'Transition Towns' tackling peak oil and climate change head on

What is a Transition Town (or village / city / forest / island)? A Transition Initiative is a community working together to look peak oil and climate change squarely in the eye and address this BIG question: "for all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?" The resulting coordinated range of projects across all these areas of life leads to a collectively designed energy descent pathway. There are already several Australian communities participating in the worldwide Transition Towns Initiative.