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10 First Steps for a Transition Town Initiative | Energy Bulletin
10 First Steps for a Transition Town Initiative | Energy Bulletin
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TRING in TRANSITION - is part of the Transition Towns movement. Tring is the 51st community worldwide to achieve Transition Town status - there are now over 100 Transition Towns. Over 1000 communities worldwide are in the process of becoming Transition Towns.
Transition Norwich - from Oil Dependency to Local Resilience
Transition Norwich aims to facilitate a community response to the twin problems of Peak Oil and Climate Change.
The world is rapidly reaching the point at which oil production must start to reduce year on year, with dramatic consequences for our economy, food supply, and way of life. more...
Between 350 and 400 people descended on St Andrew’s Hall the evening of 1st October 2008 to mark Transition Norwich’s ‘Great Unleashing’.
Transition Scilly
Transition Scilly is a local, community-driven group that aims to help people on Scilly reduce their carbon footprint as a response to the threat of Climate Change, and increase the whole community's resilience as a response to the threat of Peak Oil..
The Transition movement started in Totnes in 2006 and has grown to hundreds of places (villages, towns and cities) across the UK and around the World. It is a movement based on positive change, not traditional campaigning. Transition is based on solutions to problems as a way of looking to a positive future.
Peak Oil and Climate Change are both huge threats to human society, in very different ways. Peak Oil forces us to alter our lifestyle of heavy reliance on fossil fuels, and Climate Change is altering the environmental conditions of the entire planet.
If both issues are considered separately we won't come up with positive solutions for both problems; if considered together there's a chance we can turn this situation around. This is the difference with Transition.
Transition Westcliff
Welcome to the home of Transition Town Westcliff, an exploration of how the people of Westcliff on Sea and the surrounding area can prepare for a carbon constrained, energy lean world. TTW is a community-led initiative which is working towards the creation of an Energy Descent Action Plan for the town. The thinking behind TTW is simply that a town using much less energy and resources than we presently consume could, if properly planned for and designed, be more resilient, more abundant and more pleasurable than the present.
TTW also believe that only by involving all of us - residents, businesses, public bodies, community organisations and schools - will we come up with the most innovative, effective and practical ideas, and have the energy and skills to carry them out.
http://www.lowcarbonexeter.org.uk
Low Carbon Exeter is a dynamic civil action initiative. Our main aim is to respond to the challenges of climate change and resource depletion in a way that is conscious of the global scale, but makes practical and insightful changes on a local level. For more about us go to The Vision section.
Welcome to the Low Carbon Exeter city in transition website, the online platform for helping to make a low carbon Exeter. We're continually improving and adding useful tools and interactivity, so please take time to look through the site and revisit it frequently as this helps us to improve it for you, to contribute yourself find out about how this site works.
Transition Bath - Home
Over the next few decades, oil and other carbon fuel production will decline, and prices will rocket. We have to make the transition between an oil-fuelled economy to one existing on a fraction of our current usage. The path between the two could be a gradual and well-planned transition towards a different but positive life, or oil shocks, chaos and collapse. The choice is ours.
Transition Bath is part of the fast-growing Transition network - communities coming together to plan and implement their own energy descent, helping to tackle climate change as they do it. We aim to help rebuild a localised economy in Bath, to collect and develop traditional and modern skills, and re-establish local resource resilience for the wellbeing of everyone.
Local businesses, schools and colleges, families, gardeners, councillors, environmentalists, craftspeople, engineers, health providers oldsters and youngsters … everyone has to make the transition, and everyone can contribute to Transition Bath.
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SUSTAINABLE SEATON
IS A CORE GROUP
ESTABLISHED TO LOOK AT WAYS OF BUILDING RESILIENCE INTO SEATON
WE WERE INSPIRED BY THE TRANSITION MOVEMENT AND WANT TO WORK ON A PLAN TO LEAD
SEATON TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
FOR OUR TOWN AND ITS POPULATION
Aldermoor EarthWorks - TRANSITION ISLAND PROJECT
WE NEED TO PLAN FOR OIL PRICE RISES ... ASAP !!!
Many years ago these rises were predicted to start between 2006 and 2012. They will dramatically affect ferry prices and therefore food and other products brought over from the mainland, AND will isolate the Island by reducing commuting and ‘exporting’ of our own products. Globally, they will change transport, plastics, pharmaceuticals and how we grow & distribute food. This issue is called 'Peak Oil'.
Climate Change is another set of changes that will affect us all - perhaps more than Peak Oil, but probably many years later. Much needs to be done to deal with the implications for food, disease, building, heating, etc.
To survive these challenges and use the opportunities, we need local plans for sustainable lifestyles that use skills rather than machines.
Sustainable Brampton - helping Brampton and the surrounding area to reduce its environmental impact.
Sustainable Brampton's purpose is to develop a local response to the environmental issues of the day and to promote more sustainable lifestyles in Brampton and surrounding area. Issues include carbon emmisions, food miles, organic food, saving energy and much more. There is a great deal our local community can do - buy local produce, recycle and use low energy bulbs.
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Sustainable Frome, town in transition
Welcome to the home of Sustainable Frome, exploring how to prepare for a carbon constrained, energy lean world. Sustainbale Frome meets every first Thursday of the month at the Masonic Hall, North Parade, Frome at 7pm. Come along ... and please bring some local food to share and £1 for the hall hire. SF strives to be inclusive, imaginative, practical and fun. Want to get involved? Why not join a project? It's fun and easy, you don't have to be an expert, you will meet lots of interesting people, strengthen your community, and learn new skills. What could be better than that? Please join us in conversation on our discussion forum.
Our mission statement is;
Creative solutions to power Frome in the future
We want to create a vibrant and sustainable community unleashing the collective genius of Frome to face the twin challenges of Peak Oil and Climate Change. We believe a town using much less energy and resources than at present will be more resilient and can also be more abundant and pleasurable.
Please join us and help to make this vision a reality.
Marsden and Slaithwaite Transition Towns
Marsden & Slaithwaite Transition Towns (MASTT) is a community-led initiative which is taking proactive steps to deal with the twin threats of Peak Oil and Climate Change.
The reasoning behind MASTT is simply that a community using much less energy and resources than we presently consume could more resilient. Providing it has been properly planned for and designed to be more resilient, more abundant and more pleasurable than the present.
Rather than feeling guilty about Climate Change and worrying about the end of cheap oil, let’s do something now to make our communities strong, prosperous and great places to live over the coming turbulent years!
MASTT strives to be inclusive, imaginative, practical and fun. Want to get involved? Why not join a MASTT project or start a new one? It's fun and easy, you don't have to be an expert, you will meet lots of interesting people, strengthen your community, and learn new skills. What could be better? to get in contact please email: info@mastt.org.uk
Transition Town West Kirby
Celebrating West Kirby and Wirral's transition to a post petroleum, low carbon world
Transition Town West Kirby
Who are we?
...a group working towards a sustainable low-carbon lifestyle, based in West Kirby and elsewhere on the Wirral.
We are one of dozens of Transition Town groups that have formed over the last two years throughout the UK and around the world.
The global challenges of climate change and energy shortages are approaching - we feel that we may not be able to do much at a global level, but can do a lot at the level of the local community. We feel it is better to plan a local response in advance than wait until the problems become a crisis. And we feel that there will be many advantages of a low-carbon lifestyle.
Membership is open to all at no charge.
Portobello Energy Descent and Land Reform Group
We are a Portobello, Edinburgh based, community run, environmental group.
We believe that Portobello can and should re-localise. This means, for example: growing more of our food; generating our own energy; creating a wider range of jobs close to home, finding ways to get to ‘zero waste’… We’ll all get more out of living here — and help the planet at the same time. Rather than hoping that governments might act in time, we are working now to re-localise, and to help other communities do the same.
We believe that the huge wave of communities becoming Transition Towns, Going Carbon Neutral, making Community Buy Outs, kicking out plastic bags or getting more local food bought and sold, are showing that people have had enough of the way we've been doing things — and that there is another way — or lots of them! The huge challenges of Climate Change and Peak Oil have galvanised people into action, and we have huge potential to make a fundamental difference to how we live in a way that government so far has not managed, and individuals on their own often feel is beyond them.
We started the process of working towards becoming a Transition Town in 2005, just as our community was celebrating its victory in a long battle against the Superstore. Inspired by Rob Hopkins’ description of the work done by his permaculture students in Kinsale, Ireland, we decided that we were ready to follow their example and develop our own Energy Descent Action Plan (EDAP) and to begin to take steps to implement it. We’ve gone some way towards this; learned a great deal; run several public events; and have two energetic groups (Food and Land Reform) with projects on the go up and running. Clearly there’s plenty more to be done, but we feel that we’ve made a great start, have inspired other communities in our turn, and you are welcome to join us.
Transition Nottingham: a community-led response to peak oil and climate change.
Transition Nottingham was established in the summer of 2007 to provide a grassroots response to the problems of peak oil and climate change. We hope that you’ll get involved in turning Nottingham into a city that is less reliant on fossil fuel energy and is a better place for all of us to live in.
Nottingham is a big city and so all the real action will be happening on a local level. The role of ‘Transition Nottingham’ is to raise awareness of the Transition process, support the establishment of these local groups and help them to network with each other.
Transition Brighton and Hove
What is TBH going to do?
TBH aims to bring about changes to our city that mean we both use less energy and are more resilient to future energy shocks. These changes will, at some point, be forced upon us by reduced energy supplies and changed climate conditions, and it will be a much smoother transition to this changed future if we change now rather than in a mad scramble at the last minute. In addition, it is believed that many of the changes we need to make, more localisation, less unnecessary travel, more community interaction, will be a more pleasant way of living than at present. It is our job to demonstrate this to the population of Brighton & Hove.
TBH is not really about the coordinating group initiating projects and recruiting help – it's more about people who want to be part of TBH both initiating their own projects, and providing help to others. This could just as well be a project that's part of an existing organisation as something completely new – TBH simply aims to be a network of everyone who has the same goal of energy resilience and reduction. If you have an energy-reducing project that you need help with, if you have a pie-in-the-sky dream and you want to throw ideas around about it with other people, please come to a meeting and tell us, and/or contact the website and let us know about it – requests will go out in the next monthly newsletter that goes out to all our mailing list.
In the long term we will be writing and implementing an Energy Descent Action Plan (an example of this here) for Brighton and Hove, in collaboration with the many other groups in the city already doing this kind of work. We have already some preliminary research in this area, the Brighton Peak Oil Report. As soon as the first steps of the Plan become clear - we won't wait until the Plan is perfect - we will be implementing them.
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Transition Mayfield is part of a national initiative in response to the crisis in fossil fuel supply and reserves world wide, referred to as Peak Oil. There is increasing energy consumption in the West and escalating demand in the developing nations.
Nuclear and hydrogen energy are not safe and fraught with long term problems. The objective is to make the transition to renewable energy.
The present level of demand cannot be met solely with renewable energy. There is a need for creative, practical ways to consume less energy.
The Transition Initiative is a catalyst for communities to formulate and implement ideas and strategies for local, sustainable development.
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