The transition Town Initiatives is something I'm checking out to see if this is a model that would make sense to implement here in Portland, OR and thought folks might be interested in in this 50 page prime.

http://transitionnetwork.org/Primer/TransitionInitiativesPrimer.pdf

This document provides an overview of these initiatives for transitioning to a lower energy future and to greater levels of community resilience.

This document comes to you from the Transition Network, a charity recently formed to build upon the groundbreaking work done by Kinsale, Totnes and the other early adopters of the Transition model.

Our mission is to inspire, inform, support, network and train communities as they consider, adopt and implement a Transition Initiative. We're building a range of materials, training courses, events, tools & techniques, resources and a general support capability to help these communities.

It's early days, so we have a long way to go. But we understand how massive the task is, and we're giving it everything we've got. Recent funding from Tudor Trust has given us a firm foundation for our work.