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Transition Culture has moved
I no longer blog on this site. You can now find me, my general blogs, and the work I am doing researching my forthcoming book on imagination, on my new blog.
‘Transition initiatives,’ begun in Britain, aim to empower people to tackle effects of climate change and decline of oil.
By Judith D. Schwartz |The Christian Science Monitor/ September 11, 2008 edition
A year ago, Pat Proulx-Lough felt so overwhelmed by reports about climate change that she couldn’t even listen to the news. “My husband was finishing a dissertation on water resources, and I became hopeless and fearful,” says Ms. Proulx-Lough, a therapist in Portland, Maine.
Fast-forward to summer ’08 and Proulx-Lough is not just hopeful, but excited about the future. What happened? She tapped into the Transition movement.
There are some events that arise out of this Transition phenomenon that really take one’s breath away, and which embody the idea that in doing this work we are doing something historic, something that will be celebrated by future generations. I had the enormous honour of attending Tuesday night’s launch of the Lewes Pound, an evening that I think I and many of those who were there will remember for many years to come.
A peak into the future.
Described as ‘a social experiment on a massive scale’, the Transition Town movement offers positive ideas for low-carbon living
Sarah Lewis, The Guardian, Wednesday September 10 2008
When Waterstone’s recently asked 150 MPs about their favourite summer reads, number five on the list was a book from an environment group that only two years ago almost no one had heard of. But in that time, the Transition Town movement has grown from a classroom idea to a sprawling international network, which many think holds some of the answers to our environmental problems.
This is rather wonderful, and worth a few minutes of your time. In advance of tomorrow’s meeting in Bristol to discuss and refine the Transition Network Structure Document, Shirky’s insights into collaboration and self organisation are fascinating and very relevant. Thanks to James Samuel in New Zealand for coming across this…
This morning is a bit of a non-post really, just a collection of odds and sods. First is the reminder that the first Transition Chat takes place today at 2pm, focused on the Structure document, to find out more click here. The latest Transition Network newsletter is just out, if you are not subscribed to recieve it, click here. We have a great event in Totnes tonight, focusing on Transition Tales…
How might our response to peak oil and climate change look more like a party than a protest march? This site explores the emerging transition model in its many manifestations
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