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Transition Olympia Climate Action (TOCA) is the result of a merger of two local groups: Transition Olympia and Olympia Climate Action. it is a group of people in the Olympia, Washington area who are working to coordinate and strengthen community action in response to global Climate Change, Peak Oil, and Economic Contraction. These three issues are global in their scope and scale, and are inextricably linked.
Obviously, any one person or any one small community could not hope to change or solve these problems. Ironically, the answer to the question "How do we thrive in a world with an altered climate and weather pattern, an increasingly expensive and diminishing supply of fossil fuel, and a volatile economy and the loss of familiar jobs and patterns of consumption?" The answer is almost certainly based on small, site specific, community-based solutions.
TOCA is modeled after the global Transition Initiative, designed "to unleash the collective genius" within adopting communities, in order to create locally-based, resilient solutions to the coming effects of these changes. Our overarching goal is to plan for and create a system of community that will thrive when the world becomes a very different place.
Transition Olympia - Climate Action is a member of the Alliance for Community Transition, and is hosting ACT's website while it is under development. For more information, click on Alliance for Community Transition.
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It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
-- Charles Darwin
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