Update on Transition Stroud

Over a week ago Transition Stroud met for drinks and chat in Nailsworth - haven't managed to mention it in this blog yet but it did get a mention here.

Photos: Transition Stroud members in the pub - and below a graph showing peak oil may have been reached last year.

Quite a crowd turned out and much discussed - some felt that the Transition movement here in Stroud was losing it's way a bit but while some of the sub-groups are struggling to get a focus some are achieving real results - see for example progress on influencing the District Council here and the amazing fashion show put on recently plus progress in the Transport group - there is also now a bookable room in Lansdown given free to us for a year to use for meetings and more...and recent posts on the Transition Stroud email list show a renewed enthusiasm - plus a new website is on it's way....

None of this can come too soon - the more I read on Peak Oil the more it is worrying - the price rise forecasts for oil are seriously high - and prices look set to rise seriously quick - we are in for an economic crash if we don't start to take serious action - yet Government is still in denial that there is even a problem - all the more reason for the need for the Transition movement - transition sounds alot more attractive than a crash.....get involved now!!

Market crisis?

There is certainly the beginning of talk in the papers about how sound our economy really is...but it seems to me a reluctance to look seriously....the recent £27billion loss on pension funds is a 'market correction' - US debt has now reached $9 trillion - 'not a problem' - and the UK has around 80% of all credit card spending in the EU as well as the highest over-exposure to mortgage borrowing...

See blog comment here on peak oil:
www.theecologist.org/blog_comments.asp?blog_detail_id=206

Good article in The Ecologist re Transition Totnes:
www.theecologist.org/archive_detail.asp?content_id=1139