Official Unleashing of Transition Town Lewes!
Tuesday 24th April 2007
8pm, Lewes Town Hall
The launch of Transition Town Lewes, The Official Unleashing, attended by over 400 people, was eye-opening and inspiring. The launch began a year-long programme of events during which the people of Lewes will envision and plan a 20–30 year transition away from fossil fuels - towards a better life.
There were three main speakers:
Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition Towns initiative, responsible for putting into action the first ever Energy Descent Action Pathway in Kinsale in Ireland, co-ordinator of Transition Town Totnes and the Transition Network spoke about the coming peaking of oil.
Adrienne Campbell, one of the core team of Transition Town Lewes, spoke about how Transition Town Lewes started in a corridor, previous and planned events and encouraged people to get involved in the planning groups.
Dr Chris Johnstone, psychologist and author of Find Your Power, spoke on the psychology of change and how we can wean ourselves off our dependence on oil.
Click on the links below to watch Rob Hopkins' talk at Lewes' Unleashing...
Click here for video clips of an interview with Rob Hopkins by Adrienne Campbell...
- on the Kinsale Energy Descent Plan
- on Transition Town Totnes
- on climate change and peak oil
- where the transition town movement will go
- Rob's work with the Soil Association, on the Transition Town Network and the book he is writing
- how transition towns improve communities and the lives of people within them
- Rob's most rewarding experiences working on Kinsale and transition towns
- Rob's influences
- our capacity to move away from oil dependency
- practical suggestions for people not living in a transition community
Click here for video clips of an interview with Chris Johnstone by Adrienne Campbell...
- the big question
- myths and epic journeys
- static and process thinking
- from 'they should' to 'I will'
- communicating change
- energy descent pathways
- power through
We had stalls from:
The Sustainability Team from Lewes District Council
And people attending stayed on to share their views! People also started the formation of transition groups by putting their names up on the flipchart. Click here for more information about the transition groups.
Get involved: contact hello [at] TransitionTownLewes.org.uk
