starting a transition initiative in a not-so-'green' village
I would like to be in touch with someone who began a transition initiative FROM SCRATCH in a not-so-'green' area. This is because I have begun gathering information to do this and as the task seems daunting (as well as exciting!), any advice, stories, a source for questions, etc would be helpful and hopefully inspiring for me. I am in a small village in France but I am Scottish. Thanks! Nadia
I am new in this era also.
But I have done some homeworks.
Basically, you should find what are the strong and weak points of your city. Sometimes, your city could depend on other city, which make transition harder.
To make your life easier, you should take one problem at the time. You should start your transition by listening to people first and try to find the most common problem that people have. Once that is done, you can try to do meeting to fix problem by involving people. It is easier to do something when people support you.
If people understand the problem and are willing to change, you will succeed.
Never make people afraid of change otherwise you will never able to do anything. Some people seems to freeze when they are afraid.
If you need to meet officials, like mayor or governor, be ready by knowing what your talking about. Get a lot more information than it is require for your meeting.
I know this is very basic stuff, but sometimes we can do something wrong or leaves a bad impression that will make our life harder.
I hope this will help you.
If you want some information, just let me know. You should be more specific when you ask for information.
Have a nice day.
I'd like to hear from one too, as my area is the antithesis of green - a strong BNP area, low ratio of waged population, but it's a compact village with miles of allotments and extra ancient plough marked fields that are sat doing nothing much except holding traveller's horses some of the year till Appleby Fair comes around.
We're coming into some money from local industry that is destined for as yet unspecified 'green' use and I figure it's a good opportunity as ever to get something up and rolling if we can help them spend it!