About us

Transition Edinburgh South is a grass-roots, community driven network who aim and act to strengthen our community in the South of Edinburgh so as to become less fossil-fuel dependent, neutralise our impact on the environment and to re-localise the skills on which we all depend.

We believe that getting to know those around you and coming up with our own solutions to local sustainability is an inherently rewarding, fun and encouraging process: sustainability does not have to be about sacrifice! The Transition Edinburgh South group (TES) is part of the Transition Network and a sub-group of the Transition Edinburgh group. Our group members come from South Edinburgh and all have an interest in aspects of the Transition Network.

We are a friendly group of people who are enthusiatic and committed about what we do to support community led responses to peak oil and climate change and building community resilience. A lot of our members also have specialist knowledge that is really useful to the group (e.g. engineers, chemists, ecologists, environmental lawyers) and they give their time freely.

In short, Transition Edinburgh South seeks:

1. To raise public awareness in South Edinburgh of the challenges posed by Peak Oil, Climate Change and other related socio-environmental issues.
2. To increase understanding of the underlying causes of these challenges and to empower all individuals towards meaningful, lasting, self-determined and realised action.
3. To be a catalyst for change, but also an active participant in the process; to be the change we wish to see in the world.
4. To deepen and strengthen our sense of community, both the human community and the broader ecological community.
5. To create, share and enact a Transition Energy Descent Plan from a highly over-consumptive, energy intensive and fossil fuel dependent society, to one of local resiliency and deep sustainability.
6. To serve as a focal point of inclusive networking and drawing together community groups, organisations, and individuals for creative collaboration.
7. To work together, sharing and developing our understanding, and facilitating projects in an open and equitable process.
8. To undertake these activities in collaboration with the broader ‘Transition Network’.*

*Taken from the Objectives of our Constitution