Building Thrivable RESILIENT Communities
Transition Town Ashland has registered with the international organization, is setting up a website, and is planning a series of events to engage the community with building local resilience to the potentially damaging effects of peak oil while reducing the community's carbon footprint.
The concept rests on the idea that a resilient community which is self-reliant for the greatest possible number of its needs will be infinitely better prepared than existing communities with their total dependence on globalized systems for food, energy, transportation, health and housing. These actions will also serve to enhance the biodiversity of our bioregion.
Based in the principles of permaculture, the transition initiative is an evolving approach based on unleashing the collective genius of the specific community.
Transition Town Ashland LINKS:
- Transition USA - http://transitionus.org/
- Transition US Ning Network
- Transition Towns Wiki
- Transition Town Totnes website
- Map of Transition Town Initiatives and those mulling it over
- Kinsale Ireland Energy Descent Action Plan
- Peak Moment TV on the Ashland community Garden video
- American Community Garden Association website
- Ashland Community Garden
- Ride The Slide video
- Understanding exponential Populaton Growth video
- Post Carbon Cities
- Portland Peak Oil Taskforce
- Bryan Smith, Engaging the Future
- Post Carbon Cities Guidebook
- Peter Block, Community - The Structure of Belonging
- Post Carbon Cities Relocalized Provisioning System Map
- Ecocity Berkeley - Richard Register video
- William McDonough in China video
- Sarvodaya (Sri Lanka) development model and video
- Gaia Trust Charity, Denmark
- Rob Hopkins on Transition Ingredients 1-6 video
- Rob Hopkins on Transtition Ingredients 7-12 video