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TRANSITION TOWNS-TRANSITION TOWNS-...the story so far...the story so far
Naresh Giangrande
www.transitiontowns.orgwww.Livingonthecusp.orgwww.transitionculture.org
“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by sceptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who can dream of things that never were”
John F Kennedy
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A community initiative A community initiative with three essential with three essential
components:components:
A Vision A Vision
Plans or Pathways that create the Plans or Pathways that create the transition from where we are now transition from where we are now to our Vision to our Vision
A set of principles that guide and A set of principles that guide and inform the pathways and plans.inform the pathways and plans.
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Un diagrama de conjuntoUn diagrama de conjunto
agua
Usar y tirar
desigualdades masivas
pesca
minerales
petróleo y gas
Inputs Outputs
tierras
vertederos de basura
subsuelo
productos químicos
gases
residuos radioactivos
bosques
comida
Sistema de crecimiento industrial
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entradas salidas
La solución: cerrar el La solución: cerrar el circuitocircuito
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Visioning our Visioning our Future….Future….
What would a post carbon, What would a post carbon, energy scarce world look energy scarce world look like?like?
We need to address our collective inability to vision the future we actually want….
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Indu
stria
l As
cent
(Mod
erni
sm)
Indu
stria
l As
cent
(Mod
erni
sm)
Energy & Resource UseEnergy & Resource Use Population Pollution Pollution
ClimaxClimax
Techno-Fantasy
Green-Tech StabilityGreen-Tech Stability
Earth stewardship
Mad Max
Great Grand Great Grand ChildrenChildren
AgricultureAgriculture10.000yrs BP10.000yrs BP
Industrial Industrial RevolutionRevolution
Baby BoomBaby Boom
Pre-industrial sustainable culture
Pre-industrial sustainable culture
Historical Time Future Time
Creative Descent
Creative Descent
( (Permaculture)
Creative Descent
Creative Descent
( (Permaculture)
Where are we going?
Begin with the end in Begin with the end in mind mind
A positive vision A positive vision creates its own call to creates its own call to action and self selects action and self selects
an initiating groupan initiating group
““Hippy nonsense Vision Hippy nonsense Vision can’t Create the can’t Create the
Future???”Future???”
““It will be a huge It will be a huge wrench to leave all wrench to leave all this behind, but I this behind, but I have always wanted have always wanted
to live in the to live in the country. Our new country. Our new house will be an house will be an eco-home. We are eco-home. We are
going from one going from one extreme to another”.extreme to another”.
Anna Ryder RichardsonAnna Ryder Richardson
Hello! magazine 1Hello! magazine 1stst January January 20082008
TT project leaders need to develop and constantly feed an unshakable belief (founded on TT project leaders need to develop and constantly feed an unshakable belief (founded on actual examples and by living their transition) that we can create a new environmentally actual examples and by living their transition) that we can create a new environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, and socially just world.sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, and socially just world.
This is one of the keysThis is one of the keysTo creating a sustainableTo creating a sustainableTransition Initiative Transition Initiative
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