Transition Town South Barwon
“ Transition South Barwon ”,
is a local ‘grassroots’ community project exploring ways to transition
the region of South Barwon (Geelong, Victoria) to a world with less oil.
A Transition Initiative (http://transitiontowns.org) is a community working together to look Peak Oil and Climate Change squarely in the eye and addresses this BIG question:
"for
all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain
itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience (to
mitigate the effects of Peak Oil) and drastically reduce carbon
emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?"
The
resulting coordinated range of projects across all these areas of life
leads to a collectively designed energy descent pathway.
The community also recognises two crucial points:
- that
we used immense amounts of creativity, ingenuity and adaptability on
the way up the energy upslope, and that there's no reason for us not to
do the same on the downslope
- if
we collectively plan and act early enough there's every likelihood that
we can create a way of living that's significantly more connected, more
vibrant and more in touch with our environment than the oil-addicted
treadmill that we find ourselves on today.
We
are not a campaigning group; we are setup to initiate action. It is a
positive, solutions-focused way of engaging the issues, and helping to
move South Barwon towards a post-oil world that is actually preferable to the present.
To get involved in Transition South Barwon, or to find out more; visit the groupsite page:
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