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<h2>London Transition: A Year In Review</h2>
<p>For many 2010 started with a sense that the best remedy for
global, instituional paralysis is local, grass roots action, and a
the year has seen much new interest in Transition-style approaches in
the capital both, in official Transition Towns initiatives and in
like minded Low Carbon Communities and Climate Action Networks. Many
new groups were formed, there was continued growth in the size and
ambition of activities and and many firsts. </p>
<p>Collected below is a brief summary of some of the more notable
events from the past year which were initiated or supported by
Transition groups. This list is by no means comprehensive, but
hopefully gives a sense of the movement in London. </p>
<h3>Building Efficiency</h3>
<p>In the UK housing alone contributes 33% of all CO2 emissions. London
groups have been highly active in raising awareness
of building efficiency ranging from <a
href="http://www.projectdirt.com/events/tt-wimbledon-energy-group">organising</a>
and
<a
href="http://refurbn16.com/2010/05/23/north-london-eco-house-weekend/">supporting</a>
open day events
of efficient buildings to <a
href="http://refurbn16.com/2010/10/25/6th-november-gathering-of-people-involved-in-community-energy-efficiency-projects/">community
lead
building efficiency
programmes</a>.</p>
<p>Last winter London Transition groups started running draught busting
workshops teaching people low cost, DIY approaches to reducing energy
bills improving home comfort. These hands-on workshop were pioneered by
<a href="http://www.hydefarm.org.uk/" target="_blank">Hyde Farm CAN</a>
and have spread across the capital.
Transition Belsize is now collaborating with Camden Council who
are funding a series of draught busting workshops and providing <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/TransitionBelsize/calendar/14004974/?from=list&offset=0">£20
of
free
materials to local residents</a> attending the workshops.
</p>
<h3>Local Energy</h3>
<p>Ham United Group, based in Ham, Richmond are developing a <a
href="http://e-voice.org.uk/hamunitedgroup/ham-hydro/">hydro
power project</a> on the weir at Teddington, SW London. They aim to be
up
and running by autumn 2012 and providing enough electricity to power
900 homes and save around 1000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a
year.</p>
<p>Transition Belsize Energy Group ran a <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/TransitionBelsize/calendar/15164095/?from=list&offset=0">solar
power
expo</a> and Ealing Transition organised a <a
href="http://www.ealingtransition.org.uk/resources/Events/2010-10-19%20Renewable%20Energy%20Mini%20Conference/presentations/Ealing%20Transition%20Introduction.pdf">renewable
energy
conference</a> with representatives from local government,
church groups and solar energy suppliers.</p>
<p>Transition Town
Maidenhead have formed <a href="http://www.smartenergy.coop/">Solar
Co-operative</a> to help households find the right solar thermal, solar
PV or biomass solution and provide support for bulk purchasing,
tendering, selecting installers and organising finance. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.projectdirt.com/group/jfyr">Juice From Your Roof</a>,
a project of <a href="http://www.sustainablemerton.org/">Sustainable
Merton</a>, has sparked wide community support across south-west
London, enrolling over 100 homeowners free-of-charge in the capital's
biggest volunteer-led discount club for solar panels. The club's
£1 million of potential business attracted bids in November from
four reputable solar installation companies who offered discounts of up
to 20%. The club's assessors were taking references and judging quality
of service, before appointing a preferred installer. Other groups like
Transition Town
Peckham are also
looking into setting up local bulk buying schemes.</p>
<h3>Festivals</h3>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Tooting and Kingston both had "great
unleashing" celebrations this year. Kingston's is described <a
href="http://www.darkoptimism.org/2010/04/20/ttks-great-unleashing-big-launch-party/">here</a>
and attracted hundred of visitors, was attended by local alumni,
MPs, the mayor and head of the Council and supported by local green
businesses and organisations. Tooting's event featured a <a
href="http://transitionculture.org/2010/07/13/the-unleashing-of-transition-town-tooting/">keynote
by
Rob
Hopkins</a>.
</p>
<p>Across the summer London Transition
groups organised numerous outdoor events including
Finsbury
Park's <a href="http://transitionfinsburypark.org.uk/WellOiled">WellOiled</a>
festival, Crouch End's <a
href="http://sustainableharingey.blogspot.com/2010/05/july-events-sustainable-haringey.html">Sustainable
Community
Celebration</a> and <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/TransitionBelsize/calendar/14529918/?from=list&offset=0">Belsize's
Eco Week and
Green
Fair</a>. Finally, in September Transition Town Brixton was
again in charge of the Climate Change and Energy Transition Zone of
the <a href="http://www.urbangreenfair.org/">Urban Green Fair</a> in
Brockwell Park, with dozens of talks and
workshops taking place.</p>
<h3>Arts and Culture</h3>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">In July Tooting held their
<a href="http://trashcatchers.blogspot.com/">Trashcatchers Carnival</a>.
Led
by
35
artists
working with over 600 local residents the event
culminated in a parade down Upper Tooting Road of costumes, floats
and banners around the theme of caring for the Earth make entirely from
recycled materials</p>
<p>Transition New Cross performed a climate change opera
called <a
href="http://transitionnewcross.org/projects/carbon-chronicles/">Carbon
Chronicles</a>, <font color="#000000">a participatory opera
blending science, myth, politics, music and humour to provoke
discussion and inspire action to reduce our dependency on a
petroleum. Transition Greenwich hosted an <a
href="http://www.projectdirt.com/events/transition-westcombe-1">evening
of
story telling</a> with </font>Steph Bradley after her 6-month
odyssey on foot around the Transition Towns of England.</p>
<p>Leytonstone ran a nationwide
Transition Poetry Competition, Transition Greenacre short story
competition, and Transition Fitzrovia organised a photographic
exhibition of portraits of local residents to help people get to
know their neighbours. </p>
<h3>Local Food</h3>
<p>There's a huge range of active local food projects underway in
London, ranging from building new growing spaces, <a
href="http://transitionfinsburypark.org.uk/NurseryBlog">a community
tree nursery</a>, allotment campaigns, seed swaps, garden shares,
box schemes, estate growing to courses on <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/TransitionBelsize/calendar/15033530/?from=list&offset=0">growing
food
in
</a><a
href="http://www.meetup.com/TransitionBelsize/calendar/15033530/?from=list&offset=0">containers</a>
and <a
href="http://www.transitionprimrosehill.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&view=details&id=26&Itemid=56">making
your
own
christmas
puddings</a>.</p>
<p>Tooting ran it's third annual a <a
href="http://transitiontowntooting.blogspot.com/2010/06/announcing-tootings-3-rd-harvest.html">Tooting
Harvest
Foodival</a> where eight local restaurants serve up free food
made from locally grown fruit and vegetables donated by Tooting
residents.</p>
<p><a href="http://hackneyharvest.com/">Hackney Harvest</a> is a new
project
which got underway following an open space event organised earlier in
the year in Stoke Newington. The project collected and distributed over
200kg of fruit
which would have otherwise have gone to waste, helped promote what is
possible with urban orchards and encourages councils to support the
planting of more fruit trees.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.transitionheathrow.com/">Transition
Heathrow</a> occupied a group of abandoned green houses and
transformed them into a working, abundant garden.</p>
<p>Arising out
of a discussion following a screening of The Real Dirt On Farmer John
in March, Transition Crouch End started a popular "<a
href="http://transitioncrouchend.blogspot.com/2010/11/church-farm-ardeleys-more-than-box.html">more
than
a
box
scheme</a>" community supported agriculture project with <a
href="http://www.churchfarmardeley.co.uk/crouchend.html">Church
Farm in Hertfordshire</a>. As well as having vegetables and meat
delivered direct from the farm, members of the scheme are able to
participate through workdays and visits.</p>
<p>Kingston also started their <a
href="http://www.ttkingston.org/groups-and-projects/ground-up/">From
The Ground Up</a> food coop, selling locally sourced and grown organic
fruit and vegetables, jams, bread, and even local organic seasonal
flowers in the warmer months.</p>
<h3>Local Economy</h3>
<p>TT Brixton celebrated one year in the life of the Brixton Pound
with a party around the central market. There is now B£ 35,000 in
circulation and the currency is now accepted by more than 120 local
businesses. </p>
<p>
Transition Westcombe organised a <a
href="http://transitionwestcombe.blogspot.com/2010/07/supermarkets-in-greenwich-and-lewisham.html">meeting
with
local
supermarkets</a> to develops plans to promote healthy,
locally sourced organic food, as well as about minimizing food waste,
packaging and the use of plastics. The supermarkets present all
agreed to take part in International Plastic Bag Free Day, promote
healthy food, employ Fareshare to take away food at its sell-by date,
and to distribute it to local Greenwich & Lewisham groups who are
in food poverty and to take action to reduce packaging.</p>
<h3>Transport</h3>
<p>In July the TT Kingston Transport Group organised an <a
href="http://www.ttkingston.org/groups-and-projects/ev-exhibition/">exhibition
of
electric
vehicles</a> from a wide variety of manufacturers in
Kingston's
market square. A well as the exhibition itself a series of talks and
meetings explored the technology and it's possible contribution to
transition.</p>
<p>Lots of a groups have run cycling campaigns, ranging from cycle
tours around local green spaces to <a
href="http://transitionfinsburypark.org.uk/Travel">helping parents and
children learn to ride</a>. Transition Town Stoke Newington teamed up
with the Hackney Cycling
Campaign to bring <a href="http://hackneybikeworkshop.com/">bicycle
maintenance workshops</a> to N16. The idea here
to encourage cycling by teaching people how to be maintain, upgrade
and repair their own bicycles. </p>
<p>Transition Greenwitch organised a meeting to
discuss <a
href="http://transitionwestcombe.blogspot.com/2010/07/transition-greenwich-and-traffic.html">managing
traffic
in
Greenwich
Town
Centre</a>.</p>
<h3>Government</h3>
<p>In November, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil Meeting
invited representatives from the Transition Network to the Grand
Committee Room at the House of Commons to discuss what does the
movement needs from government.</p>
<h3>Reuse</h3>
<p>Brixton Reuse Centre is working towards developing a disused block
of garages into a <a
href="http://remadeinbrixton.wordpress.com/brixton-reuse-centre/">community
of
social enterprises for reusing waste
materials</a>. They are aiming to open in spring 2011 divert 200 tonnes
of resources from landfill per year, including furniture, appliances,
wood, bicycles, garden tools and equipment, musical instruments,
computers, textiles and more. The groups has just applied for
£100,000 of funding for building works and just secured
£7,500
funding from the British Council for a learning exchange project.</p>
<h3>Skills</h3>
<p>Through 2010 Sustainable Haringey ran a highly successful series
of four, all-day <a href="http://haringeyskillshare.wikispaces.com/">skill
share
events</a> in Tottenham, with sessions ranging from recycling
clothing to sustainable food. </p>
<p>
Transition Town Brixton
operated a <a
href="http://remadeinbrixton.wordpress.com/brixton-skill-share-whats-next/">Skill
Share
shop</a> for three months over the summer in,
which included training in draught busting, permaculture, beekeeping,
cycle training and Open Source computing.</p>
<h3>Awareness and Inclusion</h3>
<p>Over the year literally hundreds of film nights, talks, green drinks
and meetings
were organised on topics ranging from <a
href="http://www.highgateclimateactionnetwork.org.uk/">climate change</a>,
climate
justice, <a
href="http://appgopo.org.uk/index.php?option=com_attend_events&task=view&id=20">food
security</a> to <a
href="http://www.projectdirt.com/events/can-lambeth-feed-itself">whether
Lambeth
can feed itself</a>? Transtition Wimbledon held a <a
href="http://www.projectdirt.com/events/rethinking-wimbledon">re-thinking
Wimbledon</a> event in the town cntre piazza with stalls from local
organisations, music and activities, Sustainable Haringey organised <a
href="http://sustainable-haringey.wikispaces.com/Ongoing+activities+-+June+2010">Haringey
Sustainability Month</a> and Belsize started a <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/TransitionBelsize/calendar/13695616/?from=list&offset=0">2030
Visioning</a> project. </p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.carbonliteracyforum.org/">Carbon Literacy
Forum</a>, which grew out of Islington Carbon Ration Action Group with
members from Transition Town Stoke Newington and Highbury, has trained
24 voluntary facilitators for their Carbon Conversations carbon cutting
and personal resilience programme running 13 groups with over 100
participants, from the Transition and wider community, including two
councils and one Low Carbon Zone. The groups help people identify and
start reducing their own emissions, take action and build trust,
relationships and community and have helped many become more active in
their communities around environmental issues. </p>
<p>Finally, Kingston held an interfaith forum in October attended by some 60 people
from a multitude of different faith groups including pagan, humanist and
atheist. This was part of our approach to both diversity and to inner
transition.</p>
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