Contact: Carolyne Stayton 
Executive Director 
Transition US 
+1 707 824 1554 
carol...@transitionus.org 

Contact: Ania Moniuszko 
Co-founder 
Transition San Francisco 
+1 415 819 9663 
a...@moniuszko.com 

Transition San Francisco Recognized as 
55th Official US Transition Initiative 

San Francisco, California, February 5th, 2010 -- Transition US and 
Transition San Francisco announced today that Transition San 
Francisco has received official recognition as a Transition Initiative. 

Transition Initiatives start when a small group of motivated 
individuals within a community come together with a shared
concern: how can the community respond to the challenges and
opportunities of peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis?
This small team forms an initiating group and then adopts the
Transition Model with the intention of engaging a significant
proportion of the people in their community to significantly increase
resilience and reduce carbon emissions. 

Transition San Francisco’s initial contact person is Ania Moniuszko. 
Their Initiating Group is comprised of a diverse set of individuals, 
each with deep roots in the local community. Ania said: “I believe 
that San Francisco is a unique place for the Transition movement
to develop, and we are already at work creating positive visioning
projects for what San Francisco can be. We’re interviewing leaders
of existing groups interested in climate change and sustainability
issues for a video about how we all see San Francisco evolving in
the next 20 years. We’re looking forward to collaborating with
organizations already working on issues related to transition.” 

Bay Area Localize, founded in 2006, recently published the Community 
Resilience Toolkit for the Bay Area. Bay Localize co-founder and 
Transition US board member Dave Room said: “The Bay Area is highly 
dependent on a globalized economy which is not only economically 
unsustainable, inequitable, and dangerously out of balance with 
nature, but also highly vulnerable to energy supply disruptions and 
shortfalls. Transition SF holds to the promise of awakening San
Francisco to the reality of our predicament and activating us to make
our communities more resilient and equitable.” 

Ongoing work includes: 
 - The Visioning San Francisco Project, a video which will feature 
leaders of interested groups sharing their vision for San Francisco’s 
development over the next 20 years. 
 - Speakers’ Training, a series of seminars in which half a dozen 
area residents are learning about peak oil and climate change while 
developing a presentation and skills to facilitate community
discussions on the subjects. 
 - Steering Committee meetings, which have produced a “mind map” of 
needed actions and will focus on bringing them to life as a range of 
projects. 

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For more information about the Transition movement in the United 
States, or to schedule an interview with Carolyne Stayton, please 
call 707-824-1554 or email her at carol...@transitionus.org 

For more information about Transition San Francisco, or to schedule 
an interview with Ania Moniuszko, please call 415-819-9663 or email
her at a...@moniuszko.com 

For more information about Bay Localize, or to schedule an interview 
with Dave Room, please call 510-834-0420 or email him at 
d...@baylocalize.org 

About Transition US 

Transition US is a nonprofit organization that provides inspiration, 
encouragement, support, networking, and training for Transition 
Initiatives across the United States. They are working in close 
partnership with the Transition Network, a UK-based organization
that supports the international Transition Movement as a whole.
The Transition Movement is a vibrant, grassroots movement that
seeks to build community resilience in the face of such challenges as
peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis. It represents one of
the most promising ways of engaging people in strengthening their
communities against the effects of these challenges, resulting in a life
that is more abundant, fulfilling, equitable and socially connected. 

Web references: 
Transition US: http://transitionus.org 
Transition SF: http://transitionsf.org 
Bay Localize: http://www.baylocalize.org 
Brief history of Transition: http://transitionus.org/about-us/history