Reskilling is an effort to recover and renew skills, and discover new ones that help us all to live more sustainable lives. Reskilling emphasizes ways to use less fossil fuel energy and waste fewer materials to meet our needs. Reskilling is?

• a process of learning/relearning skills our parents or grandparents had.

• a way to maintain, preserve, and sustain resilience on a practical level.

• tapping the wealth of shared knowledge on how to do, make, and tend things oneself.

• opportunity to reduce our carbon footprint.

Reskilling isn't limited to any one set of skills. Anything that helps us individually or as groups be more sustainable. Some examples are:

• How to successfully transition from commuting by car to commuting by public transportation or bicycle.
• How to incorporate more local food in your diet.
• What options are available in your community for composting food waste.
• How to make safer cleaning supplies.

Reskilling has been an initiative of Transition Town groups around the world who are focused on ways to reducing their dependence on fossil fuels energy. See the Transition US reskilling web page for more information.