We would like to invite you to attend the 21st Century Network meeting on May 13th at EnlightenNext in Islington at 6.30pm on Transition Towns. Mike Grenville will set an overview and then we will have two other speakers who have set up transition town groups in their own area.

A Transition Initiative is a community working together to look Peak Oil and Climate Change squarely in the eye and address this BIG question:

For all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?

The speakers will be,

Mike Grenville is a technology journalist and event organiser focussed on the mobile messaging industry. He has campaigned for many years on environmental issues and has been behind a number of front-page newspaper reports.

Lucy Neal OBE is an independent arts producer specialising in participatory, celebratory events. A writer and broadcaster, she was co-founder director of the LIFT Festival (1981-2005). An initiator of Transition Town Tooting, (TTT) she has lived in the southwest London community of Tooting for 22 years.

Duncan Law has been deeply involved in the Transition Towns Brixton project, because it promotes community spirit, and makes a difference quickly: He says, "I've found that climate change deals with the invisible and has very little positivity about it, whereas this is all about positivity. "

Best wishes,