What's Transition Anyway?
It's a grass-roots movement gone viral! There are 1,000+ local groups around the world. There are many reasons why people get on board (like to have fun). Read about the rationale a bit below.
Why Transition?
Transition emphasizes resilience through relocalisation. Resilience is the ability of a system to withstand an external shock. How would we feed ourselves if there was a sudden reduction in the oil that moves our food to the supermarket shelves? Our economic system, not just transport and food, is dependent on having more and more energy - especially oil. And we usually don't recognise these vulnerabilities.
In Transition we realise the future will have less energy (due to declining net energy returns, peak oil and climate change). But if we start planning now, perhaps a future with less energy could be preferable to the present - energy lean, but time rich, healthier, less stressful, more socially connected, a place for everyone in society.
Storytelling is critical to Transition. Have you noticed how many narratives in our culture about the future are gloom-and-doom, even apocalyptic? In Transition imagining a better low-energy future is the first step along that path. We're re-imagining the Good Life.
Of course there's no guarantees. Transition calls itself a giant social experiment. It likes to say “if we wait for government to take the lead, it will be too little, too late. If its a matter for individuals, it will be too little. But if we do it as a community, it might be just enough, just in time”.
Each Transition group hopes to act as a catalyst for community change. Every neighbourhood will come up with how to relocalise - growing food locally, building a local economy, getting around with less energy, generating energy locally and so forth.
Transition models a preferable future ~ events are designed to be fun, social. We do parties not protests, focussing on what we want, not what we don't want! Transition is not affiliated with any political party and political posts are not welcome. But civics, how we are represented, and what is expected of us, is relevant.
You can read more about what Transition initiatives are at the Transition Network website. To find a Transition near you, click here.
In Transition we realise the future will have less energy (due to declining net energy returns, peak oil and climate change). But if we start planning now, perhaps a future with less energy could be preferable to the present - energy lean, but time rich, healthier, less stressful, more socially connected, a place for everyone in society.
Storytelling is critical to Transition. Have you noticed how many narratives in our culture about the future are gloom-and-doom, even apocalyptic? In Transition imagining a better low-energy future is the first step along that path. We're re-imagining the Good Life.
Of course there's no guarantees. Transition calls itself a giant social experiment. It likes to say “if we wait for government to take the lead, it will be too little, too late. If its a matter for individuals, it will be too little. But if we do it as a community, it might be just enough, just in time”.
Each Transition group hopes to act as a catalyst for community change. Every neighbourhood will come up with how to relocalise - growing food locally, building a local economy, getting around with less energy, generating energy locally and so forth.
Transition models a preferable future ~ events are designed to be fun, social. We do parties not protests, focussing on what we want, not what we don't want! Transition is not affiliated with any political party and political posts are not welcome. But civics, how we are represented, and what is expected of us, is relevant.
You can read more about what Transition initiatives are at the Transition Network website. To find a Transition near you, click here.