What is Transition?

The basic transition we're talking about here is from today's high fuel use, to a world with much lower fuel use, which is coming our way as the planet's stocks of oil start to give out. This transition will happen whether we decide to think about it or not.

Thinking about this transition in advance has three huge advantages:

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Why twin?

When towns or communities twin, it is usually for cultural reasons – to connect meaningfully into an experience of a culture very different from their own. 

While the culture exchange is part of Transition Twinning, I suggested it mainly because:

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Transition - A potted history

By working within the natural systems and social attitudes that have sustained and nourished life on Earth for millions of years, people have the potential to build a society in tune with the planet.

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A Strategy for a Community Renewable Energy Fund

Renewable energy wind power

“If we cherish the flapping of sails on a boat & shimmer of sunlight on the sea, there is no reason why we cannot cherish the flapping of blades on a wind rotor & the reflection of sunlight on a solar collector. Our minds have shut out these responses & denied them to our spirit because the conventional sounds & imagery of technology are the ear-splitting clatter of an assembly line & the eye-searing flames of a foundry.” Towards an ecological society Murray Bookchin Feb 1975  

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