CANWin’s Transition Shire Wingecarribee (TSW) is a grass-roots initiative that encourages all members of our local community to think about how we can create a sustainable future together.
The Transition movement became an election issue in Wingecarribee during the 2008 council elections, as it became apparent that the community will need to be more self-reliant. Rising energy costs and increasing competition for water and resources will eventually require local production of food, energy and many goods and services.
Transition refers to the process of becoming more resilient.
While our society is totally dependent on the ready availability of cheap oil and fossil fuels, peak oil and peak energy categorically herald the beginning of the end of the oil era.
But how will we wean ourselves off our oil addiction? Will we make a conscious decision to adapt to the challenges of dwindling oil, or will we continue to ignore the elephant in the room?
Although they pose monumental threats to our security and safety, peak oil and climate change offer us a tremendous opportunity to evaluate the way we live and to begin a new future for our communities.
Watch Transition Initiative pioneer Rob Hopkins’s TED talk on peak oil
[flv]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8meWY0W40OA[/flv]
You can read about local transition initiatives in Transition Shire News.
Follow us on Facebook