1. Steps 1-6: The Start-up Phase
   

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1. 1.Establish an Initiating Group to guide the Initiative for a particular community through Steps 2-5;
   

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2. 2.Raise awareness of Peak Oil and Climate Change Issues and their implications for the community; Use movies such as End of Suburbia, The Power of Community, and other films to facilitate the conversation about the potential benefits of a Transition Initiative;
   

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3. 3.Lay the foundation for a Transition Initiative by networking with existing organizations that may be interested or might be logically involved in a local Transition Initiative; emphasize that this is not a process of duplicating their work but requesting their input in a new way of looking at the future; acknowledge and honor the work they do, and stress they have a vital role to play.
   

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4. 4.Organize the “Official” Launching of the Transition Initiative in the Community; this might include music, performance, images from the community’s history and creation of a space for local groups to present their work.
   

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5. 5.Form smaller groups to focus on particular aspects of developing a Community Energy Transition Plan; smaller groups might include Local Food, Transportation, Energy, the Psychology of Change, Housing, Medical Care, etc.
   

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6. 6.Use Open Space Technology to encourage community participants to generate ideas for working groups and facilitate general community input.
   

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2. Steps 7-12: Working Groups Launch Visible Projects and Develop Community Energy Transition Action Plan
   

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7. 7.Develop visible practical manifestations of the project; promote interim accomplishments in the local media such as planting local gardens, planting trees, celebrating solar panel installations, etc.;
   

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8. 8.Facilitate the Learning and Relearning of Basic Skills that will be needed by the community to implement its vision; offer widely available training such as master gardening, using energy efficient lighting in homes and offices, building energy efficiency improvements like insulating water heaters and installing high efficiency windows, using trees and light colored surfaces to reduce cooling loads on homes, fostering use of ventilation cooling, install solar electric and solar thermal systems, etc.
   

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9. 9.Build a bridge to local government; get local government officials wherever appropriate to facilitate implementation of the evolving community energy action plan including land use planning, modifications to building codes and standards, funding, etc.
   

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10. 10.Honor the Elders in the Community; conduct oral history interviews with older people to identify skills people used to have and resources that used to be available in the community;
    

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11. 11.Let the Transition Initiative go where the community wants it to go; be open to the possibilities created by the people involved in the process.
    

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12. 12.Create an Community Energy Transition Action Plan; Rob Hopkins recommends that this Plan should set forth a vision of a powered-down, resilient, relocalized future and creates a map for getting from present conditions to the future time period needs described in the plan; this Plan might also be called a Community Resilience Action Plan or an Energy Transition Pathway Plan.
    

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14. Beyond Twelve Steps
    

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13. 13.Rob Hopkins emphasizes that the results of step #12 is the beginning of the process of implementing the Plan. He envisions that the Transition Initiative changes and becomes, in effect, a relocalization organization whose job is to implement the Plan.
    

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