Transition Towns

‘Transition Towns’ is a term used to describe an emerging and evolving approach to community-level sustainability.

A Transition Initiative is a community working together to look Peak Oil and Climate Change squarely in the eye and address this BIG question:

"for all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?"


View Transition Towns in London in a larger map

Transition Towns on Project Dirt:

Transition Town Brixton
Transition Town Lewisham
Transition Town Peckham
Transition Town Tooting
Transition Town Wandsworth
Transition Town Westcombe
Transition Town Wimbledon

Transition Towns are based on four key assumptions:

1. That life with dramatically lower consumption is inevitable, and that it’s better to plan for it than be taken by surprise
2. That our settlements and communities lack the resilience to enable them to weather the severe energy shocks that will accompany peak oil.
3. That we have to act collectively, and we have to act now.
4. That by unleashing the collective genius of those around us to creatively and proactively design our energy descent, we can build ways of living that are more connected, more enriching and that recognise the biological limits of our planet.

Since the birth of the Transition movement in 2005, Transition cities, boroughs, valleys, peninsulas, postcodes, villages, hamlets and islands have been springing up and down the country and across the globe. There are now over 150 ‘official’ Transition communities, with many, many more unofficial or developing initiatives.

Links

The official Transition Towns wiki - http://transitiontowns.org/.
Transition Culture – a blog from Rob Hopkins, the founder of the Transition Towns movement - http://transitionculture.org/.