Once you have glimpsed the world as it might be, as it ought to be, as it’s going to be (however that vision appears to you), it is impossible to live compliant and complacent anymore in the world as it is.
– Victoria Safford
Founders of the Transition Network. Photo: edmittance from Flickr via Creative Commons.
The Transition Movement is a vibrant, grassroots campaign that seeks to build community resilience to deal successfully with the convergence of crises that today’s society faces.
Originally founded in the U.K., there are now more than 250 transition groups in more than 15 nations worldwide. These groups all hold a core set of principles that encourage them to take their communities’ future into their own hands:
- Peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis require urgent action
- Adaptation to a world with less oil is inevitable
- Renewable energy will help, but it can’t replace the fossil fuels we will lose
- It is better to plan and be prepared than to be taken by surprise
- Industrial society has lost the resilience to be able to cope with shocks to its systems
- Ordinary citizens have to act together — and we have to act now
- Using our creativity to unleash the collective genius within our local communities will lead to a more abundant, connected, and healthier future for all.
