1. Chair, Transition Winnipeg
Mark Burch
Chair, Transition Winnipeg

2. Overview What is Transition Winnipeg? Transition Drivers
Possible Responses
Transition Winnipeg Proposes…
What Transition Winnipeg Promotes
Examples of Transition in Winnipeg

3. 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

4. Transition Drivers Peak Everything (particularly peak oil)
Climate change
Economic contraction
Government paralysis

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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

8. 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;

9. Contact
Transition Winnipeg