Welcome! 

TransitionPGH is the city-wide hub group for the Transition Movement. We work on building a sustainable community and increasing resilience (the ability to resist shocks), particularly to things like peak oil and climate change. With Pittsburgh’s existing infrastructure, there’s a lot of good places to renovate, grow food, and redo our urban environment to work better for everyone living there. For more on our history, read this, and for more on why you might like Transition, try this.

Our goals are to provide resources - such as educators, movie screenings and licenses, and a library of shared knowledge - to various local initiatives, as well as a city-wide community and some of our own projects. These projects include a bunch of urban farming projects, and a 2012 summer series of screenings for Transition 2.0 in various neighborhoods. 

What should you do now?

• Sign up for our emails (to the right)
• Join the site and jump into some of our groups
• Tell your friends and groups about us - we’d love to come chat
• Come to our Events, and chat with us there. As of Summer 2012, you'll find a lot of people who've taken the Transition Training at the Larimer Events focused around the Larimer Plan.
• Have a look at our Resources for something to read or learn

A lot of what we do falls under the category of ‘reskilling’, and if you’re got something you’d be able to teach - and everyone does - you should fill out this form. Alternatively, if you or a group you’re part of would like to learn something Transition-y - from why sustainability is important to how photovoltaics works to raising chickens to running effective meetings - you can let us know here, and one of our core folks will try to get you connected with someone who can help.