We’re Official!
< Thursday April 22 in : What's New
As of February 2, 2010 Transition Barrie joined the 276 other communities that are officially part of the worldwide Transition Network.
The Transition Network is an international organization inspiring, supporting and encouraging local Transition Towns. These Transition Towns, Communities or Initiatives work to address the issues of peak oil, climate chaos, and economic dislocation cooperatively, honestly, and with confidence.
As members of the Transition Network, Transition Barrie will use the collective genius of our people to find ways to
• significantly rebuild resilience in response to peak oil and economic dislocation.
• significantly reduce carbon emissions in response to climate change
• encourage ordinary citizens to take effective action towards positive change.
We seek to create new models of grassroots transformation to ensure a better future for our community in the face of the economic and environmental challenges before us.
Last May, twelve volunteers gathered to discuss the coming crises and how we in Barrie should respond. We agreed to use the Transition Towns model from the UK to guide us in finding ways to plan for the inevitable changes coming to Barrie. We have held a number of events to inform the community about transition. We have now grown from twelve to well over one hundred participants.
To become an official member of the network, we had to satisfy eighteen criteria. Among these, Transition Barrie showed that we had number of committed, informed leaders ready to take action. We showed that we had members officially trained in the Transition Initiative. (In fact, we have five such trained leaders.) We agreed that our members would work cooperatively and inclusively with the community, the Network and other Transition Towns. We showed that we had an understanding of the challenges of peak oil and climate chaos.
We are pleased that we have been able to come so far in less than nine months.
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We would love to hear from you. Please contact us at info@transitionbarrie.org
YES! You are awesome!
Congratulations to the Steering Committee for doing such great work in such a short period of time. Thank you also to everyone who has shown an interest in this organization and has committed to helping out through joining our Working Groups and attending our events.
This is so encouraging though I only found out today that Barrie was working towards this. I have been on ‘lifeaftertheoilcrash’ (linked from this sites homepage) for some time now and they have some great resources from people who have been living with this for quite some time. Lost skills are discussed and debated and worked through. I have found them to be (in the main) level headed, knowledgeable creative and fun to chat with and hope to have found such kindred spirits here. Congrats and I hope to see some of you soon
Luck to us all
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This is a great initiative. Go Barrie!