By Brian Fritz

The first training for Transition Town in the United States took place in Boulder, Colorado, in September 2008. Since then there have been multiple Transition Town Initiatives emerging throughout the country, with 15 of those in Colorado alone.
The Transition Town Initiative was developed in the United Kingdom in 2006 by Rob Hopkins, a permaculture teacher, as a practical model for allowing communities to reduce their dependency on a fossil fuel-based infrastructure, develop greater local resilience and re-localize the community resource base. This includes all areas of the community resource: food and energy production, security and access, local economy, health care, education, transportation, etc
See the complete article on Page 10 of That’s Natural! Quarter 1 of 2010 here:
http://issuu.com/ThatsNatural/docs/tnq1_2010_web