Sustainable Community Solutions

Join our informal group of ‘Cotswolds Foragers’ – people who enjoy exploring and learning what wild foods are good to each, how to engage responsbibly in using wild foods, and just appreciating the amazing local surroundings where they grow! You can find some brief notes about foraging in this document: www.tiny.cc/tcnforagingnotes To join the Cotswolds Foragers WhatsApp group, email transitionchippingnorton@gmail.com.

By getting safely into cycling, we can make our town and neighbourhoods more fun, healthy, friendly and safe! Our vision and strategy document, written for the Town Council, can be found here, along with a number of other useful resources in this folder. We need more people to join our team and make this happen – do get in touch via our Facebook page or email TransitionChippingNorton@gmail.com.

“Nothing ever changes in Chippy”. Disillusioned locals have said this for decades. Yet 400 years ago, the small settlement of Norton won its independence and transformed itself into a citizen-run enterprise zone. ‘Chipping’ comes from an Old English word referring to commerce. It speaks of economic enterprise – using and sharing available resources for citizens’ prosperity and security. The resources they had were far less than we have today. And their actions were sustainable – Read more…

Great to see so many people and such enthusiasm at the Town Meeting on the Climate and Ecology Emergency last Wednesday. Here is Dr Karsten Haustein’s very stimulating talk: the future of our climate is in our hands! Lots of great suggestions too from the discussion time – here’s the full list (thanks to Ben for transcribing and organising this so well): If we’re serious about ‘our bit’ meeting the Emergency, there’s lots to do Read more…

A newly re-vitalised Action Group, ‘Clean Air for Chippy’, will pursue effective action to keep dangerous and polluting HGVs out of our town centre. There’s a link to a very clear presentation describing the problem, here. You can sign a petition, here. A very active and determine group has already started working but we need more people to help record traffic and assist with other actions – if you can spare an hour or more, Read more…

Concern about the harmful consequences of our waste is very topical today; almost daily we see new studies showing the level and impacts of waste plastics in the land and marine ecosystems which provide our food and sustain our lives in many other ways. To thrive in the 21st century, we need to move promptly from a ‘consume and throw’ society into a Caring Circular economy, which re-uses all our precious resources in more efficient Read more…

We are a community group for the Chipping Norton area, promoting and developing Local Solutions for Sustainable Communities – actions that help our local communities to thrive and be resilient in the face of challenges and changes to our climate, environment, economy and society. We recognise that it is our natural environment which sustains life in the long term, and we are committed to reducing our own adverse impacts on this environment. You can find out Read more…