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Archive for “Community Involvement” category
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12 Nov 2008
‘Preparing for Peak Oil: Local Authorities and the Energy Crisis’, prepared by the Oil Depletion Analysis Centre and the Post carbon Institute. 2008. 41 pages. Free download here.
The whole question of how to communicate peak oil to local government, and how to support and encourage their creative and rapid responses to it, is huge and very timely. ‘Preparing for Peak Oil’ is an excellent guidebook for anyone who wants to bring their local authority up to speed on energy depletion and climate change issues. It is clear, well presented, and achieves an excellent balance between presenting the hard facts about peak oil alongside some positive and inspiring examples of change, as well as some clear and well thought through thinking tools.
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17 Oct 2008
We are delighted to be able to announce details of the inaugural Transition Cities conference, hosted by the good folks of Transition Nottingham on November 27th -28th 2008.
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16 Oct 2008
Here in Totnes, one of the projects we are involved in that is really motoring along, and is also generating a lot of interest, is the Garden Share scheme. The idea is simple. There are many older or busier people who have gardens they struggle to look after but which they like to see being used productively, and there are many younger and more able people who would like to grow food, but have no access to land. In effect, Garden Share acts as a dating agency, matching the two together.
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10 Oct 2008

Two participants on the first day discussing Rudy's 'peak everything' presentation.
So yesterday I posted Joanne’s reflections on the early stirrings of Transition in LA. Today I want to share with you an email from Rudy Dhont in Flanders, on the beginnings of Transition work there….
The early inspiration
“I was a course participant at Schumacher College on several occasions the last two years and I got very inspired by Transition Town Totnes.
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9 Oct 2008
Here is an email I received from Joanne Poyourow in LA about the early steps that are being taken to kick start Transition ideas in the city. Hope this is interesting/encouraging for other Transition city groups. Just to remind you, the Transition Cities Conference takes place in Nottingham on the 27th – 28th November. Full details to follow next week, but do put those dates in your diary.
“Sometimes the question of “what to do about Los Angeles” seems just too big — both to those on the outside looking in, and even at times to the brave Permaculturists and Transitioners who are here working from the inside. Los Angeles is huge.
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