How we can help you start off your own Transition Initiative

The list of official Transition Initiatives is here. We hope many more will join them as the world wakes up to the twin threats of Peak Oil and Climate Change.

We're helping initiatives in the following ways:

  • We've produced a comprehensive 50 page pdf Transition Initiatives Primer to set you off on this journey. Includes the following sections:
    • peak oil introduction
    • checklist for building a robust core team
    • 7 "Buts"
    • 12 Steps
    • role of local government
    • movies for awareness raising (reviews, where to get them, licensing requirements)
    • getting businesses involved
    • questions of leadership and structure
    • recommended reading list for peak oil and climate change
  • Website with frequently updated content
  • Newsletter
  • Advice and guidance on how to start up and develop your Transition Initiative
  • Resources, such as:
    • A generic flyer which will identify your project as a Transition Town project and reduce your graphic design costs
    • A scripted presentation on Peak Oil, Climate Change and Transition
    • Standard constitutions for your initiative
    • Posters you can use as you work to raise awareness
  • Help with designing your Unleashing event to get your initiative off to a good start
  • Once you've worked on the checklist and you're an "official" initiative, we'll give you space on this fully-enabled wiki website, with your own "transitiontowns.org/your-town" web address
  • Transition Training
  • We're also working on a networking platform that will enable people and initiatives to connect up easily and share knowledge.
  • If you want to find out more about setting up a Transition Initiative in your community, please contact us at the Transition Network.

We're hoping that through this work, communities across the UK will unleash their own collective genius and embark on an imaginative and practical range of connected initiatives, leading to a way of life that is more resilient, more fulfilling and more equitable, and that has dramatically lower levels of carbon emissions.