About Transition Towns
What is a transition town?
Transition Towns act as catalysts in communities. They focus on the positive - on ideas, solutions and action strategies from and for the community. They link a community with local businesses, government and other key industries. They bring people together with a common goal of doing something significant and positive about climate change and peak oil.
They empower people by: positive visioning, helping people access good information, trusting them to make good decisions, being inclusive and open, sharing and networking, building resilience, addressing both inner and outer transition (not just the hands on things we need to do, but also the world views and belief systems we carry with us), enabling and supporting people to do what they are passionate about, decentralised organisation where everyone is empowered and decisions are made at appropriate levels.
Things Transition Towns do:
- Organise working bees to set up food gardens
- Car pool
- School walking buses
- Start food co-ops
- Seed save
- Care for neighbours
- Hold street parties
- Welcome people to the neighbourhood
- Plant food trees on public land
- Set up community compost centres
- Community supported agriculture
- Rain water tank bulk buys
- Solar and wind energy bulk buys
- Electric bike bulk buys
- Dried organic food bulk buys
- Publish ‘buy local’ guides
- Run soil workshops
- Set up Transition sections in public libraries
- Run free film nights
- Support programs like walk against warming
- Build eco-villages
- Hold creative writing workshops
- Help neighbours build things
- Get invited onto regional planning groups
- Cooking workshops
- Hold swap days – for clothes, tools, & materials
- Recycle in their communities
- Work with government to change legislation
- Work with existing groups in their communities
- Create Energy Descent Action Plans
- Celebrate harvests, have parties
- Contribute to the international Transition Network
- Network, workshop and inspire each other
- Teach others how to do it
