TRANSITION TOWNS Visioning and Creating Sustainable Communities

1. 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 www.transitionculture.org Naresh Giangrande

2. 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.

3. A Vision • A Plan • and a Transition

4. Why the Need To Create a Transition?

5. 381 ppm 2006

7. www.lastoilshock.com

8. www.lastoilshock.com

9. PEAK OIL • Burn everything! • relaxed drilling regulations • biofuels • Exploit tar sands and non-conventional oils • Resource Wars • P O + C C = • Systems Re-think • Planned Relocalisation • Energy Descent Pathways • Local Resilience • CLIMATE CHANGE • Climate engineering • Carbon capture and storage • International emissions trading • Climate adaptation • Nuclear power

10. Transition Training 2007

11. 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 Agriculture 10.000yrs BP Industrial Revolution Great Grand Children

12. How to get from where we are now to an abundant, pleasurable, and resilient future?

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

14. We need to address our collective inability to vision the future we actually want….

16. Set up an Initiating Group and Design it’s 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? What’s our first step?

19. Organise a Great Unleashing

20. 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…..

21. Energy • Food • Heart and Soul • Building • The Arts • Health • Economics • Transport • Local Government • Education

22. Create Practical Manifestations of the Project Action without vision is just busyness, vision without action is fruitless.

24. December ’06. Oil Vulnerability Auditing Workshop with Simon Snowden of Liverpool University A pilot project in Totnes with three local businesses.

25. "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 • Business swap shop • Business energy/ electricity lighting audit

28. 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.

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

33. 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 that’s easy for other locals to copy; a ‘viral’ phenomena.

34. Think Globally…

35. Act Locally

36. 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

37. ‘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 “Mullers”

38. A Model Transition Towns What is it? A Vision Sustainable development A set of principles Creates Resilience A Set of Pathways Community empowerment tool Common Sense A Design solution A Virus