Comments on: Transition: Relocalization

By: The Transition Handbook Review & Giveaway | Openly Balanced

The Transition Handbook Review & Giveaway | Openly Balanced — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:01:56 +0000

[...] reader, you know that I’ve been babbling on about the Transition initiative for several weeks now. I finally slogged through the last section of the book (which yes, does get a little slow) and [...]

By: Jess

Jess — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:22:07 +0000

Thanks so much for stopping by! I am with you as far as wanting to optimize my life for locality (locavorism? hrm…). It can be a hard thing to do, especially if you have minimal control over where you end up, like we do.

And yes! Carbon sequestration. I actually have tons of thoughts on that, both for agriculture and residential development. On the new urbanism side of things, I think there is so much potential for sustainable land management and the “reclaiming” and suburban land as part of the bright green urbanism paradigm. Even on the Transition side of the discussion I think there’s a lot of potential, but I think that would require educating many more people on the subject. It’s interesting, because the more I read and chat with people, the more I think that we need to be looking to permaculture as a foundation for everything.

By: Jess

Jess — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:12:56 +0000

Thanks so much for the comment! I completely agree with you that we are looking at a total paradigm shift. I think relocalization and Transition offer one set of options for what the new paradigm will look like, but I know there’s a lot of criticism of Transition for “backtracking” and being somewhat old fashioned. But I think that you are right – it has great potential to be both lucrative and regenerative, and sometimes the former sells better than the latter.

By: JR Moreau

JR Moreau — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:30:51 +0000

Living local is a beautiful thing. I relish that opportunity. It’s taken me a while to figure out how I can optimize my life for this situation. I had it once accidentally and realized how good it was inherently.

So, how about those carbon sequestration techniques? Any thoughts on that? Some great ideas about sequestering carbon via grassland restoration/holistic grazing strategies. Interesting paradigm shift that’d affect even more than the posh urban centers that have trendy local living cultures.

Cool post!

By: Beth Oppenheim

Beth Oppenheim — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:06:53 +0000

Gotta love the local movement. I think that being and doing local 100% have implications for climate change. It’s not enough, of course, because it requires the most enormous overhaul of mindset ever – especially in the United States. BUT it can be part of a process. I think education can be another half. If people are educated on ways to produce for themselves, it will be lucrative, and that’s what people can respond to as well.
Great post Looking forward to book giveaway HINT HINT