Transition Towns

A Transition Town: a "community working together to look Peak Oil and Climate Change squarely in the eye".

"The thinking behind [Transition Towns] is simply that a town using much less energy and resources than currently consumed could, if properly planned for and designed, be more resilient, more abundant and more pleasurable that the present.

"Given the likely disruptions ahead resulting from Peak Oil and Climate Change, a resilient community - a community that is self-reliant for the greatest possible number of its needs - will be infinitely better prepared than existing communities with their total dependence on heavily globalised systems for food, energy, transportation, health and housing."

The Transition Initiatives Primer, a document presenting the background to Transition Towns, and information about the process of setting up a Transition Initiative, can be downloaded here.

It presents, in its own words, "a loose set of realworld principles and practices that have been built up over time though experimentation and observation of communities as they drive forward to build local resilience and reduce carbon emissions."