TRANSITION NEWS (more here)

Transition Cambridge aims to help Cambridge make the transition to ways of life that are less reliant on oil and other fossil fuels, and are more resilient in the face of shocks such as spikes in oil prices and extreme weather events caused by climate change.

	Read our weekly bulletin for all our latest news and events. If you'd like to receive it by e-mail, sign up here. Submit events here or send them to us by e-mail.
	Follow us on Twitter! @TransitionCambs - we'll post reminders about our events, news items and things we find out about after the weekly bulletin has gone out.
	We have an author in our midst! Nicola Terry (our webmaster and an active member of the energy group) has recently published a book called "Energy and Carbon Emissions: the way we live today". Available at some of our events, it costs £7 with £1 going towards Transition Cambridge. More info...
	Here's a lovely article in Local Secrets by Robert Coe about our new community garden in Romsey Town, part of our Growing Spaces program!
	The Association of Town Centre Management invited Transition Cambridge to run a workshop on the challenges and opportunities associated with peak oil and climate change - here's what we did....
	Over 200 people came to hear Rob Hopkins speak about "The Transition Journey" on 28 March, and we also celebrated Transition Cambridge's 3rd birthday! Here are some photos, the little video about Transition Cambridge, and Rob's write-up of the event on transitionculture.org. Thanks to everyone for making the night such a success!

FEATURED TRANSITION EVENTS AND PROJECTS (more here)

Saturday 4th February: Cropshare onions cooked up in Foodcycle feast

St Paul's Church, 2 Hills Road Cambridge CB2 1JP 12:30
In 2011, Cropshare volunteers had loads of fun and grew a bumper onion harvest in partnership with a local organic farm. Now Transition's Cropshare onion harvest is being put to good use: we've donated lots of onions to local foodwaste-fighting charity Foodcycle. Foodcycle use reclaimed food surplus from local Cambridge businesses to create delicious healthy meals for the community. Join us to tuck into a free onion-themed lunch and find out about both schemes.

Tuesday 7th February: The Economics of Happiness (film) + talk by Sir Partha Dasgupta

Transition Cambridge and Cambridge Carbon Footprint invite you to this film show at the Arts Picturehouse. The film will be followed by a talk and Q&A session with renowned economist Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta.

Transition in the news - The 30 mile diet eating local eating green

CaSFA members Bev and Ann will tell us how they get on in their blog.

Growing Spaces is awarded £3000

Well done Stephanie for getting this award from Cambridge Sustainable City for the Growing Spaces project. This will be used to grow more food on disused pieces of land - we have already planted fruit bushes and herbs at five places in the city, including Norfolk Street, Chesterton Road and Hawkins Road.

• January to March: Carbon Conversations course
• Monday 6th Feb: Energy group meeting
• Wednesday 15th Feb: Advice on Wood Stoves

WHAT IS TRANSITION CAMBRIDGE?
We are

• part of the Transition Towns network of communities
• responding to the challenges and opportunities of Peak Oil and climate change
• changing now because we want to - not waiting until we have to
• towards a lower energy, sustainable and prosperous future

The organisation is

• a loose federation of voluntary groups, involved in raising awareness and practical projects
• aiming to inspire positive, solution-focused responses

This website provides information

• about us: the hub and sub groups (see list in left hand sidebar)
• events coming up
• what we have been doing

"The Transition Handbook", £12 is available to buy. It is the definitive guide to the Transition Towns movement, written by its founder, Rob Hopkins. Get yours from the Transition Resource Centre, or e-mail us and we can bring one along to the cafe (or even put one in the post if you're willing to pay postage and packing).

Or email us (and ask for a regular news bulletin).

TRANSITION-RELATED NEWS IN THE MEDIA (more here)

	Blog article by local architect Margaret Reynolds about Rob Hopkins' visit to Cambridge (posted on April 6th 2011).
	Article in the Guardian on-line, now in Business Green (7 March): "Oil prices: Urgent steps needed to wean UK onto other energy sources, MPs say" here
	Article in the Guardian on-line (3 March): "UK facing 1970s-style oil shock which could cost economy £45bn – Huhne" here
	Article in the Economist on 24 Feb: "Oil pressure rising: The world is badly placed to cope with another oil crisis" here
	Transition Town Totnes in this Sunday's Observer Magazine (6 Feb). Lucy Siegle writes: “Totnes: Britain’s town of the future: Totnes in Devon might be the most forward-thinking eco settlement in the world. As fossil-fuel reserves dwindle and the economy contracts, will resident-led Transition Towns become the way that we all live?”. Full article here.
	IEA acknowledges peak oil The IEA has acknowledged that production of conventional oil is never again likely to regain its peak from 2006, but demand will continue to rise. ''Unconventional oil is set to play an increasingly important role in world oil supply through to 2035, regardless of what governments do to curb demand....Unconventional sources of oil are among the more expensive available: they require large upfront capital investment, which is typically paid back over long periods. Consequently, they play a key role in setting future oil prices.' (World Energy Outlook 2010 executive summary)