Includes Movement Overview, TM past, present, future. Last updated August, 2011

1. Global Dependency to Local Resilience

2. transition story. 2006 2005 Rob Hopkins Rob Hopkins “Inherent within the challenges of peak oil and climate change is an extraordinary opportunity to reinvent, rethink and rebuild the world around us.” 8000 people 3000 people

3. transition handbook. 2008 Peak Oil Climate Change Relocalization Psychological Effects Permaculture 12 Steps Collective Wisdom Reskilling Malcolm Gladwell Malcolm Gladwell “Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push – in just the right place – it can be tipped.” The Tipping Point

4. climate change. James Hansen James Hansen “We have at most 10 years – not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse gas emissions.” Director Goddard Institute for Space Studies at NASA

5. peak oil. Richard Heinberg Richard Heinberg “It is quite likely that the time interval before the global peak occurs will be briefer than the period required for societies to adapt themselves painlessly to a different energy regime.”

6. r.o.i. vs. emissions. Ted Trainer Ted Trainer “To save the planet, we do not need miraculous technical breakthroughs, or vast amounts of capital. Essentially we need a radical change in our thinking and behavior.”

7. renewables won’t save us.

8. western society is addicted to oil. James Kunstler James Kunstler “The age of fossil fuels is about to end. There is no replacement for them at hand. These facts are poorly understood by the global population preoccupied with the thrum of daily life, but tragically, too, by the educated classes in the United States, who continue to be by far the greatest squanderers of fossil fuel.” By 2012, surplus oil production capacity could entirely disappear, and as early as 2015, the shortfall in output could reach nearly 10 MBD.

9. energy descent. The challenge of global climate change makes a shift away from fossil fuels necessary for planetary survival. Peak energy production means that the transition is inevitable. Our only choice is whether to proactively undertake the transition now—or react to events later. Michael Brownlee Michael Brownlee “The Long Emergency is the end of childhood for us. And as humanity passes through this threshold to adulthood will be determined by us, and by other who are gathering in meetings like this all over the country and all over the planet.”

10. energy descent scenarios. David Holmgren David Holmgren “The real issue of our age is how we make a graceful and ethical descent.” Permaculture: Principles and PathwaysBeyond Sustainability

11. relocalization. Local production of food, energy and goods. Gary Snyder Gary Snyder “The most radical thing you can do is stay home.” Local development of currency, government and culture. Reducing consumption while improving social and environmental conditions.

12. resilience indicators. FOOD LOCALLY USED MATERIALS LOCALLY MANUFACTURED ESSENTIALS LOCALLY EMPLOYED PARKING VS. LAND mke BUSINESSES & PRODUCTS

13. prioritization. Michael Brownlee Michael Brownlee “Economic development, powered by cheap oil, has chewed up farmlands, devastated forests, made dead zones out of oceans, dried up aquifers, and has spewed vast quantities of toxins into our atmosphere, into our precious water supplies, fouling our biosphere – not to mention our own bodies.” Great Unleashing Sandpoint, ID

14. perma-essentials. Graham Bell Graham Bell “Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive systems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of the landscape with people…”

15. transition assumptions. Life with less energy is inevitable, and it is better to plan for it than be taken by surprise. John L. Petersen John L. Petersen Many skills for self-sufficiency have been forgotten and must be relearned. “In the face of almost certain uncertainty, our job is to rise to the occasion, to evolve…we will probably become some new kind of human at the end of it all-it is that big and that important.” We need to act collectively and we need to act now. By unleashing the collective genius of the community we can design ways of living that are more enriching, satisfying and connected.

16. PAST ● PRESENT ● FUTURE

17. November 2008 20 Holiday Handbook Gifts Malcolm Gladwell Malcolm Gladwell “Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push – in just the right place – it can be tipped.” The Tipping Point

18. January 2009 1st HUB Meeting Rob Hopkins Rob Hopkins “Would you want it any other way? Would you want someone to come I with the answer and work it all our for you? It’s such an adventure working all these things out!”

19. March 2009 Birth of 1st Visible Manifestation Rob Hopkins Rob Hopkins “The future with less oil [and less energy] could be preferable to the present, if we are able to engage with enough imagination and creativity sufficient in abundance of the peak…”

20. May 2009 The Great Blitz John L. Petersen John L. Petersen “In the face of almost certain uncertainty, our job is to rise to the occasion, to evolve…we will probably become some new kind of human at the end of it all-it is that big and that important.” FUTURE GREEN’S ROOFTOP GARDEN JARED C. BRUCE ACADEMY ALL PEOPLE’S CHURCH COMMUNITY GROWERS

21. June 2009 1st Steering Committee Meeting Marianne Williamson Marianne Williamson “Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don’t want.” Relationships Cathartic Discussions Technology/How to get Organized Org Structure Networking

22. July 2009 1st Sweet Water Organics Tour Rob Hopkins Rob Hopkins “Only a culture awash with cheap oil could become de-skilled on the monumental scale we have.”

23. October 2009 350.Org ● Fruity Nutty Rob Hopkins Rob Hopkins “[Transition] is not a process that comes along with all the answers. It is a process which is about getting people to thinking about the right questions.”

24. November 2009 Concordia Gardens David Holmgren David Holmgren “The real issue of our age is how we make a graceful and ethical descent.” Permaculture: Principles and PathwaysBeyond Sustainability

25. December 2009 Power Down Saturdays Ted Trainer Ted Trainer “To save the planet, we do not need miraculous technical breakthroughs, or vast amounts of capital. Essentially we need a radical change in our thinking and behavior.”

26. January 2010 Training for Transition Towns Delefield, WI Training for Transition Towns Delefield, WI Norman Cousins Norman Cousins “All things are possible once enough people realize that everything is at stake.”

27. February 2010 Rob Hopkins Rob Hopkins “Inherent within the challenges of peak oil and climate change is an extraordinary opportunity to reinvent, rethink and rebuild the world around us.”

28. March 2010 “Meet Milwaukee’s Alders” Program + MATC Green Energy Summit Gary Snyder Gary Snyder “The most radical thing you can do is stay home.”

29. May 2010 The Victory Garden Blitz 2010 The Earth Charter 2001 The Earth Charter 2001 “Let ours be a time remembered for the awakening of a new reverence for life, the firm resolve to achieve sustainability, the quickening of the struggle for justice and peace, and the joyful celebration of life.” “This is how we’ll change the world, real change, one garden at a time.” – Gretchen Mead, VGI Director

30. June 2010 Power Down Week Richard Heinberg Richard Heinberg “It is quite likely that the time interval before the global peak occurs will be briefer than the period required for societies to adapt themselves painlessly to a different energy regime.”

31. July/August 2010 THE FLOOD OF THE CENTURY & TM Water Working Group Michael Brownlee Michael Brownlee “The Long Emergency is the end of childhood for us. And as humanity passes through this threshold to adulthood will be determined by us, and by other who are gathering in meetings like this all over the country and all over the planet.”

33. The ecology of our planet and its living things has suffered greatly during the age of fossil fuels.

34. Fossil fuels are a finite resource; the age of consumption enabled by fossil fuels is drawing to a close.

35. Alternative energy sources such as solar and wind cannot fully replace fossil fuels nor maintain a consumerist civilization.

36. Together we are responsible for our own levels of consumption; together we are responsible for creating a lower-energy future that will restore our planet and heal its creatures.

37. Powering down is necessary, inevitable, and can increase our overall well-being as we come together to produce a just and sustainable world. Vision: This we hope for: Imagine a resilient and self-sufficient Milwaukee comprised of a diverse array of local communities, populated by neighbors working side by side to produce our own low-energy abundance. Envision a time when instead of striving separately to acquire more than we need, we have joined together to restore each other and the earth, achieving a just and peaceful community for today and a regenerative way of living for tomorrow and thereafter. Mission: This we will do: Transition Milwaukee is part of a global movement based on permaculture principles and the awareness of resource depletion and ecological devastation. It empowers people and their communities to create local responses to converging environmental, energy, and economic challenges. We will unleash our collective genius by educating and supporting each other, inspiring a network of neighborhood initiatives and work groups dedicated to building and fostering local resilience and community self-sufficiency as we progress towards sustainable practices.

38. WHAT’S HAPPENING IN TRANSITION MILWAUKEE?

39. Transition Milwaukee – August 2011 450 On-Line Members/100 Active 100% Volunteer Non-Stock Corp Internally Focused Solidification Phase Developing a Board of Directors Expanding the Steering Committee BarbaraKingsolver Malcolm Gladwell "The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof." “Animal Dreams”

40. Checking the Boxes. Rob Hopkins Rob Hopkins Paul Hawken Paul Hawken “Most social-change organizations are understaffed and underfunded, and nearly all are negotiating steep learning curves.”

41. Dynamic Governance ● Sociocracy

42. Dynamic Governance ● Sociocracy

44. Catalyzing & Encouragement (Neighborhood Groups)

45. Outreach

46. Transition Training

47. Information, Resources, Tools

48. Technology

49. Memberships

50. Training

51. Finance

52. Process/Procedure

53. Partnerships

54. Marketing & Media

55. Communications

56. Events

57. Meetings

58. FundraisingSEMI-AUTONOMOUS NEIGHBORHOOD GROUPS GOVNG BODY

59. www.transitionmilwaukee.org