Transition Transport

The Transport in Transition sub-group aims to campaign to get the people of Glossop less dependent on carbon fuelled transportation and getting about in a greener and more sustainable way.

In due course we will be looking at car sharing, helping people to make better use of bus and trains and considering reducing the use of aeroplanes.

20 Is Plenty

However the greenest method of travel is your own feet, whether in direct contact with the ground or pedalling a bike.

Three things make walking and cycling a pain in Glossopdale. The first is the hills, the second the weather and the third is the traffic. There's not much we can do about the first two except learn a bit of resilience, but we can do something about the traffic.

To start things off we want motorists to slow down, at least in residential areas.

The Gory Facts

• Britain has the highest percentage of pedestrians killed in road accidents in Europe
• 2011 saw a 3% increase in road deaths and a 12% increase in pedestrian casulaties

Now The Good News

• 34 local authorities, with a population of 8.4 million people, have adopted default 20mph speed limits on urban streets.
• Portsmouth saw accidents fall 22% when they introduced the scheme

It's Not About Speed Bumps  

One thing we can probably all agree on is that 'traffic calming' is not great. It delays ambulances, increases traffic fumes and fuel use as cars accelerate between bumps and it really annoys drivers.

For the same money you can make 50 miles of street a 20mph zone, with a much greater overall reduction in speed. Once motorists get used to a 20mph default speed limit they don't need the bumps.

The Transition Perspective

Fewer people killed or injured on the road is a good thing in itself, but Transition Towns would want this to be a first step towards people reclaiming the streets.

We would want to see not only more walking and cycling, but street parties, play streets and more imaginative use of urban space.

If you want to get involved, contact Martin at glossopdaletransitioninitiative@inbox.com

Inner Transitions

GITAC is a group which explores the personal and cultural dimensions to transforming our contemporary alienating mass-society: 

 

to break out of our individual and collective psychic prisons 

to empower collective activism 

to re-envision our social and cultural lives; and,  

to find new ways of living.

 

 Understanding and accepting of the decline of the capitalist/materialist age we are looking to a new age of resilience that is infused with fresh thinking, stories, songs and diverse creative initiatives.

 

Within a wholesome and compassionate community, experiences of fear, anger, grief and shame can be soulfully expressed and transformed.

 

Creatively engaging with the challenge of living in this complex time liberates our capacity for fun, joy and happiness.

   

So far, we have enjoyed nature meditation walks, chanting and watching inspirational films (to November 2012) and we are currently making plans for an Interfaith Service, a Summer Dance and a Veteran Tree Walk as well as developing a Glossop-based co-operative board game.

 

To get involved email  transitionglossopdale@sky.com

Glossopdale in Transition AGM and 1st Birthday Drinks.

A reminder that it will be held on Thursday 18th October at Rose Green Working Men's Club (upstairs), 4 Rose Green, Sheffield Road, Glossop. SK13 8QH. Please arrive by 7.25pm for meeting 7.30pm-9.00pm, followed by post-AGM social in the same pub.

Agenda:

1. Welcome & Introductions

2. Adoption of Constitution

3. Chair's Report

4. Treasurer's Report

5. Communications Policy

6. Election of Committee

7. Where do we go from here?

8. A.O.B.

Please consider standing for a position on the committee. All roles to be elected: Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, Communications Sec., Fundraising Officer, Social Sec., as well as a couple of additional committee members with no specific position.

Hope to see you there,

GiT Steering Group

Transition 2.0 Film, New Mills

Transition New Mills will be screening the film 'In Transition 2.0' in New Mills on Saturday 13th October, which anyone is welcome to attend.

If you have not seen the film and want to learn more about 'transition', what it's all about, what transition towns across the UK have done and find about transition initiatives from across the world, its worth watching. It's being screen at 4pm on Saturda

y 13th October at St George's Parish Hall, Church Lane, New Mills and entry is FREE!

According to the Positive News newspaper, the film "...takes the viewer through an emotional journey that effectively charts the evolution of the movement from its humble origins in Kinsale, Ireland, to an international movement that now attracts the attention of politicians and world leaders."

A trailer of the film can be viewed at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKN3RLkEGfM&feature=player_embedded

Annual General Meeting 18 October, Rose Green Working Men's Club

After a long (and wet) summer holiday we are back.

Our next step is an Annual General Meeting which, I have to formally tell you, is to be held at 7:30PM on Thursday 18th October at the Rose Green Working Men's Club, 4 Rose Green, Sheffield Road, Glossop, SK13 8QH.

Hopefully after the essential business we'll have a chance for a chat and time to discuss the different groups that will make up Glossopdale in Transition. At present this looks like being Inner Transitions, Transition in Your Street based in Old Glossop (which may or may not end up becoming Old GiTs), the Time Bank and the Transport Group.

However as Transition is all about mobilising local people for projects, what actually happens depends of course on you.

We are 'official'!

Yes, folks, we are now officially In Transition and Glossopdale is on the Transition Town website!

Thanks very much to everyone who made this possible, especially everyone who attended the World Cafe at The Oakwood in July.

GAFA Open Day

Glossopdale Action for Allotments

Invite you to their Open Day at

St. Mary’s Road Allotment Site, Glossop

Saturday 22^nd September, 10am-3pm

(If raining – event postponed)

 

·      FRUIT AND VEG SWAP – bring a bag of yours to swap or sample our home-grown organic produce

·      Experience the delights of THE PEOPLES’ KITCHEN stall

·      Talk to allotment holders about the joys of allotment gardening

·      BECOME A MEMBER - Join our waiting list for an allotment of your own

Film: The Power of Community

Glossopdale in Transition will be showing the film The Power Of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, on Monday 23rd July 2012at The Oakwood at 8PM, after the People's Kitchen.

Anyone who wants to eat excellent vegan food (with a Middle Eastern theme I believe) for the most excellent price of £2.50 needs to book ASAP with the People's Kitchen by emailing peopleskitchenglossop@gmail.com or via their Facebook page.

The bar will not be open so bring your own drinks.

You don't have to eat to watch the film.

The Power of Community is a film we first showed last year. People said they wanted to see it again and also that now we are up and running as a potential Transition Town it will be more relevant as it is packed full of practical schemes to reduce our use of oil.

Glossopdale in Transition is Unleashed!

The old steering group

Thank you to everyone who came to the World Cafe last night.

We had a good discussion and at the end various people signed up to be on the Steering Group or to carry out more work on Transport, Local Economy, Food and Ecology, Inner Transitions and Transition in Your Street.

Those of you who signed up should be getting an email in the next week. If you don't, or if you want to join a group, email: transitionglossopdale@sky.com.

People also requested information on various topics such as how to switch to an eco-friendly electricity provider or how to get to Sheffield by bus (via New Mills is the answer...). I'll be putting up links and informtion here in due course.

Glossopdale in Transition is now off the ground and what happens next is up to you.
 

World Cafe

Glossopdale in Transition unleashed!

Join us for an evening of engaging conversations and fine food (vegan, with a Middle Eastern theme) for a World Cafe style event as GiT explores the practical steps on the path to a more resilient, sustainable and flourishing community.

Monday 2^nd July 6:30PM

The Oakwood, 67 High Street West, Glossop, SK13 8AZ

Cost £2.50

Advance booking please.

Inner Transitions

 
Inner Transitions

Spiritual resources for a greener way of life…

An evening of meditation, reflection and exploration, making use of a variety of resources and traditions to encourage and sustain community-led responses to the global challenges of climate change, economic hardship and shrinking supplies of cheap energy.

Hosted at All Saints Parish Church in partnership with the Transition Glossopdale Initiative. Everybody welcome.

Sunday 24^th June, 7.30pm.

All Saints Parish Church, Church Street South, Old Glossop. SK13 7RU.