Transition Towns WIKI

The steps We Can Take

There are the results from two PostIt note sessions on this page. Firstly after the flm The Power of Community on 25th June 2007 and underneath from Changing Worlds seminar participants in March 2007.

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Steps We Can Take

Compiled from participants at Power Of Community film on Monday 25th June 2007

One Step I Can Take

A Forest Row market where everyone can sell their extra produce

Use cloth bags

Say hello to strangers

Walk more and not feel vulnerable or frightened (feel reinforced!)

Fix up and use my bike

Use my bike more and car less - share rides

Use bike instead of car for trips to East Grinstead

Reduce my speed!

Keep to or below the speed limit!

Electric milk floats

I can offer an electric bike to our MP & try and get the Courier to report on it

Start spreading the word 'Forest Row Transition Village': posters, supported signs in shops, badges etc

Share knowledge & information, bring it into my work and teaching.

I've already decided - I'm going to look out a bio dynamic farming gardening short course at Emerson

Set examples for the children

Grow veggies - without slugs! (I always start out in February but in June I am distracted!

Run a Permaculture Course & program of sessions on sustainability, particularly the strategy aspects.

Make sure your (my?) pension fund is invested in a sustainable and responsible manner.

Sprouting my own alfalfa seeds and growing salad in a bowl

One Step Forest Row Can Take

More cycle paths (I like cycling but it's far too scary!) eg cycle path from village to Plaw Hatch

Bike more

Create a 'cycle priority' zone throughout the village eg max car speed 10mph (as in Home Zones)

Pedestrianise parts of the village centre

Reduce light pollution

Boycott Tescos - Shop locally

Don't go to Tesco

Reinforce positive moves

A day especially for all gardeners to get together - allotment renters & people who use their gardens & people who work growing veg. Just to talk and network.

Promote car sharing or even mini bus to EG station at rush hours

Make bus stops into 'car stops' too, with special signs to encourage car sharing

Give lifts - and don't e afraid... (Try to have a community system which can reduce/eliminate fear of this)

Turn of lights on public buildings when closed

Exchange skills for free

Improved bus service (including a bus service for the many cars dropping off at Michael Hall school daily)

Tablehurst Farm provide community allotment spaces for people in Forest Row (council allotment waiting list so full as there is no land)

Establish a Forest Row Development Trust to create an economically independent vehicle to coordinate, implement, educate, make things happen.

To support the move to phase out plastic bags using cotton bags instead

Use Cotton bags for shopping - ditch the plastic bag

Street party to celebrate Transition!

One Step Local Government Can Take

Ditch the relief road

Look at Lewes District Council grant system

Promote a free stuff/goods/services event day to kick start the village web site

Speed up allotment allocation

Set up Permaculture Initiative

Speed cameras, speed restrictions (less accidents) = reduced fuel consumption

Stop promoting wasteful & unnecessary street lighting

Liaise with Hoathley Hill Biodyamic land purchase initiative & consider purchase of local land coop space

Fund and/or transfer assets to help establish a Forest Row Development Trust

Make recycling a micro business so that it funds the local economy & keeps resources local

Provide a bus for commuters to the station

Cheaper bus fares

Promote phasing out of plastic bags

Invest lots more in sustainable development

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Compiled from participants at Changing Worlds Saturday 17th March 2007

One Step I Can Take

Being more informed

Bike

Change light bulbs for low energy

Choose local food

Clothes aware

Continue to boycott the aviation industry

Continue to cycle everywhere I can

Eat less meat

Eat/buy seasonal

Enjoy and support and promote what is already within the community

Facilitate growth to enlightened consciousness

I will buy green electricity

Install a heat pump

Insulate my home

Join with others to build vision strategies for a viable future

Learning more

Listen

Local food

No more seeing the world

Open the debate with others - its important to help others awaken their consciousness too!

Organise car sharing

Produce own food

Reduce my own families emissions

Reduce own carbon footprint

Reduce my 3 BIG expenditures of fuel: - heating, heat pump - car, downsize - airtravel, don't play so much

Ride my bicycle more

Shop local

Socialise - discuss the issues

Solar heat

Spend money consciously

Start researching different energy/consumption sources for everyday living in the home

Start thinking about consumption levels as a family & acting to reduce them

Talking more to family and friends about these issues

Try to avoid being an eco-facist!

Turn down thermostat & wear more clothes

Use public transport

Write poetry

One Step Forest Row Can Take

Become a share holder of the community farms

Become a transition village

Become a transition village

Become a transition village

Better bicycling paths

Boycott Tescos

Bring in Robert Newman gig

Car sharing

Close down village for cars

Community projects to become carbon neutral

Create Eco festivals

Develop transition strategy and put into action

Education programme in schools on sustainability issues

Get rid of Esso (and Tesco)

Higher taxes on cars including ownership & petrol (spend on buses and bikes)

Improved and subsidised public transport system

Incentives for people to give their cars up

Influence local decision makers to think/act in terms of future (Transport, housing, energy) and be an example

Inform through the arts

Look at community energy production i.e. wind turbine

Look at community land and how it can be used

Mandate building of sustainable homes & communities (materials uses, power, layout)

More allotments

Plastic bag free

Publicise benefits of bio-dynamic farming beyond the valley

Put up windmills on Cansiron Lane

Set up advisory scheme to assist people who want to convert garden space to grow food

Subsidised bike ownership

Support community owned farms (Plaw Hatch & Tablehurst)

Support Local shops/businesses

Training for people to re skill in basics

Use web site & community communication to create information exchange on energy conservation & generation

One Step Government Can Take

Carbon budgets for all

Carbon rationing for all

Develop public transport

Devolve power to the local level

Devolve power dramatically

Encourage alternative approaches

Enforce laws on air travel

Face reality and bite the bullet - humans are very adaptable & can change

Free education

Fund alternative energy sources

Give grant aid investment for rural sustainable living

Higher environmental standards for new housing

Huge grants for people to insulate homes

Improve housing legislation: more stringent efficiency laws

Include mandatory solar panels & water collection at build stage

Increase subsidy of public transport

Introduce road user charging ASAP

Just be open about the information that exists about global warming & peak oil

Listen to the grass roots to what we have heard

No more new roads

Provide positive visionary leadership

Reduce emissions by 90% by 2030

Reduce flights

Set & keep targets for emissions

Stop the silly things: patio heaters, free plastic bags, airport expansion

Subsidise heavily and make mandatory: all house to be carbon neutral via solar collectors / foto voltaic cells / heat pumps

Tax the polluting things more

Use phenomenal wealth in constructive ways forward rather than defensive protection ideas

Wake up to a new paradigm of no separation