Transition Towns movement is reformist.  It is not in general motivated  by the clear and explicit goal of replacing the core institutions of consumer-capitalist society.  Its implicit rationale is that it is sufficient to create more community gardens, recycling centres, skill banks, cycle paths, seed sharing, poultry coops, etc.   It is not in general motivated by the clear and explicit goal of replacing the core institutions of consumer-capitalist society.  (Some people within the movement say or think they are working for change from consumer-capitalist society but my point is that in fact the things they are doing will not have that effect, and will only bring about changes within it.) Thus this rational assumes that it is in order to do anything green.  Just go ahead and set up a community garden here, a nut tree plantation there, and in time it will all add towards the eventual achievement of a satisfactory society. As Steffan has said  "...just go ahead and do something, anything... All over the world, groups of people with graduate degrees, affluence, decades of work experience, varieties of advanced training and technological capacities beyond the imagining of our great-grandparents are coming together, looking into the face of apocalypse... and deciding to start a seed exchange or a kids clothing swap."  (www.worldchanigng.org.) However if your goal was to build the kind of society that I've argued we must have if we are to solve global problems of sustainability and justice you would very definitely not think it was