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Walloomsac Transition Forum

With much enthusiasm and excitement, we are on Step Two of the Transition Process, meeting once a month as a steering committee and having one awareness-raising event per month.

Our Vision:

The WTF is a catalyst for our region’s transformation into a community that is based in an equitable, sustainable, resilient, local economy and that is made up of resourceful and engaged citizens who are able to thrive in our changing world through innovation, kindness, collaboration, and sound ecology.

Our Mission:

The Walloomsac Transition Forum recognizes that our energy supply will become less reliable and more expensive, which threatens the stability of our community. Further, we acknowledge that our use of fossil fuels is radically changing our atmosphere, which endangers the future of our children and other species. We embrace this deepening crisis as our opportunity to build vitality in our community by joining with others in:

• developing energy security;
• strengthening local economies;
• producing food locally;
• building self sufficiency;
• improving environmental conditions;
• increasing social equity;
• fostering community ties.

By these means we will be able to feed and shelter ourselves and spend our days in a peaceful society doing meaningful work.

Our Goals:

• To provide a forum in our community for citizens who want to rise to meet the economic and environmental challenges ahead. In these gatherings we will build a vision of our future and work together towards that vision with a sense of hope and purpose.

• To work collaboratively within local government to support this development within our community.

• To build a database and map of existing local resources including social, human, natural, infrastructural, governmental and economic resources. Initially this mapping will focus on existing organizations and individuals who are already working within this mission.

• To write an Energy Descent Plan that details a time line for reducing our community’s need for imported energy and other imported resources.

• To create subgroups that provide support and education for the building of local resilience. Examples of these groups and their work could include:
  • Local food supply: develop community and home gardens, teach skills in growing and putting up food, plan agricultural production, construct local food storage and distribution systems
  • Energy: audit the energy use of our homes, promote weatherization of homes, teach skills to reduce home energy use, develop alternative energy sources
  • Transportation: improve gas mileage of locally owned vehicles, develop efficient public transportation systems, improve infrastructure for walking and bicycling
  • Economic development: retrain for the new work to be done, improve school preparation for a local economy, preserve the knowledge of our elders, develop alternatives to our cash economy such as a Time Bank
  • Spiritual growth: develop an ecumenical community ceremony and have lots of dancing and celebrations
  • Health, Youth and other groups and projects as there is interest and energy within the community