What's the Core Group? The Core Group runs the core activities of the Transition Town High Wycombe organisation. These are: Committee & Public Meetings Council liaison Environment Centre liaison Training Movie Shows Public Debates Publicity Administration, ie., money management Web Site mastering & management Publishing the Newsletter Getting the Library to stock more books on topic Competitions Exhibits and shows
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The current core group consists of: Mark Brown Celia Carter Paul Field Julian Ilett Ivan Cicin-Sain
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: Food Group Energy Group Money Group Education Group Transport Group Recycling Group
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. 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.
 All 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. |
Contact Us Phone us on +44 (0) 1494 858390 or write to the 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: 
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