Transition Town

As part of the Transition Town Movement make (about "changing city") Since 2006, environmental and sustainability initiatives in many cities and towns in the world the planned transition to a post-fossil fuel , relocalized economy. The movement was initiated u. a. by Irish permaculturalist Rob Hopkins and students at Kinsale Further Education College in Kinsale , Ireland.

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Based on the observation that national and international politics do not react appropriately to the challenges of climate change and the impending global maximum oil production ( peak oil ) and that the municipalities therefore have to react with initial preparatory measures to a future of increasingly scarce raw materials and fuels , Transition Towns initiate community projects. These include a. Measures to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels and to strengthen the regional and local economy. The design principles of permaculture, which are intended to enable agricultural and social systems in particular, to function as efficiently and resiliently as natural ecosystems also play an important role .

The goals of individual transition groups have continued to develop since 2006. The original side effect of neighborly exchange, community and the reduction of anonymization is one of the most important goals of many of the groups. With the worsening of the climate problem, many of the initiatives assume that the oil reserves may not be used if the climate target is to be achieved. 

Initiatives

According to the company's own information, the “official” transition towns in August 2011 included over 450 municipalities and cities, especially in the industrialized western world. The greatest number of initiatives can be found in the United Kingdom of Great Britain , as this is where the movement began. With the exception of Africa, where people in many rural areas are still low in fossil fuels and largely self-sufficient, there is at least one local initiative on every continent. The transition movement has met with particular resonance in the USA, Canada and Australia.

Transition Town Initiatives in Germany

In Germany there are over 100 initiatives, most of which are still in the start-up phase. The first German initiative, the 107th initiative worldwide, was the Transition Town Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. In the meantime, further initiatives have achieved official status.

See also

• energy transition
• Simple Living ( Simple living ), also volunteers simplicity ( Voluntary Simplicity called), minimalism or downshifting
• Social ethics (also: social ethics): Sub-area of ​​ethics that mainly deals with the social conditions of a good life
• Transition (political science)
• Voices of Transition , 2011 documentary
• World in Transition - Social Contract for a Great Transformation

literature

• Rob Hopkins: Energy Transition : The Handbook . Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-86150-882-3 .
• Rob Hopkins: The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience . Green Books, Totnes, Devon 2008, ISBN 978-1-900322-18-8 .
• Rob Hopkins: EASY. NOW. DO !: How we take our future into our own hands . oekom, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-86581-458-6 .

Web links

Initiatives

• Transition initiatives website (currently the most active social web platform for networking all German, Austrian and Swiss transition initiatives, interested parties and activists)
• Transition Towns WIKI; central international website for all transitioners from UK

Own representations

• Rob Hopkins blog
• Transition Town Bristol
• Energy transition blog; slowly running out
• Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition Town movement, on Peak Oil and the dynamics of over 200 Transition Town projects worldwide , Context TV (15-minute video interview in German)
• Rob Hopkins on the transition movement (33-minute interview, audio with transcript)
• THE ROCKY ROAD TO A REAL TRANSITION: THE TRANSITION TOWNS MOVEMENT AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE ( Memento from August 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 2.44 MB)
• Video from Evidero "Transition Town Witzenhausen - A small town is arming itself"

Reports

• Report "Transition Town: Test Case Totnes" , GEO 05/10, May 2010
• Deutschlandfunk , Das Feature, November 29, 2011, Ursula Rütten: The future in self-experiment. Life in Transition Towns : Text as PDF (audio unfortunately no longer available, June 6, 2016)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Transition Initiatives Directory Alphabetical directory of transition initiatives.
2. ↑ Transition Network ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Current transition initiatives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (D / A / CH).