From the Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins:

How might our response to peak oil and climate change 
look more like a party than a protest march?

A Transition Initiative is a community that is unleashing its own latent
collective genius to look Peak Oil and Climate Change squarely in the eye and to discover and implement ways to address this BIG question:

"For all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?"

If we collectively plan and act early enough there's every likelihood that we can create a way of living that's significantly more connected, more vibrant and more in touch with our environment than the oil-addicted treadmill that we find ourselves on today.