The Transition Town movement was started by Rob Hopkins in Totnes, England in response to peak oil and the climate change crisis. The movement educates people about the need to relocalize, to grow local food and move toward more local production of all our basic needs, to move away from globalization and growth as demanded by our current thinking and economic system.
Happy humans at a dilly bean canning party!
"What if we consider the idea that the best response to peak oil and climate change came not from committees and congress but from you and me and the people around us?"
--From the introduction of "The Transition Companion" by Rob Hopkins founder of Transition movement
"If we wait for the government it will be too little too late; If we act as individuals it will be to little; but if we act as communities, it might just be enough, just in time."
-- Rob Hopkins
We are trashing the planet, we are trashing each other and we're not even having fun.
-- Annie Leonard author of "Story of Stuff"
Imagine a sustainable future with happy humans, satisfying jobs, clean energy, locally grown food, energy efficient housing, a fair financial system and so much more!
Would you like to be a part of the Bozeman vision of the transition movement to find a better way?
We are:
The Transition Movement is comprised of vibrant, grassroots community initiatives that seek to build community resilience in the face of such challenges as peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis. Transition Initiatives differentiate themselves from other sustainability and "environmental" groups by seeking to mitigate these converging global crises by engaging our communities in home-grown, citizen-led education, action, and multi-stakeholder planning to increase local self reliance and resilience. We succeed by regeneratively using our local assets, innovating, networking, collaborating, replicating proven strategies, and respecting the deep patterns of nature and diverse cultures in their place. Transition Initiatives work with deliberation and good cheer to create a fulfilling and inspiring local way of life that can withstand the shocks of rapidly shifting global systems.
It all starts off when a small collection of motivated individuals within a community come together with a shared concern: How can our community respond to the challenges and opportunities of peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis? This small team of people begin by forming an initiating group and then adopt the Transition Model with the intention of engaging a significant proportion of the people in our community to kick off a transition initiative. We start working together to address this BIG question:
"For all those aspects of life that our community needs in order to sustain
itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience (in response
to peak oil), drastically reduce carbon emissions (in response to climate change)
and greatly strengthen our local economy (in response to economic instability)?”
--From the introduction of "The Transition Companion" by Rob Hopkins founder of Transition movement
"If we wait for the government it will be too little too late; If we act as individuals it will be to little; but if we act as communities, it might just be enough, just in time."
-- Rob Hopkins
We are trashing the planet, we are trashing each other and we're not even having fun.
-- Annie Leonard author of "Story of Stuff"
Imagine a sustainable future with happy humans, satisfying jobs, clean energy, locally grown food, energy efficient housing, a fair financial system and so much more!
Would you like to be a part of the Bozeman vision of the transition movement to find a better way?
We are:
- Educating ourselves about what it means to have a local, sustainable, resilient community and economy and why we want it.
- Taking action to create our new relocalized community. We will be creating more gardens, greenhouses and local food, installing solar panels, building and retrofitting energy efficient housing, exploring "Time Bank" and other alternative economic systems and much much more.
- Becoming engaged citizens in our community and reclaiming and participating in our democratic government. Working to return the power of the people and get on with making sustainability legal!
The Transition Movement is comprised of vibrant, grassroots community initiatives that seek to build community resilience in the face of such challenges as peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis. Transition Initiatives differentiate themselves from other sustainability and "environmental" groups by seeking to mitigate these converging global crises by engaging our communities in home-grown, citizen-led education, action, and multi-stakeholder planning to increase local self reliance and resilience. We succeed by regeneratively using our local assets, innovating, networking, collaborating, replicating proven strategies, and respecting the deep patterns of nature and diverse cultures in their place. Transition Initiatives work with deliberation and good cheer to create a fulfilling and inspiring local way of life that can withstand the shocks of rapidly shifting global systems.
It all starts off when a small collection of motivated individuals within a community come together with a shared concern: How can our community respond to the challenges and opportunities of peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis? This small team of people begin by forming an initiating group and then adopt the Transition Model with the intention of engaging a significant proportion of the people in our community to kick off a transition initiative. We start working together to address this BIG question:
"For all those aspects of life that our community needs in order to sustain
itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience (in response
to peak oil), drastically reduce carbon emissions (in response to climate change)
and greatly strengthen our local economy (in response to economic instability)?”
