”Transition Towns” is a movement to prepare our towns and cities for the twin challenges of peak oil and climate change.
In the coming decades, climate change and peak oil will require us to radically re-think our lifestyles, and adopt a way of life that uses less energy.
This will need government legislation, and it will need individual actions, but we don’t need to wait for either of those.
Empowering Communities Transition Towns is about empowering communities to pull together and start grassroots initiatives in their local areas.
Each Transition Town is different and develops its own set of projects. These may include community gardens, car sharing, insulation and energy saving campaigns, and even local currencies.
More about Transition Towns There are over 200 official transition initiatives registered, in Britain and abroad, with many more “mulling it over”.
Transition St Albans is an official Transition Initiative – the 196th!
For more information about the Transition movement, see this introductory article by one of our members, and visit:
- the Transition Network website
- the Transition Culture blog by Rob Hopkins, one of the founders
Transition St Albans has a written constitution which you can read here:
TSA-Constitution.
