Training for Transition comes to Michigan!
Posted by Lisa on 04 Dec 2008 | Tagged as: City, Neighborhood, Small steps
Mark your calendars NOW for a truly exciting event at the end of January. Michael Brownlee and Lynette Hanthorn from Transition Boulder County will join us to help Michiganians consider founding a transition initiative in their own community, share their experience with us, and help us on the road locally to building one or more Transition Initiating Teams. This statewide training will be held over two days at the Rudolph Steiner High School in Ann Arbor. January 31-February 1, 2009 are the dates.
Click here to register for Training for Transition!
Not familiar with the concept of a Transition Initiative? In the words of Sophy Banks of Transition Town Totnes in Devon England:
The basic idea behind Transition Towns is that we need to find an effective and meaningful response to the twin challenges facing us today: global warming and oil depletion, or “Peak Oil.” Climate change is something more people are beginning to understand. The term Peak Oil expresses the concept that we are at or nearly at the global peak of oil production as well as natural gas. So we are looking at a future where we not only need to reduce our carbon emissions to keep the climate stable, but ALSO there’s going to be a decreasing oil supply. And, in a culture that is so completely dependent on oil, we need to really rethink the way that our society works. So that’s the background and within that context, Transition Towns says that we can’t wait for national governments to take action, we can’t wait for international protocols, there’s not much we can do as individuals, so we need a local level of response. We need communities to be coming together and thinking through how we can solve the problems of food production, transportation, housing, health care, economics and livelihood, basic stuff about living, in a way that’s no longer dependent on an globalized oil-based structure.