Home

uk

Rimu's picture

UK energy usage

Submitted by Rimu on 18 September 2008 - 5:48pm | updated 18 Sep 2008 | Story

Click on the image for a more detailed and readable PDF version!

This chart shows energy sources as coming in from the left, energy uses as leaving on the right, and energy losses/exports as falling out the bottom.

Aside from the obvious huge gas and oil inputs, some other points of interest (warning, back-of-the-napkin quality calculations ahead!): » Read more

»
Rimu's picture

Local currency launched

Submitted by Rimu on 10 September 2008 - 1:12pm | updated 10 Sep 2008 | Story

The town of Lewes in East Sussex has printed £10,000 of its own pound notes to be used as an alternative to sterling.

The idea is to boost the local economy by keeping cash circulating among local traders and suppliers rather than leaking out to the wider economy via national chains. » Read more

»

UK Transition Towns Newsletter - growth is exponential!

Submitted by James Samuel on 7 September 2008 - 8:42pm | Story

So much has happened since the last newsletter an (embarassingly long) while ago. Where to start...

"Official" initiatives and all the mullers

In the Japanese myth, the hundredth monkey represents the point at which a learned behaviour spreads instantaneously from one group of monkeys to ALL related monkeys once a critical number is reached. So it's somehow fitting that the 100th official transition initiative was Fujino in Japan.
» Read more

»
Rimu's picture

Something Wonderful Just Happened in Somerset

Submitted by Rimu on 1 August 2008 - 10:28am | Story

Taken from transitionculture

Last week, Somerset County Council voted unanimously to endorse a motion that they become the UK’s first ‘Transition Local Authority’. What is means is that SCC could start taking an integrated approach to its planning processes, putting peak oil and climate change at the heart of its forward planning. It may well also unlock funds for the many Transition initiatives emerging across Somerset. The proposal put before the Council ran as follows; » Read more

»
Syndicate content