{"id":11994,"date":"2019-05-25T14:07:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T21:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=11994"},"modified":"2019-05-25T14:07:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T21:07:29","slug":"transition-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2019\/05\/25\/transition-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Transition town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<table class=\"wp-block-table\"><tbody><tr><th>Formation<\/th><td>2006; 13&nbsp;years ago<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Founder<\/th><td><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rob_Hopkins\">Rob Hopkins<\/a>, Peter Lipman and Ben Brangwyn<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Purpose<\/th><td>Supporting Transition initiatives<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Location<\/th><td>Totnes, England<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Website<\/th><td><a href=\"http:\/\/transitionnetwork.org\/\">Transition Network<\/a>,<br><a href=\"http:\/\/transitionus.org\/\">Transition United States<\/a>,<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reconomy.org\/\">REconomy Project<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n<p>The terms&nbsp;<strong>transition town<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>transition initiative<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>transition model<\/strong>&nbsp;refer to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grassroots\">grassroot<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Community_project\">community projects<\/a>&nbsp;that aim to increase self-sufficiency to reduce the potential effects of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peak_oil\">peak oil<\/a>,<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transition_town#cite_note-WithoutOil-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Climate_destruction\">climate destruction<\/a>, and economic instability.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transition_town#cite_note-guardian13-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;The &#8220;Transition Network&#8221;, founded in 2006, inspired the creation of many of the projects. A number of the groups are officially registered with the Transition Network.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transition_town#cite_note-what-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;The first initiative to use the name was Transition Town Totnes, located in the United Kingdom. Transition initiatives have been started in locations around the world, with many located in the United Kingdom, Europe, North America and Australia.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transition_town#cite_note-guardian13-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transition_town#cite_note-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More at:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transition_town\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transition_town<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Formation 2006; 13&nbsp;years ago Founder Rob Hopkins, Peter Lipman and Ben Brangwyn Purpose Supporting Transition initiatives Location Totnes, England Website Transition Network,Transition United States,REconomy Project The terms&nbsp;transition town,&nbsp;transition initiative&nbsp;and&nbsp;transition model&nbsp;refer to&nbsp;grassroot&nbsp;community projects&nbsp;that aim to increase self-sufficiency to reduce the potential effects of&nbsp;peak oil,[1]&nbsp;climate destruction, and&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2019\/05\/25\/transition-town\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11995,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11994\/revisions\/11995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}