The Transition Towns Ireland Network belongs to a world-wide initiative building community resilience to face the effects of climate change, peak oil and economic breakdown.
A Transition Town starts off when a small collection of motivated individuals within a community comes together with a shared concern – namely, how can our community respond to the challenges, and opportunities, of Peak Oil and Climate Change? An initiating group adopts the Transition Model with the intention of engaging a significant proportion of the people in their community to kick off a Transition Initiative.
- A Transition Initiative is a community working together to look Peak Oil and Climate Change squarely in the eye and address this BIG question: “For all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?”
- Transition Towns raise awareness, connect with existing groups in the community, with local government and with other transition initiatives. All key areas of life are examined – food, energy, transport, health, economics and livelihoods. The result is a co-ordinated range of projects across all these areas of life that strives to rebuild the resilience that’s been lost as a result of cheap oil and reduce the community’s carbon emissions drastically.
Transition Towns Ireland has recently set up a website –
www.transitiontownireland.ning.com – which is already a repository for events, blog posts and a forum.