Climate change will make it impossible for us to keep using the amount of energy we do now, and in any case, prices will rise sharply over the next few years as oil supplies reach a peak and then decline. In the UK 30% of our fuels are used for home heating and appliances and around 25% of an average individual’s energy use comes from food growing and food transport.

We already have the expertise to change this drastically: now is the time to begin. The sooner we start, the sooner we start to make a difference.

Individuals, communities and whole countries are already making energy descent plans. There are more and more Transition Towns and areas like Totnes, Lewes, West Cornwall and soon Brixton in London. For a general article with links click here (39k pdf)

• For Transition Towns see www.transitiontowns.org
• For more about the issue of peak oil see www.powerswitch.org.uk and for a personal energy descent plan click here (33k pdf)
  
• For support in being personally active see what COIN in Oxford are doing locally see www.coinet.org.uk Other groups are using this model.
  
• For campaigns against climate change see www.stopclimatechaos.org Stop Climate Chaos held a major event in London on 4 November 2006.
  
• Email us at Shared Energy (below) and we will try to help also.