Community Resilience Transition Plan

Transition Northfield has been wondering how we can help make our community more resilient: able to adapt and recover rapidly under difficult conditions. So, we’ve decided to host a series of public meetings to prepare a Community Resilience Transition Plan – an outline of local, workable, concrete action steps that we can take as a community and as individuals in response to our pressing issues related to energy, the environment, and economics.

As we create this plan together, we’ll also acknowledge the great work that has been done, and continues to be done, by various groups and individuals in the Northfield area. Our goal is to honor all of this work that contributes to our community resilience, and to provide a space for people to share and coordinate their efforts, resources, difficulties, and accomplishments as we take action.

At these community meetings, we’ll start with some plans that have already been created, such as the Northfield Energy Task Force Master Report, the Bay Localize Community Resilience Toolkit, and GreenStep Cities, and together, as a community, determine the action steps that make sense for the Northfield area today.

At our first meeting, December 3rd from 9 – 11 am at the UCC church (Third and Union Streets) in Northfield, we plan to focus on the topic of Local Energy: Conservation and Production. Later meetings will focus on local food, economics, youth, water, and more.

There is a lot that we can do together… will you join us for this important work? I hope to see you on December 3rd or at a future meeting!