Welcome to Transition Sherwood
Transition Sherwood is a group of local people coming together to help our communities become less dependent on fossil fuels. We want our communities to be better able to cope with the changes we are likely to face as world oil supplies gradually reduce, and as we feel some of the effects of climate change. We also want to reduce the area's carbon footprint, so that we contribute less to climate change.
Transition Towns
Transition Sherwod is a local group within Transition Nottingham, and part of the growing national and international Transition Towns movement.
For our communities to thrive in the transition to living with less oil, we are looking at issues like reducing the amount of energy we need, growing more local food, and better local transport. Thinking about climate change and peak oil can be frightening - but many of the things we can do to respond to these can also improve our physical and mental health, and build communities where we know and have lots of different links with each other, local businesses thrive, the streets are more child friendly - and we have fun!
Group members come from a range of cultural, religious and non-religious backgrounds, and the group has had very helpful support from Sherwood Methodist Church.
There is more information about transition towns and peak oil at http://transitiontowns.org/
The Sherwood group covers areas including Carrington, and currently the Mapperley area on both sides of the Nottingham City and Gedling District Council borders. There is another group in Arnold - contact details are on the Transition Nottingham website.
The title picture is part of a mural in Hood St, Sherwood. painted by local young people in 2008. Their signatures are on the picture on the right.
Nottingham was one of the earliest cities to start a transition initiative, after the transition towns movement started in smaller communities such as Totnes and Kinsale.
Lots of new local area groups have been starting in and around Nottingham during 2008 - see the links to these on the Transition Nottingham website at http://www.transitionnottingham.org.uk/