Transition Culture Is Your Town in Transition? A market in Totnes, England, the first Transition Town (Courtesy of transitionnetwork.org), Out of a quaint English town, a sustainability movement goes global. 'We have all the technologies to [achieve sustainability],' says Transition movement founder Rob Hopkins, 'but we don’t have the social technologies to make it happen.' When I set out to investigate the appeal of Transition , a sustainability movement that has spread to 1,105 towns in 43 countries over the past eight years, I started with what I thought was a basic question: What are “Transition Towns” transitioning to? “Resilience,” I was told. Such bucolic but fuzzy visions are typical of Transition, which is more about shifting paradigms than prescribing solutions. On a basic level, however, the experiment seeks to address what founder Rob Hopkins sees as a source of frustration in the environmental movement: Personal action feels like a drop in the bucket, while governments often move at a glacial pace. Across the pond
Transition Whatcom Taller d’economía social « Barcelona en Transició Taller d’economía social 11 mayo, 2011 por fuspey “Economia social: com reduïr la dependència de l’euro” Stefan Blasel / Laura Fernández. Barcelona en transició Diumenge 15 de maig 2011., 19:00 h. Este es uno de los eventos de PRIMAVERN 2011 – Sant Martí. Alternatives que tenim a l’abast per a no dependre de l’euro per a cobrir les nostres necessitats: intercanvis de béns i serveis, moneda social, banc del temps, regals…aquesta també és una bona manera de fomentar les relacions personals i l’enfortiment d’una economia més local a la nostra comunitat Lloc: Rambla Guipúscoa (entre c/ Provençals I Selva de Mar) Dins de : IV MOSTRA D’ENTITATS DE COOPERACIÓ INTERNACIONAL DE SANT MARTÍ XARXA DE COLORS . Comissió d’Entitats de Cooperació Internacional de Sant MartíFesta del Comerç Just i la Banca Ètica. Apuntar por esta evento en facebook aqui Mas Enlacces: Novelda en Transición presenta su moneda complementaria Me gusta: Me gusta Cargando...