What's the Core Group?
The Core Group runs
the core activities of the Transition Town High Wycombe organisation. These are:
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Committee & Public Meetings
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Council liaison
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Environment Centre liaison
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Training
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Movie Shows
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Public Debates
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Publicity
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Administration, ie., money management
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Web Site mastering & management
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Publishing the Newsletter
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Getting the Library to stock more books
on topic
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Competitions
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Exhibits and shows
Would you like to help with these ideas? Do
you have further ideas or would you like to join this group? Then please
contact us by clicking
The current core
group consists of:
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Mark Brown (Chair)
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Julian Ilett (Vice-Chair)
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Celia Carter (Secretary, Publicity,
Training &
Recruitment)
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Paul Field (Treasurer)
The Core Group sits between all of the
Sub-groups offering support and coordination. These sub-groups are autonomous and you can join as
many of these as you have the energy for! They are:
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Food Group
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Energy Group
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Money Group
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Education Group
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Transport Group
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Recycling Group
If you don't see anything you like here and
want to form your own group then please let us know. Contact us
by clicking
. You can even affiliate an existing group and fall under the
TTHW umbrella. Such organisations currently include the
BareGardens (Food Group) and Post-Carbon Living (Energy Group)
initiatives both of which originate in High Wycombe.
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the evidence we have proves to us that the last 200 years of
cheap and abundant fossil fuels have supplied the energy for the
generation of a highly mobile, complex, well-fed,
inter-connected and inter-dependent industrialised societies. It
has lead to amazing economic growth, an explosion in population
and damage to our atmosphere. That period is about to come to an
end. It is not sustainable. We have over-shot. Everything is
about to change. High complexity equals high fragility. ‘Big’
and distant will break down. Small and local will last. Hence we
need to rebuild resilience into our Communities through a
process of ‘relocalisation’. The only alternative is to
collapse. The Community is the solution. The future is bright
for those who accept this paradigm change in their lives. We
have just 20 years to bring about this dramatic shift. In this
future energy and food will be highly priced and highly prized.
Everyone will be trying to generate as much of their own as
possible and rely upon the ingenuity of their community for
their basic economic needs & security. This is a step-change
from where we are today. Few of us even talk to our neighbours
let alone know how to grow food or generate power through clean
renewables. We have a lot of work ahead. You cannot wait for
someone else to do it for you because it is YOU who has to
change. It cannot be imposed and there are no acceptable
alternatives. Accept it. Join us. Let’s roll. |
What is the Transition Initiative?
The “Transition” network was established in 2007 building
upon the work of founders Rob Hopkins and Ben Brangwyn. Rob
started in the town of Kinsale in 2004 with his Master Thesis on
“Energy Descent Pathways – Evaluating potential responses to
Peak Oil” with the University of Plymouth. His central
hypothesis was that western societies are dependent upon cheap
oil and that an unplanned interruption in supply would be
disastrous. He went on to suggest that Communities could rebuild
their resilience by re-discovering local patterns of
sustainability. The response would be community-led. His ideas
were tested in Kinsale and touched a raw nerve of growing
anxiety throughout the global community - the idea exploded with
several towns copying the principle in quick succession. It was
an idea whose time had come. Communities were no longer willing
to be led. Climate Change was looming. The writing was on the
wall. Ideas of resource depletion on a finite planet were
intuitive yet we seemed to be accelerating rather than braking.
One by one communities stepped up to tackle the problem. The
“Transition Model” was born and has been adopted by hundreds of
communities across the UK and globally including Bristol,
Brighton and Nottingham. Funding from the Tudor Trust has put
the model on a firm foundation such that it now offers support,
training and events.
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Contact Us
Phone us on +44 (0) 1494 858390 or write to
the Transition Town High Wycombe's Chairman at:
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Mark Brown, Krofire House, 5 Richard
Gardens, High Wycombe, Bucks HP13 7LT
Alternatively please E:Mail one of the
Management Committee Officers listed below:
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