Transition San Francisco Recognized as 55th Official US Transition Initiative
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Contact: Carolyne Stayton
Executive Director
Transition US
+1 707 824 1554
caro...@transitionus.org
Contact: Ania Moniuszko
Co-founder
Transition San Francisco
+1 415 819 9663
an...@moniuszko.com
Transition San Francisco Recognized as
55th Official US Transition Initiative
San Francisco, California, February 5th, 2010 -- Transition US and
Transition San Francisco announced today that Transition San
Francisco
has received official recognition as a Transition Initiative.
Transition Initiatives start when a small group of motivated
individuals
within a community come together with a shared concern: how can the
community respond to the challenges and opportunities of peak oil,
climate change and the economic crisis? This small team forms an
initiating group and then adopts the Transition Model with the
intention
of engaging a significant proportion of the people in their community
to
significantly increase resilience and reduce carbon emissions.
Transition San Francisco’s initial contact person is Ania Moniuszko.
Their Initiating Group is comprised of a diverse set of individuals,
each with deep roots in the local community. Ania said: “I believe
that
San Francisco is a unique place for the Transition movement to
develop,
and we are already at work creating positive visioning projects for
what
San Francisco can be. We’re interviewing leaders of existing groups
interested in climate change and sustainability issues for a video
about
how we all see San Francisco evolving in the next 20 years. We’re
looking forward to collaborating with organizations already working
on
issues related to transition.”
Bay Area Localize, founded in 2006, recently published the Community
Resilience Toolkit for the Bay Area. Bay Localize co-founder and
Transition US board member Dave Room said: “The Bay Area is highly
dependent on a globalized economy which is not only economically
unsustainable, inequitable, and dangerously out of balance with
nature,
but also highly vulnerable to energy supply disruptions and
shortfalls.
Transition SF holds to the promise of awakening San Francisco to the
reality of our predicament and activating us to make our communities
more resilient and equitable.”
Ongoing work includes:
- The Visioning San Francisco Project, a video which will feature
leaders of interested groups sharing their vision for San Francisco’s
development over the next 20 years.
- Speakers’ Training, a series of seminars in which half a dozen
area
residents are learning about peak oil and climate change while
developing
a presentation and skills to facilitate community discussions on the
subjects.
- Steering Committee meetings, which have produced a “mind map” of
needed actions and will focus on bringing them to life as a range of
projects.
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For more information about the Transition movement in the United
States, or to schedule an interview with Carolyne Stayton, please
call
707-824-1554 or email her at caro...@transitionus.org
For more information about Transition San Francisco, or to schedule
an
interview with Ania Moniuszko, please call 415-819-9663 or email her
at
an...@moniuszko.com
For more information about Bay Localize, or to schedule an interview
with Dave Room, please call 510-834-0420 or email him at
da...@baylocalize.org
About Transition US
Transition US is a nonprofit organization that provides inspiration,
encouragement, support, networking, and training for Transition
Initiatives across the United States. They are working in close
partnership
with the Transition Network, a UK-based organization that supports
the
international Transition Movement as a whole. The Transition Movement
is a vibrant, grassroots movement that seeks to build community
resilience in the face of such challenges as peak oil, climate change
and
the economic crisis. It represents one of the most promising ways of
engaging people in strengthening their communities against the effects
of
these challenges, resulting in a life that is more abundant,
fulfilling,
equitable and socially connected.
Web references:
Transition US: http://transitionus.org
Transition SF: http://transitionsf.org
Bay Localize: http://www.baylocalize.org
Brief history of Transition: http://transitionus.org/about-us/history