TRANSITION ANN ARBOR is a networking and learning site for those seeking small-scale green-oriented local implementation of Transition models for communities. It is an affiliate community group of Transition USA and Transition Michigan.
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These sites are evolving through grassroots participation, an effort intended to synergistically connect transition workers with each other, while identifying, preserving, nurturing, and creating pragmatic, necessary, and local Transition Initiatives, solutions, practices, and customs.

The Transition Movement is a campaign which houses several other familiar monikers: Local Self Reliance, Self Determination, Appropriate Technology, Decentralization, Localization, Relocalization, Post Carbon, Post Petroleum, Energy Independence, Beyond Oil, Voluntary Simplicity, Think Globally - Act Locally.

This emerging Transition Culture seeks to empower communities to confront the critical eco-challenges surrounding peak oil and climate change by unleashing their citizen's collective genius to cultivate innovative solutions through diverse projects, initiatives, education, networking, and collaborative coalitions :

We ask how can we address these changing aspects of life, while sustainably satisfying our community needs, and still thrive?