The image for many people of 'Transition Towns' - if they are familiar with the concept is of the sleepy village: like Totnes in Devon, where Rob Hopkins founded the movement, or Ambridge in the Archers, which despite its fictional status may seem more real to many than existing or incipent transition towns...
But Brixton, whose market boasts goats' meat, pigs' tails, chickens' feet and saltfish, plantain, okra, breadfruit and yams - and is home to every nationality from Jamaican to Portuguese - has given birth to an amazing array of initiatives from growing - and picking - food together, to energy conservation in the neighbourhood , to learning new skills and designing out waste.
