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Transition Matlock – adapting to climate change and dependence on fossil fuels

Little Green Space is actively supporting the Transition Matlock project - an exciting initiative in our local town in Derbyshire. It involves people from right across the community, joining forces to tackle the twin problems of climate change and oil shortage.

Transition Matlock is part of the international Transition Towns initiative. This involves communities across the world (already over 100 and counting) coming together with a shared concern – to respond to the challenges, and opportunities, of peak oil and climate change.

Here are some key points:

Climate change and peak oil are realities that aren't going to go away. They will make our lives intolerable – unless we start to change the way we live now.
Climate change and peak oil require urgent action. We have to act together - now.
Life with less energy is inevitable. Local communities need to act and adapt. It is better to plan for it than be taken by surprise.
Action will bring many benefits. If we collectively plan and act early enough to reduce carbon emissions and to adapt to reduced oil supplies, it will help communities cope with climate change and peak oil. It will also make them more pleasant, green and community-orientated places to live.

Transition Matlock plans to work across the community to find positive, local and sustainable solutions to climate change and peak oil. We plan to start by describing the ideal, sustainable Matlock in 2028 and the steps needed (an energy descent plan) to get there.

The project is offering no fixed answers. But we do believe that solutions will come from the creativity, imagination and knowledge of the local community. Transition Matlock will be forming working groups on issues including transport, energy, food, and waste.

Other Transition Towns in the Peak District area include Chesterfield and Buxton.