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22 Jun 2011

Why localisation is a key part of the answer. An article from today’s Guardian online…

Transition Network empowers local groups to promote sustainable issues by Rob Hopkins (appeared today in the Guardian’s online Sustainable Business section).

Last week it emerged that the Department of Energy and Climate Change, whose official position remains that “we do not have any contingency plans specific to a peak in oil production”, was actually stating in internal documents released under the Freedom of Information Act that “it is not possible to predict with any accuracy exactly when or why oil production will peak”.

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22 Jun 2011

New film: ‘Growing Food Locally’

Transition Forest Row recently produced an excellent 20 minute film called ‘Growing food locally’ which looked at local food initiatives in the area.  It focuses on the impact of rising oil prices on food, the community supported agriculture model, allotments, garden share, schools and veg boxes.  You can buy copies of the DVD for £5 plus p&p here.

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Categories: Climate Change, Community Involvement, Culture, Education for Sustainability, Energy, Food, Localisation, Peak Oil, Resilience, Storytelling, Transition Initiatives


20 Jun 2011

Transition spreads through north-west London

Transition Willesden meeting - (l to r) Viv Stein, Chris Wells and Cllr Ann Hunter.jpg

Here is a guest blog from Alexis Rowell in London on recent developments in northwest London.

Two new Transition Initiatives started up on a wave of enthusiasm and energy this month in northwest London – Transition West Hampstead and Transition Willesden (see pic above).   Fifty people, including all three local councillors, attended a screening of that Transition favourite “A Farm for the Future” in a West Hampstead church in the London borough of Camden. They then listened to speakers from neighbouring Transition Initiatives Belsize and Kensal to Kilburn and broke out into Energy, Food, Transport and Wellbeing sessions. The evening ended with nettle pesto and lashings of elderflower cordial (provided by Transition Kensal to Kilburn), and the setting of a date for a first Initiating Group meeting.

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19 Jun 2011

Transition Town Totnes wins an Ashden Award!

A more detailed report is to follow, but for now here is a film made by the Ashden Award people about Transition Streets (click here to read their case study report), the project that won us an Ashden Award last Thursday…

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16 Jun 2011

Transition as Cookery: my presentation at the 2011 Tagore Festival

A couple of months ago I did a talk at the Tagore Festival at Dartington which eschewed Powerpoint and used objects sent in by Transition groups to tell the story of how Transition unfolds.  I really enjoyed it.  Here it is:

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