Transition Winnipeg Mark Burch Chair Transition Winnipeg Overview

Transition Winnipeg Mark 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, AK 47, 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 selfreliance 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; • Peg. City 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 • info@transitionwinnipeg. ca