I'm starting one! Population: 2.
Thanks to my colleague Jamin Hemenway who clued me in:
What is a Transition Town (or village / city / forest / island)?
A Transition Initiative is a community working together to look Peak Oil and Climate Change squarely in the eye and address this BIG question:
-"for all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?"
The resulting coordinated range of projects across all these areas of life leads to a collectively designed energy descent pathway.
The community also recognises two crucial points:
-that we used immense amounts of creativity, ingenuity and adaptability on the way up the energy upslope, and that there's no reason for us not to do the same on the downslope
-if we collectively plan and act early enough there's every likelihood that we can create a way of living that's significantly more connected, more vibrant and more in touch with our environment than the oil-addicted treadmill that we find ourselves on today.
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If you [the collective "you" out there] have not read "The Omnivore's Dilemma" then you will reward yourself by doing so. It doesn't answer the questions about petro-dependency, but it sure shows how unwittingly complicit most of us are in encouraging it! Honestly, that book has made me reevaluate 80%+ of my life.
david,
i rarely comment on my own blog, but this is worthy of it. mr. pollan is the MAN! i love love love his work and believe that he has the general public's ear on this one (which is a fantastic opportunity for them to wake up!). also, read "animal, vegetable, miracle" by barbara kingsolver if you want to reevaluate the other 20%. the day of reckoning is coming where we face the lie of petrochemicals. they are one of the key reasons the generations before us have written checks our generation (and the one after us) cannot cash. i really encourage all of us to think long and hard about the statement that cites the incredible amount of creativity we humans devoted to becoming dependent on oil...and the amount of creativity we must devote to getting out. that is what it comes down to and it scares me to see the resulting mindless, uncreative souls who make up a majority of our population because of the ease of living in a petro-dependent world. i feel sad for them. it's up to us to help.
okay, no more replying to my own posts. keep on readin.
Right, I commented once before on a New York Times article regarding emerging technologies stating, "why does a car tell me where to eat dinner but it can't run itself without using gasoline, car manufacturer's have ignored true innovation for too long". I agree with your post. We can make our world a better place to live.
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