Transition Emerging Study, Toronto, ON

The Transition movement is a new kind of response to peak oil, climate change, energy insecurity, environmental degradation, and economic upheaval. These are complex interrelated issues that define our times, and call for more than just technical solutions, but also significant shifts in everyday lifestyle and collective social practices. Some see this as an opportunity for creativity, personal growth, and meaningful social action to re-localize, build community, and enhance social equity and well-being. Communities can band together to build the networks, practices, and structures required to carry us through this unprecedented period of change, creating the change we want to see rather than being waiting victims of the plans of others. These are the foundational premises of the global Transition movement. This movement began in 2004 in Totnes (UK), and has gone ‘viral’ around the world.