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Transition Town Fennville

We are affiliated with the Transition Van Buren Allegan initiating group and are mulling over becoming a Transition Town.

Transition VanBuren-Allegan
http://transitionvba.ning.com

Transition United States
Bringing a New World to Life
www.transitionus.org

Transition Network - Worldwide source
www.transitionnetwork.org

pdf of Who we are and what we do

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Join us to discuss how our community can move from oil dependency to local resiliency.

Acompanenos para hablar como nuestra comunidad puede moverse de la dependencia del petroleo a resistencia local.

El acercamiento de Transición está basado en cuatro claves:

1. Aquella vida con el consumo de energia dramáticamente inferior es inevitable, y que es mejor planear para ello que ser sorprendido.

2. Esto nuestras comunidades actualmente carece de la resistencia.

3. Que tenemos que actuar colectivamente, y tenemos que actuar ahora para construir la resistencia de comunidad y prepararnos para la vida sin fósiles combustibles.

4. Que soltando al genio colectivo de nuestras comunidades es posible disenar nuevos modos de vivir que mas alimenta, realize y sostiene ecológicamente.

 

 The Transition approach is based on four key assumptions:

1. That life with dramatically lower energy consumption is inevitable, and that it’s better to plan for it than to be taken by surprise.

2. That our communities currently lack resilience.

3. That we have to act collectively, and we have to act now to build community resilience and prepare for life without fossil fuels.

4. That by unleashing the collective genius of our communities it is possible to design new ways of living that are more nourishing, fulfilling and ecologically sustainable.

The 12 steps of Transition
These 12 Steps have grown out of the observation of what seemed to work in the early Transition Initiatives, in particular Totnes.

They are not meant to be in any way prescriptive. Each project assembles these in different ways, adds new ones, disregards others. They do, however, offer what we think to be the key elements of your journey, and will hopefully help you over the first couple of years of your work.

#1. Set up a steering group

#2. Awareness raising

#3. Lay the foundations

#4. Organise a Great Unleashing

#5. Form working groups

#6. Use Open Space

#7. Develop visible practical manifestations of the project

#8. Facilitate the Great Reskilling

#9. Build a Bridge to Local Government

#10. Honor the elders

#11. Let it go where it wants to go…

#12. Create an Energy Descent Plan

Setting up your Transition Initiative – 7 “buts”
The 12 Steps will provide you with an outline roadmap for that journey, but first you’ll have to navigate the initial barriers – real and imagined – that stand in your way. We call these ‘The Seven Buts’.

But we’ve got no funding…

But they won’t let us…

But there are already green groups in this town, I don’t want to step on their toes…

But no one in this town cares about the environment anyway…

But surely it’s too late to do anything…?

But I don't have the right qualifications…

But I don't have the energy for doing that!

Most likey you have already thought of a few more "buts." But we don't want to let "buts" stand in our way.

Very often, developing environmental initiatives is like pushing a broken down car up a hill; hard, unrewarding slog. Transition Towns is like coming down the other side – the car starts moving faster than you can keep up with it, accelerating all the time. Once you give it the push from the top of the hill it will develop its own momentum. That's not to say it isn't hard work sometimes, but it is almost always a pleasure.

The Transition movement represents one of the most promising ways of engaging people and communities to take the far-reaching actions that are required to mitigate the effects of peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis. Furthermore, these relocalization efforts are designed to result in a life that is more fulfilling, more socially connected and more equitable than the one we have today.

The Transition model is based on a loose set of real world principles and practices that have been built up over time through experimentation and observation of communities as they drive forward to reduce carbon emissions and build community resilience.
 
 
 
 

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