The need to reduce the human impact on the Earth is well recognised by governments and individuals alike - witness the recent Climate Change Conference in Bali and the new Australian Prime Minister's move to sign the Kyoto Protocol! While governments have the resources and power to put major programmes in place, the actions of millions of individuals is actually having a greater impact on our footprint.

Small groups of ordinary people in towns, cities and regions around the world are planning for their own future. Leaders are emerging spontaneously to initiate organisations such as The Relocalisation Network in North America and the Transition Towns Initiative in Ireland and England, now spreading rapidly throughout Europe, Australia and New Zealand as well.

Read on, to find out how you can become part of the greatest movement in human history, reduce your personal ecological footprint and create the future you want, in the face of the twin threats of Peak Oil and Climate Change.

To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.

—Benjamin Franklin

Transition Towns A very positive way of reducing our ecological footprint, Transition Towns recognises the opportunities inherent in Peak Oil & Climate Change