Welcome to Transition Belsize

The Transition Towns movement began as an attempt by communities to work out for themselves how to address the twin problems of climate change and the end of cheap oil. Transitioners believe that life will be better – more local, more in touch with nature, more vibrant, less stressed, less chemical – after oil, and that we will be better prepared to deal with the challenges if we start working together now.

A Transition Town initiative is a group of concerned individuals who use the Transition Model (http://www.transitiontowns.org) to come up with a vision of how to make their community more self-sufficient, how to prepare an energy descent plan, and how to acquire or relearn the skills we will need in a world without oil. Skills like food growing for example: http://www.responsibility.tv/sustainable_food/Local_Food_...

Transition Belsize is loosely based on NW3 in North London. If you live, work or play in NW3, then you would be very welcome to join us. If you live further afield but want to learn from us with a view to starting up a Transition group in your own area, then you would be equally welcome.

We currently need help to create local food products that can be sold in Belsize shops, to think about whether Belsize needs its own local currency, to set up a heart and soul group looking at the psychological impact of transition on us all and to learn to give draught-busting workshops for residents. Please email alexis@cuttingthecarbon.com if you can help with any of these or if you have any skills you think would help to move us forward.