About Us
EcoTransition is a non-profit organization based in Montreal, Québec. We promote and support innovative projects that help maintain, develop, and strengthen our local environment and communities. We focus on the harmonious coexistence between people and the ecosystems that support them.
Mandate
EcoTransition promotes and supports innovative projects that help maintain, develop, and strengthen our local environment and communities. We focus on the harmonious coexistence between people and the ecosystems that support them.
Our projects foster individual and community self-sufficiency, resilience, and regeneration in food, energy, shelter, and other material and nonmaterial needs in a viable and nourishing way. Our core commitment is to benefit life in all its forms.
Values
Creativity, Innovation, Community Involvement, and Compassion
Conscious listening and communication
Self-Reliance, social resiliency and the reduced need for fossil fuels
Sustainable and regenerative environmental practices
Healthy integration of human lifestyles with their environment and nature
Transition
The Transition Network is an international grassroots movement composed of a series of practical and empowering projects which involve the wider community within a geographic location (with a strong emphasis on including the marginalized and fostering social diversity). These projects attempt to co-create visions, lifestyles, and infrastructure that ensure an abundant and nourishing future that answers the needs of the community, in a healthy, local, regenerative manner, all the while promoting Resilience and Independence from fossil fuels.
Land Acknowledgement
Ecotransition acknowledges that it is situated on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka people. This land also served as a diplomatic meeting place with other Iroquoians and Algonquians, including Algonquin-Anishinaabe, Atikamekw, and Huron-Wendat. Our organization strives to preserve and create rich social and environmental systems; this encompasses our relationships toward one another, the land, air and water of this region. We engage to honour the land and the treaties made, by upholding our relationships and responsibilities to them. We are humbled and grateful to live, work and play on land that has been the site of human creativity and storytelling for thousands of years.