{"id":733,"date":"2009-05-15T18:57:59","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T22:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/?p=733"},"modified":"2009-05-15T18:57:59","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T22:57:59","slug":"transition-towns-local-sustainability-for-global-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/transition-towns-local-sustainability-for-global-change\/","title":{"rendered":"TRANSITION TOWNS: LOCAL SUSTAINABILITY FOR GLOBAL CHANGE"},"content":{"rendered":"

In\u00a0the Transition Towns movement, www.transitiontowns.org<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0political action is thoroughly integrated at the local level, building local sustainability and community as a basis for the “resiliency” needed to affect long-term, global change. But even more importantly, skill training for emotional and personal growth and conflict resolution\u00a0is built right into hands-on, political action.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Here is a short definition of\u00a0 Transition Towns\u00a0from a Facebook Event page<\/a> announcing an Introductory Workshop and the 2009 Transition Towns Conference in the UK:<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0“The Transition movement is a fast-growing, bottom-up response to peak oil and climate change. There are now thousands of communities around the world using this model, and it is being widely acknowledged as a positive, solutions focused approach, ‘more like a party than a protest march’.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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From the Transition Towns website, www.transitiontowns.org<\/a> :<\/div>\n

…A Transition Initiative is a community (lots of examples here<\/span><\/strong><\/a>) working together to look Peak Oil and Climate Change squarely in the eye and address this BIG question:<\/h2>\n
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“for all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?”<\/div>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

After going through a comprehensive and creative process of:<\/p>\n