The most significant movement sweeping across the UK, and gathering interest beyond

You may or may not have heard about the Transition Town movement, which is gathering momentum in the UK and catching people’s attention abroad as well. A place that I consider my spiritual home, for example – Forest Row in East Sussex – officially ‘unleashed’ itself as a Transition Town last Wednesday, on the back of year-long planning. One of the principal speakers at the official unleashing, Mike Grenville, closed his talk

with the oft-cited quote, “if not now, when, if not here, where, and if not us, then who?”

Here is Dr Caroline Lucas, Member of the European Parliament, about the subject of the book, The Transition Handbook –

Courtesy of Treehugger.

Tags: Caroline Lucas, Forest Row, Green Party, Mike Grenville, peak oil, The Transition Handbook, Transition Towns