic cocktails and wine, paired with delicious, sustainably sourced pizzas crafted from wild, organic ingredients. This is your chance to taste the difference while connecting with like-minded individuals passionate about sustainability and community.

Meet visionary change mak ers, dive into meaningful conversations, and be part of the movement shaping the future of food.

📅 When: 1st November 2024, 7pm - 10pm
📍 Where: Hobo Club Loughton
🔗 Follow the EventBrite link in bio to RSVP now!

13/10/2024

Wild food can be discovered in the most unexpected places.

Matt's Tale found these on stopping at Welcome Break at South Mimms, one of the few Services on the M25.

He stopped there to give his dog, Bella, a walk on Saturday 13 October 2024. They stumbled on these sources of wild food on the paths around Wash Lane Common, which is out the back behind the Welcome Break Services there near Potter's Bar where the A1 meets up with the M25.

They didn't have time to have a good look, so they had a chat with the guy on reception at Ramada Hotel. South Mimms , who organised a good deal for them to come back and check it out.

On Sunday, they decided to take the deal and so return to take a closer look which is where they discovered the large puffball fungi and more around the edges of the fields which border the common.

This kind of discovery ties in well with the new brand which the Eco-Enabler Alliance CIC will soon launch, where the skill of Ryan Milsom and The Groovy Grove can be brought to bear in knowing what to pick and do with such wild food. Perhaps with it available to eat at a café or restaurant, and maybe even one tied in with a Welcome Break some time in the future where their services are close to such spaces.

These dining experiences could also be combined with stories of the local area, which MattsTale was also luckily enough to hear about on meeting Dave, a former tree surgeon from the area, who happened to be staying at the hotel that Sunday night with his wife and dog. Dave had grown up around Potter's Bar, and had seen it develop from the days that the A1 was a single lane road. He also knew a lot about developments there, changing from farms to celebrity mansions, and heard about life from many more he did work for.

It's these kind of stories of both human and natural history we are looking to combine in our new brand, where people can meet the likes of Ryan and Dave, as well as others, to learn about England's culture and history while also having immersive experiences in different types of Sustainability from food to preservation of local culture and history through to Sustainable Community Development at large.

Please join The Eco-Enabler Alliance (TEA) Facebook Group if you would like to play a part in our creation and development of sustainable journeys, or simply just come along for the ride. We look forward to welcoming you to some places which you might not expect to go, often along the edges of fields and forests forgotten or along roads now rarely taken (or not taken at all!)

These are places where we will seek to bring the best of the old world, and put it together with the best of the new, all for the purposes of creating a healthier and better life as well as better local community - with it all ultimately being better for the planet.

So please "Make time for TEA"!!

23/06/2024

With Enfield Climate Action Forum – we just got recognised as one of their top fans! 🎉

We are discussing thoughts and ideas for some joint ventures and projects to help better determine the state of conditions in various hotspots identified by the Met Office Climate , Met Office and various other meteorological monitoring and tracking organisations.

So please feel free to join in the discussions in our LinkedIn discussion group or register interest with us on https://www.ecoenableralliance.org/register-interest/

29/05/2024

Yes, and that's what's beautiful too - because all you can do is to appreciate it, whatever the conditions may be

This goes for the garden as well. 👌