Transition WinnipegMark 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, AK47, 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 self-

reliance • 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;

• PegCity 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