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Transition Communities
Have you thought of what you will do when petrol prices are too high? Are you concerned about how to reduce carbon emissions? Would you like to connect with your neighbours?
Now is the time to think local and help bring your community together to make a difference by setting up a Transition Community. A Transition Community could be a neighbourhood, school, kindergarten, street, sporting club – anyone group wanting to make a difference to their patch. Transition Communities share ideas about solving some of the climate change and carbon emission problems at a local level.
So, how does it work? Over the next year, Council will kick start the Transition Communities awareness campaign as part of the world-wide Transition Movement. This will involve bringing together existing groups, organisations and businesses that are doing amazing things and you of course, to explore the questions above and more. The product is a steering group comprising of community representatives to shape the path of the initial direction in creating Transition Communities.
Useful links
Official Transition Network website: www.transitionnetwork.org
Transition Towns Australia http://transitiontown.com.au
The Transition Communities initiative is supported by Whitehorse City Council and owned by the community.
Transition Communities Information Sheet (111.17kB)