Contacts for Transition B&H

General contacts

Talks
If you would like someone to come to talk about TBH at your group or organisation, please email John Bristow at talks*at*transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk.
I have lived in Brighton since August 01, and have had family connections with the city for many years. My work has been in helping leaders, and their teams and organisations, in the private, public and 3rd sector, improve their effectiveness and adaptability to change. I now focus this work on the transition towards sustainability. I also later in life trained as a psychotherapist, using a relatively new, integrative model designed for the health service, and continue this in private practice and a trainer and supervisor.

Energy Descent & Resilience Action Plan
Doly Garcia: edrap*at*transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk
I founded the Brighton Peak Oil Group, wrote the Brighton Peak Oil Report and keep working on improving the 'Limits to Growth' computer model, that will hopefully be part of the Transition Network Timeline. Involved in theTransport and Energy Groups, and happy to write articles on almost anything Transition-related.

Website
If you have news of events, etc that you'd like to put on the TBH website, please send them to Doly Garcia at websitenews*at*transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk. For general questions regarding the website, please email at webmaster*at*transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk.
If you are horrified at the terrible job I'm doing at handling the website, I wholeheartedly agree! Please take it out of my hands! We need a responsible, organized and careful webmaster, ie not me.

Transition Interest Group contacts

Food
Ann Baldridge: food*at*transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk
Over the past 10 years I've become more and more concerned about the way our lifestyles impact on the world around us. Though my work focuses on food, (I work for the Brighton & Hove Food Partnership and the Food Ethics Council), I am interested in the wider transition movement and doing what I can to be a part of the change our society must go through to lead more sustainable, healthier lives.

Transport
Graham Towers: transport*at*transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk or 01273 776586

Energy
Jim Adams: energy*at*transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk or 01273 695657
See Jim's website at www.jimhadams.com





Buildings & Construction
(group dormant at present)

Waste & Recycling
Jessica Gwynne: waste*at*transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk

Textiles and Clothing
Kat Neeser: textiles*at*transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk
Kat Neeser: katneeser*at*hotmail.com I used to be a London fashion designer with my own label...and wasn't remotely ethically/eco minded. Something changed along the line and in the last few years I've campaigned with Friends of the Earth, Green Party, Take it Back, run Greenspeak Brighton for a year and now head up the TBH Clothing and Textiles Interest Group. I plan to help replace the concept of SHOPPING with SWAPPING (and remaking/customising)... worldwide, but starting in Brighton!

Livelihoods2020
Martin Grimshaw: livelihoods2020*at*transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk
I am the product of an unusual family legacy of environmental awareness and have long harboured an interest in the psychology of change, the impact of our actions and a love for people and planet. I used to be an armchair eco-worrier. Perhaps the seriousness and immediacy of the problems that face us started to hit home, perhaps I just hit thirty and realised that knowledge comes with a responsibility to act. Either way, I have become increasingly impatient for change and become more active on several fronts. I want to get people excited around the idea of the community re-thinking our future city, building a better quality of life, imagining how we would like things to be and feeling empowered. I want to put the fun into fundamental change and to challenge the inertia of habit, fear and the belief that someone else is going to solve this for us.

Heart & Soul
Jo Nean: heartandsoul*at*transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk
Reconnecting with nature woke me up to some of the problems we are now facing. I came across the Transition Towns movement while traveling round festivals last summer. When I found out one was starting in Brighton I decided to come back early and get involved. I also do a lot of other community and voluntary work in Brighton. I'm keeping a blog about working for TBH.

Health
John Kapp: health*at*transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk or 01273 417997

Liaison with Local Government
Ted Power: localgovliaison*at*transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk or 02173 688102
I was born into a politically involved family. My father co-ordinated 'WDM' and 'Amnesty International' groups in Crawley and Horsham; my mother collected trophies such as part of the fence at Greenham Common. In my PGCE year, my reading included E.F. Schumacher's "Small is Beautiful", Barbara Ward's "Only One Earth" and Paul & Anne Ehrlich's "Population, Resources, Environment". Although I trained for the Junior/Middle age range, my teaching posts were mainly with adults (in Algeria, Sweden and Spain as well as Oxford and Brighton), focusing largely on ELT. My ELT website extends to local history, and I have been adding pages related to Climate Change. My interest in Local Government is fairly recent, resulting from involvement in my local residents' association The Round Hill Society and efforts to protect the community where I live from unsuitable development.

Transition Neighbourhood Group contacts

West Hove
Liz Wakefield: westhove*at*transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk

Goldsmid
David Greenop: goldsmid*at*transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk

Roundhill / Triangle
Jo Nean, Maureen Winder: roundhill_triangle*at*transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk

Shoreham
Moyra Martin: shoreham*at*transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk