Transition Town Shrewsbury
Transition Town Shrewsbury is part of the growing international movement seeking to tackle the twin challenges of diminishing oil and gas supplies and climate change. We want to imagine and create a future that addresses these problems, and creates the kind of community that we would all want to be part of here in Shrewsbury.
The challenges presented to us today by global warming and peak oil (and gas) are perhaps the greatest that humanity has faced. This time brings a great opportunity for rethinking the way we live and making conscious choices about what kind of community and world we would like to live in. Change is coming whether we like it or not – and a planned response to the change will leave us in a much stronger position than if we wait until change is upon us. To find out more about Transition Culture, visit: www.transitionculture.org.
This change will affect every part of our lives, so we’re forming groups to look at the issues. So far we have groups working on food, energy, the economy, change and why we don’t like it, buildings, education, transport and local government. The idea of these groups is to identify what needs to change to make it easier to live a low-carbon lifestyle here in Shrewsbury and give us the skills and confidence to make that change happen.
Celebrating Val Oldaker – Transition Woman
Val Oldaker was a lifelong environmentalist and a leading force in setting up Transition Town Shrewsbury. She is greatly missed since her death in January. However, she leaves us with a vision of the difference Transition could make, both in the way she lived her life and her ability to catch what is so special about the movement.
As she described it, the really important thing about Transition is that it:
- * Brings ordinary people together in supportive ways, re-developing a sense of community
- * Works with local groups from voluntary to council
- * Supports community food growing
- * Promotes resourcefulness and resilience at a local level where people exchange skills and services without money
Join us in building on the legacy she has left us – and be a part of making Transition happen.
