Transition Towns North Fife

THINK GLOBALLY ACT LOCALLY.

North Howe Transition Toun Fife group organisers at Collessie Community Hall.

This book by the visionary architect of the Transition movement is a must-read labelled immediate . Growing numbers with their microscopes trained on peak oil are convinced that we have very little time to engineer resilience into our communities before the last energy crisis descends. This issue should be of urgent concern to every person who cares about their children, and all who hope there is a viable future for human civilisation post-petroleum. --Jeremy Leggett, founder of Solarcentury and SolarAid, and author of

The Transition concept is one of the big ideas of our time. Peak oil and climate change can so often leave one feeling depressed and disempowered. What I love about the Transition approach is that it is inspirational, harnessing hope instead of guilt, and optimism instead of fear. The Transition Handbook will come to be seen as one of the seminal books which emerged at the end of the Oil Age and which offered a gentle helping hand in the transition to a more local, more human and ultimately more nourishing future. --Patrick Holden, director of the Soil Association

Rob Hopkins is the Gentle Giant of the green movement, and his timely and hugely important book reveals a fresh and empowering approach that will help us transition into a materially leaner but inwardly richer human experience. Full of reliable, readable, far-reaching scholarship, and warm-hearted practical advice on how to instigate transition culture wherever you are, this book will energise and regenerate your commitment to place, community and simple living. There is no better call to action than this book, and no better guide to the hands-on creation of a liveable future. --Dr Stephan Harding, co-ordinator of the MSc in Holistic Science at Schumacher College and author of Animate Earth: Science, Intuition and Gaia

I can find nothing - absolutely nothing - wrong with The Transition Handbook. The format of this manual is extremely appealing. It is printed on heavy recycled paper, designed with simple natural colour tones, and is chock-full of exceedingly practical group exercises for clarifying and practising its principles. To its credit, this book does not sugar coat the daunting reality of peak oil and climate change, but rather it offers a positive vision of preparation and myriad practical steps for manifesting it.

Rob Hopkins is the Gentle Giant of the green movement, and his timely and hugely important book reveals a fresh and empowering approach that will help us transition into a materially leaner but inwardly richer human experience. Full of reliable, readable, far-reaching scholarship, and warm-hearted practical advice on how to instigate transition culture wherever you are, this book will energise and regenerate your commitment to place, community and simple living. There is no better call to action than this book, and no better guide to the hands-on creation of a liveable future. --Dr Stephan Harding, co-ordinator of the MSc in Holistic Science at Schumacher College and author of Animate Earth: Science, Intuition and Gaia. .The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience (Transition Guides) More

A better mode of transport.

Local food and drinks provided by members.

350 Letham North Fife

350 Letham North Fife.




There is no better teacher than experience and for all who took part in the preparation of the lanterns, 350 will be impinged. We are all required to be more mindful in our actions and consumption of oil, coal and energy wasting activity. A grass roots reaction to the way our conditioned existence is taking us has spawned collectives that advocate another view. Another way which is local, community based, self sufficient in foods, energy saving and mindfulness of our environment. Transition towns are a manifestation of this process.
In a small village outside Cupar in Fife, Scotland about 40 people, spanning several generations, gathered in Letham village hall on Saturday evening. After an opening speech and song we made candle lanterns and then processed together from the hall to the park in the cold, misty evening, with the lanterns bobbing in the dark from their willow sticks.

The shape of 350 had been sprinkled in flour on the grass before nightfall and we placed our lanterns on the lines and stood in silence around this critical number, thinking of those in Copenhagen grappling with how to heal this world.

The song: Be the Change

What will be left
When our children are grown?
Look what has come
From the seeds we have sown.

Pollution,
Resource depletion.

Wake up to our true selves,
Wake up to be the change,
Wake up to shine our light,
Find what can nourish and sustain.

Connect round the world,
We can learn how to share.
We’ve taken so much,
Now it’s time for to care.

Transformation
Of our generation.

Wake up to our true selves,
Wake up to be the change,
Wake up to shine our light,
Find what can nourish and sustain.

Wake up!

Three generations light the candle.



About to parade and mark the moment.

The Light.

Ecology North Fife

Ecology North Fife, There is a growing awareness that we all have to do something and adjust the way each of us interacts within our own environmental space. Transition Towns worldwide movement is just one of the positive reactions taking place. The book below might spur you to lean that way.

Eco Logical is a book for anyone who wants to know more about the causes and effects of global warming - and the pros and cons of all the proposed solutions. Recognising that no issue is ever completely black and white it conveys all manner of green arguments with realism and intelligence and tackles the most significant reservations and objections helping you to reach your own conclusions on issues like: Will building more nuclear power stations solve our energy problems? Which should we prioritise, greener cars or more efficient public transport?Eco-Logical: Join the Debate!- All the Facts and Figures, Pros and Cons You Need to Make Up Your Mind.

Wild Garlic Earth Day North Fife

A few hours ago we visited Monimail Tower for a Transition Towns meeting
where discussion was of local produce and how to integrate production in a sustainable way following the ethics of permaculture. One of many grass roots projects now underway in many countries to reduce reliance on transport and energy consumption. The surrounding woodland provided this bunch of wild garlic to be used in salads and pesto sauces.

Blog Action Day North Fife.

The Earth. This is where we live for now. It needs respect and tender loving care.
Blog Action Day North Fife.

Climate change, Global warming yes the times are a changing. As individuals What can we do?
We live in a totally imbalanced world of extremes, riches/poverty, have and have nots, health and disease, no rain/too much rain, Violence/peace, happiness/anger,etc. The human condition.
None of us are separate, we are part of the whole. This is explained well in the Gaia principle.
How is it the now?
Polar ice melting far quicker than previously predicted, Acidification of the oceans with the loss of whole eco systems, Glaciation retreating world wide, copious river flows with flooding now adding to sea levels, what when there is no ice melt left to irrigate? Already massive famines are occurring causing the migration of millions of peoples. What are we actually doing about it? Global procrastination.
A huge shift in focus is needed, away from consumerism, material growth and the rapacious despoliation of our world.
For us to adequately adapt to the changes taking place deep respect for life in all of its forms is urgently needed.
We fiddle as Rome burns possibly leading to the extinction of Homo Sapiens along with the myriad of other creatures.
A total commitment to a sustainable way of life is imperative.
On a local level grass roots developments are forming. Transition Towns for instance. A main object is to reduce the dependence on oil, food miles and power companies. Wiki Page.

Think Globally act locally.

It's quite possible that sheer survival will be the name of the game for most of us. Civilisations come and go, what a crying shame we risk ending this one through exploitation, inattention and lack of care.
It beggars belief that those with vested corporate interests in the continuation of our present lifestyle deny that climate change has anything to do with our behaviour.