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First project sharing engine meeting information

The first meeting to open up the ‘alpha’ group of Project Sharing Engine community members is on Tuesday 1st November, 11:30 – 15:00. Hurray! We will meet in the Royal Festival Hall, on Southbank in London. We will meet in the big space ‘at the back’ of the building’

Community energy project survey – URGENT

Our friends at the Communities and Climate Action Alliance (CCAA) have an important announcement for anyone doing or thinking of doing a community energy project. In a nutshell, the UK government are poised to radically change the Feed In Tariff. It is likely that this week will see an announcement

Brighton Energy Cooperative launches one of UK’s largest community-owned solar energy schemes

Brighton Energy Co-operative is to launch a pioneering project that will generate community-owned green power in Brighton & Hove and fund local projects to help people reduce their energy bills. From 2 November, Brighton Energy Co-operative will be launching a share offer to raise up to £500,

The emotional impact of transition

In the UK and Wales alone, there are 11,000 parishes (towns/villages), 60 cities and any number of rural communities that are going to have to navigate the downslope of energy descent, either proactively or reactively. But along with these community-based transition, each individual needs to evolve away

Connecting to nature: the dance of the carbon atom

Carbon is the building block of life, and here is a phase in its never-ending journey, adapted from an essay by Primo Levi which he originally dreamt up while a prisoner in Auschwitz. If ever you thought you were unconnected to the planet, this essay should put you right,

Project sharing engine survey outcomes

Following our successful funding bid from Nominet Trust, we officially started the ‘Project Sharing Engine’ project a few weeks ago. Having set up a range of criteria, we sent an invitation to all of the Transition Network website registrees who were also ‘web point of contact’ for their initiative. We

Funding stream for food projects now open (London, UK)

Just received notice of a scheme that could be of immense help to some of the food initiatives in London. Dear Transition Town, Capital Growth the projects to start 2012 food growing spaces is launching its 7th funding round to finance community food growing projects. Please see text below, we