TRANSITION TOWNS Visioning and Creating Sustainable Communities

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TRANSITION TOWNSVisioning and Creating
Sustainable Communities
The problems of the world cannot possibly be
solved by sceptics or cynics whose horizons are
limited by the obvious realities. We need people
who can dream of things that never were John F
Kennedy
www.transitiontowns.org www.Livingonthecusp.org ww
w.transitionculture.org
Naresh Giangrande
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• A town using much less energy and resources than
  we presently consume could, if properly planned
  for and designed, be more resilient, more
  abundant and more pleasurable than the present.

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• A Vision
• A Plan
• and a Transition

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Why the Need To Create a Transition?
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381 ppm 2006
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www.lastoilshock.com
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www.lastoilshock.com
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• PEAK OIL
• Burn everything!
• relaxed drilling regulations
• biofuels
• Exploit tar sands and non-conventional oils
• Resource Wars

• CLIMATE CHANGE
• Climate engineering
• Carbon capture and storage
• International emissions trading
• Climate adaptation
• Nuclear power

• P O C C
• Systems Re-think
• Planned Relocalisation
• Energy Descent Pathways
• Local Resilience

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Transition Training 2007
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Where are we going?
Techno-Fantasy
Climax
Green-Tech Stability
Energy Resource Use Population
Pollution
Industrial Ascent (Modernism)
Creative Descent (Permaculture)
Earth stewardship
Pre-industrial sustainable culture
Mad Max
Historical Time
Future Time
Baby Boom
Great Grand Children
Agriculture 10.000yrs BP
Industrial Revolution
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• How to get from where we are now to an abundant,
  pleasurable, and resilient future?

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• What would a post carbon, energy scarce world
  look like?

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We need to address our collective inability to
vision the future we actually want.
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Set up an Initiating Group and Design its
evolution from the Outset
Questions arising Do we want to do this? Can we,
who are we anyway? Is the TT model the right
one for us? What else is out there? Who do we
approach? Will in work in our town? How often
shall we meet? Whats our first step?
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Organise a Great Unleashing
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Translate all that Interest and Excitement into
Action
Use Open space to create community think
tanks Establish working partnerships Set up e
mail lists Invite participation Will you join
us? Leading to..
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• Energy
• Food
• Heart and Soul
• Building
• The Arts
• Health
• Economics
• Transport
• Local Government
• Education

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Create Practical Manifestations of the Project
Action without vision is just busyness, vision
without action is fruitless.
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December 06. Oil Vulnerability Auditing
Workshop with Simon Snowden of Liverpool
University A pilot project in Totnes with three
local businesses.
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"You never change things by fighting the existing
reality. To change something, build a new model
that makes the existing model obsolete."

Buckminster Fuller

• TRESOC
• Community Owned Wind Farm
• Waste to power
• Micro Hydro
• Solar water Heater Challenge
• Allotments
• Local Food Directory
• RE Workshops
• Eco Constellations
• Changing the Dream Workshop
• Skilling up for Powerdown
• Transition Tales
• Oil Vulnerability Auditing
• Totnes
• Car Shares
• Seedy Sunday
• Home groups / eco team
• Engaging with LA over Land use/ RE uptake
• Biodiesel rickshaw

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• Put your own House in Order
• Are you generating Renewable Energy for your
  buildings?
• Have you insulated/reduced resource use?
• Are you using sustainable /green products and
  services
• Are you holding real public consultations?
• Encourage / support your local transition
  initiative.

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• Back casting from the goal to the present.
• Identify Resources
• Practical Steps 2006 2026

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What makes the Transition Model Work?

• Create a Vision of an Abundant Future
• Raise awareness
• Show how simple, practical changes to our lives
  can make a difference
• A collective response
• Utilise the power of hope and optimism.
• Solution is the same scale as the problem
• A model thats easy for other locals to copy a
  viral phenomena.

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Think Globally
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Act Locally
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Transition
Falmouth Penwith Lewes
Moretonhampstead Stroud
Ashburton Ottery St Mary
Bristol Ivybridge Brixton,
London Kinsale, Ireland Forest
Row Mayfield
Glastonbury Lostwithiel
Forest of Dean Maidenhead
Nottingham Ashville, USA
Wrington Portobello
Brighton Hove Harborough
Whitstable Marsden/Slaithwaite
Frome Brampton

Isle of Wight Seaton

Bath Exeter
Isle of Man Crediton

Sunshine Coast, OZ
Dunbar
Llandeilo Bro Ddyfi

Rhayader Waiheke Island, N Z
Orewa, NZ
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Mullers
England Abingdon Alden Valley Alderley Edge
Almondsbury Alton Anlaby Appley Ashbrittle
Ashburton Axbridge Balsall Heath, Birmingham
Banbury Barkingside Barnet Barnstaple Bath
Beaminster Bedford, Castle Ward Beeston
Belbroughton Belper Bentlawnt Berkhamsted
Birmingham Bollington Bosley Bournemouth
Bourton-on-the-Water Bovey Tracey Box
Bradford Bradley, North Yorkshire Brampton
Brentford Bretforton Bridport Brighton Hove
Brilley Bristol Bromsgrove Bruton
Tooting Torquay Torridge Totnes Totteridge
Trafford Tring Trowbridge Truro Tunbridge
Wells Uckfield Ulverston University - of East
Anglia University - Bournemouth University -
Liverpool Upper Clatford Vale of Belvoir
Wallingford Walthamstow Wantage Wardington
Wellow West Kirby West Mersea
Westcliff-on-Sea Weymouth Whitstable
Whittington Wimborne Winchester Winscombe
Winslow Winster Wirral Witney Wrington
Woking Wolvercote Wolverton Wotton-under-Edge
Wrexham Wrington Wye, Kent Wylam Yatesbury
Bungay Bury Bushey The Butts, Walsall Buxton
Calverley Camborne Cambridge Canterbury
Caradon Carlisle Castle Ward, Bedford
Chagford Chalford Cheadle Hulme Cheltenham
Chesterfield Chichester Childs Hill, London
Chipping Sodbury Chrishall Christchurch
Churchill, Oxford Chudleigh Clitheroe
Coggeshall Colerne Corfe Mullen
Cornhill-on-Tweed Corsham Cotesbach
Cotherstone Coventry Cranleigh Crediton
Crewe Crosby, Liverpool Cuddesdon Dawlish
Daysland Deddington Derby Doncaster
Dorchester Dunkeswell Dunster
Durham Easthope Ely Emsworth Essex Exeter
Exminster Falmouth Fareham Faversham Forest
of Dean Forest Row Fowey Frome Glastonbury
Godmanchester Godmanstone Grantham Grasmere
Groombridge Guildford Hadlow Haringey Havant
Hay-on-Wye Haywards Heath Headcorn
Headingley, Leeds Hebden Bridge Helmshore
Helston Hereford Hertford Hexham Highbridge
Hitchin Holsworthy Horfield, Bristol
Huddersfield Hull Hulme, Manchester
Hungerford Hunstanton Ickenham Ilfracombe
Ilkley
Ilminster Ipswich Isle of Jersey, Channel
Islands Isle of Man Isle of Wight Isles of
Scilly Ivybridge Jarrow Kendal Kenilworth
Kimpton Kings Sutton Kirkbymoorside Kirkby
Lonsdale Lancaster Langford Leamington
Spa Ledbury Leeds Leek Leicester Leighton
Buzzard Leominster Letchworth Lewes Liphook
Liverpool London - Barkingside London - Barnet
London - Brentford London - Brixton London -
Crouch End London - Croydon London - Crystal
Palace London - Dulwich London - Finchley
London Hackney London - Haringey London -
Highbury London - Kensington London - Kingston
Upon Thames London - Merton London -
Paddington London - Putney
London - Shoreditch London - Southwark London -
Stoke Newington London - Streatham London -
Sutton London - Sydenham London - Tooting
London - Tower Hamlets London - Upminster
London - Wandsworth London - Waterloo London -
Watford London - Westminster Long Compton
Lostwithiel Ludlow Lyme Regis Maidenhead
Maidstone Market Deeping Market Harborough
Marlow Marsden and Slaithwaite Mayfield
Mersea Island Merton Milford Moretonhampstead
Newark (Notts) Newark South Newbury
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Newton Abbot Newhaven
Northallerton Northhants Norwich Nottingham
Ollerton Oswestry Otley Ottery St Mary
Oxford Paignton Peckham Penrith
Penryn Penwith Pewsey Pill Plymouth
Portsmouth Ramsbury Reading Riding Mill
Rossendale Salisbury Sandhurst, Kent
Sawbridgeworth Seaton Sevenoaks Shaftesbury
Shapwick Sheffield Shenley Shipley
Shoreham-by-Sea Shrewsbury Sidmouth
Slaithwaite (Marsden and Slaithwaite) South
Brent St Albans St Austell Stafford Standon
Stockport Street Stroud Swanage Swindon
Talbot Green Tattenhall Taunton Teme Valley
Thatcham Theddlethorpe Thirsk Thornbury
Tisbury Tolleshunt D'Arcy Tonbridge
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A Model
Transition Towns What is it?
A Vision
Sustainable development
A set of principles
A Set of Pathways
Creates Resilience
Community empowerment tool
Common Sense
A Design solution
A Virus