Transition Towns

Publication date: 19-01-2010

Faced with so many big problems, like climate change, biodiversity loss, excessive waste and so on, it is inspiring that more and more people are working together as local communities to tackle these problems head-on at the local level.

Some of these projects have been running for years, a few since the 1970s, but there has been an explosion of interest recently since the publication of the Transition Town Handbook. Patrick Holden, director of the Soil Association, describes thus:

“The Transition concept is one of the big ideas of our time. Peak oil and climate change can so often leave one feeling depressed and disempowered. What I love about the Transition approach is that it is inspirational, harnessing hope instead of guilt, and optimism instead of fear. The Transition Handbook will come to be seen as one of the seminal books which emerged at the end of the Oil Age and which offered a gentle helping hand in the transition to a more local, more human and ultimately more nourishing future.”

We work with a number of organisations, including Action with Communities in Rural Kent, the Energy Savings Trust, and Kent County Council, to help these community groups develop and share knowledge and best practice.

Below is a list of some of the groups in Kent. If you are interested in starting your own, contact us and we can help.

Transition Towns:

• TC Canterbury
• TT Faversham
• TT Whitstable
  TT Tonbridge
• TT Tunbridge Wells
• TT Sevenoaks

Environment Groups

• Deal With It (aka Transition Town Deal)
• Elham Environment Group
• Eastchurch
  HadLOW / Hadlow College
• Hamstreet
  Headcorn Sustainability Group
• Lower Halstow
  Smarden Environment Group
• St Margaret's Bay (The Bay Trust)

Community Supported Agriculture:

• Commonwork, near Chislehurst
• Wye Community Farm

Other communities taking an interest

Addington
Borough Green Parish Council
Bridge Parish Council
Burham Parish Council
Charing Parish Council
Chilham Parish Council
Deal Town Council
Edenbridge Town Council
Egerton Parish Council
Harrietsham Parish Council
Ickham & Well Parish Council
Great Chart and Singleton
Langley Parish Council
Lenham Parish Council
Loose
Otford
Paddock Wood Town Council
Pembury Parish Council
Petham Parish Plan Group
Sandwich Town Cuncil
Sellindge Parish Council
Shoreham Parish Council
Speldhurst
Staplehurst Parish Council
West Malling Parish Council
Westerham Parish Council
Wingham

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