More Ontario Towns are Making it Official

Congratulations to the people of Barrie, Ontario for becoming an official Transition Town in February.

Transition keeps growing

This brings the total number of official Transition Towns in Ontario to 7, a 75% increase since the start of 2010!

More and more Ontario communities are taking the necessary steps to create more resilient places to live, work and play. Becoming an official Transition Town is a critical early step that helps to set the path for the future investment of time, people and money in community-owned renewable energy projects, like biogas.  With the regulatory support in place, it hasn’t taken long for all these communities to realize the opportunity at hand, and they want to take action.

The questions that are first asked include:

• what kind of renewable energy should we build?
• where are we going to put it?
• how much is this going to cost?
• who can we speak to for more information?

To find the answers, a community needs to first ask itself about its other goals and the resources that are readily available in its region.

Transition Towns aren’t only focused on greenhouse gas emissions or peak oil, they are focused on supporting farmers and the way their food is produced, shopping at locally owned businesses, learning how to DIY more stuff, and generating renewable energy.

The ideal solution

What makes biogas a great fit for a Transition Town is how it accomplishes multiple goals at the same time; by adding income to local farmers for supplying their manure and hosting the facility, reducing local greenhouse gas emissions, reducing the amount of waste sent to landfills, reducing reliance on external energy supplies, generating renewable energy, reducing reliance on commercial fertilizer and creating local jobs.

Talk to the people in your community, see if they’re interested in forming a Transition Town and growing local value – with biogas. That’s what ReGenerate is all about, I’m here to help you make it happen in your community.

photo credit: nouQraz

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