peak oil

Transition Towns

Between Peak Oil and global climate change, most clear thinking people in the U.S. realize that we are caught between a rock and a hard place, and that"change" is coming to our current way of life. 

What that change is and how it happens are the parts that are hard to pin down.

Presently, there are many nascent initiatives trying to get a handle on shaping and birthing these changes in basic living so that we can transition to a more sustainable economy.

Between terms like "green", "sustainability", "ecomunicipality" -- there is a similar scramble to create a language that best captures the spirit of the change that is necessary.

A leading contender for that new language is "Transition Towns".  These are towns (municipalities) that have embraced two essential goals in one simple paragraph:  

Submitted by Peter Henry on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 11:24am. categories [ ]