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TRANSITION NORWICH - from oil dependency to local resilience

Transition Norwich is a part of the Transition Towns Network, a global collective of towns and cities concerned with regenerating communities and local sustainability in the face of declining oil resources, and positively planning ahead for the kind of circumstances this may bring about.

As well as the films listed below there will be a "Great Unleashing" event to be held on October 1st where the originator of the Transition movement, Rob Hopkins will be speaking. For more details please visit http://www.transtionnorwich.org

FILMS, TALKS, DISCUSSION AND ACTION - 2008

11 August: What a Way to Go

Life at the end of empire

1 September: Crude Awakening

A well argued and well edited summary of what Peak Oil is and what it will mean for us all

FREE EVENTS - ALL WELCOME

Mondays starting at 7.45pm at Inner Space

Booking is recommended at www.transitionnorwich.org

INNER SPACE Maude Gray Court St Benedicts Norwich NR2 4PA

01603 614460


WHAT IS COMMUNITY?

I have been reflecting about what makes my community – I grew up in a small town where most people knew you or your family – 95% of the kids went to the same schools, the shopkeepers knew your parents, that kind of thing.

In the city, times are different and are more representative of the direction our society has been moving in for a while – multinational corporations, massive supermarkets etc. etc. The children in our street in North Norwich can choose from four catchment area primary schools. The local shops are rarely independently owned and people can seem wary of talking to each other in the street as faces are less familiar.

I believe the need for community is inherent in each of us and I see that it springs up in other ways in modern life. We help our friends out, perhaps taking time off work to be with our families, sharing meals together. Random acts of kindness are another method of reaching out to those around us, sharing life and giving a glimpse of community. We individually make our own circles of community – perhaps one circle is our neighbours; another may be those who share our religious, spiritual or political beliefs; those whose families are at similar stages to help out with childcare, homework, housework.

NORLETS is one of these circles of contact that we can each choose to include as part of our individual experience of community. Perhaps there are one or two people that you trade with regularly, perhaps you stay in contact with more than that. All that we choose to share in this circle and the others in our life, builds up our strength of community.

A friend I have met through NORLETS put me in touch with a website you may enjoy – where people all over the world are sharing skills, space and land, not for money, not for lokes but www.justfortheloveofit.org. Check it out!


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