Transition Penwith

Transition Penwith was founded by Cllr Jennifer Gray in November 2006. It is part of a global movement initiated by the work of Rob Hopkins, who developed the first Energy Descent Action Plan (EDAP) in Kinsale, Ireland in 2004. Rob designed the EDAP in partnership with students from Kinsale Further Education College and the local community as a visioning tool that planned Kinsale’s pathway down from the oil peak. His work was primarily informed by Richard Heinberg’s Power Down model and the work of permaculture founders David Holgrem and Bill Mollison. The EDAP model has since been adopted by communities around the world.

Rob Hopkins moved to Totnes, Devon in 2005 and set up Transition Towns Totnes, as a way to initiate an EDAP in the Totnes community. Both Rob Hopkins and Richard Heinberg are advisors to Transition Penwith.

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Peak oil is the point in time when the maximum rate of global petroleum extraction is reached, after which the rate of production enters terminal decline. The concept is based on the observed production rates of individual oil wells, and the combined production rate of a field of related oil wells. The aggregate production rate from an oil field over time appears to grow exponentially until the rate peaks and then declines, sometimes rapidly, until the field is depleted. It has been shown to be applicable to the sum of a nation’s domestic production rate, and is similarly applied to the global rate of petroleum production. It is important to note that peak oil is not about running out of oil, but the peaking and subsequent decline of the production rate of oil.

For more information please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil

Transition Towns is a movement that was founded in Kinsale, Ireland and Totnes, England by environmentalist Rob Hopkins during 2005 and 2006.[1] The aim of the 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.

Fore more information visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_Towns