Sustainable Frome, town in transition

Welcome to the home of Sustainable Frome, exploring how to prepare for a carbon constrained, energy lean world. Sustainbale Frome meets every first Thursday of the month at the Masonic Hall, North Parade, Frome at 7pm. Come along ... and please bring some local food to share and £1 for the hall hire. SF strives to be inclusive, imaginative, practical and fun. Want to get involved? Why not join a project? It's fun and easy, you don't have to be an expert, you will meet lots of interesting people, strengthen your community, and learn new skills. What could be better than that? Please join us in conversation on our discussion forum.

Our mission statement is;

Creative solutions to power Frome in the future

We want to create a vibrant and sustainable community unleashing the collective genius of Frome to face the twin challenges of Peak Oil and Climate Change. We believe a town using much less energy and resources than at present will be more resilient and can also be more abundant and pleasurable.

Please join us and help to make this vision a reality.

We're on the Transition Towns MAP - Frome are now officially recognised as a Transition Town (see 'More about SF')

One of the Interest Groups of Sustainable Frome is the "Transition Network Group" a community-led initiative which is working towards both raising awareness of issues and the creation of an Energy Descent Action Plan for the town, based on work done in Totnes & Kinsale. The thinking behind this is simply that a town using much less energy and resources than we presently consume could, if properly planned for and designed, be more resilient, more abundant and more pleasurable than the present. The project will develop a Frome Energy Descent Action Plan over the next 2 – 3 years (from 2007) as a tool for designing a positive timetabled way down from the oil peak. We are working closely with Vision for Frome to ensure that our plans link with the emerging Community Strategy for Frome.

GROUPS & PROJECTS

Making the Most of this Website.

This website is a Wiki, which means that you can contribute to, edit and guide the material collected here. As the SF initiative evolves, information from community Open Space events, brainstorms, questionnaires and so on, will be posted here, and the Wiki format allows you to contribute to the material. It is hoped that this site will enable collaborative information building in the preparation of Energy Descent Plan for the town. Here's how to use a Wiki.

NB the info below is based on Totnes website at present.

In Formation

Guidelines For Those Wanting To Set Up Subgroups
Please read this if you are interested in driving forward an aspect of this project.

Explore Deeper – what happened in Totnes – is this how we shall do it in Frome?

An Archive of Transition Town Totnes Bulletins

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." Buckminster Fuller