Regenerative Community Culture, Models, and Structures

Transition Towns

Transition towns refer to projects that are created with the intention of increasing self-sufficiency thus hoping to reduce the likely effects of peak oil, climate destruction and economic instability. Through the initiative, families and communities live in harmony, support each other and work together to swiftly embrace changes and co-create a suitable new world.

To facilitate this process, the network creates informative films, publishes related books in a number of languages, conducts trainings and facilitates interactions between members.

Brief History of Transition Towns

How Transition Towns are developed

Who Supports Transition Towns?

What is the Future Like?

Brief History of Transition Towns

The idea was conceived in Totnes, United Kingdom by a group of three namely: Rob Hopkins, Peter Lipman and Ben Brangwyn. They intended to form a movement that would help people prepare for an oil scarce future and come together to find creative ways on how to mitigate climate change.

It would also help them form strong networks that would create soft landings from future energy shocks. So far so good! Transition towns have managed to accomplish their initial goal. Due to their usefulness, other countries have also embraced them; as of now the initiative’s concept is used in over 700 different projects based in 15 countries spread over the United Kingdom, Europe, North America and Australia.

How Transition Towns are developed

Transition towns are applicable where a number of people live in the same location I.e in villages, towns, regions and islands. These people come together (sometimes with the support of local authorities) and deliberate on the negatives brought about by climate change, ecological crisis and energy crisis.

They then seek solutions on how to reduce dependency on usage of fossil fuels and prevent Carbon dioxide emissions. The locals also establish ways on how to strengthen relationships between each other and local economic factors.

Who Supports Transition Towns?

Like with every other initiative, transition towns require management and financial support to function. For example, the Transition Network (a UK based charity) was created to provide finances to run transition towns.

Other countries have also embraced help from charity setups. Additionally, since the initiative is meant to empower the people, some government bodies have stepped in to supply transition towns with required resources.

What is the Future Like?

Transition towns has given power to the people to paint what their future on planet earth will look like. It continues to make communities not only prepare for uncertainties but also become more resilient. As more and more communities continue to embrace this concept - the future only seems brighter for transition towns!