Welcome to the Transition Bath Wiki site!
Over the next few decades, oil and other carbon fuel production will pass their peak and subsequently decline, and prices will rocket. At the same time, the risk of climate change makes it inevitable for us to cut our carbon emissions to a fraction of what they are now. We will have to make the transition between an oil-fuelled economy to one existing on a fraction of our current usage. The path between the two could be a gradual and well-planned transition towards a different but positive life, or oil shocks, chaos and collapse. The choice is ours.
Transition Bath is part of the fast-growing Transition network - communities coming together to plan and implement their own energy descent, helping to tackle climate change as they do it. We aim to help rebuild a localised economy in Bath, to collect and develop traditional and modern skills, and re-establish local resource resilience for the wellbeing of everyone.
Local businesses, schools and colleges, families, gardeners, councillors, environmentalists, craftspeople, engineers, health providers oldsters and youngsters … everyone has to make the transition, and everyone can contribute to Transition Bath.
Local Communities Act
The county of Bath & North East Somerset has signed up to the Local Communities Act. So now is our opportunity to get involved in this!
This was campaigned for by Local Works. It is the first year it has run, and is a way for local communities to put forward their ideas. It has two criteria for those ideas: 1 they must be sustainable, 2 they must need central government action.
October 2009: The BANES Core Strategy - Spatial Options Consultation is setting the direction for BANES for the next 20 years! This is our chance to influence it!
Wiki site
This Wiki site can be useful in two ways:
1. All site members can store information on it which, to be shared and used by other members. Such information could be, for instance:
- statistics of energy consumption of various means of transport,
- information on the sources and carbon footprints of various foodstuffs,
- information on Bath city council's policy on something,
- useful addresses and/or telephone numbers,
- or whatever.
Any information that anyone finds somewhere and which may be useful to others, can be put up here. Be advised though, not to put private and/or copyrighted information, as it will be visible to everybody in the outside world as well.
2. On the discussion forum, everybody can all put up ideas, about how to move Bath to the post-oil era, and discuss them online. Just put any idea up there; there is no such thing as an idea that is too crazy to be discussed!
There are pages for the different issue groups (see top menu), and also the ideas-discussion forum is categorised in the subjects of the issue groups.
Joining the site
In order to add or edit pages, and take part in the discussions, you'll have to be a member of the site. How do you do that? There are two steps:
- First, you'll have to register with Wikidot. To do this, you click on 'How to join this site' on the left, and click 'create a new account'. It'll show itself from there. When you have the account, log in (on that same page).
- Second, you'll have to become a member of the site. For that, go again to 'How to join this site' and click under 'join'. That will send a request tome (Site administrator), and after I approve, you'll be a member, and be able to add and edit pages and start discussion topics.
If you want to put some information up, but find the adding or editing too difficult, you can e-mail the content to me (you probably know my address), and I will put it up.
For editing pages and starting discussions you have to be a site member, but to take part in a discussion (= post a reaction), you only have to register with Wikidot. Anybody on the world can take part, and react on (y)our (crazy) ideas as well. However, any post which is insulting or otherwise inappropriate will be removed.
Tell me what you think of it; I'm open for suggestions!
Max van de Kamp
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