The transition to action

We held the second public event of our local Transition Towns project, Transition Westcombe, this week. It built on the ideas for specific projects and actions which came out of the discussions during our launch event and it was great to be in a room buzzing with the energy of people energetically discussing setting up food stalls for locally grown produce, training sessions in a wide range of skills, mapping locally available expertise, a community cafe and much much more. It was a great reminder that, in an age of great cynicism about "conventional politics" and a widespread feeling of powerlessness in the face of global issues like climate change, people DO respond with great energy and inventiveness when they see that there is something they can practically do to change things, that is within their control.