Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Transition Towns - Alternatives

Going on right now in real time in the real world are people making choices to reject the takeover in their local community of the big money control in banking, energy and food production.

The Transition culture in the UK and around the world now, started about six years ago in Totnes in Devon, UK.  The slow and steady rise of a maturing resilience is building, where neighbors and friends are coming up with alternatives from within their own communities and sharing these ideas for free to the rest of the world. Yea internets.

The Brixton (South London) video below is one of the best in years to capture in a few minutes the essentials of local resilience to the stressor of a failed economy, extractive energy structure and dependency on all the unknowns of agribusiness for food.  It has the added feature of showing a realigned emphasis on people and community over a financialized culture.

It's offered here on Encinitas You Need Us as one of the many alternatives we should be allowed to envision and share with others and with our local government officials.  If we think of twenty years into the future it is easier to come up with ways to empower ourselves, the people, to make change happen at our own pace.