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The Transition Movement for Churches - Timothy Gorringe
Transition Movement for Churches
Tim Gorringe
and
Rosie Beckham
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Contents
Foreword
List of Illustrations
1. Transition Towns
2. The NAME
3. The Way
4. Serving Creation
5. The Human One
6. A Domination Free Order
7. The Long Road to Freedom
8. Praise
9. Hope and Despair
Resources
Foreword
This book is one of the outcomes of a two-year Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded research project on ‘the values which support constructive social change’. We are grateful to the Research Council, as to our local Transition groups – Exeter, Ottery St Mary and Crediton – for their help in the project. Readers familiar with Ton Veerkamp’s work will recognize how indebted we are to him, and we gladly acknowledge that.
Tim Gorringe
Rosie Beckham
List of Illustrations
The publisher and authors acknowledge with thanks permission to use copyright owners’ photographs. Every effort has been made to contact the sources of photographs and we would be grateful to be informed of any omissions. Wikimedia Commons images are used by a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 licence.
In order of appearance:
Transition Wilmslow: orchard volunteers planting.
http://bethechange2012.com.
Tooting Transition poster by Susan Rentoul Designs.
The Atmos Project, Totnes. Transition Totnes is seeking to redevelop a derelict site as a hub for firms that give priority to technologies that reduce carbon emissions and aim to source their products and services from the local economy. ‘Atmos’ is taken from Brunel’s atmospheric railway, which originally ran to Totnes. Photo by David Pearson.
The Real Food Store, Exeter’s first community-owned food store. Photo by Fleur Colvile.
Solar panels on the church roof of St Mary’s in Hinckley, Leicestershire.
‘Broadland Winter Afternoon’ by Carry Akroyd, www.carryakroyd.co.uk.
Taunton Transition Town. Photo by Victoria Briggs, Creative Commons.
Community garden in Oakland, California, the Christian Science Monitor.
www.verticalveg.co.uk. Photo by Sarah Cuttle.
Transition Worthing.
Transition Crystal Palace. Photo by Guy Milnes.
Transition India.
Transition Westcliff-on-Sea.
Transition Canterbury poster by sue@lovelli.co.uk.
St Vincent de Paul with the poor at table, http://sustainabledepaul.blogspot.co.uk.
Transition Pittsburgh.
1---Ch.-1%2c-opposite-f.-1.jpg1. Transition Towns
The slogan of the World Social Forum for the past decade has been ‘Another World is Possible’. The Indian novelist Arundhati Roy says of this, ‘Not only is it possible, I can already hear it growing …’¹
The World Social Forum networks the movements of almost 1,500 people and NGOs from around the world. It represents the hopes, aspirations and protests of what anthropologist David Graeber calls ‘the 99%’. The Transition Town Movement is part of this great movement for hope and change, which seeks to articulate and realize another vision of the world than that proposed by the World Bank, the IMF, the great corporations, and most governments.
The Transition Town Movement now has nearly 400 initiatives in Britain and more than 900 worldwide, based in cities, towns and villages in 34 countries including the United States, Australasia and Japan. All over the world Transition groups are organizing practical projects to grow food, start renewable energy projects, build local homes, and re-think local economies. Examples are the Community Energy project in Lewes, East Sussex, which has covered the roof of the local brewery with photo voltaics (Solar PV), and will plough back profits into more renewable energy; and the Bath and West Community Energy group, which has done the same to local schools and is raising £5 million for more projects. Among groups working on food is a Community Supported Agriculture project in Norwich, growing food locally for local people; and the community-owned local food shop in Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire, which aims to ‘declare independence from the global food system’. And in terms of the economy, there is the introduction of local currencies in Brixton, London and Bristol, which helps keep cash in the local economy, instead of leaching out to the big corporations, to be invested in tax havens.
The Transition story started in Kinsale in Ireland, when Rob Hopkins, a permaculture teacher, showed his students a film called ‘The End of Suburbia’, which