Links
Local Stuff
Neighbouring groups:
Transition Newent - their website!
Transition Chepstow - newly launched...
Transition Monmouth - new website...
And nearer things:
The Forest of Dean Allotments Association - campaigning for more growing space
Garden Partners - helping people share growing spaces that already exist
Dean Community Food - dont have a website yet but you can email them at deancommunitygrownfoods@yahoo.co.uk
They have established community supported agriculture at Ragmans Lane Farm
Sue and Andrew Clarke, who helped to start the Transitions project in the Forest, have a new venture: The Resilience Centre
Forest freecycle - a really good idea
The Forest green guide
The Forest's own LETS (Local
Exchange Trading Scheme) ...
If it's local art and artists you want to find, try the BigArtWeb
.... and a county loan and swap shop
Do
you want to support local micro-producers? Visit the Country Market in Coleford on Friday (in The Angel) & Saturday mornings (in the market square) - cakes, pies, jams, veg... And you could even join them as a producer...
Do
you want to share
lifts to get to meetings (or any events)?
Do
you want to find someone who might give you a grant?
Not so local stuff
A reading
list....
.. but somehow it misses 'Heat'
by George Monbiot.
Rob
Hopkins initiated this 'transition' work.
From Rob Hopkins' site, an article
by Graham Strouts, explaining peak oil.
Rob calls this the
ultimate UK peak oil site.
A reliable sourcebook on energy that mixes science & practicality
The Energy
Bulletin for current media coverage.
Here's what the USA, BBC, wikipedia, Al
Gore and the
EU have
to say about climate change.
Here's the paper by Arrhenius that started the ball rolling on climate change
Crash - what
crash?
And what is the government thinking about some of these topics?
Transition
Towns 'wiki' - a source of information about the larger
movement to robust communities.
Various other towns have good sites, for example: Totnes, Penwith, Stroud, Lewes,
and Bristol.
'You
Tube' sample - This is about what Lewes is doing. Look
for the 'related' section for much more.
A more extensive list
of links.
