TraM stands for Transition Mearns and is part of the Transition Towns initiative and network. It was formed in December 2009 to raise awareness of Peak Oil and its effects. We want to improve the resilience of the Mearns community to the changes which we doubtlessly face by coming up with local, community-based projects which have the potential to make a positive difference to the way we live our lives and in turn lower our carbon footprint. For ideas on what you can do now to help lower YOUR carbon footprint, check out our Permaculture page.

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*funding provided by the Climate Challenge Fund

The catchment area is 'the Howe of the Mearns' in South Aberdeenshire Scotland with the town of Laurencekirk as the hub.

Just in case you were under the impression that Transition is a process defined by people who have all the answers, you need to be aware of a key fact.

We truly don't know if this will work. Transition is a social experiment on a massive scale.

What we are convinced of is this:

if we wait for the governments, it'll be too little, too late
if we act as individuals, it'll be too little
but if we act as communities, it might just be enough, just in time.

Everything that you read on this site is the result of real work undertaken in the real world with community engagement at its heart. There's not an ivory tower in sight, no professors in musty oak-panelled studies churning out erudite papers, no slavish adherence to a model carved in stone.

This site, just like the transition model, is brought to you by people who are actively engaged in transition in a community. People who are learning by doing - and learning all the time. People who understand that we can't sit back and wait for someone else to do the work. People like you, perhaps...

Transition Mearns