these ideas.


Fishguard is one of the communities in Pembrokeshire actually pioneering energy alternatives and encouraging recycling under the banner of Transition Bro Gwaun. Transition Bro Gwaun came about as a result of the Transition Town Movement. The main aim of the Transition Town Movement generally, and echoed by the Towns locally, is to raise awareness of sustainable living and build local ecological resilience in the near future. Communities are encouraged to seek out methods for reducing energy usage as well as reducing their reliance on long supply chains that are totally dependent on fossil fuels for essential items. Food is a key area, and they often talk of "Food feet, not food miles!” Initiatives so far have included creating community gardens to grow food; business waste exchange, which seeks to match the waste of one industry with another industry that uses this waste; and even simply repairing old items or making useful items from recycled materials rather than throwing them away.


Transition Bro Gwaun aims ‘to create the kind of community that makes the future more certain for our children and less dependent on resources from elsewhere. This has great implications not only on the environment but also on an economic system that currently relies on unsustainable growth. We aim to create a sustainable prosperous society without growth on oil dependency.’ The group would like to create a vision for Fishguard and Goodwick in response to climate change and peak oil and they would like to involve young people in this and in any other green issues.


So far the group has been instrumental in obtaining land from a local farmer for the purposes of growing vegetables. The land is rented by the farmer to Fishguard Allotment Association and each allotment owner in turn pays an annual fee for their plot. The land is large enough to provide 12 plots, which have all been taken on by local residents, and there is now a waiting list of more families desperate for land to grow their own. Transition Bro Gwaun has also learned of land in Scleddau and Trecwn that could be made available which could meet these needs. Pembrokeshire County


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