(:table border=1 width=100% align=right cellspacing=0 cellpadding=4:) (:cellnr align=center bgcolor=#ceffce:) Transition Network key links (:cellnr:) *Transition Initiatives Primer *Criteria for your Transition Initiative *The 12 Steps of your transition journey *The 7 key objections *You're not alone... (:tableend:)

one line of white space follows using the nbsp character Our mission

Welcome to Transition Network's website. It'll probably help if we tell you what we're focusing our efforts on - here's our mission.

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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 and the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation has given us a firm platform for our work.

We're hoping that through this work, communities across the UK will unleash their own collective genius and embark on an imaginative and practical range of connected initiatives, leading to a way of life that is more resilient, more fulfilling and more equitable, and that has dramatically lower levels of carbon emissions.

The book we've all been waiting for - The Transition Handbook

In his magnum opus, Rob Hopkins weaves his hallmark magical weft, intertwining the three threads of the practical, emotional and logical - blending in frequent sparkles of humour.

The result is a cloth of the finest quality, and one we might all try on for size.

Launched this week (1-Mar-08), much anticipated - it sold 30% of its first print run even before it had been launched - and exceedingly needed in a world that'll find itself in great stress if we don't start acting immediately to reduce carbon emissions and increase resilience dramatically. And this book will tell you how. It's heavy content but light reading.

Buy it here.

And if it's your mother's birthday soon, buy one for her too. Heck, if anyone you know has a birthday in the next 6 months, get one for them as well. The more people who understand this stuff at a deep and practical level, the better off we'll all be.

Translations of website and primer!!

Thank you to Maxime David from Paris for translating a large section of the Primer into French. Get it here.
And the wonderful Umberto Astolfi has translated some of the website into Italian here.
And Herr Bernd Ohm has translated the 12 steps, 7 buts and a thoughtful introduction into German here. Vielen Danke.

Transition Initiatives Primer - more essential reading for all ages... and this one's free!

Comprehensive document (1MB pdf) about embarking on a transition journey. This constantly updated (currently v.25) document is 50 pages in length, jampacked with sparkling nuggets of plagiarised brilliance and one exceedingly boring (but necessary) section.

Here's the contents of the primer:

• Introduction
• Why Transition initiatives are necessary
• More about Peak Oil
• Taking action: the big picture - initiatives at global, national and local levels
• The Transition Model – what exactly is it?
• Kinsale 2021 – an Energy Descent Action Plan
• Transition Town Totnes
• Other Transition initiatives
• Setting up your Transition Initiative – criteria
• Setting up your Transition Initiative – different types
• Setting up your Transition Initiative – formal structures and constitutions (boredom alert!!)
• Starting a Transition Initiative – 7 “buts”
• The 12 steps to Transition, including energy descent planning
• The wider context of Transition
• Questions of leadership and structure
• The role of local government
• Getting businesses involved
• Movies for raising awareness
• Transition Network
• Conclusion
• Further Reading

Mulling it over?

If you've read the Primer and are "mulling over" whether you might set up an initiative in your locale, then you may want to consider getting yourself onto the GoogleMap of mullers.

That way, anyone else from your community who gets in touch with us can be put in contact with you. Similarly, if you check out the map and see somewhere close to you already marked on it, perhaps you'd like to be connected to them too. Just send us an email.