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What is a Transition Town?

As a pilot, this first taster of Growing Communities focuses on members of Transition Town Lewes in England — the same folks who brought us this rather catchy video and rap about our dependence on oil — and discusses everything from individuals keeping chickens in old playhouses in their backyards, through urban beekeepers in their local graveyard, to a collective artists studio that has transformed the land around it into a community garden.

Sami has written extensively in TreeHugger about the Transition Town movement, where people are looking for resilient communities that can survive in a crisis.

While not everyone is as pessimistic as the sexy yet depressing Oliy Cassandra, many if not most people in the Peak Oil / transition town movements not only believe that refocusing our economies to a more local level is inevitable, but also that it is desirable.

That transition town idea is going to look pretty attractive in a few years, if this is indeed the future we are heading toward.

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Go join a Transition Town group or some such in your area and design it.

This summer we welcome Transition US, which is the national hub for the Transition Town Movement which was started in the UK in 2005.

But many people still ask, what does a Transition Town actually do?

Transition Town Whitehead in Northern Ireland is going to be planting 60,000 trees in the coming weeks in an effort to reforest a region that is known as the least wooded spot in Europe.

On a brief visit to the Transition Town New Zealand web page we counted 52 communities that are actively engaged in the transition process, either formally or informally.

(TreeHugger has a lengthy series of posts on the transition town movement that has taken Europe by storm, but which has apparently only begun to make inroads in North America.)

- and who might instead prefer a community - based expression of simplicity, there is an easy alternative for the suburban dweller: work with local government to build a transition town.

The Transition Town concept, a community focused response to climate change and peak oil, which was pioneered by Rob Hopkins, and which we reported on here and here, is spreading even further.

Given the recent fuel crisis in the southern United States, Transition Town Atlanta may be a good idea...

Of course, news that Transition Town Totnes will be getting a massive Government check as part of the low Carbon Communities project suggests that many other networks may be descending on the town to see what they do with it.

With Rob being in the UK, had he travelled to the conference this trip would have involved a significant amount of carbon emissions and squandered fuel, something that the Transition Town folks do not take lightly.

BTW, the article mentions the initiative «Transition Town Bielefeld» which references «Deep Ecology»... which is rather interesting.

I must also apologise to my local Greenie and Transition Town fanatic to whom I have occasionally been disobliging.

The TAZ quotes psychologist Gerd Weßling of the Transition Town Bielefeld:

«Serendipitously,» Steuber recalls, «the local environmental group I had joined a few years back had formed a book group to read The Transition Handbook and decided they wanted to start a Transition Town in Media.»

Nevertheless, the group has become a highly - respected institution in the community, with some people moving to Media mainly because it is a Transition Town.

Since then, Myles and her fellow Transition Town Media members have helped to make it one of the most robust and successful Transition Initiatives in the United States.

It is through celebrating this diversity that Transition Town Media has developed such wide - ranging projects.

A collaboration between Transition Town Stoke Newington and Hackney Cycling Campaign, this volunteer - run maintenance workshop takes place three times a month — twice in Hackney and once in Stoke Newington.

With an it'll - take - shape - as - we - go ethos, most Transition Town websites sport a «cheerful disclaimer»: «Just in case you were under the impression that Transition is a process defined by people who have all the answers, you need to be aware of a key fact.

Julie DiRemigio says that the FreeStore drew her to Transition Town Media even before she knew what a Transition Town was.

Many of the more prominent buildings in their downtown area had already been outfitted with solar panels when Transition Town Media began.

When Aleisa Myles attended a talk on permaculture in 2010, hosted by Transition Town Media, she immediately knew that she had found an initiative she could get behind.

Transition Town Missoula hopes to take some of the networking pressure off those very nonprofits that give Missoula such Transition promise

Well, if you live in a Transition Town, there's probably a list that will tell you which of your neighbors has those skills and is willing to teach you.

Installing solar panels as part of Transition Town Media's Solarize Greater Media initiative.

One of the keys to Transition Town Media's success lies in listening to the community they serve and to those who step forward, inspired to get involved.

«There was, and has been, throughout Transition Town Media's many events and projects, a sense of possibility and aliveness in people taking bold ideas and putting them into action right in our town for the benefit of all,» explains Myles.

However, to build a truly community - wide movement, Transition Town Media also needed to reach out beyond policy - makers to engage other individuals and institutions.

While she was mostly interested in keeping things out of their local landfill, DiRemigio says that the FreeStore, which is located in the annex of a local Methodist church, has also made Transition Town Media much more widely known throughout their local community.

Yet even with such a large community of dedicated volunteers, in the FreeStore and other Transition Town Media initiatives, some challenges have inevitably arisen.

«We knew that we'd be approved because Missoula is even already a Transition Town,» says Transition Town Missoula coordinator Claudia Brown.

: Transition Asheville is presenting a community - wide event, Saturday, August 27, from 5:00 to 10:00 pm at Carrier Park on Amboy Rd. in West Asheville, to celebrate Asheville being officially named the 88th Transition Town in the U.S..

«The real overarching theme is that we're working on this transition from a fairly unstable and unsustainable way of doing things towards something that is more stable, resilient, sustainable, regenerative,» says Transition Town Missoula spokesman Justin McCoy.

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Think of your community's centers of influence - community colleges, church groups, transition town councils, neighborhoods.

So, I left the Port Townsend Peace Movement in 2006 to turn my attention, with others, to instigating what was to become our Transition Town, Local 2020 and discover what it might mean to become more sustainable as a community.

Ruah Swennerfelt is an activist, homesteader, blogger, and author working on environmental issues as General Secretary of Quaker Earthcare Witness and on the boards of Vermont Interfaith Power and Light and Transition Town Charlotte, Vermont.

He is great on the merits of emerging sharing economy models, new public transport systems and town planning that are serving to design out the car, the Transition Town movement and its focus on community energy, China's land grabs in Africa, and the crushing and debilitating damage done by the Anglo - Saxon work - life imbalance — his description of a «Universal Job Description for life in the service economy» that runs: «Sit at desk, write emails, answer phone, make tea and / or coffee, go to meetings, fiddle with spreadsheets, eat lunch,» will be sadly redolent to many.

Image Credit I wrote the following email to a Transition Town member, who mistakenly believed I was proposing that the government own all the land, and was questioning whether the land issue ought to even be a concern to Transition Towns, whose mission is to build resilient communities.

Hosted by Sarah McAdam, Transition Network and Hilary Jennings, co-founder of Transition Town Tooting.

Passionate about re-establishing our connection with the Earth, she supports the work of the Transition Town network in her hometown of Bedford, England.

Such organizations as Friends of the Earth, The Permaculture Association, The Centre for Alternative Technology, The Soil Association, Garden Organic (previously the Henry Doubleday Research Association - HDRA), the many Wildlife Trusts and Conservation bodies and the recent Transition Towns Network try to address these issues.