Transition Network is a charitable organisation whose role is to inspire, encourage, connect, support and train communities as they self-organise around the Transition model, creating initiatives that rebuild resilience and reduce CO2 emissions.

In recent years there has been much talk of the need for sustainable communities. But what is a sustainable community? Why do neighbourhoods matter and why is sustainability important? What are the implications of debates around sustainability for community policy and practice?

Local Exchange Trading Schemes (LETS) build local communities and the sharing of resources. Salisbury LETS members offer each other a wide range of skills and services from babysitting, cookery and curtain making to photography and proof reading. Services, skills and goods are advertised online in the LETS Directory (Offers & Wants). Some are exchanged purely for ebbles, our local currency, other exchanges involve part payment in pounds, where materials or parts are needed. Ebbles cannot be converted into pounds – it is a wholly different system – a resource pool.

Car club cars help people save money and reduce the hassle of owning a car. They can be booked online by members around the clock. Trips can be planned weeks in advance or on the spur of the moment. The car club pays the insurance, repair bills and MOT – reducing paperwork and expense. hOURCARS has been operating in Salisbury for ten years and Salisbury residents who would like to find out more about the car club cars can get in touch with hOURCARS via the website at www.hourcars.co.uk.

“On climate change, there is a clear, definitive and ineluctable ethical imperative to act.”
— Pope Francis