Caroline Lucas, Green Party candidate for Brighton Pavilion, today joined forces with Transition Brighton and Hove to call for the city’s voluntary, public and private sectors to come together to enable Brighton’s “Transition to a truly sustainable city.”

Dr Lucas, also leader of the Green Party and an MEP for the South East, has been a long-time supporter of the Transition Initiatives movement (formerly Transition Towns, the collective name recently updated to include cities and villages) and its twin goals of tackling and adapting to the threats posed by both peak oil and climate change.

Transition Brighton and Hove are running a unique collaborative workshop on Saturday 18th July aimed at developing a major Transition strategy for Brighton and Hove.

The workshop will provide a forum for participants to:

share their latest research and information,

support not-for-profit organisations in developing skills and knowledge to organise their resources effectively,

develop a joint action plan for how partners can respond positively to the challenges of climate change, fossil fuel
depletion and other sustainability issues facing the city.

The workshop offers 50 places and will start at 10am on the 18th at the Community Base conference room, situated on Queens Road.

The Transition movement was founded in Ireland and was then spread to Totnes, Devon by the environmental activist Rob Hopkins in 2005. The aim of the Transitions project is to equip communities for the dual challenges of climate change and peak oil. The movement currently has member communities in a number of countries worldwide.

Caroline Lucas, who is a member of the advisory board of the Transition Town Movement, today said: “The issues of climate change and peak oil are of critical importance – globally, nationally and locally here in Brighton and Hove – and require an imaginative diversity of practical and political solutions. The Transitions movement is at the very heart of community level solutions and deserves widespread support.”

Transition Brighton and Hove are a networked collective of volunteers – each specialising in a particular area; be it food, transport, waste or recycling – who are united in working towards the united goal of energy resilience and reduction.

For more information see: http://www.transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk/

Brighton and Hove Green Party: 01273 766672