Transcript Presentation1 TT Beerwah 2012

What are Transition
Towns?
What are Transition Towns?
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Community
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Resilience
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Independence
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Permaculture
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Sustainability
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Local initiatives
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What are Transition Towns?
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Transition, also known as Transition Towns,
or the Transition Movement, is a grassroots
network of communities, working to build
local resilience in response to global economic
collapse, peak oil and climate change.
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What are Transition Towns?
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Following its start in Kinsale, Ireland the
Transition movement moved to Totnes,
England where Rob Hopkins and others
worked up the concept during 2005 and 6.
It now emphasises the building of community
through the localization of finances,
equipment and infrastructure, away from
dependence on big systems and the peaking
resources on which they depend.
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What are Transition Towns?
A Transition Initiative is a community-led
response to the pressures of climate change,
fossil fuel depletion and increasingly,
economic contraction.
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There are thousands of initiatives around the
world starting their journey to answer this
crucial question:
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How do Transition
Towns start?
How do Transition Towns Start?
Several Crucial Points to consider :
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to a certain degree, we all experience a life
disconnected from our living environment,
disconnected from our communities and
disconnected from our landbase .
that our energy-profligate ways of living have
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depleted our resource base to critical levels
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How do Transition Towns Start?
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It all starts off when a small collection of
motivated individuals within a community
come together with a shared concern:
How can our community respond to the
challenges, and opportunities, of Peak Oil,
Climate Change, and increasingly, economic
stagnation?
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How do Transition Towns Start?
They then usually do a few activities:
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awareness raising around peak oil, climate
change and the need to undertake a
community lead process to rebuild
resilience and reduce carbon
connecting with existing groups, including
local government, in the community
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Why are Transition
towns important?
Transition towns:
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focus on the positive
- on ideas, solutions
and action strategies
from and for the
community.
link a community
with local
businesses,
government and
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other key industries.
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How can I get
involved?
How can I get involved?
If you live in the Sunshine Coast region,. contact
us and we can let you know of any transition
activity that might be happening near you
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Talk to us: at the Big Pineapple on Saturdays
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Call us : +61(7) 5442 2118 (Jeanette)
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Email us: through our website
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Google us: www.transitionsunshinecoast.org
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Visit our blog:
Useful resources
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The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local
Resilience (by Rob Hopkins)
Permaculture: Principles & Pathways Beyond Sustainability
(by David Holmgren)
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www.transitionsunshinecoast.org
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www.thegreenjourney.com.au