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Witney Living Streets campaigned to reinstate the crossing in Welch Way and Edible Gardens meets once a month to share tips and advice on growing your own food. Now our main project is to establish a local Car Club – over a quarter of journeys in Witney are less than a mile.

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Our current projects are a solar PV buying group; a thermal imaging project to demonstrate energy conservation measures; the completion of a sustainable community woodland; an annual swap shop; plus an all-out campaign to make Woodstock a plastic bag-free town.

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It addresses the fundamental issues of reducing our waste, reusing and recycling; localising food production and supporting our local farmers; creating more local jobs; making our streets more pedestrian- and cycle-friendly; eliminating unnecessary traffic; and campaigning for, and encouraging, the switch to greener energy technology. “Chippy” joined the Transition Network in 2011 and now has six working groups covering all the key areas of sustainable living.

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They have six working groups: waste; challenge; food; policy; energy; and transport. All are concerned with raising the profile of the problems among members of the public and their politicians. Green TEA aims to demonstrate practical means of decreasing carbon output, e.g. energy conservation and generation, recycling, public transport, and localisation of food production. Activities include film shows, swap shops, seed swaps and a fruit festival. We are currently working on a car club, improving cycling facilities, local food production, a thermal imaging project, and small-scale power generation.

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Our next project is a microhydro (Archimedes screw) at Osney Weir on the Thames – some members of our community have been working on this for 10 years now but we hope to bring it to fruition soon. We donate our profits to Low Carbon West Oxford to support the Low Carbon Living Programme, food, transport, waste reduction, and wildlife projects. We also use some of our profits to cover running costs of the Hogacre Common Eco Park at the former Corpus Christi College sports ground.

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