Online Films
The Transition Movement Comes to America
27 min - peak moment tv - community, peak oil, solutions, sustainability 788 views - website

One response to the global crisis that is gaining enthusiastic momentum is the Transition Towns movement. Jennifer Gray, a pioneer in the Transition Initiative in the UK and cofounder of Transition US, describes it as “a community-led response to the twin crises of peak oil and climate change. It’s … positive, pro-active [and] engages the whole community in building resilience into their world.”

Sharing highlights from The Transition Handbook by founder Rob Hopkins, she elaborates on a flexible twelve-step process to empower community organizers in unleashing the creative genius of their community and building an Energy Descent Action Plan. One innovative aspect is backcasting: envisioning one’s community in 20 years, and then designing steps to get from here to there. [www.transitionus.org]

Share|




Comments
Posted by Uncle B on Monday, March 02, 2009

No more Cheap oil to support Yankee Doodles fantastic lifestyle! The (GRD) great republican depression, driven by high oil prices, New York Banksters shystering and shylocking thievery, Transition processes, mind bending paradigm shifts, The rise of Asia, The coming to maturity and rebellion of the American Woman, a new emancipation and unleashing of power, The "Greening" of lifestyles to come, Bitter hatred of corporate exploitation, Ending planned obsolescence, Rightful fear of nuclear waste, Breast, and other cancers in relation to benzine containing fuels, Beef, the C02 producer supreme, Aquaculture, Saviour to mankind, The folly of food as fuel, when Hemp will do better, and Algae gets diesel fuel, The follies of gasoline powered, spark ignition, low compression American romance over Euro-diesels higher efficiencies, Did cold fusion work, are we being fooled? Will Solar, Wind,Wave,Tidal and Geothermal perpetual, or renewables be killed by corporate powers who makr money from nuclear? Does America have "Resillience" to overcome the corporate influences and moving into the twenty first century, or will they mire down into a "Third World" nuclear and OPEC footsy game and die driving their beloved V-8 gasoline powered Corvettes, Mustang Super- cars, SUV's and "Land-yachts", and smoking imported dope while enjoying taped porn in a drunken stupor? Transitions need feminist forces of decency and humanity to drive them - Go girls Go!


Add a Comment
 Name


Word in Image
 
Search Films


View by Category
Comedy
Documentary
Peak Moment TV
Presentation
PSA
Short Film
Trailer
TV Clip
Video Clip

View by Subject
9/11
activism
animal rights
big ideas
big media
business
cities
climate change
community
consumerism
corporations
culture
drug prohibition
education
elections & democracy
empire
energy
food
globalization
government
health
human rights
impeachment
indigenous issues
indy media
media & war
media literacy
money & economics
peak oil
permaculture
philosophy
police state
politics
relocalization
social issues
solutions
sustainability
technology & design
terrorism?
the big picture
vision
war & peace



http://www.filmsforaction.org admin