Do you want your town to be a transition town?

The transition movement seeks to significantly increase local resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change).

It is a massive social experiment, carried out in the belief that government will do too little too late, that we as individuals cannot on our own do enough, and that we therefore have to try to do it ourselves at local level.

That the days of cheap oil are numbered, that we have to try to recreate a locally run low energy economy, and that we are capable of displaying as much ingenuity in making a better life on the energy downslope as we did on the upslope.

It begins with the formation of an initiating group that then adopts the transition model with the intention of engaging enough people to get a transition initiative moving. (cont)

This involves:

• awareness raising around peak oil, climate change and the need to undertake a community lead process to rebuild resilience and reduce carbon

• connecting with existing groups in the community

• building bridges to local government

• connecting with other transition initiatives

• forming groups to look at all the key areas of life (food, energy, transport, health, heart & soul, economics & livelihoods, etc)

• starting projects aimed at building people's understanding of resilience and carbon issues and community engagement

and

• eventually launching a community defined, community implemented "Energy Descent Action Plan" over a 15 to 20 year timescale

Green Party leader Caroline Lucas has described the movcement as "the most exciting, most hopeful, and most inspirational green movement in Britain today".

What do you think?

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