SUS TAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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The Transition Movement
The Transition Movement is a global network of local towns, villages and suburbs pursuing a community-level response to the issues of oil depletion and climate change.
by Martin Oliver
n the Alsace region of north-east France, not far from the border with Germany, is a small town
(commune in France) that has been attracting international attention for its many groundbreaking sustainability projects. Ungersheim is a photogenic tourist magnet with some half-timbered and chalet-style houses. Its skyline is dominated by an onion-domed church, and a tall brick agricultural silo that looks like a mediaeval tower. For decades, the local economy had
been dominated by potash mining, but by the early 2000s all of the mines had shut down. Around this time, the mayor, a former miner named Jean- Claude Mensch, drew up a wish list of 21 actions for engineering a local sustainable transformation, and successfully persuaded the community to get on board.
JOINING THE TRANSITION MOVEMENT A few years later, the commune heard about the Transition Movement, a global network of local towns, villages and suburbs pursuing a community-level response to the issues of oil depletion and climate change. After launching in the UK in 2006, it has expanded to more than 2000 localities, of which
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a remarkably high 150 are in France. Ungersheim quickly recognised the strong connection between Transition projects and its own eco-evolution, and joined the network. Many of the town’s ambitious
sustainability goals involve energy, and in particular an aggressive push towards renewables. Mensch is aiming for Ungersheim to be entirely autonomous in energy for both heating and electricity by 2023. Most impressive is Helioparc 68, a solar farm that at 5.3 megawatts is the region’s largest. Helioparc was built by the municipal authorities on a former mining waste disposal site, and the space under its slanted solar roofs houses light industrial units. In other energy-related actions:
• A 540-kilowatt (kW) wood-fired biomass boiler links about seven municipal buildings in a heat distribution network.
• A separate 120kW solar photovoltaic installation heats the swimming pool.
• The local primary school has a 40kW solar power system.
• Electricity costs associated with street lighting have been reduced by 40% by switching to LED technology.
• One vehicle operated by the authorities is a 4.5-tonne electric truck.
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