Bridport is in the process of becoming a Transition Town. The Transition movement has been spreading rapidly across the UK and other countries since beginning in Totnes in 2006, in a community-led response to people's fears about the issues of climate change and what is known as 'peak oil'.
Many of us are already making great efforts to recycle more, throw away less, use renewable energy and reduce our consumption of fossil fuels. The strength of the transition movement is that we can all be involved, whether in our individual choices or as part of the many local groups already engaged in community-focused activities.
Transition Town Bridport aims to support and make links with the many positive initiatives which already exist in this vibrant and creative community. We have been involved in various events locally since the start of this year and have an active steering group, all of whom are involved in other local activities.
The steering group meets at 7.30pm on the fourth Thursday of the month, in the side room at The George, South Street. On the third Thursday, we have 'Green Drinks' from 8.00pm at the Tiger Inn, Barrack Street, open to all for informal chats about the issues. We look forward to meeting people there.
For more information and details of all meetings and events, see our website www.transitiontownbridport.co.uk
It would be great to see new faces. It wasn’t until I got involved with Transition Town Bridport that I realised quite how much was happening in the town in terms of people making a very real difference towards securing our future.
As long as we are not being changed into the people pictured on the web-site who look less than satisfied.
Arn’t that like Sangatte nr Calaiis?
Transition towns, agenda 21, focus groups, community surveys, awareness raising – so much easier than actually doing something. Stop talking about it and get stuff done. Pull some shopping trolleys out of the rivers, find out which company the St Andrews Well estate is polluting the Asker with solvents, create some nature reserves, clear some footpaths; give over on all the hype and hot air, it’s just conscience exhibitionism. If you want to campaign on something, surely nuclear disarmament is the only issue worth bothering with? Climates change, over-used resources run out, species come and go, it’s always been that way and as such it’s natural. Blowing the planet into chunks too small to sustain life, now that would be a problem. Meanwhile, I quite like my summer in spring and autumn.
I tend to agree with Mr Head, it’s always the usual suspects (Guardian readers); the people who already recycle, walk not drive etc etc, one will never get the average person on board. PS I read the Guardian too but I’m a realist!
well you are right andy about blowing the world up, not a great idea, although i feel it would probably readjust, even if we did not survive. however how about getting rid of the Himalayan Balsam on the river banks, a bold escapee from a nursery years ago, choking the river banks for few years now, I note, as others might, not as many duckings, and mostly males seem to survive, not seen moor hens nesting either for a while, god knows what happens to the little water voles, its an unwelcome visitor, tall leafy, pink flowers, and utterly invasive. We have been advised to cut it down where ever we find it, and yet on a walk i found some sort of work going on in the river, had a chat with the main man, and the brief was not to get rid of this plant. Ah well, whilst i am waiting to be blown up0, i do like to have the company of my animal friends.