ABSTRACT
One might most likely to come across the transition movement in the form of a transition town, and probably the most well known of these is Totnes, the small town in Devon, which was the first. It is no coincidence that such developments are all very local in scale, and there are now a lot of them. As the name implies, transition is a movement away from how the economies and societies are currently organised to ones that are more sustainably based. Rethinking one's use of money, and how one could think about money, is at its heart. Local communities retaining as much money circulating within them is seen by the transition movement as vital to the health of a local economy. From its early beginnings in Kinsale in 2004, and then in Totnes in 2006, the transition idea has spread, and there are now more than 1,100 registered initiatives in over 40 countries.
