Resources for your Transition Initiative

Instructions: this page is for existing official Transition Initiatives to post resources that have worked in their own projects. You'll need to edit the page using the password provided to your team earlier. To add an entry, simply follow the syntax as per existing links and downloads.
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1) Forming the initiating group

  1. Description: Sample constitutions
  2. Description: How to find people for the initiating group
    • Posted by: Kamil Pachalko
    • From: Transition Town Westcliff
    • Posted date: 19-Oct-08
    • Link/download: Ideas are here


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2) Raising awareness

  1. Description: Video "Message in the Waves", depicting the severe environmental impact of plastics, particularly in Hawaii. Has inspired many "plastic bag free" initiatives in the UK and beyond.
    • Posted by: Ben Brangwyn
    • From: Transition Network
    • Posted date: 18-Aug-08
    • Link/download: here (Warning - 750 MB, will take several hours to download)
  2. Description: Video of Rob's presentation about Transition to the International Forum on Globalisation’s Teach-in: "Confronting the Global Triple Crisis - Climate Change, Peak Oil, Global Resource Depletion & Extinction"
    • Posted by: Ben Brangwyn
    • From: Transition Network
    • Posted date: 18-Aug-08
    • Link/download: High definition version here (330 MB, so don't expect it to download in a twinkle.)
    • Link/download: View low definition version on YouTube:
  3. Description: Scripted powerpoint presentation covering: Peak Oil, Climate Change, Business as usual not viable, Transition Model - 7 buts and 12 steps, Transition Projects underway
  4. Description: Various posters highlighting peak oil
  5. Description: Transition Network flyer (as doc)
    • Posted by: Ben Brangwyn
    • From: Transition Network
    • Posted date: 18-Jul-08
    • Link/download: Transition Network flyer
    • Link/download: Feel free to edit this to turn it into something for your own community
  6. Description: Transition Network flyer (as pdf)
  7. Description: York in Transition flyer (as pdf)
  8. Description: photos
  9. Description: Excellent community cartoon about oil
    • Posted by: Anita Sancha
    • From: Hereford
    • Posted date: 15-Jun-09
    • Link/download: Download link
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3) Laying the foundations

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    • Posted by: Add your name
    • From: Where you at?
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    • Link/download: see syntax from other entries
  2. Description: Basic Networking
    • Posted by: Kamil Pachalko
    • From: Transition Town Westcliff
    • Posted date: 19-Oct-2008
    • Link/download: Email, call and meet up with all the different groups in your area - one by one - and ask them for contacts to other individuals and groups you might not now. This works wonders!!!


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4) Unleashing

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5) Forming working groups

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    • Posted by: Add your name
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  2. Description: Energy Groups Alert! Here's a huge and wonderfully researched document looking at energy and buildings


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12) Create an Energy Descent Action Plan

  1. Description: Exercises for EDAP Groups (as referred to in the forthcoming "Transition Timeline" report, published by Transition Network).
    • Posted by: Rob Hopkins
    • From: TTT
    • Posted date: December 2008
    • 2030 School Reunion Exercise: an activity first done at the launch of the Energy Descent Action Plan in Totnes.
    • Energy Descent Action Plan in 2 hours: an exercise developed by Lucy Neal and Duncan Law, first performed at the LIFT Festival on the South Bank in London.
  2. Description: a page on this wiki describing how things might look in 2011. We're hoping that it'll set your imagination working in the right directions and prepare you for thinking about the EDAP.
    • Posted by: Rob Hopkins
    • From: TTT
    • Posted date: December 2008
    • Link: Snapshot 2011