Here’s a nice little clip of Rob Hopkins at TED, speaking about the Transition Initiative, peak oil, climate change, and cultural narrative. For those interested but not well-versed in Transition, it’s a really nice intro. In the video, Hopkins mentions the idea of “running into a wall” in terms of peak oil and climate change. …
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Transition: Relocalization
Last week I wrote a bit about resilience, what it means, and why people are talking about it so much these days. If you’re anything like me, you nodded, said “I get it, I get it…” and immediately moved on to the next obvious question: “What makes a community resilient?” According to the Transition approach,…
Transition: Resilience
Welcome to the next installment of Transition Friday. Transition Tuesday would be nice and alliterative, but would require me to get my act together on Tuesdays, which isn’t going to happen. If sustainability was the buzzword for 2009, resilience is it for 2010. That was my thought at the beginning of the year, and I…
Transition: An Introduction
One of the (too many) books I’ve been reading lately is The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins. I read it as part of the Hyperlocavore book club, which turned out to be really fantastic. (The chat logs from our weekly sessions are still available, although the conversations have mostly wrapped up.) The book was a…
