Want to start up your own Transition group? Click the + Add a Group button on the groups page and begin your own transition mini-movement. Connect with others that are forming locally within the Tampa Bay area.

Connect with others that want to form a Community that works towards action to fight climate change and sustain itself during Peak Oil. With a exponential growing population how can communities work together to forge an alliance to work together.

Some Ideas for Activities from the transition website:

Take our online training on Leadership. How To's on hosting events can be found on our site as well.

SHARE:

• start a lending library (DVD’s, magazines and books)

• home school among families with young children

• hire tutors and take lessons as a group (Salsa dancing!)

DISASTER PREPAREDNESS

• build a database of house locations, contact info, number and name of family members, number and name of pets, emergency numbers, etc for use during fire, earthquake or other disaster

CARE

• watch out for each other and each other’s houses

• care for animals and bring in newspapers and mail when people were away

• babysit, provide elder care

• share a housekeeper

FOOD

• carpool for grocery trips

• share leftovers

• have weekly potlucks

• share an organic produce delivery service (one box of local produce is often too much for one family to eat over the course of a week)

• harvest and can extra produce

• grow grapes and make wine

• share a garden or create a garden in an empty lot

• share a compost pile

• share the care of farm animals (chickens, etc)

STORAGE

• share storage space with neighbors in need of extra room

ENERGY & SYSTEMS

• share recycling duties

• come together to buy solar panels, create a solar array on your street

• dig wells, create a water purification system or graywater collector

• install a small windmill

LANDSCAPING & NATURE

• plant wildflowers in an empty lot, or plant trees or flowers across a whole area to bring cohesion and visual delight

• plant fruit trees and share in their care

• add or remove fencing, pathways

• get joint bids for landscapers and other services to increase price leverage

• create a back yard children’s playground across a few houses

• defend an area from rodents and small animals

CLOTHING

• recycle or swap clothing

EVENTS & EXPERIENCES

• host an annual block party

• create a small stage/seating area for music, dancing, performance and theater

• share a yoga instructor, masseuse or acupuncturist

ART, ARTS & CRAFTS

• make or show art

• collectively sell art, or arts & crafts (buy a booth for the commune at a farmer’s market)

CARS/TRANSPORTATION

• organize car pools and ride sharing (to and from school, to the airport)

• buy a light pickup truck to share among a few families

AMENITIES

• build small structures to share (yurts, tipis, tents, garden sheds, shade structures)

• buy a pizza oven or barbecue grill to share

• buy a projector and screen and host movie night in a makeshift outdoor theater

• share a hot tub or pool

• create a meditation area or protected quiet space to share

WORK COLLECTIVES & BARTERING FOR SERVICES

• share home office space

• barter for services

• share financial resources to complete a project

• run a collective business and share profits

TECHNOLOGY

• share a wireless connection

• share a satellite dish