Sustainable Travel Workshop

Thought I would post something to try and get the hang of this blog malarky. What better than a free event?

Following the success of Ben Brangwyn’s talk in December on the Transition Network another workshop has been organised focusing on one of the main issues around a sustainable community – transport. Join Stuart Knowles, senior manager of Fife Council Traffic and Transportation services and resident of Falkland as he leads us through an evening looking at sustainable transport and sustainable transport choices

Wednesday
30^th January 2008

6.30pm till
8.30pm approx

Held at the Stables Workshop
on Falkland Estate*
All welcome
Free event
Local refreshments provided
* you may wish to bring a
torch to guide you to the Workshop

See you there!

Francis

Transition Food

Hi - Transition Fife sounds great. A big part of this could be the movement for local food.

The Fife Diet asks people to sign-up to eating food from Fife only, for a year, monitor their progress and share their experience. I view it as regional action, or the (re)start of a bioregionalist programme. The project aims to bring people together who are seriously into changing their Carbon Footprint. We are growing steadily.

We aim to: bring people together who want to re-learn what a natural season is; boost the local economy and promote local producers; make fresh organic produce more widely available; celebrate the diversity of local food against the insanity of transporting food around the world; pool our resources to create a clearer local demand for seasonal produce.

We’ll be starting the year with a series of public meetings bringing together people involved with the Fife Diet, folk just trying it out or anybody wanting to know more.

Our next public meeting is at Giffordtown Town Hall on 19th January at 12 - 3. You are all welcome. Please come along and help support and publicise this event.

There will be some lunch, something for kids to do, an opportunity to share your experience, and a chance to meet some local suppliers & growers. It's free. If you’d like to help promote the event, or want more details - get in touch with us at: fifediet@yahoo.co.uk

- Mike S

Positive feedback for this blog - let's start writing!

Hello....

Great to get a sense of the building energy for transition fife, and the positive feedback for the idea of a blog.

I've therefore just gone ahead and invited EVERYONE to opt in to being a co-author of this blog.

The great power in collaborative blogging is that any author can invite more authors; that we can check in with the latest news at any times without having to unpick long emails etc. There are also helpful 'sidebar' information pieces we can add - like links, films, books, polls (like the one on the right) etc. etc.. All that can come in time.

Another good thing about a blog is we can include pictures. The one above is a composite of a session from the Rural Leadership Programme which just finished up in December - thanks to Michael Hughes for the images...

I suggest a separate discussion list will be useful - I see this as another kind of thing; something for working groups etc. to use, where the posts are less 'newsy' and more about planning and discussing topics. I'd vote for google groups simply because it means that we'll only need to register for a google account to access both the group and the blog if we want.

Any chance of a date for a sustainable transport first workgroup event being announced on the blog soon?

And also, if you don't know about it already, check out the Fife Diet blog! And this article about it from the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7152009.stm

onward, transition Falkland/Howe of Fife/Fife!

Welcome to Transition Fife!

Following our evening with Ben Brangwyn of the Transition Network .....

Lovely to see you all there, a wide mix from throughout Fife. Ben's presentation sparked a great buzzz with the conversations carrying on afterwards and till late into the evening for some. I've had several subsequent conversations with people who see this as an exciting potential way forward for their village/community. Links from Ben below.

We plan to carry forward the momentum with a gathering around sustainable transport in the new year. Stuart Knowles of Falkland (and Senior Manager for Fife Council Traffic & Transportation Services) is passionate about developing sustainable transport and offered to initiate the conversations and facilitate the evening. We will be in touch with a date.

Lesley at the Centre for Stewardship will carry on my role of supporting initiatives towards more sustainable communities. She is here to help in ways that you ask of her: lesley[at]centreforstewardship.org.uk

Wishing you all the best,
may your christmas not have too large a carbon footprint and may the new year bring greater peace in the world and a reduction in the speed of global warming and climate change .....
Sibongile

Ben wrote:

Hello all,
Got back to Totnes last night, bizarrely full of energy and enthusiasm. I've kept expecting to keel over, but hasn't happened yet...
Thanks to all for the hospitality and warmth. I heartily enjoyed just about every moment of my trip, even when rain almost stopped play on the Climate march in Glasgow.
here are the links for:
• Transition Initiatives Primer - http://transitionnetwork.org/Primer/TransitionInitiativesPrimer.pdf
• Presentation - http://transitionnetwork.org/Presentation/TransitionNetwork-LATEST-Dec07.ppt
Please forward this email to any who may want to access the Primer or presentation.

Ben Brangwyn

Sibongile Pradhan
Rural Leadership Programme
Falkland Centre for Stewardship,
The Stables, Falkland Estate, Falkland, Fife. KY15 7AF
Tel 01337 858808

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