The Transition Town initiative is a worldwide movement born out of the desire by local communities to plan for the approach of peak oil.

Peak oil is the time after which global oil production will go into decline. A growing number of analysts believe this will happen within the next decade, some would say it has started to happen already. It is likely to cause big spikes in the oil price with potentially devastating economic and social impacts.

Despite the bad news there are a surprising amount of initiatives we can take part in locally to counteract this.  Energy efficiency is a big part of the local action as well as local food initiatives, transport sharing and many more.

Alness has begun many of these projects and a steering group has been formed to make the town ready for the challenge of a time when we will have less oil available.

Follow the links on the right hand side to find out more about the movement and other local towns who are also mulling over becoming a Transition Town,

Forres has already been listed as an official Transition Town.