LATEST NEWS AND SOME EVENTS COMING UP (MORE HERE)

	Imagine Cambridge in 2050! How would you like it to be? What might we be doing then? Write a story set in this future world, and enter the Transition Cambridge Story Competition (closing date April 30th).
	On 4th Feb the transition cafe will host the initial meeting of the new Transition Cambridge Transport Group (TCTG). Do come along if you would like to get involved. Contact James
	Next Cherry Hinton Transition group event on Friday 5th Feb: showing the film "In Transition". All welcome, free! More info here.
	The TC Education Group is re-emerging! If you would like to be involved there will be a meeting upstairs at CB2 cafe on Norfolk St on Monday 8 Feb, 7.30pm onwards.

Transition Cambridge in the media

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 steering group and other groups
• events coming up and calendar
• what we have been doing

The Transition Café - usually fortnightly on Thursdays 8-10:30pm at the community café at 22a Jesus Lane - is a great place to meet up with other transitioners. It's run by volunteers (so if you'd like to help let us know) and will run throughout the summer.

We now have bulletin board facilities - do take a look at our discussion forums.

"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 Café, from Mary Geddes (phone Cambridge 563127), or from the Libra Aries bookshop on Mill Road.

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

RELATED NEWS AND EVENTS

	Cambridge in 2020: What will it look like? Come and find out from your local Cambridge Parliamentary candidates on Wed 10 Feb at 6.30pm at B Bar, 6 Market Passage, top floor. More info here. Let Irma Allen know if you plan to attend. Hosted by The Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership.
	Listen here for an excellent radio 4 programme about local food growing
	Cambridge Carbon Footprint are just starting a new series of Carbon Conversations courses: an inspiring, practical 6-session course on low-carbon living
	Cambridge now has a household energy saving co-operative: Tweak My Home

TRANSITION RELATED NEWS IN THE MEDIA

• Key oil figures were distorted by US pressure, says whistleblower in the Guardian 10/Nov: apparently the IEA has been under US pressure to publish optimistic projections for oil supply for years, and the situation is actually much worse than they have been saying.
• Global Witness have produced a report (2 years in the making) called Heads in the Sand warning of the looming oil supply crunch. The Guardian discusses it here. The report objects to the IEA recommendation that the oil industry invest $450 billion a year chasing new supplies, suggesting that this money could be better spent on developing renewable technologies.
• From the BBC, the The UK Energy Research Centre study says there is a consensus that the era of cheap oil is at an end. See Warning over global oil 'decline'
• In the Guardian 1st September, news from Greenland that ice sheets are calving much faster than before, and faster than predicted - which means that sea level rise will hit sooner than we thought.