Welcome To Transition Catskills

Transition Catskills is a group of full and part-time residents in the Catskill Mountain region of upstate New York who have come together to develop projects that can strengthen the local economy, improve living standards, and build community resilience as we face a future of unstable energy supplies and a changing climate.

Community

At its heart, the Transition movement is about people connecting to share ideas and implement change. In the process, how can we make our communities stronger and happier?

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Our fossil fuel driven global economy has provided the world with great material abundance, but it has also driven increasing levels of inequality, and has crippled the productive capacity of entire communities.

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Energy

Our modern way of life consumes massive amounts of energy, most of it from non-renewable fossil fuels. Not only is this unsustainable and environmentally destructive, but it also represents a drain on wealth from small communities to large utilities and energy corporations.

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Food

Local food systems have been decimated by the forces of industrial agribusiness, leaving us in a region of natural abundance where we buy much of our food from thousands of miles away.

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