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Transition: gearing up for the great power-down - Times Online
“In all respects - every waking hour - this has completely taken over my life,” says Rob Hopkins, the Englishman who started all this and whose central text, The Transition Handbook (printed in Cornwall on recycled paper, some 15,000 copies sold since May) is converting so many, so quickly.
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Transition: gearing up for the great power-down
Climate change is upon us and the oil is running out. Is mankind's darkest hour really approaching? If so, a growing army of local heroes is determined to turn it into our finest
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“In all respects - every waking hour - this has completely taken over my life,” says Rob Hopkins, the Englishman who started all this and whose central text, The Transition Handbook (printed in Cornwall on recycled paper, some 15,000 copies sold since May) is converting so many, so quickly.
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TRANSITION UNITED STATES
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- TRANSITION UNITED STATES is a networking site for those interested in exploring and/or implementing the Transition model in their community. This site is being created through grassroots participation, and is continually evolving. It is a spontaneously arising effort to connect 'transitioners' with each other and to encourage and support the development of local Transition Initiatives. <!-- Please see <a href="http://www.ustransitioninitiative.org" target="new">www.TransitionUS.org</a> for more information about the Transition Movement in the United States.</b> -->
- drastically reduce carbon emissions (in response to climate change);
- significantly rebuild resilience (in response to peak oil);
- and greatly strengthen our local economy (in response to economic instability)?
The Transition approach empowers communities to squarely face the challenges of peak oil and climate change, and to unleash the collective genius of their own people to find the answers to this momentous question:
For all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how are we going to:
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Transition Training Goes on Tour, Blog #1 » Transition Culture
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The training is a mix of the practical, theoretical, and the experiential. What confronted us when we sat down to design this two day fundamentals workshop in transition was how to you train someone to do something when you don’t know what it is your are actually training people to do. Training someone to be a doctor or a mechanic or an accountant, we know what each of these professions do there are clear competencies that they would have to know to be good at their profession. However with Transition, the field is so wide, just about anything can be included, and no one knows what a Transitioned Town looks like because nowhere has yet transitioned from an advanced industrial society into something sustainable.
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A Review of The Transition Handbook » Transition Culture
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The key theme that he introduces early on and builds on throughout the book is the idea of resilience. This is essentially the quality that allows communities to provide most of their essential needs- food, energy, water and raw materials- from multiple sources so that in the event of the large-scale system failures we are faced with collapse is averted because the smaller-scale local community has the wherewithal to fend for itself. This is the quality that has been systematically eroded by the globalization process as small communities have over the last hundred years in the west and much more recently in the developing world- as described for example by Helena Norberg-Hodge in Ladakh- and this is the quality that the Transition process aspires to recreate.
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Why I Love My Town (and why in the future we might all come to love where we live more than we do now) » Transition Culture
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Why I Love My Town (and why in the future we might all come to love where we live more than we do now)
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