About Us Archive

  • Transition Suffolk Meeting near Stowmarket

    Transition Suffolk and The Pattern Language

    Last Monday 8 Suffolk Transition initatives and 1 Norfolk (Diss) came together to discuss how to share resources and skills and to feedback ideas from the recent Transition Conference in Devon. Charlotte Du Cann from Sustainable Bungay reports: I felt the meeting was significant. Many...

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  • Newsletter 6: Cover Page

    Summer Newsletter

    The summer newsletter is here! Big thanks to Nick, Charlotte, Mark, Helen and Kris for making it happen in electronic and paper form. It’s in a new longer format – we just had too much news for two sides of A4 – and contains news...

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  • The Chaucer Club

    Standing Up To Speak – (Pattern 1.8)

    Mark Watson posted some reflections on Nick Watts’ Tale of Two Curves talk to the Transition Norwich community blog This Carbon Life. I thought they were worth repeating here. Mark writes: Last night I went with Charlotte to The Chaucer Club. We were giving fellow...

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  • Give and Take Crew

    About SB

    Sustainable Bungay was formed at the end of a Climate Change conference organised by Emmanuel Church in 2007. Since then we’ve screened films, organised a local food conference, A Give and Take Day in the Community Hall and a Carfree Day and we created a...

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  • Peak Oil Collage

    My Damascene Moment

    I’m Nick Watts and I’ve lived in Bungay since 1993, most of the time earning a living by running an out-of-print bookfinding service. My wife is a nurse and I’ve 2 daughters at the High School. As the internet began to really take it’s toll...

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  • Medicine Jelly

    My Entry Into Transition and a Medicine Jelly

    Here is a copy of the post I wrote on the Transition Norwich blog after our Give and Grow Seedling Swap in Bungay, (which explains some of the obscure references!) I hope to correct the fonts at some point. (i) Two years ago I went...

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  • by my own fair hands....

    What a way to go…

    Having gone through almost paralysing fear after becoming acquainted with the concepts of peak oil and climate change, I have emerged as someone willing to do my best for our future, and I am thoroughly enjoying it. I still have fears about the world my...

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