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On our website you will find a number of Links that show in many ways what other people are doing right now to get involved. We hope that this will inspire you too!
The Transition Culture web site - an evolving exploration into the head, heart and hands of energy descent. This site is full of creative information, with free videos to watch and movies and books to buy. Just click on each picture for details. To visit their home page please click HERE
The Resurgence web site - at the heart of earth,art and spirit
'The Resurgence Trust was granted charitable status in 2006 and is now established as an educational trust. We aim to bring together a community of people and organisations who believe that another world is possible, a world that embraces culture,aesthetics, sustainability and spirituality. Our aim is to help create a world based on justice,equality and respect for all beings'. This web site is full of useful information and articles, and offers a subscription to a monthly 'Resurgence' magazine. To visit their home page please click HERE
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The Beginnings of the Transition Initiative -
Transition Town Kinsale. Ireland.
This is an excellent web site to explore. We have chosen, as one example, to link to their Issues page which has two articles, the first a short informative write up on Peak Oil, followed by a second inspiring discourse entitled Permaculture,Business, Reslience and Transition.
To visit their web site please click HERE
Transition Town Totnes. Devon.UK.
Totnes was the first UK Transition Town which had it's origins back in 2005. So a lot can be gleaned from their excellent web site and experiences so far. We have chosen, as one example, to link to their Energy Descent Pathways Project page. To see it please click HERE
Transition Stroud. Glos.UK.This is another excellent web site to explore.The Stroud Initiative has been running for about two years, and appears to have been well received judging by the involvement of their local inhabitants. To visit their home page please click HERE
Transition Towns Wiki - Transition Network
The Transition Network was set up in Spring 2007 to support Transition Initiatives around the world, and is full of useful information. To visit their home page please click HERE
Some of the more recent local Transition Initiatives -
Transition Worcestershire.org.uk
People all across the county are coming together to formulate positive, solution focused responses to the combined dangers of peak oil and climate change. Using the transition model, communities are unleashing their collective courage, energy and talents to shape a more sustainable and resilient future for themselves.
To visit the Worcestershire website, please click HERE
Transition Worcester. Worcs. UK
To visit their website home page please click HERE
Transition Hereford. Herefordshire. UK
To visit their Transition Towns WIKI website, please click HERE
Transition Malvern Hills. Worcs. UK
To visit their website home page please click HERE
Transition Pershore. Worcs. UK
To visit their website home page please click HERE
Transition Town Leamington. Warwicks.UK
To visit their website home page please click HERE
Transition Shipston. Warwicks. UK
To visit the Transition Shipston Blogspot, please click HERE
Transition Stratford. Warwicks. UK
To visit the Transition Stratford-upon-Avons website, please click HERE
Transition Cleeve. Glos. UK
To visit the Transition Bishops Cleeve website, please click HERE
Transition Network News
For all the latest news from and around the Transition Network, please click HERE
Rob Hopkins speaks to the International Forum on Globalisation - about the Transition Movement. This is a three part You Tube Video, just follow the links. To watch part one please click HERE
Rob Hopkins talks at the Positive Energy Conference - in the Findhorn Ecovillage, Scotland, July 2008. This is a 6 part You Tube video, so just follow the links. To watch part one please click HERE
Richard Heinberg - Resilient Communities
Richard is the author of The Party's Over, Power Down, and Peak Everything. In this U Tube video he delivers his latest thoughts and strategies for dealing with Peak Oil and Climate Change at the Positive Energy Conference, in the Findhorn Ecovillage, Scotland, April 2008. This is a 6 part You Tube video, so just follow the links. To watch part 1 please click HERE
Permaculture.org.uk : Home of the UK Permaculture Network and Association
For everything you wanted to know about Permaculture and more. To visit their home page please click HERE
There is a You Tube video about permaculture in action - titled 'A Farm for the Future'. This is in 5 parts, so just follow the links. To watch part 1 please click HERE
Permaculture and Peak Oil : 'Beyond Sustainability'
David Holmgren is co-ordinator (with Bill Mollison) of the permaculture concept and author of the recent book, PERMACULTURE : Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability.
To watch his You Tube video about permaculture principles please click HERE
Real Climate : Climate science from the climate scientists
This web site houses a library of information. To visit their home page please click HERE
Climate Outreach and Information network (COIN)
This is a charitable trust formed in 2004 to directly engage the public about climate change. To explore this detailed web site please click HERE
Carbon Balanced.org - conserving biodiversity while offsetting carbon emissions.
This web site is run by the world land trust, and has an introduction by Sir David Attenborough. To explore this web site please click HERE
The UK Science Museum unveils climate change map showing the impact of a 4C rise
To read this article and see the map outlining the impact of this predicted rise, please click HERE
Power Switch.org.uk : The UK's Peak Oil Community, raising awareness and making changes.
If you would like to explore this web site please click HERE
The Transition Culture web site - 14 PDF Downloads to read in your own time
To read the titles that can be downloaded, please click HERE
The Food Magazine website : Britain's leading, independent watchdog on food issues
The Food Commission is a national campaigning charity, which for more than 20 years has been challenging the food industry and government to do more to tackle ill-health caused by the over-processed, high calorie products that fill our supermarket shelves.
To explore this informative website, please click HERE
Sustainweb.org : The alliance for better food and farming
Sustain : The alliance for better food and farming advocates food and agriculture policies and prctices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, enrich society and culture and promote equity. We represent around 100 national public interest organisations working at international, national, regional and local level. To explore this detailed website, please click HERE
Friends of the Earth.co.uk : Fix the food chain
What is it all about? The Food Chain Campaign isn't about getting rid of meat and dairy farming - it's about getting government to revolutionise it. To watch the FOE video and find out more about our food and what you could do today to help, please click HERE
The Soil Association.org : Healthy soil, healthy people, healthy planet
To explore this informative website, or just watch the new film 'Vanishing of the Bees', where you can sign their online petition to help save the honeybee. please click HERE
Patrick Holden - Director of the Soil Association - Talks on 'You Tube'
• Food Security - part 1,2,3.
• Future of Farming - part 1,2,3,4.
• Back to the Land - part 1,2,3,4.
Food, Inc - The Movie
In America -
'How much do we really know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets?'
To visit foodincmovie.com to read about the concerns raised in this new film from the USA and watch the Food, Inc trailer, please click HERE
Eat the Seasons.co.uk - What's good to eat this week?
This is a useful data base of seasonal foods available in the UK, with food information, tips and recipe ideas, updated every wednesday. To visit Eat the Seasons website please click HERE
Making Local Food Work.co.uk
Making Local Food Work helps people to take ownership of their food and where it comes from by providing advice and support to community food enterprises across England. If you are involved in a community food enterprise or interested in starting one in your community, we may be able to help you. If you would like to visit this website, please click HERE
An Inconvenient Sandwich - The Throwaway economics of takeaway food
The British appetite for quick, cheap, convenient food that we can eat wherever we happen to be has hidden costs to society, public health and the environment. This report investigates the economic pressures facing independent cafés and sandwich bars which often forces social justice, sustainability and health off the menu.
To download and read the Full Report from 'neweconomics.org', please click HERE