Transition Towns

I’m brainstorming what would be needed to make my town a Transition Town.  Food production is a big part of it.  Construction, mechanical, automotive skills are already here.  More bicycles are needed.  What about tires, clothes, shoes, electronics, silicon chips, communications systems?  We can learn poultry and sheep processing, natural bakery, and candle making.  But the amount of effort to convince an industrial town to switch to solar or wind energy seems almost impossible.

Instead, maybe it would be fun to start a sustainable skills group that gathers regularly to exchange skills, train each other, and build human networks. 

 

Here are some ideas for meeting topics:

• Rocket Stoves
• Rocket Mass Heaters
• Chicken breeding
• Chicken processing
• Build a chicken next box
• Make your own chicken feed
• Timber-framing
• Rabbit breeding
• Rabbit processing
• Build Rabbit nest boxes
• Build Rabbit cages
• Build Rabbit underground shelters
• Build Rabbit tray cleaner funnel
• Build a Rabbit butcher station
• Permaculture Design Course
• Herb Gardens
• Raising Sheep
• Candle making
• Soap Making
• Hugelkultur
• Milking cows
• Guns
• Build a top-bar bee hive
• Home brewing beer
• Home brewing cider
• Straw bale housing
• Bee keeping
• Honey processing
• Goats
• Energy conservation

Other Events that we could host

• Documentaries
• Book discussions