The first public meeting of Transition Brighton & Hove took place on July 2007.

The Transition Network is a community response to the challenges of climate change and peak oil. The Transition Network exists to encourage local communities to act together in order to achieve a sustainable low energy future.

By 2007 already 30 towns, cities and villages across the UK and Ireland were planning for a fossil fuel free future including, Totnes, Bristol, Stroud, Brixton and Lewes, and Brighton & Hove is now set to join them.

The Brighton meeting was organised by a small group of volunteers who attended the Inaugural Conference of the Transition Network in May 2007.

In the first public meeting Transition Brighton & Hove looked at how Lewes had successfully started a transition group and found local solutions to climate change and fossil fuel use.

A further aim of the first meeting was to look at ways in which Brighton can begin to take the first step towards an Energy Descent Action Plan (EDAP). A Transition EDAP would look at a wide-range of adaptions that local communities can make encompassing health, education, economy and much more in a post-carbon era.

More information on Transition Culture and Transition Brighton & Hove and details of the next public meeting can be found at: http://groups.google.com/group/ttbrighton [1] and at: http://transitionculture.org/ [2]

Photo by Moe [3] used under Creative Commons Licence [4].