' Transition towns ' help local communities get together to work to toward an oil - free future . Use them to prepare for oil peak and counter climate change . Part of wider plan to find solutions and strengthen democracy . the town 's resilience - Transition Totnes encourages everyone to grow their own food . Current high oil prices may bring ' Transition Town ' ideas into mainstream .
' Transition towns ' help local communities get together to work to toward an oil - free future . Use them to prepare for oil peak and counter climate change . Part of wider plan to find solutions and strengthen democracy . Current high oil prices may bring ' Transition Town ' ideas into mainstream .