Welcome

Transition Streets helps neighbours get together to save money on bills, heat their homes more cheaply and make friends. It's also a way to live more sustainably by helping our community reduce its carbon footprint.

Transition Streets makes it easier to

• Cut your energy, water and fuel bills
• Get to know your neighbours
• Cut your carbon footprint
• Take positive actions on issues that concern you

Participating households save, on average, about £570 per year off their household bills and around 1.3 tonnes of CO2.

Transition Streets (previously known as Transition Together) is a winner of the 2011 Ashden Awards. Just follow this link then click on the 'Video' tab to watch their five-minute film about our project.

How does it work?

Groups of friends and neighbours follow an easy-to-understand workbook that has lots of simple ways to change how we use energy, water, food, packaging and transport. It’s easier to make the changes with help from your friends.

We send a facilitator along to help get things off to a good start, then the group runs itself. Each group meets up seven times over an average of four months. Usually they take it in turns to meet in each others' homes. 

Many of the groups choose to continue meeting, and are coming up with an ever-growing range of projects and activities, from community orchards to local film clubs. We will shortly be posting here a film about some of these follow-on projects.
 

Meanwhile here's what Totnes district participants had to say about the scheme...