“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes time. Vision with action can change the World.” Joel Barker
The UK and Republic of Ireland are showing us how to do it: Transition is a movement which started in 2006 and has since spread like wildfire:
In Transition 1.0
Over 300 Initiatives of Transition are running already (2010) around the World and about 1’000 groups are going to start one. Wonderful… it proves that CHANGE towards sustainable lifestyles is realistic. This is an invitation to all Cultural Creatives: Let’s go for TRANSITION, too – now (because the process needs years)!
What is Transition all about? (Film)
Transition Towns: Planning for a Energy Future. Sustaining Hawkes Bay Trust. (Youtube film in 4 parts)
Transition Towns: An Interview with Movement Founder Rob Hopkins (Youtube Film)
It’s high time communities (villages, small towns) worked towards their own independence and resilience concerning their supply of food and energy! The current total dependence on the globalised economic infrastructure is simply unsustainable – there is no doubt anymore.
Change is on the horizon… let’s say „back to normal“. To prepare for the upcoming change just makes sense.
Links
> Transition Network
> Transition Culture. An evolving evolution into the head, heart and hands of energy descent.
> Transition Towns (Wikipedia) [the Links of the Wikipedia-article are not listed again at lovos.org]
> Transition Towns Wiki (international Blog about Transition Towns)
> Energy Watch Group (project for scientific studies about energy - independent of governmental and corporate interests)
> Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie (A sustainable economic model)
> The Relocalization Network. Local Communities. Global Network.
Literature
> Chamberlin, Shaun: The Transition Timeline. For a Local, Resilient Future. Green Books. 2009.
> Hopkins, Rob: The Transition Handbook. From oil dependency to local resilience. Green Books Ltd. Foxhole, Dartington, Totnes, Devon, 2008.
