Download - Transition Winnipeg
Transition WinnipegMark Burch
Chair, Transition Winnipeg
Overview
• What is Transition Winnipeg?
• Transition Drivers
• Possible Responses
• Transition Winnipeg Proposes…
• What Transition Winnipeg Promotes
• Examples of Transition in Winnipeg
What is transition winnipeg?
• a community-based network• strengthen community relationships• enhance economic, social and ecological resilience• relocalize the regional economy• strengthen food system security and literacy• steady-state economy and equity-based monetary
system• encourage re-skilling of local society• inclusive of everyone in the community• informed by the best science available• promote joy, celebration, and community
solidarity
Transition Drivers
• Peak Everything (particularly peak oil)
• Climate change
• Economic contraction
• Government paralysis
Possible responses
• Complacency -- Business as usual; all is well.
• Survivalism -- Buy canned goods, AK47, and head for the hills.
• Consciously Managed Transition -- Create a new culture starting in our own neighbourhoods.
Transition Winnipeg Proposes
• accept that the drivers of transition are real, inescapable, and call for a creative response from us;
• meet challenges through creativity, cooperation, and celebration;
• take an inclusive and community approach; • focus on local, neighborhood-based actions; • focus on actions that would strengthen and improve
our neighborhoods even if peak oil, climate change and economic contraction weren’t happening.
Transition Winnipeg Promotes
• Re-creating the energy supply system• Re-creating the financial system• Evolving transportation infrastructure• Evolving residential and commercial infrastructure• Evolving a culture of greater simplicity and resilience,
with justice and equity• Evolving education toward re-skilling and local self-
reliance • Developing a secure, healthy, locally self-reliant food
system
Examples of Transition in Winnipeg
• Intergenerational gardening program;
• Permaculture forest garden;
• Orchard project;
• Gardening in the schools program;
• A bike station and repair shop;
• PegCity Car Co-op;
• Accessible garden project at RVHC;
• Community Conversation Series;
• Community gardening sites at RV Garden Society, RVCC, and LRCC;
• Active partnerships with the community centres in both neighbourhoods to promote sustainable community development in the area;
Contact
• Transition Winnipeg
• www.transitionwinnipeg.ca
