Home › News ›

The Trouble with Transition Towns

Posted by: Alek Miller

30 October 2009 - 8:00am

Alex Steffen weighs the challenges of Transition Towns and, instead, advocates for bright green, optimistic democracy.

"Transition Towns are communities in which some citizens have gotten together to follow a twelve-step process to make their towns more resilient despite energy shortages, climate change or economic collapse. At its best, "Transition thinking" offers participants a chance to do something direct and hopeful while the storm clouds gather on the horizon.

That volatile emotional mix of fear and hope has made it the most rapidly growing dark green movement in the world."

Full Story: Transition Towns or Bright Green Cities?
Source: WorldChanging, October 27, 2009
»
Bookmark and Share
“
If hundreds of people in your community raised reasonable concerns about a planning program you developed, how would you respond? Perhaps you might call a community meeting, or ask community elected officials to reach out to community leaders.
”