TRANSITION Ypsilanti is a forming networking and learning site for those seeking small-scale green-oriented local implementation of Transition models.

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 will empower communities to confront the critical eco-challenges surrounding peak oil and climate change by unleashing their citizen's collective genius to develop innovative solutions through diverse projects, initiatives, education, networking, and collaborative coalitions : for communities.

• drastically reduce carbon emissions (in response to climate change);
• significantly rebuild resilience (in response to peak oil);
• and greatly strengthen our local economy (in response to economic instability)

Transition Culture makes no claim to have all the answers, but by building on our cumulative wisdom and accessing the pool of ingenuity, skills, and determination in our communities, the solutions can more readily emerge. Now is the time to start re-creating our future in ways which are not based on cheap, plentiful and polluting oil, but on local food production, decentralized renewable energy, resilient local economies, and a profound sense of community well-being.

* Transition Ypsilanti is affiliated with Transition Michigan and Transition USA and based on the work of

Rob  Hopkins: