The Transition Towns movement is attracting more people every day. And a big part of its success comes from the feeling of energy and joy that people get when they join in, roll up their sleeves, and get to work. It’s the same sort of exhilaration you feel on a canoe trip down a swift [...]
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The conference was in a new place this year, Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. It was a real pleasure when I found it to immediately see old friends from the previous conferences at Antioch.
John Michael Greer defined our way of moving through time as cyclical rather than lineal. “We’ve had summer,” he said “and harvest, [...]
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Peak Oil – once you are familiar with the term and what it means, you can’t think the words without picturing Hubbert’s Peak, the graphic bell curve showing oil use as a blip on the timeline of human presence on Earth.
And you worry over our response – will we manage our energy descent to ensure [...]
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The ‘Twin Peaks’ of peak oil and climate change are looming. To find a successful way forward, we need to develop policies that deal with both of them. Adopting solutions to ease one while making the other worse is obviously a bad idea. The Transition Towns movement meets this reality square-on –- and with a [...]
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