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"Street Groups is an email service connecting the people in your street. A Street Group is a densely connected electronic common for a small area.@

Abundance groups don't steal fruit, they simply ask the people who own trees if they can pick it. As a local group becomes well known, tree owners will often come forward offering access to their unwanted apples or pears

Abundance groups don't steal fruit, they simply ask the people who own trees if they can pick it. As a local group becomes well known, tree owners will often come forward offering access to their unwanted apples or pears

All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil A range of oil analysts are expecting global oil production to peak and then begin its decline within the next 10 years. The All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil seeks to discuss and investigate the debate regarding the date of global peak oil production, and also look at the range of impacts, mitigations and solutions."

We are a Portobello, Edinburgh based, community run, environmental group. We believe that Portobello can and should re-localise. This means, for example: growing more of our food; generating our own energy; creating a wider range of jobs close to home, finding ways to get to 'zero waste'… We'll all get more out of living here - and help the planet at the same time. Rather than hoping that governments might act in time, we are working now to re-localise, and to help other communities do the same. We believe that the huge wave of communities becoming Transition Towns, Going Carbon Neutral, making Community Buy Outs, kicking out plastic bags or getting more local food bought and sold, are showing that people have had enough of the way we've been doing things - and that there is another way - or lots of them! The huge challenges of Climate Change and Peak Oil have galvanised people into action, and we have huge potential to make a fundamental difference to how we live in a way that government so far has not managed, and individuals on their own often feel is beyond them. We started the process of working towards becoming a Transition Town in 2005, just as our community was celebrating its victory in a long battle against the Superstore. Inspired by Rob Hopkins' description of the work done by his permaculture students in Kinsale, Ireland, we decided that we were ready to follow their example and develop our own Energy Descent Action Plan (EDAP) and to begin to take steps to implement it. We've gone some way towards this; learned a great deal; run several public events; and have two energetic groups (Food and Land Reform) with projects on the go up and running. Clearly there's plenty more to be done, but we feel that we've made a great start, have inspired other communities in our turn, and you are welcome to join us.

"Energy security is rapidly becoming a major concern for citizens of both developed and developing countries. We have grown totally dependent on low cost oil and gas for our everyday lives. As increased pressure is put on the remaining reserves, prices are rising inexorably, and alternatives must be sought. This requires a change of lifestyle for the 21st Century. Wastewatts is a technology discussion forum that looks at ways in which we might change our fossil fuel dependent lifestyles, off-setting petroleum with renewable fuels or those derived from industrial or agricultural waste."

"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."

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.

Engaging the community in designing a vibrant low energy future for Falmouth and the surrounding area to face the twin challenges posed by Peak Oil and Climate Change. Please join us and participate in the process. Transition Falmouth is part of a movement addressing the two greatest issues of our time: a changing climate and declining oil production. We are working to develop low energy solutions in all aspects of our lives. Transition Falmouth has set up a number of working groups including food, arts & crafts, transport, health & wellbeing, waste, built environment and economics. We believe solutions will arise from engaging the creativity, imagination and knowledge of people in Falmouth. Our aim is to create active and supportive partnerships between individuals, groups and local government. Help us put Falmouth on the map as a community that engages its collective creativity and genius in building an abundant future.

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

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

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?

open SMS group messaging for Transitioners

"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."

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.

SUSTAINABLE SEATON IS A CORE GROUP ESTABLISHED TO LOOK AT WAYS OF BUILDING RESILIENCE INTO SEATON WE WERE INSPIRED BY THE TRANSITION MOVEMENT AND WANT TO WORK ON A PLAN TO LEAD SEATON TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE FOR OUR TOWN AND ITS POPULATION

Transition Nottingham was established in the summer of 2007 to provide a grassroots response to the problems of peak oil and climate change. We hope that you'll get involved in turning Nottingham into a city that is less reliant on fossil fuel energy and is a better place for all of us to live in. Nottingham is a big city and so all the real action will be happening on a local level. The role of 'Transition Nottingham' is to raise awareness of the Transition process, support the establishment of these local groups and help them to network with each other.

Climate Change is happening. Peak Oil is now. Transition Town Brixton is a community-led initiative that seeks to raise awareness locally of Climate Change and Peak Oil. TTB proposes that it is better to design that change, reduce impacts & make it beneficial than wait to be surprised by it. We will vision a better low energy/carbon future for Brixton. We will design a Brixton Energy Descent Action Plan - the route-map to the future. Finally, we will make it happen. A Transition Town consider the challenges of the future as opportunities to rethink the way we do everything, to reconnect with our planet and our community and to relocalise. Themed working groups are formed to vision and plan a transition to a better low energy future in food, health, work, culture etc. Localisation is key and will require that we rediscover many lost skills. TTBrixton aims to be inclusive, imaginative, practical and fun. And to build a local community that is more interconnected, resilient and self-reliant. Vision To engage the whole community in visioning, planning and achieving Transition to a better low energy future Mission 1. To make spread awareness of Peak Oil and Climate Change 3. To motivate a significant number of people to engage in change 4. To record actions and show benefit of carbon reducing measures 5. To vision a good low energy future for Brixton and plan how to get there 6. To create the Brixton Energy Descent Action Plan 7. To put the plan into action and monitor progress, modifying as necessary