Transition World
June 7, 2010
It all started in Kinsale Ireland about 15 years ago, then Rob Hopkins wrote the Transition Handbook. Today there are 68 official initiatives and thousands of communities getting it throughout the world including www.TransitionUS.org.
Michael Brownlee of Transition Colorado spoke here on Friday night. He spoke of post energy, post population, post waste, post pollution, post everything while quoting Richard Heinberg, Albert Bates, James Howard Kunsler and others. Alot to take in, about how cheap energy created social inequality, obesity and economic dislocations over the past 100-150 years. More importantly, he spoke of how we need to increase our resilience with re-localization and community wide transition involving elders, children, people of all ages. Transition is the catalyst to create resilient local communities that are less vulnerable to global shocks. Local in all respects: food, energy, currency, government, medicine, culture, goods, with re-skilling and resiliency. Creating sustainable, permanent culture, that is permaculture. Gary Snyder has said, “The most radical thing you can do is stay home.”
The real issue of our age is how we make a graceful and ethical descent, according to David Holmgren. It needs to be broad, deep and contagious, a movement from the bottom that is unstoppable. We need to ignite a fire that will not go out. Some view the issue negatively, the transition movement is about positive change.
In my opinion, homeopathy is and will be a significant part of transition, because it is holistic: looking at the whole, the objective is harmony at all levels, minimum doses having maximum effect. Everything is interconnected in classical homeopathy, and there are no accidents.
