Transition Town Peterborough
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Transition Town Peterborough (TTP) is an all volunteer, non-profit organization focused on reducing our community-wide dependence on fossil fuels while increasing local resilience and self-sufficiency in food, water, energy and other vital aspects of life. With a focus on community building, TTP is made possible by ordinary citizens working toward positive change, and is shaped and guided by all who are able to participate, in whatever capacity they can.
We seek to create as well as to connect, building new models of grassroots transformation while helping to bring existing groups and individuals together to work towards the common goal of resilience in the face of fragile systems vulnerable to economic, political and natural forces.
Steering Committee
Michael Bell: Chair; Trent Rhode: 2nd Chair; Fred Irwin: Secretary; Mike Sharpe: Founding member of the Steering Committee; Joan Michaels: Founding member of the Steering Committee; Christine Jaros.
Our Charter and Operating Guidelines
More on Transition Initiatives
A transition initiative (like TTP) is a community working together to look peak oil and climate change squarely in the eye and address the BIG question: for those aspects of life that the community needs in order to sustain itself (e.g. water, food, shelter, transportation), how do we significantly increase resilience while addressing fossil fuel decline and environmental degradation?
The resulting coordinated range of projects leads to a collectively designed energy descent pathway. Groups are created for each component of the transition and are known as Transition Initiative Groups (TIGs). Existing groups within the community are approached in the hope of joining together to work towards common goals.
There are hundreds of cities and towns around the world - including close to 30 in Canada - working with the Transition Town model which is based on permaculture principles. We are all working together to learn and design our communities in ways that reflect the reality of our situation. We can no longer carry on with a business as usual attitude under the illusion that we are somehow separate from nature and not accountable to natural law.
The community recognizes two crucial points
* we used immense amounts of creativity, ingenuity and adaptability on the way up the energy slope; there's no reason for us not to do the same on the downslope
* if we collectively plan and act early enough there's a good chance we can create a way of living that's significantly more vibrant and in touch with our environment than the oil-addicted treadmill we find ourselves on today
For an updated list of official Transition Towns worldwide, click here. Many more are mulling it over, and are listed as "mullers" on the same site.