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Transition. It can mean different things to different people. Here's what it means to some of the many local changemakers involved in our movement - and why it's important...

"What I started it was all about sustainability and climate change - now I know it's about community..."

Find out more: transitiontogether.org.uk

#thisisTransition #WhatisTransition #climateaction #community #Transitiontown

Transition group @playthinkbrink welcomed broadcaster and activist Chris Packham for campfire tea and chat at their meantime use space in the centre of Belfast recently.

Gawain Morrison, co-founder of Brink, said: "Just as it was about to snow, we sat round our fire pit & chatted about this part of the city, the heritage growing project on the site, with our partners Grow NI & quarto, the broken food system, renewables, activism & punk bands. Not a bad way to start the morning."

The project aims to spark conversations and new thinking about how their city of Belfast can transition to a better future. Chris added a message on heritage linen to their story ring: “Winning is not giving up and the fuel is love and rage”

#chrispackham #thisistransition #transitiontown #reimaginethefuture #storytelling #campfire #dontgiveup #belfast

Our last Transition Skillshare of the year is a real festive treat 🌟Together We Can... Harness Creativity for Change.

Join three creative souls to hear how art, creativity and imagination is open to everybody, and can be effective tools to inspire action, communicate our messages and nurture us in our collaborations.

With Lindy Roy of Transition Town Wellington, Doug Francisco, artist, activist, and storyteller and founder of Red Rebel Brigade & Invisible Circus, and Bryonie Reid of quarto collective which helps communities creatively explore place, identity and time.

All welcome to join us online on Wednesday 11 December at 7.30pm. Sign up here: https://events.transitionmovement.org/transition-together/harnesscreativity/

#transition #thisistransition #creativity #art #community #climate @climatediary

“Each of us individually has a role to play- and the future is partly up to us to create and shape together in community, in dialogue, in connection with each other.”

Town Anywhere is an immersive and creative way to imagine the future, and start to make real our own roles in building it. And it's coming to Transition Town Tooting this weekend, and next month to Transition New Mills!

Here’s a sneak peak at the treat they have in store: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUQWRjqy6Yo

#ThisisTransition #imagination #future #ClimateChange #climateaction #community #transition

"What difference can Transition groups and others doing this work make? It often starts with some small initiative like planting trees or wildflowers, sharing food at a community fridge or bringing people together to talk about the future.

"Often this cascades, as people get to know and trust each other, to see what they can achieve together, and learn from other groups and places what else is possible.

"Transition groups have set up farmers’ markets, community food-growing, waste-food cafes, nature recovery projects, cycling and electric car clubs and community-owned renewable energy generation."

Did things start small in your Transition project? Have they grown in new and unexpected directions??

https://transitiontogether.org.uk/why-transition-and-why-now/

#ThisisTransition #Transition #Transitiontowns #climateaction #community

It’s Libraries Week and we’re celebrating the many different libraries of all sorts run by Transition Groups.

Like Share Portsmouth, running a library of things and repair cafe base out of a shopping centre in the middle of their town, making it easier for folks to get hold of items they use occasionally without having to buy, ship, store or chuck them once they are no longer needed.

Transitioners in towns, cities and rural areas are running libraries of things, helping their communities become more connected and resilient, and people to share what they have and get what they need at much lower cost to their pockets and the planet.

Visit or join your local Library of things, or spread the word and see who's interested in starting one in your area and let’s make this as handy and widespread as possible!

Some examples we're celebrating today! Sustainable Tiverton's Share Shop Tiverton - A Library of Things, Transition Buxton Zero Carbon Guildford SERO Kew The Transition Little Seed Library Sustainable Starts children's clothes and nappy libraries, Exmouth Library of Things, and Crystal Palace Transition Town helped start the first Library of Things in London, The Green House St Albans and Transition Leytonstone have fab collections of environmental books to lend.
And taking inspiration from the many other libraries of things across the country! The Edinburgh Tool Library Share Shed - A Library of Things SHARE Oxford Bath Share & Repair, Hull Library of Stuff and more!

#LibrariesWeek #share #circulareconomy #community #climateaction #zerowaste #library #libraryofthings #ThisisTransition #Transitiontown

Sustainable Starts was only born last year to help families find affordable and easy ways to make more green choices - now it’s growing up fast!

The Liverpool-based Transition group runs a nappy library, regular clothes swaps, an eco-playgroup, partyware hire and its piloting a baby clothes lending scheme, where parents pay £2 a month for a bundle. When these clothes are outgrown, the set can be returned for the next size up.

Started by four parents who know only too well the juggle of bills, kids, sleep and trying to do the right thing, they’ve always been motivated to bring families together and offer really practical, easy options. A Transition Together/Community Fund seedfunding grant helped them grow and try new projects out - now that experience has helped them secure a bigger £20,000 grant by the National Lottery Community Fund to further expand.

The group said: “This funding will support us to keep delivering the projects we've got, and to expand what we're offering - watch this space..." We certainly will!

#ThisisTransition #ecofamily #transitiontown #Liverpool #sustainablestarts #clothesswap #clothnappylibrary #sustainablefamily #communityaction #playgroup #climateaction

Super exciting that Transition Stroud's e-bike hire project is set to grow from 5 to 25 bikes this autumn!

Volunteers currently lend bikes from 3 pick up points, helping people get around the rural and hilly area more easily, affordably and car free.

They set up the project with a range of community groups and The Bike Drop with seed funding from Transition Together and The National Lottery Community Fund. Now they've proved it works and unlocked additional support to expand into more locations, reach more people and loan half the new bikes at reduced rates for people on low incomes.

Jess Farr of Transition Stroud said: “We're hopeful that this project will encourage more people to choose to ride by bike - for work, school runs or just popping to the shops.”

Bike borrower Thea Pilikian echoed this: "I found the confidence to go on any road and conquer any hill, it was a very empowering experience to be given that freedom all on my own enjoying the peace, power and pleasure of a bike!"

Check out their project here: https://transitionstroud.org/transition-stroud-action-groups/e-bike-hire/

#transitiontown #ThisisTransition #ebike #activetravel #greentravel #bike #England #climateaction #community

(photo of Gill and son by @mouseabouttown)

Homes and public buildings in Bewdley could be heated using water from the river in an innovative river renewable scheme being put forward by the local Transition group.
Transition Bewdley has been working on reducing the town’s energy use and moving it to renewables for years - then a study found it was one of the sites to explore a river heat scheme.

At a public meeting this week, they unveiled the promising results of a feasibility scheme into putting an energy centre in the ground of Bewdley school, where heat from river water would be extracted and boosted and hot water pumped to nearby homes in insulated pipes.

Amazing how volunteers and communities are taking forward new thinking and new projects to reveal new sustainable and innovative ways to meet local needs!

#ThisisTransition #communityenergy #renewables #districtheat

Congratulations to SERO on the grand opening of their new Scrapstore on Saturday!

It feels like the challenges facing us require all our creativity, imagination and resourcefulness as we face them together. that's the story this project is telling each and every day, as local people in Carmarthen find new ways to come together, to share what we have and to build wonderful new community solutions.

Folks joined in with all kinds of upcycling and crafty materials, and the Scrapstore joins the community climate hubs other regular projects, a Library of Things, New2Us swapshop for children's supplies, skillshares, repair cafe and much more.

Don't you think there should be one in every town?!

#wales #carmarthen #thisisTransition #whatisTransition #Transition #climateaction #community

Here’s the thing about Transition - it’s place-based, community-led and grounded in the energy, needs and priorities of local people. So it looks different in each place.

We asked folks involved in Transition how it looks where they are, here's what they said... We'd love to hear what's going on where you are!

https://youtu.be/OYTNlxNJZOY

#Transitiontown #ThisisTransition #climateaction #communityaction

It was a very special day for participants in Transition Chipping Norton's outdoor youth project which they run in partnership with Learn2Sustain.

They recently hosted a group from the Maasai community in Kenya, cooking lunch for them, exploring each others culture and lives, and sharing some fun and games.

People from all ages and projects in the Transition group later enjoyed a campfire supper and the chance to connect with each other at an ancient stone circle near the town, watching the sunset together and reflecting on the exchange and our common humanity.

Cara Hedges from the group said it reminded everyone "what we do here affects those that are in Africa, how simple their life is and how complex we’ve made ours and just spend some time reflecting on what we can do to support all of those that we are affecting with our choices.”

@tnlcommunityfund @learn2sustain #thisistransition #transitiontown #oxfordshire #crosscultural #communityaction #campfire #globaleducation #ecoeducation #youthwork #maasai

Community energy coop Power Up North London grew out of Transition Kentish town.

Now they want to install 400 solar panels on 2 high schools, cutting their power bills & 30 tons of CO2 every year. It will be their 11th project - not bad for a team of committed volunteers!

Find out more: https://powerupnorthlondon.org/schools2/

#solar #solarpower #transitiontown #ThisisTransition #london #communityenergy

Concerned about how things are going? You're not alone, you don’t need to act on your own.

Transition groups take local, practical action to reimagine & rebuild our world.

Curious? Join our interactive workshop Welcome to Transition. Wed 21 February 7-9pm

https://bit.ly/WelcometoTransition

#transition #transitiontown #thisistransition #climate #climateaction #communityaction #community

Happy New Home Zero Carbon Guildford! 🏠🗝️

Today, the award-winning community climate hub and Transition group gets the keys to their new high street premises.

It will be home to loads of projects helping folks explore how we build community and resilience together.

Over the next couple of weeks, busy volunteers will move in their #libraryofthings, zero waste shop, exhibitions, community fridge, vertical farm, vegan cafe, energy & water projects and getting their buzzing events/workshops up and running.

Read more: https://www.zerocarbonguildford.org/post/zero-needs-your-help

#ThisisTransition #transitiontown #guildford #surrey #climateaction #community #transition #resilience #zerowaste #adaption #climatechange

Transition hit the headlines when it made the final text at #COP28. As a movement that’s been talking about Transition for almost 20 years, here’s what we mean by it: communities reimagining & rebuilding our world, energy, transport, food systems and more.

It’s from the ground up: people working together locally to address the big complex problems of our time.

Transition is how we get from one thing to another – from a damaging, polluting, unequal present to a fairer, more resilient, regenerative future for all.

Transition means change and transformation, because business as usual isn’t serving us. It’s good to see delegates at COP28 recognise that and catch up with what many communities have been actively doing for many years to transition away from fossil fuels.

Here’s what leaders need to know, though. Transition is not just an aspiration, it’s practical action. Community-owned renewables, local food, sharing resources, building systems that work for everyone. Communities must be involved - the scale of change needed can’t only come from the top.

The good news is we don’t need to wait to be led – we’re showing the way. Governments and funders can back the incredible work being done in communities - and unlock more of it - by supporting it, giving it space and resources, listening, learning and amplifying it.

COP28 finally listened to the call to ‘transition away’ from fossil fuels. There's no time to waste, we're ready, let's get on with it.

Want to be part of it? Check out the links in our bio to find out more and get involved.

#TransitionAway #Transition #transitiontown #WhatIsTransition #ThisIsTransition