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Mission

“We can no longer import our lives in the form of food, fuel and fundamentalism. Life is homegrown, always has been. So is culture. And so too are the solutions to global problems.”

— Paul Hawken

The mission of TRANSITION COLORADO (a 501c3 non-profit organization, formerly Transition Boulder County and Boulder County Going Local) is to inspire, encourage, network, support and train communities as they consider, adopt, adapt and implement the transition model in order to establish a Transition Initiative. The Transition model emboldens communities to look peak oil and climate change squarely in the eye and unleash the collective genius of their own people to find the answers to this big question.

Objectives

The objectives of TRANSITION COLORADO are:

  • To raise public awareness of the issues associated with climate change and the peaking of global oil supplies, encouraging communities in the area to adopt the Transition Model in order to unleash the collective genius of the local community to answer the following question:

    • For all those aspects of life that this community needs to sustain itself and thrive, how do we:

    • dramatically reduce carbon emissions (in response to climate change);
    • significantly increase resilience (in response to peak oil);
    • greatly strengthen our local economy (in response to economic instability)?
  • To inspire communities to consider the Transition Model through talks, film screenings, DVDs, books, websites, blogs, publications, PR, radio, and television.
  • To encourage communities to adopt and adapt the Transition Model as their response to climate change and peak oil by providing advice, guidance, training and consulting.
  • To support Transition Initiatives by:
    • Connecting communities with each other and sharing ideas, experience (successes and failures), best practices, tools and techniques
    • Coordinating Transition efforts throughout Colorado
    • Connecting communities with experts in given fields while encouraging them to develop local knowledge and skills
    • Organizing regular conferences
    • Providing templates and models for key documents and materials
    • Assisting in setting up Transition Initiatives and organizing structures
    • Enabling regional hubs to replicate the Transition Network efforts on a decentralized local scale
  • To train communities and individuals in all aspects of the Transition concept
  • To expand the training capability through the development of a Transition Training Certification scheme
  • To build a network of communities to enable sharing, cooperation, cross-fertilization of ideas and best practices to accelerate and consolidate the adoption of the Transition Model in the U.S. and beyond
  • To work with communities towards producing their own local Energy Descent Action Plan and relocalization projects
  • Where appropriate, to engage with other organizations, including government, citizen, non-profit, and business in pursuit of its aims and objectives

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