Transcript TRANSITION TOWN TOTNES …….the story so far

TRANSITION TOWNS...the story so far
“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”
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Naresh Giangrande
www.transitiontowns.org
www.Livingonthecusp.org
www.transitionculture.org
A community initiative with three
essential components:
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A Vision
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Plans or Pathways that create the transition from
where we are now to our Vision
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A set of principles that guide and inform the
pathways and plans.
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Un diagrama de conjunto
entradas
Inputs
agua
Sistema de
crecimiento
industrial
Outputs
salidas
gases
pesca
Usar y tirar
minerales
petróleo y gas
desigualdade
s masivas
tierras
subsuelo
bosques
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comida
productos
químicos
residuos
radioactivos
vertederos de
basura
La solución: cerrar el circuito
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Visioning our Future….
What would a post carbon, energy
scarce world look like?
We need to address our collective inability to
vision the future we actually want….
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Where are we going?
Techno-Fantasy
Climax
Green-Tech Stability
Energy & Resource Use
Population
Pollution
Earth
stewardship
Pre-industrial
sustainable culture
Historical Time
Agriculture
10.000yrs BP
Industrial
Revolution
Mad Max
Future Time
Baby Boom
Great Grand
Children
Begin with the end in mind
A positive vision creates its own
call to action and self selects an
initiating group
“Hippy nonsense Vision can’t
Create the Future???”
“It will be a huge wrench to
leave all this behind, but I
have always wanted to live
in the country. Our new
house will be an ecohome. We are going from
one extreme to another”.
Anna Ryder Richardson
Hello! magazine 1st January 2008
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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 sustainable,
spiritually fulfilling, and socially just world.
This is one of the keys
To creating a sustainable
Transition Initiative
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