Change is coming whether we like it or not – and a planned response to the change will leave us in a much stronger position than if we wait until change is upon us.

This website is an Initiating Hub for towns and suburbs that want to begin taking responsibility  for their own sustainability, in the light of climate change, economic instability, possible electricity and water shortages, inadequate municipal services, and rising fuel and food costs.

 The site can become a portal to all towns, cities, villages, suburbs, organisations that want to participate and look at ways to accomplish a more sustainable future in their area.

The Transition Town Initiative encourages a GO LOCAL, PRO-ACTIVE, COMMUNITY attitude as one of the best solutions for dealing with future pressures. 

It's about re-learning, community by community, how to regain local control over the basic necessities of life; food, water, housing, health, transport and so on.

The idea is to rebuild local resilience - which has been eroded by centralisation and globalisation. These forces have made passive consumers of most, if not all, of us.

TT encourages us not to wait for government or technology to solve our problems, but to reconnect with the places where we live, and with our neighbours, to become active in finding our own solutions to the challenges we face.

TT is about being conservative and wise in our use of resources, about planning for the transition to more local and less energy-intense lifestyles, and perhaps above all it's about rekindling - or in some cases creating from scratch - a real sense of community so that we can build an equitable, tolerant, caring, productive culture that REALLY supports its young, its elders and everyone in between

The GO LOCAL Campaign

• Grow Local Developing local food security through flourishing gardens, community greenhouses, and community farms

• Buy Local - Promoting buying local whenever possible, and being local by    
  supporting local independently-owned businesses.

• Eat Local - Promoting the support local restaurants especially ones who buy locally grown produce and donate their oil for biodiesel

• Build Local - Encouraging the use of sustainable materials from as close as possible.

• Employ Local - Promoting the use of local labour wherever possible, creating jobs wherever possible

• Conserve local - Encouraging residents and businesses to get involved in conserving the natural resources of each neighbourhood/suburb/town

• Local Energy - Catalyzing appropriate community responses to the current energy crisis, developing sustainable local renewable energy sources

• Local Water saving - Encouraging the practice of reusing washing water for flushing, or redirecting it through filters to gardens, using low flow showerheads, etc.

• Local Sharing - Encouraging the sharing of land,  tools or skills you can share with members of the community.

• Local Currency - Encouraging barter and trading and a less money dependent society. Join the Community Exchange and trade your skills, services and wares for other peoples skills, services, crafts, etc without using money.

• Local Learning - Encouraging everyone to teach what they know to the community, knowledge, skills, ideas for a greener planet

WHO WE ARE?

This movement towards getting Transition Towns started in Africa was initiated by members of the Community Exchange System in Cape Town. This system uses a currency called "Talents" to exchange for goods and services instead of money.

Email Dawn if you want to find out more before you join up and register your suburb or town to begin the process.

 

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