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Transition Towns State College and Transition Towns Bald Eagle Valley are official TT initiatives as of April 14, 2010.  We are the 63^rd and 64^th official initiatives in the US and numbers 294 and 295 worldwide.

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  Consistent with the vision of the Transition movement, our goal is to dramatically reduce dependence upon fossil fuels while at the same time promoting our capacity to meet more of our needs locally.  Our objective is to adapt to living within our means and leaving a legacy of sustainable living for our descendants by trading a reduced dependence on non-renewable resources for an expansion of the quality of our lives as human beings.

The purpose of this site is to provide a focus for projects in Centre County devoted to achieving the Transition ideal and to develop the architecture for a self-sufficient and sustainable community.  You will find on the pages of this site a brief introduction to the work reflected and links (coming soon) to a host of documents and web sites that will give you a larger view of this movement.

On this site you will find a group of ideas that begin with the Transition process, a movement that is showing great promise as a tool for the development of local initiatives—not just plans, but programs of action.  The objective of this site is the foundation of not only a smaller and better, human-scaled, society but one that is self-sufficient, self-reliant and capable of a high degree of independence from the forces of a world embarked on an often disturbing plunge down a slope called Progress.  The basic business model for that transformation is a process called “relocalization.” 

Relocalization seeks to, first, direct the attention of a local community to identifying its needs; second, develop a model for achieving those needs to the greatest extent from local resources; and third, develop human skills, local resources, social and other forms of capital, and the cooperative community spirit that is needed to achieve self-sufficiency.  The model starts with the highly achievable objective of raising more food locally and building the necessary infrastructure to work towards greater self-sufficiency.  Finally, these objectives can only be achieved through some very clear thinking and by hard and discplined work by a group of friends united in vision and passion.  This involves both whole thinking and the inspiration of those like the models presented on this site.

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You may contact the webmaster at this site directly at info@transitioncentre.org