Happy New Year from Transition Wollaton!
As 2009 starts we have lots of positive things to report.
Nottingham City council passed a motion expressing it's intention to take Peak Oil seriously on December 8th 2008. The motion reads: This Council acknowledges the forthcoming impact of peak oil. The Council therefore needs to respond, and help the citizens it serves respond, to the likelihood of shrinking oil supply but in a way which will nevertheless maintains the City's prosperity. It acknowledges that actions taken to adapt to and mitigate against climate change also help us adapt issues around peak oil. It will do this by: developing an understanding of the impact of peak oil on the local economy and the local community; encouraging a move across the city towards sustainable transport, cycling and walking throughout the city; pursuing a rigorous energy efficiency and conservation programme through its carbon management plan, the work towards EMAS accreditation and on leading on raising energy awareness across all sectors to reduce dependency on oil based energy in the city; supporting research and production within the city which helps develop local effective alternative energy supplies and energy saving products in order to encourage a move away from oil based fuels and also in order to create local 'green collar jobs'; co-ordinating policy and action on reducing our city's carbon dependency and in response to the need to mitigate and adapt to climate change and peak oil.
In this way Nottingham City Council will not only be helping the city to rise to the challenge of peak oil but also encourage the city to grasp the opportunities which peak oil offers.
Transition Nottingham are meeting with the City Council to explore the ways in which we can work together to put these things into practice.
Nottingham hosted the successful Transition Cities Conference in November. 150 people from all over the country and overseas met up at the Nottingham Arena to discuss the challenges of putting the Transition model into practice in cities. It was an inspiring and enjoyable event well supported by our local council. You can read more at http://transitiontowns.org/TransitionNetwork/CitiesConference-UK-2008-WriteUp
Transition Bramcote and Wollaton has lots of exciting things planned for 2009. These include practical stuff like how to prune your apple and pear trees and more film shows to inspire us on how to make our neighbourhood more resilient to the challenges of Peak Oil, Climate Change and economic insecurity. See the Events page for more details.
Want to learn more about Transition? Nottingham is hosting the excellent Transition Training run by the Transition Network, in February. The training runs over a weekend and is an excellent opportunity to meet with other people getting started with Transition Initiatives. Previous participants have come back inspired and enthused! See http://transitiontowns.org/TransitionNetwork/CitiesConference-UK-2008-WriteUp for more information, and to book.
Hope to see you soon in 2009!
Today's Harvest Festival at Green's Mill was a great success. Between 800 and 1000 people came to the Mill despite initial torrential rain. Lots of wind to make the sails on the mill go round, and blow the clouds away. The afternoon was lovely and sunny! Transition Bramcote and Wollaton was well represented with our apple press (thanks to everyone who helped) producing lots of juice. We were surprised by the quantities of apples people turned up with - so many we were the last to leave! There were stalls from local producers of both meat and veg, and some delicious cakes. Also a chance to pick up gardening and wine making tips . Hopefully people went away inspired by the possibilities for sourcing more of our food locally, as well as growing it ourselves and making tasty meals with the produce.
There will be a chance to prepare for next year's harvest with Transition Nottingham's follow up event The Great Spring Sowing to be held on 21st March 2009. Watch this space for more details. It will be even bigger!
Also check out the Events page for information about more forthcoming events over the next couple of months including a meeting about the financial crisis and local currencies which should be very topical.
Skilling up for Powerdown is a vital part of the Transition process.
We are planning lots of practical opportunities for us to learn new skills and improve our resilience in our local community.
Our first two events concentrate on energy from 2 angles - generation and efficiency. Visit the events page for more information.
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