Edmonton Transition

We are just getting off the ground and a small initiating group is working towards supporting Edmonton Community Leagues and other interested locales around and in the capital region with resources to help them get their Transition projects off the ground. For now, this is just up to date information on training, awareness workshops around the city for projects you can do in your community, and movie screenings such as "In Transition 1.0" and other climate change/Peak Oil related flicks.

Each person in the initiating group is involved in his or her local community and brings some involvement and experience with the great, green network of NGOs, City Departments and grassroot movements in Edmonton. We will establish a six month awareness and workshop program leading up to an unleashing once we have got the people of Edmonton talking and thinking about Transition across the City.

Our desire is to create an initiative with two goals.

The first goal is to become a place where Edmonton City & some local Northern Albertan Transition Initiatives can come for advice, support and training on how to create and build there Transition groups. We want to be a local source of knowledge, providing advice on the challenges of approaching Peak Oil in a province that has the Tar Sands project in it. We aim to be a local hub for the City of Edmonton primarily but know that from the geographical nature of the province and as Edmonton is the Capital that we need to lead and be there for the small towns and communities in the Northern part of Alberta.

Secondly as Edmonton has a unique system of Community Leagues (www.efcl.org) which are run, governed and populated by people in their own communities across the City we plan to use this network as a way of achieving Transition in Edmonton. We know that as a City of almost 700,000 inhabitants a true Transition City as a whole is not possible without having small transition initiatives in all of the communities in the City. Then we can achieve Transition in the very way that we feel it was designed to do. This is our dream and one that has already got underway as we begin to spread the message as much as we can.