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"LocalPower is an easy way to find community groups providing practical responses to climate change, peak oil and environmental crises"

LEDs are an important component of the indoor growing industry. But still a large segment of the hydroponic growing community does not know exactly how to make LEDs work effectively for their garden.

"Study for Prosperity Beyond Peak Oil: a ground-breaking study into how Tasmania can overcome the challenge of peak oil and oil price fluctuations with $250,000 earmarked for the study. This study will assess the vulnerability of the Tasmanian economy and community to sudden, severe or cumulative increases in the real price of petroleum products. This will help Tasmania be an early adapter and to reap the rewards by starting to storm-proof our economy today. "

"In this section find out what the programme will do for you, how it works, more about the workbook and the extras... What will it do for me? Cut your household bills - with easy, helpful, practical advice: Take control of your daily costs Reduce your impact on the environment Understand better these times of change and uncertainty Act together with your friends, family and community Have fun, make friends and save money at a pace and schedule that suits you Transition Together helps you build a Practical Action Plan. It cuts through the massive amount of often confusing information that's out there, and provides you with reliable facts and practical tips from the experts. It provides local information relevant for all of us living here in Totnes and District. This programme is free and only available to local residents. So far over 280 residents in Totnes are taking part in the programme..."

"Transition Towns (http://www.transitionnetwork.org, http://www.transitionus.org, http://www.transitiontowns.org.nz, etc.) is one of the fastest growing social movements in the world today. It's a bottom up movement made up of initiatives around the world collaborating locally and widely on community based answers to peak oil and climate change around the world, supported by Transition Network and affiliated organisations.\n\nDrupal at the centre of a lot of the web developments. This group exists to bring together Drupal builders, site admins and developers with an interest in Transition, for knowledge sharing, and joint development activities."

"WELCOME (E) ON TSLT.COM! You can join this site with colleagues, friends of a city or a region or professional sector and create your group or participate in discussion forums, a blog, contribute to the base of knowledge or, if you have knowledge about the topics, share them with communities of employees present on the platform."

"Welcome to ciderworkshop.com, the web resource for the Cider Workshop Google group - the friendly community of craft cider & perry makers and enthusiasts."

"Transition Voice is the new online magazine for the Transition movement, a cultural wave of hundreds of thousands of people across the globe who are responding to peak oil and declining fossil fuels by helping their communities and families to prepare for a future where economies and culture will likely look very different than they do today. Transition planners hope for a life that will be cleaner, more local, and human-scale."

"Volunteer Master Gardeners offer food growing advice to local people and communities. Volunteers are fully trained and supported by Garden Organic, the UK's leading organic growing charity. This three-year pilot programme is funded by the Big Lottery Fund's Local Food scheme, Sheepdrove Trust and local authorities in four areas: Warwickshire, Islington, South London and Norfolk. We aim to develop and sustain these programme areas and more nationally to follow the success of Garden Organic's Master Composter network."

The UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security (ITPOES) is a group of British companies concerned that threats to energy security are not receiving the attention they merit. The Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security The aim of our first report is to engage government more proactively on the peak oil threat, and also to alert the public to the problem. We aim to encourage collaborative contingency planning by government, industry, and communities on measures that can be taken to accelerate independent energy supply within the UK. In preparing this report, we asked ourselves three related questions: How big is the risk from peak oil? How big is the alternative-energy opportunity? How do the two conflate?

Transition Norwich aims to facilitate a community response to the twin problems of Peak Oil and Climate Change. The world is rapidly reaching the point at which oil production must start to reduce year on year, with dramatic consequences for our economy, food supply, and way of life. more... Between 350 and 400 people descended on St Andrew's Hall the evening of 1st October 2008 to mark Transition Norwich's 'Great Unleashing'.

Transition Scilly is a local, community-driven group that aims to help people on Scilly reduce their carbon footprint as a response to the threat of Climate Change, and increase the whole community's resilience as a response to the threat of Peak Oil.. The Transition movement started in Totnes in 2006 and has grown to hundreds of places (villages, towns and cities) across the UK and around the World. It is a movement based on positive change, not traditional campaigning. Transition is based on solutions to problems as a way of looking to a positive future. Peak Oil and Climate Change are both huge threats to human society, in very different ways. Peak Oil forces us to alter our lifestyle of heavy reliance on fossil fuels, and Climate Change is altering the environmental conditions of the entire planet. If both issues are considered separately we won't come up with positive solutions for both problems; if considered together there's a chance we can turn this situation around. This is the difference with Transition.

Over the next few decades, oil and other carbon fuel production will decline, and prices will rocket. We have to make the transition between an oil-fuelled economy to one existing on a fraction of our current usage. The path between the two could be a gradual and well-planned transition towards a different but positive life, or oil shocks, chaos and collapse. The choice is ours. Transition Bath is part of the fast-growing Transition network - communities coming together to plan and implement their own energy descent, helping to tackle climate change as they do it. We aim to help rebuild a localised economy in Bath, to collect and develop traditional and modern skills, and re-establish local resource resilience for the wellbeing of everyone. Local businesses, schools and colleges, families, gardeners, councillors, environmentalists, craftspeople, engineers, health providers oldsters and youngsters … everyone has to make the transition, and everyone can contribute to Transition Bath.

Sustainable Brampton's purpose is to develop a local response to the environmental issues of the day and to promote more sustainable lifestyles in Brampton and surrounding area. Issues include carbon emmisions, food miles, organic food, saving energy and much more. There is a great deal our local community can do - buy local produce, recycle and use low energy bulbs.

Who are we? ...a group working towards a sustainable low-carbon lifestyle, based in West Kirby and elsewhere on the Wirral. We are one of dozens of Transition Town groups that have formed over the last two years throughout the UK and around the world. The global challenges of climate change and energy shortages are approaching - we feel that we may not be able to do much at a global level, but can do a lot at the level of the local community. We feel it is better to plan a local response in advance than wait until the problems become a crisis. And we feel that there will be many advantages of a low-carbon lifestyle. Membership is open to all at no charge.

What is TBH going to do? TBH aims to bring about changes to our city that mean we both use less energy and are more resilient to future energy shocks. These changes will, at some point, be forced upon us by reduced energy supplies and changed climate conditions, and it will be a much smoother transition to this changed future if we change now rather than in a mad scramble at the last minute. In addition, it is believed that many of the changes we need to make, more localisation, less unnecessary travel, more community interaction, will be a more pleasant way of living than at present. It is our job to demonstrate this to the population of Brighton & Hove. TBH is not really about the coordinating group initiating projects and recruiting help - it's more about people who want to be part of TBH both initiating their own projects, and providing help to others. This could just as well be a project that's part of an existing organisation as something completely new - TBH simply aims to be a network of everyone who has the same goal of energy resilience and reduction. If you have an energy-reducing project that you need help with, if you have a pie-in-the-sky dream and you want to throw ideas around about it with other people, please come to a meeting and tell us, and/or contact the website and let us know about it - requests will go out in the next monthly newsletter that goes out to all our mailing list. In the long term we will be writing and implementing an Energy Descent Action Plan (an example of this here) for Brighton and Hove, in collaboration with the many other groups in the city already doing this kind of work. We have already some preliminary research in this area, the Brighton Peak Oil Report. As soon as the first steps of the Plan become clear - we won't wait until the Plan is perfect - we will be implementing them.

Transition Mayfield is part of a national initiative in response to the crisis in fossil fuel supply and reserves world wide, referred to as Peak Oil. There is increasing energy consumption in the West and escalating demand in the developing nations. Nuclear and hydrogen energy are not safe and fraught with long term problems. The objective is to make the transition to renewable energy. The present level of demand cannot be met solely with renewable energy. There is a need for creative, practical ways to consume less energy. The Transition Initiative is a catalyst for communities to formulate and implement ideas and strategies for local, sustainable development.

"Who Says You Can't Change the World" is a groundbreaking new report from Other Worlds that introduces nine grassroots alternatives to the current economic and environmental (dis)order, and gives examples of real communities and movements who are living those alternatives every day. The report touches on alternative education, water struggles, the right to health care, environmental justice, and solidarity economies, among other topics