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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

"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..."

"These high quality, hand crafted tools are designed to pick up almost any object 5mm to 100mm (1/4" to 4") in diameter, depending on the size of wizard. The tool weighs 2.5kg (5 1/2 lb) and is 1.5m (5') long. You roll the nut wizard over the ground and the spring wire spreads and flips the object in the basket. Very little pressure is needed and it is easily operated by anyone. Included with the tool is a spreader which attaches to any standard bucket; when the wizard basket is full, you push basket over spreader, separating the wires and objects fall out."

"Eling Tide Mill\n\nVISIT ONE OF THE ONLY TIDE MILLS IN THE WORLD PRODUCING FLOUR DAILY IN A 900 YEAR OLD TRADITION\n\nEling Tide Mill is a water mill that harnesses the power of the tide to grind wheat into wholemeal flour. \n\nSituated on the edge of Southampton Water beside the renowned New Forest, there has been a mill on the site for over 900 years.\n\nIt was abandoned in the 1940s, but had the good fortune to survive until it was restored between 1975 and 1980, at which time it re-opened as both a working mill, and a museum to this part of our industrial heritage. It is the one of the only fully working and productive tide mill in the United Kingdom producing flour as it had throughout the last Millennium and one of only a handful of mills in the entire world producing flour on a regular basis."

"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."

TRING in TRANSITION - is part of the Transition Towns movement. Tring is the 51st community worldwide to achieve Transition Town status - there are now over 100 Transition Towns. Over 1000 communities worldwide are in the process of becoming Transition Towns.

Welcome to the home of Transition Town Westcliff, an exploration of how the people of Westcliff on Sea and the surrounding area can prepare for a carbon constrained, energy lean world. TTW is a community-led initiative which is working towards the creation of an Energy Descent Action Plan for the town. The thinking behind TTW is simply that a town using much less energy and resources than we presently consume could, if properly planned for and designed, be more resilient, more abundant and more pleasurable than the present. TTW also believe that only by involving all of us - residents, businesses, public bodies, community organisations and schools - will we come up with the most innovative, effective and practical ideas, and have the energy and skills to carry them out.

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 Frome, town in transition Welcome to the home of Sustainable Frome, exploring how to prepare for a carbon constrained, energy lean world. Sustainbale Frome meets every first Thursday of the month at the Masonic Hall, North Parade, Frome at 7pm. Come along ... and please bring some local food to share and £1 for the hall hire. SF strives to be inclusive, imaginative, practical and fun. Want to get involved? Why not join a project? It's fun and easy, you don't have to be an expert, you will meet lots of interesting people, strengthen your community, and learn new skills. What could be better than that? Please join us in conversation on our discussion forum. Our mission statement is; Creative solutions to power Frome in the future We want to create a vibrant and sustainable community unleashing the collective genius of Frome to face the twin challenges of Peak Oil and Climate Change. We believe a town using much less energy and resources than at present will be more resilient and can also be more abundant and pleasurable. Please join us and help to make this vision a reality.

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.

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.

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.

The majority opinion of the scientific community is that, as a culture, we cannot continue to live the way we do. To thrive in the future means to live in a different way than we have in the recent past. If this is what we want, we need to prepare ... together. Two of the most important issues are our dependency upon oil, and the changing climate, both of which urge us towards greater local stability and reslience. To make the changes in our communal and individual lives requires a fundmanental shift, and the purpose of this site is to focus upon making such a transition in the Forest of Dean. The hope is that we in the Forest of Dean can prepare for the transition before it is forced upon us - to dismantle rather than deal with collapse, to construct rather than to throw together in panic. This is the motivation. With discussion and energy we can achieve common goals. Please join in the discussion, and we will attempt to chart our progress through this site.

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.

For Berkhamsted to be a successful Transition Town it needs to involve everyone who lives or works in Berkhamsted - businesses, schools, residents, local organisation, public bodies. With this support we can build a strong sustainable community for the future, which can take practical actions to lower our carbon emissions and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. These actions are key to us developing a community that is resilient to future changes in prices and availability of fuel. The benefits of us working together to build this self reliance could be: a healthier fitter way of life where we know our neighbours where we can let our children play on the newly pedestrianised streets where we grow our own food work locally protect ourselves against rising gas, electricity and petrol prices.

WE NEED TO PLAN FOR OIL PRICE RISES ... ASAP !!! Many years ago these rises were predicted to start between 2006 and 2012. They will dramatically affect ferry prices and therefore food and other products brought over from the mainland, AND will isolate the Island by reducing commuting and 'exporting' of our own products. Globally, they will change transport, plastics, pharmaceuticals and how we grow & distribute food. This issue is called 'Peak Oil'. Climate Change is another set of changes that will affect us all - perhaps more than Peak Oil, but probably many years later. Much needs to be done to deal with the implications for food, disease, building, heating, etc. To survive these challenges and use the opportunities, we need local plans for sustainable lifestyles that use skills rather than machines.