transition town

grassroot community projects that aim to increase self-sufficiency
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transition town

Summary

transition town is a social movement[1]. It draws 66 Wikipedia views per month (social_movement category, ranking #145 of 360).[2]

Key Facts

  • transition town's field of work was urban resilience[3].
  • transition town's field of work was energy transition[4].
  • transition town's field of work was climate change mitigation[5].
  • transition town's image is recorded as UnvergEssbar Witzenhausen Schaugarten 2.JPG[6].
  • transition town's instance of is recorded as social movement[7].
  • transition town's founder is recorded as Rob Hopkins[8].
  • transition town's subclass of is recorded as community group[9].
  • transition town's Commons category is recorded as Transition Towns[10].
  • +2006-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of transition town[11].
  • transition town's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04210w9[12].
  • transition town's official website is recorded as http://www.transitionnetwork.org[13].
  • transition town's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Transition Towns[14].
  • transition town's described by source is recorded as Lean Logic[15].
  • transition town's BBC Things ID is recorded as 7ec0a835-9eff-4697-9bac-caa7d36b07e0[16].
  • transition town's Quora topic ID is recorded as Transition-Towns[17].
  • transition town's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as transition-towns[18].
  • transition town's UK Parliament thesaurus ID is recorded as 13351[19].
  • transition town's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Climate change[20].
  • transition town's Stadtwiki Dresden article is recorded as Transition_Town[21].

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Career and Affiliations

Fields of work include urban resilience[3]; energy transition[4], an energy policy[22]; and climate change mitigation[5], a field of work[23].

Why It Matters

transition town draws 66 Wikipedia views per month (social_movement category, ranking #145 of 360).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] . wikidata.org.
  2. [7] . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] . wikidata.org.
  4. [4] . wikidata.org.
  5. [5] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [22] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [23] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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