Intro notes

Rough notes on how to introduce ourselves:

• Transition Towns are a community response to the twin issues of peak oil and climate change
• About a resilient community not as reliant on oil, and can adapt to climate change
• By community for community
• Re-skilling people with local focus—gardening groups, knitting, involving older people
• Started in Kinsale Ireland, then to Totness, numerous others in UK
• Transition Towns are a framework to work within
• Big growth in NZ in last 18 months
• Brooklyn’s just started, we’re raising awareness of peak oil, climate change, transition towns
• How can we work together? Not out to replace other groups, want to work collaboratively

Information gathering:

• who is the group we’re talking to?
• how often do they meet
• what do they do; issues they have