Name: Transition Newent
Address: Newent, Forest of Dean District, Gloucestershire, GL, United Kingdom

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What is a Transition Initiative?

All industrialised countries appear to operate on the assumption that our high levels of energy consumption, our high carbon emissions and our massive environmental impact can go on indefinitely.

And most developing countries appear to aspire to these ways of living too. However, any rational examination of our energy supplies, our economic inequalities, our diminishing levels of well-being, our ecological crises and the climate chaos that is already hitting millions of people tells us this can’t go on much longer.

We’re saying that the best place to start transitioning away from this unviable way of living is right within our own communities, and the best time is right now.

What are we “transitioning” towards?

Whether we like it or not, over the next decade or two, we’ll be transitioning to a lower energy future – essential because of climate change and inevitable because of diminishing supplies of fossil fuels (particularly oil).

There are a variety of possible outcomes depending on whether we stick our heads in the sand or whether we start working for a future that we want.

Transition Initiatives, community by community, are actively and cooperatively creating happier, fairer and stronger communities, places that work for the people living in them and are far better suited to dealing with the shocks that’ll accompany our economic and energy challenges and a climate in chaos. And here’s how they’re doing it…

Here’s how it all appears to be evolving

It begins when a small group comes together with a shared concern about shrinking supplies of cheap energy (peak oil), climate change and increasingly, economic downturn. This group recognises that:

– Climate change and peak oil require urgent action.

– Life with less energy is inevitable. It is better to plan for it than to be taken by surprise.

– Industrial society has lost the resilience to be able to cope with energy shocks.

We have to act together, now.

– Infinite growth within a finite system (such as planet Earth) is impossible.

– We demonstrated great ingenuity and intelligence as we raced up the energy curve over the last 150 years. There’s no reason why we can’t use those qualities, and more, as we negotiate our way up from the depths back towards the sun and air.

– If we plan and act early enough, and use our creativity and cooperation to unleash the genius within our local communities, we can build a future far more fulfilling and enriching, more connected to and more gentle on the Earth, than the life we have today.

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Email: ann@kenandannallen.co.uk

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Address: Newent
Forest of Dean District
Gloucestershire
GL
United Kingdom

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