What a wise and wonderful direction. This gives me hope for the future.
Credit for introducing the Transition Towns Movement to Stratford goes to Marianne Brandis. Thank you Marianne for this great connection.
Credit for introducing the Transition Towns Movement to Stratford goes to Marianne Brandis. Thank you Marianne for this great connection.
"A transition initiative (like TTP) is a community working together to look peak oil and climate change squarely in the eye and address the BIG question: for those aspects of life that the community needs in order to sustain itself (e.g. water, food, shelter, transportation), how do we significantly increase resilience while addressing fossil fuel decline and environmental degradation?
There are hundreds of cities and towns around the world – including close to 30 in Canada – working with the Transition Town model which is based on permaculture principles. We are all working together to learn and design our communities in ways that reflect the reality of our situation. We can no longer carry on with a business as usual attitude under the illusion that we are somehow separate from nature and not accountable to natural law.
* we used immense amounts of creativity, ingenuity and adaptability on the way up the energy slope; there’s no reason for us not to do the same on the downslope
* if we collectively plan and act early enough there’s a good chance we can create a way of living that’s significantly more" http://transitiontownpeterborough.ca/
Very interesting. I hope the city of Stratford looks at the concept of ‘transition town” as well as the principals of permaculture as 2 things we could adopt.
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