Tough Enough to Sustain?

What would you say about a change for the better? Something to improve your health, wealth and happiness. Its no diet, no quick fix, no self-help guru, no cult & involves no gym fees. Its an investment - a logical choice for a better life for everyone in High Wycombe. We ask - what are YOU doing to adapt to climate change? We could have used cheap energy but those days will soon be over. We're vulnerable, but there is something POSITIVE that we can do.

THIS a vision of a low-carbon and, prosperous High Wycombe abundant in local food and power, where no child need be hungry and no pensioner need freeze. Futuristic solutions. A future to look forward to..... but it needs everyone. It needs change. A transition. A Transition Town.

Transition Town High Wycombe is a Community Action Group gently pulling the Town towards its inevitable relocalised, resilient & post-carbon future. It is a place for people to come together, discuss, roll up their sleeves and make it happen. It is open to all and run by the Community - for the Community. Are you concerned about your future? Wondering what you should do to secure your family? Or just want advice about choosing solar panels? Then talk to us.

But... what do we DO? We are working on the 'better way' - the relocalisation and decarbonisation of High Wycombe's economy - moving us all off our addiction to dirty old-fashioned fossil fuels so we can start making real progress towards...

1. local jobs - local energy generation - local food production - local money - local business - for local people - free of our energy & economic legacy

2. home insulation, energy efficiency, renewables for home heating, microgeneration for power, local food production for health and well-being

3. resilience-building, ie, combating fuel poverty, improving food security, ending economic insecurity

4. education on the local impacts of Climate Change and the depletion of fossil fuels - education on economics & financial sustainability, promoting local abundance over global insecurity

5. energy-descent action planning, meetings & consultations with Wycombe District Council, the Strategic Partnership, the Local Community Partnership and local Business on future local economic prosperity. Overcoming obstacles, bureaucracy and resistance to change. Supporting local businesses & networking within local civic society.

What are we doing?

Working with our partners on:

• Community Allotment, Vegetable Garden or Orchard

• Garden Swap Scheme (BareGardens)

• Energy Saving Kits for loan from the Library

• Solar Club (big discounts on solar panels)

• Thermal imaging Street Surveys

• Fruit Tree Planting around town

• Local Food Directory

• Energy Road Show

• Future Buildings weekend

Interested? Please let us know.

Volunteers required for Local Food Directory

£250 is now up for grabs towards a Local Food Directory project. We need volunteers to liaise with local suppliers to raise further sponsorship to cover the rest of the costs. We also need people to compile the actual directory and someone of suitable time & talent to lay it out for us. If someone can get us a good deal on printing then please let us know! The first such directory will probably be quite a small brochure given the limited funds but we really should get this done. If we don't take up the offer then the money goes somewhere else!

Join the 'Solar 500'

High Wycombe's Solar Club

MAKE MONEY FROM THE SUN! Group-buying of Solar Panels qualifies for discounts. So let's get together. The more people who sign-up for Solar Panels the bigger the discounts. Sign-up and get between 8% and 20% off the cost of Solar Panels. You CANNOT get this price by yourself because Solar500 is from the same people who brought you the Transition Town Marlow's "100 Solar Project". We all work for free. This is a not-for-profit scheme. Marlow and High Wycombe have pooled their resources. The supplier - Free Source Energy - was selected after hard haggling with ten suppliers over a six month period. Solar500 is an extension of the Marlow Project for the people of High Wycombe and surrounding area. We are aiming for 500 Solar Roofs in High Wycombe and 100 in Marlow. Click here for more information or download our brochure here.

HOW TO MAKE THAT MONEY. On February 1st 2010 the Government announced the new "Feed in Tariffs" ("FIT") for domestic renewable energy which start in April 2010. You will earn 41.3p/KWh for Photovoltaics ("PV") - the solar panels that generate electricity. This is in addition to the electricity you save and in addition to the money you earn from exporting your electricity to the National Grid. What is more this rate is linked to inflation and is Tax-FREE! You will earn £hundreds every year for 25 years with payback in under 15 years. All the money you earn after that is pure profit. Learn more here.

HOW TO MAKE EVEN MORE MONEY. From April 2011 (details in the 2010 Budget) you will earn money from your Solar Thermal ("ST") panels that make hot water. This will be priced at 18p/KwH for 20 years. A typical ST system is rated at 2000kWh/year. This is in addition to the savings you make in heating your water, ie, with Gas. The system will payback in under 10 years so all the money after that is pure profit. To learn more click here.

To sign up for Solar500 click here. You can E:Mail us to join &/or sign-up by clicking

Demo homes

Pictured (left) we see Mark Brown (Chairman of Transition Town High Wycombe) inspecting one of the first 100SP demo roofs in Marlow. These homes will be available to demonstrate the work and technology of Free Source Energy - our joint Partner with Marlow on Solar500.

What's on:

• Exhibit of the "Post-Carbon" Competition Entries - at the Environment Centre between February 27th and Sunday March 14th 2010.

• TTHW Meeting - Wednesday 10th March 2010 at 7.15pm (for two hours) at the Environment Centre.

• Careers & Voluntary-sector Fair at Bucks New Uni - Thursday 11th March 10am to 2pm. Your chance to recruit willing young volunteers to your practical projects.

• Eden Centre's "Green Day" event - Saturday 20th March (details to be confirmed). TTHW is intending to have a stall at this event to promote Solar Energy. Our friends at the local FOE are working with the Eden Centre on plastic bag reduction. Watch this space for info as we get it.

• Environment Centre Auction - Saturday 20th March. Your chance to grab some valuable educational material and equipment for local voluntary groups. Let's makes sure this stuff all gets a good home so that it is used again in the community. (This clashes with our Eden event but we hope to run a shift pattern! Rumour has it that the nice Mr Trevor Snaith has been roped in as auctioneer.)

• Public Meeting on the joint Marlow/High Wycombe Solar Project - Tuesday 30th March at Sir William Borlase's Grammar School, West Street, Marlow, SL7 2BR in the school theatre at 7.30pm. Refreshments available.

• Environment Centre closes at Holywell Mead - 31st March 2010

• Local Community Partnership Meeting - 14th April 2010 at 7pm

• Proposed Hustings - All Saints Church, 18th April 2010. Come and grill your candidates for MP and get their view on the important issues of the day. Come with your questions. More details when we have them....

• Wycombe Strategc Partnership Environment Sug-group meeting - Tuesday 22nd June at 2.30pm in Council offices. Details to come later.

• Local Community Partnership Meeting - 21st July 2010 at 7pm

• Local Community Partnership Meeting - 13th October 2010 at 7pm

How to find the venue for movies & meetings:

Check www.ecobuzz.org.uk

The Environment Centre on Holywell Mead, Bassetsbury Lane, High Wycombe, HP11 1QX Tel: +44 (0)1494 511585

What is a better way?

Kick back & relax. You have a choice. You could work over-time to afford car maintenance & petrol. You could eat a tonne of fast-food then pay a gym so you can work it off. You could work a long way from your family just to have enough money to take a foreign holiday - where you can spend most of your time at an airport or shoe-horned into economy class. Is this the better way? We don't think so. It can't last but it is now so 'normal' that to challenge it is to question people's deeply held beliefs. It has a religious quality. But it is increasingly irrational.

Instead, let's clean up. Get a life not a lifestyle. Don't run with the sheep. Be an individual. Spend more time with your family. Save your money and pay off debts. Keep fit by working in the garden, cycling or walking. Grow your own food, cook it and eat it......

.....Recycle more and insulate your home to the max. Heat your house and hot water with a mix of wood, solar energy and a ground/air-source heat pumps. Add value to your home & save money now. Get energy security and insulate yourself from energy price instability. Set yourself free of the system by generating your own electricity with solar power & wind. Benefit financially from lower food & energy bills. Gain even more from Government incentives such as 'feed-in tariffs' for getting your power from your own renewables. You stand to be rewarded handsomely and you'll have something just a bit special. Your neighbours will envy you.

We know you have no time to listen to the smug self-righteous lecturing of people trying to convince you of your guilt for the "environment" or "CO2 emissions". This isn't about the environment at all. It's about YOUR life and your future. This is an investment. Give it a go. Call it enlightened self-interest. Consume less, live more. Be happier. Stop wasting your time. Think "beauty", "health", "wealth", "self-esteem", "leisure", "friends", "fun", "sport", "individuality", "imagination". Dirty high polluting lifestyles are daft and unfashionable. Cutting out your carbon pollution is desirable and gets you back in control. Early adopters will be those best rewarded. Time to consider it. It is now normal.

Transition Town High Wycombe

This transition is a Civic Program forming a union between local Civil Society and Local Government. The plan is to promote a community transition to a life without cheap energy and food. Instead of global scarcity we'll plug into local abundance. It addresses topics of food, waste, energy, education, youth, money, economics, transport, water, etc., through the mechanism of the Sustainable Communities Act 2007, an “Energy Descent Plan” and the ‘great reskilling’. It is a Plan that the Community will build and implement. And if you don't like it - then join in and change it.

To learn more about this initiative go to www.transitiontowns.org or contact a member of the Steering Group. Get on board - don't get left behind...

You can E:Mail us directly by clicking

Why Transition?

Within five years we will witness a decline in global oil production when demand is rising. Energy prices will sky-rocket. The peak in gas production will follow only a few years later. We could then exploit more coal but that will deplete it more quickly. Coal production could decline within 50 years. It is NOT that we are running out of oil, gas or coal - it is simply that supply cannot keep up with demand. Bang goes your cheap energy and our whole way of life. No amount of technology or money can stop this. This is an inevitable limit ordained by nature. Once it takes the energy in a barrel of oil to extract one barrel of oil we stop pumping - and most of that oil will get left in the ground.

All of which seems academic in the face of Climate Change. The evidence that our Governments use suggests that fossil fuel use should be curtailed. Hence Governments will do what Governments do - they will tax, price and ration fossil fuels. That is what they will do. What did you think was going to happen? They have no magic wand, no silver bullet. Hardship will result unless we are prepared. And do you know that it doesn't matter if the Climate Change is caused by humans or not? It doesn't matter if it is warming or cooling. We are vulnerable in all circumstances. Renewed resilience, decarbonisation and relocalisation are the keys to our future security. So forget about filling your car and think about how you will keep warm. Think about how you will prevent hunger when the factory food system turns ten calories of oil into just one calorie of food. You eat fossil fuels. Realise this and your journey has just begun.

Am I bothered?

Are you bothered about being warm, having food to eat and a job to go to? Of course you are. You are bothered. All we can promise is that everything will change. Change can be very disruptive. It will take longer to change naturally than the time we have available for it. Change can also be very rewarding for those who are ready for it. We can be the community that wins. We can be the community that comes out on top. The change has to be accelerated to prevent any nasty surprises. The quicker the community embraces this change the better it is for everyone. We must all give our leaders the mandate they need to make change happen... But we can also do so much ourselves. When you do something yourself you are empowered. You are NOT powerless because it happens when YOU make it happen. There is only one thing worse than this change - and that's not changing.

The Chairman's View

What was your New Year's Resolution? How about doing something other than wasting money on a gym? How about making a different kind of low-carbon investment with us? Did you know you can install cheap Solar Panels in 2010 with the High Wycombe Solar Club ("Solar500")? We'll sign up lots of homes for Solar Panels and you'll get anything from an 8% to a 20% discount. Contact us if you are interested.

Somebody always has an answer to Peak Oil. ("We'll all drive electric cars!") There is always someone to deny our impacts upon the Climate. ("CO2 is not a pollutant!") We really should be more cautious. We are in a century of declining resources whilst economies and populations continue to grow. There are limits to growth and we must learn to live within them. Yeast has not. Yeast will expand to consume all of its food. It converts it into alcohol. The alcohol then kills the yeast. Are we smarter? Transitioners are not 'end-of-the-worlders'. Ours is a message of hope - of a new & different world to look forward to. We only ask for a change of direction to avoid us sharing the fate of yeast. That change will happen HERE in High Wycombe as it must do everywhere. It will happen when communities change to become more resilient.

Hardship will eventually be forced upon us from the outside. It will not be relieved by shopping or TV. I don't know when that will be or what will cause it. It probably will be a combination of factors. It can happen in five years or fifty. If it isn't Peak Oil it will be Climate. If it isn't them it will be Top Soil or Water. Did we learn nothing when we opened a hole in the Ozone layer? These are the first of many warnings that we ignore at our peril. What of technology? Maybe LED's will replace lightbulbs but LEDs are made of Gallium Arsenide of which there is only another 5 years of supply. Then there is 'peak Phosphorus' (2035 to 2055) for which there is no substitute and unlikely to be one. It doesn't matter WHAT trips us up. All that is certain is that we WILL eventually fall down. There is a better way. Come and dance with us for your soft landing. You are not yeast.

Mark Brown - February 2010

Phone us on 01494 858390 or write to me - Transition Town High Wycombe's Chairman at:

• Mark Brown, Krofire House, 5 Richard Gardens, High Wycombe, Bucks HP13 7LT

Alternatively please E:Mail one of the Management Committee Officers listed below:

Downloads

To learn more about Transition Town High Wycombe....   Download our Brochure here.

Factsheets   Food and Oil How to Buy Firewood Local Firewood Merchant Survey - June 2009

To learn more about Transition Towns see our Presentation..   Download the notes here.   If you wish to have this presented to your group, as a PowerPoint + TTHW Speaker, please contact us by clicking .

To learn more about Post-Carbon Living and Post-Carbon Homes.....   Download the notes here.   If you wish to have this presented to your group, as a PowerPoint + TTHW Speaker, please contact us by clicking .

Like Watching TV instead?

Then watch this:

...and here's Ed Milliband - the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change:

Like Shopping instead? Then buy this:

Money as Debt II: Promises Unleashed

This great new movie is now available in our Shop. It is part of a great value double-DVD Box Set including the original (and revised) Money as Debt movie from 2006. On sale here for just £13.99 (inc p&p)

The time has come

"...what we must do now, for the sake of our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, we must end the age of oil in our time... If anyone tries to tell you otherwise, they are either fooling themselves, or they're trying to fool you. "

US President Barack Obama (in 2008)

Oil Discovery Versus Oil Consumption

Note: we consume three times more oil than we discover

We're all in this

• People who grow their own food

• People into sport, leisure & friends

• People who generate their own electricity

• People who insulate their homes

• People who heat their water with the sun

• People on bicycles

• People with wood stoves & boilers

• People who work locally

• People active in their community

• People off-grid

• People who put family before work

• People who walk to the shops

• People who use their hands to make things

• People warming their homes with heat pumps

• People who recycle

• People who plant trees

• People out of debt

• People learning new practical skills

• People who compost

• People who prepare their food from scratch

• People using recycled biofuel

• People who live to do something other than shop

• People who can switch off and relax

• People who know their neighbours

• People optimistic for the future

• People who don't fly

• People who find better things to do than watch TV

• People into EBay, Freegle & Car Boot Sales

• People in sustainable local Business

• People who measure their carbon footprint

• People with energy-saving lightbulbs

• People who holiday near home

• People fitting modern condensing boilers

• People with imagination

You belong here.

Transition Network News

Transition Tweets 

National Events

for your Diary

• Transition South East Conference - Brighton 13th March. Tickets £30/£20. Click here to learn more and book.

• "Dirty Oil" UK Film Premiere - 15th March across the nation. Nearest showing is at the Regal Picturehouse in Henley-on-Thames or the Oxford Phoenix Picturehouse. Go to www.toxicfuels.com to book and learn more.

• Earthwatch Lecture - "Farming & Sustainable Environments" - 17th March at The Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR at 7pm to 8.30pm. With Professor Ken Norris of the University of Reading and Dr Mark Chandler of Earthwatch. learn more at www.earthwatch.org

• UK Aware Exhibition - Fri 16th & Sat 17th April at Olympia, London, 10am to 6pm. UK's leading green & ethical exhibition. Tickets £15 on the door or £10 at www.ukaware.com

• "Crude" Film Screening - 6th May at the Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA. 6.30pm. Free admission. Book in advance via the web site at www.amnesty.org.uk/events

• 2010 Transition Network conference - Michael Hall school, Forest Row, Sussex, on the 29th, 30th and 31st May 2010. Info, when it comes available, can be found at www.transitionnetwork.org

Local News:

Monday 8th March 2010

First demo Solar Roof nears completion

Pictured above we see Philip Ditchfield with his new Solar Roof in Marlow. Philip is project coordinator for the Transition Town Marlow's "100 Solar Project" and his roof is one of the first three demonstration homes in the area. The finishing touches to the installation were being made by Free Source Energy when we visited.

For more go here.

Tuesday 2nd March 2010

SPECIAL REPORT:

TTHW at Ecobuild, Earls Court

Two members of Transition Town High Wycombe paid a special visit to Earls Court to catch up with some of the seminars at Ecobuild 2010. Although sounding like a get-together for the building trade, the event actually boasted many well-known speakers and debates concerning sustainability.

For more go here.

Wednesday 17th February 2010

Energy Saving Kits for Loan Project for WSP

After yet another successful meeting of the Wycombe Strategic Partnership Environment Sub-group three projects have been recommended to be forwarded to the Executive Board. These are the Solar Project (jointly run with Transition Town Marlow), "Revive the Wye" and the proposal to get Energy-saving kits to be loaned from the Library.

For more go here.

Thursday 11th February 2010

£250 Offer towards a Local Food Directory up for grabs

Transition Town High Wycombe has been offered a grant of £250 to produce a Local Food Directory for Wycombe. This amount will help cover the setup of the print run so we'll need volunteers to compile the directory, lay it out and to get sponsorship from local traders. Interested? Please contact us now.

Thursday 11th February 2010

Local Community Planning event

The Local Community Planning event held an early evening slot at The Hub on Easton Street. It was held so that we could agree the priorities to go into the Local Area Plan (LAP). Attendees were split into teams to review a list of between 10 and 20 aspirations across a range of topics from "Sustainable Environment" to "Thriving Economy".

For more go here.

Wednesday 20th January 2010

Local Community Partnership - Wycombe vulnerable to extreme weather?

Two members of Transition Town High Wycombe attended the Local Community Partnership Meeting at the Royal Grammar School this month. The discussions focussed on the Chiltern Rail plans to upgrade their line and extend through to Oxford. The handling of recent severe weather conditions, by local services, was also tackled.

For more go here.

Tuesday 19th January 2010

Transition Gathering

Our Chairman managed to make it over to St Albans for a Transition "Social" event. It was held in a pub called the Farmer's Boy. A good time was had by all. Roughly twenty people made the event including people from Marlow, Chesham, Luton, Bedford, Hemel Hempstead, Maidenhead and beyond. It was a good networking experience and we are now looking into the value of doing it again.

For more go here.

Tuesday 8th December 2009

Now we are Partners

Transitioners from Marlow and High Wycombe had the great pleasure of presenting to the Wycombe Strategic Partnership in early December. This was to a meeting of the Executive Partners. The meeting concluded with an invite from the Leader of the Council for the Transition Towns to become full official members within the Environmental sub-group.

For more go here.

Saturday 5th December 2009

The Wycombe Waves

Did you Wave in London? 50,000 people did. The march was so long that it was half an hour after the main event before the High Wycombe section of the march even got to Parliament.

For more go here.

Wednesday 25th November 2009

Struck Dumb by Stupid

Wednesday night was movie night at the High Wycombe Environment Centre. Seventy members of the public turned up to see the climate change blockbuster "The Age of Stupid". The event went down a storm with a highly positive reaction by all who saw it. We pulled in an audience for as far afield as Maidenhead and Oxford.

For more go here.

Saturday 21st November 2009

TTHW at the Farmers' Market

One wet'n'windy Saturday in November we took again to the streets of High Wycombe. This time we stood in support of the new Local Farmers' Market on Frogmoor. It was our chance to pull in punters for The Age of Stupid movie show on the following Wednesday.

For more go here.

Wednesday 28th October 2009

Strategic Partnership meeting

Early one week day afternoon we were invited for a long chat with the Environmental sub-group of the Wycombe Strategic Partnership. The meeting at Council Offices involved five partnership members and four representatives from local Transition Towns. The next step is for TTHW to develop a number of Project ideas for submission - YOUR help is required please. Contact us now.

For more go here.

Saturday 24th October 2009

Marlow Transitioners get on their bikes

In the second local activity linked to 350 day we joined Transition Town Marlow for the day to help out at their "Carbon Cycle". Over one hundred Marlow cyclists, their families and friends set off on the short ride. It ended in Higginson Park with music, speeches and a photo opportunity. 19,000 photo's such as these have flooded the 350.org web site from over 5200 events in 181 countries. Check it out.

For more go here.

Saturday 24th October 2009

350 Sit-down for good science

The 24th of October was a busy day for the local Transition movement as many of us took part in the 350 day of action. The best science we have tells us that we must stabilise atmospheric carbon back down to 350 parts per-million if we are to have a climate to support life in the long term. 350 day was an international people-power event designed to influence attendees at the Copenhagen Summit. The Environment Centre had a sit-down of people in the shape of the numbers "3", "5" & "0"...

For more go here.

Saturday 24th October 2009

Copenhagen Exhibit opens

The Environment Centre has opened its doors to the Copenhagen Exhibit this month. In the run up to the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit this December we felt it was time for the town to have a good source of the hard facts on Climate Change. Our very own Celia Carter worked hard on this exhibit and we have quite a good TTHW presence there. Go and see it now!

For more go here.

Tuesday 13th October 2009

Post-Carbon Institute co-founder speaks in favour of all things local

Local resident & energy-depletion expert Julian Darley spoke out recently in praise of relocalisation. Julian, who is the co-founder of the Post-Carbon Institute and author of "High Noon for Natural Gas", was talking at a public discussion organised by the Seer Green and Jordans Society. The talk played out to a packed crowd with members of both TT High Wycombe & Marlow attending. Julian's talk on "Climate Change & Energy - What are we going to do about it?" was well received and we spoke at length with him afterwards.

For more go here.

Tuesday 6th October 2009

Sitting down with WDC again

For the third time in the last year we sat down with Wycombe District Council. This time it was our first encounter with elected Councillors at a Sustainability Policy Advisory Group meeting. We gave a 15 minute presentation and answered questions after.

For more go here.

Saturday 26th September 2009

Thame Launch Local Food

Tamzin Pinkerton and Rob Hopkin's new Transition "Local Food" book was launched at the Thame Food Festival. The launch was organised by Transition Thame & District who illustrated the need for relocalised food with episodes of the "Powerdown Show" in the Thame Town Hall.

For more go here.

Monday 7th September 2009

Climate Rush Caravan

Climate Change Suffragettes came to High Wycombe in early September. They stopped off at the Environment Centre as part of their 300 mile journey by horse and cart. Organiser Tamsin Omond and guests joined Environment Centre volunteers for a spot of lunch before heading off to Haddenham. Their journey ends in Totnes on 30th September.

For more go here.

Sat/Sun 18th/19th July 2009

Environment Centre Open Weekend

Our Environment Centre on Holywell Mead hosted its open weekend on the weekend of the Half Marathon in July. It was another great chance for TTHW to meet the public and talk about the Transition.

For more go here

Tuesday 7th July 2009

Our Carbon-constrained future

The Town Hall played host to the "Creating a Sustainable Wycombe 2026 Conference". It was all good news on the Transport front but it proved to be a poor substitute for a Conference about Community Sustainability.

For more go here

Tuesday 7th July 2009

Ride Against The Tide

One wet evening in July the town played a rather damp & quiet host to intrepid Climate Change Campaigners Richard Sharples and Simon Topping. They had arrived in the town, for an overnight stop-over, after having cycled from Gloucester with their life-sized effigy of King Canute. Canute was destined for our Politicians in Westminster. Getting on his bike is nothing new for Richard. For the past few years his family have not owned a car.

For more go here

Friday 12th June 2009

Energy Group Meets

The Energy Group has now had its first meeting. Five initial members looked at various proposals for Community power generation, or low-carbon, Projects in the Town. We had a look at the Holywell Pool 'Save Our Swim', the Highworth Combined School Wind Turbine and even an electrically powered rickshaw for the Rye.

For more go here.

Thursday 11th June 2009

Money as Debt II Arrives in-store

A big box of ten "Money as Debt II - Promises Unleashed" DVD's has now arrived in our online shop. We are very excited about this as the new DVD is a box-set including the original 2006 movie. The sequel is coming soon to a TTHW Movie show in High Wycombe. So if you want to understand how the Bank Bailouts effects your Community resilience watch this movie.

For more go here...

Friday 8th May/5th June 2009

FOOD Group Meets

"Food On Our Doorstep" ("FOOD") has now enjoyed its second Group Meeting. They continue to talk about Community Allotments and visits to local Organic Farms. The initial meeting was greeted with "enthusiastic response"!

For more go here.

Wednesday 20th May 2009

Post-Carbon Homes

Our Chairman and Co-Chair went out for a trip to Berkshire to meet our counter-parts at Transition Town Reading. We met them at RISC (picture above) where we delivered the "Post-Carbon Living's" Post Carbon Homes presentation.

For more go here.

Saturday/Sunday 4th/5th April 2009

The Library - Shhh!

Did you see us in the Library? We were there with our little stand talking to the crowds! It was quiet as expected....

More go here.

Saturday March 21st 2009

Fun at the Technology Showcase

Whilst the shoppers thronged High Wycombe one Saturday we spent the day on our stand in the Reggie Goves Centre at the EST's "Technology Showcase" for energy saving, renewables and microgeneration.

For more go here.

Sunday March 15th 2009

"The Age of Stupid" Premiere breaks World Record

This season's must-see blockbuster-climate-change movie "The Age of Stupid" has seen its People's Premiere. The TTHW team entered the Guinness Book of Records - part of the largest simultaneous Premiere in history when we watched it at the Odeon in Maidenhead.

For more go here.

Wednesday March 11th 2009

Energy Training with WDC

WDC has now delivered its long awaited Energy Efficiency Training to the TTHW at a session at the Environment Centre. TTHW goes onwards now to help WDC with leaflets at the technology Showcase on the 21st March at the Reggie Goves Centre.

For more go here.

Saturday 14th February 2009

Food Group Kick Off Community Allotment Exhibit

On Valentines Day we opened our new Allotment Exhibit at the Environment Centre on Holywell Mead in High Wycombe. For pictures go and see our Allotment page.

For more go here...

Monday 5th January 2009

Successful first dialogue with District Council

Five members of TTHW have now met for a formal workshop with WDC Civil Servants. Much was covered but one of the first results was an agreement that WDC would train TTHW members in Energy Saving.

For more go here...

Sunday 14th December 2008

Food Group Seeking Experienced Gardeners & Permaculturists

Our Transition Allotment Group starts work on the Transition Allotment. However we need help and advice. Can you help? Want to join us?

For more go here...

Friday 5th December 2008

Sustainable Community Act Adoption Campaign

'Local Works' is one of the organisations behind the Sustainable Community Act 2007. They want us to write to our local Council & Councillors to ensure the Act is on the agenda for adoption. We'll encourage our membership to do this and have an array of supporting documentation available from our Downloads section. Download the draft Resolution and the suggested letter format and write to our Council today!

Tuesday 18th November 2008

High Wycombe becomes Official Town In Transition

Congratulations everyone! After our application to the Transition Network we were sent an E:Mail by Ben Brangwyn who confirmed our application was successful. Pat on the back all round... Now let's get on with it.

For more go here...

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