Welcome to Transition Ladock and Grampound Road

Transition Groups have been set up in response to the problems of Climate Change and Peak Oil. Ours was set up in the first half of 2008.

We will need to become much less reliant on fossil fuels. To do this we will need to be much more reliant on renewable energies, have stronger local communities, and be more reliant on local food production.

For more details about Transition and what our Transition group has been doing go to the Transition section.

Because we were already active in seeking a transition to a low carbon future, we were able to link with Community Energy Plus, a Cornish Energy Charity, to apply for the Government's Low Carbon Communities Challenge in November 2009.

Low Carbon Ladock's 20Kw Wind Turbine

We were successful and were awarded half a million pounds to install low carbon technologies in the community. The Project is a continuing project with the money from feed-in-tariff from electricity generation by the wind turbine and photovoltaic cells coming back to the project to be spent on further low carbon installations.

To learn more about the Low Carbon Project , and how you can become involved, go to the Low Carbon section.

We want this website to be a resource for the Community

It therefore has:

A Community Section with Parish News, Community Contacts and a Community Noticeboard (for local organisations to publicise their activities).
A Markets and Local Food Producers section, which includes details on the Village markets at Ladock, Grampound Road and Grampound.
A Classified section where goods or services can be advertised for Buying or for Selling. It will only be available for use by local residents. We are particularly keen it should be used for setting up car share schemes
A Group Oil Buying Scheme page in the Transition section. We have been running the scheme for over 2 years, and reckon it normally provides a 5-10 % saving on what you would pay as an individual.

The site also has a Twitter feed which can alert you to the latest news r.e. Transition matters, and a Forum where you can express your views on matters like Climate Change, Peak Oil and the Future of Agriculture.

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