The new film Voices of Transition focuses on food and offers a harvest of organic goodness.
To celebrate the upcoming international release of he new award-winning documentary Voices of Transition and through the generosity of our friends over at Milpa Films in Germany, we’re able to offer two Transition Voice readers the chance to win a DVD of this inspiring and entertaining film.
Global environmental trends — climate change, peak oil and food insecurity — are forcing us to confront the inherent contradictions of our industrial agricultural system.
Voices of Transition presents paths towards a new model of human existence: one that is fair, environmentally sound and fulfilling, with soil and people supporting each other within a balanced and sustainable system.
Powered by the conviction that these crisis can be a major catalyst for positive change, this inspiring documentary casts a spotlight on a new global movement. In Voices of Transition we meet scientists, agronomists, permaculture designers and pioneers of the Transition movement. These voices take us on a cinematic tour of France, England and Cuba — to communities already making the transition to local resilience.
You can’t have film about Transition without Rob Hopkins in it. Don’t worry — this one won’t disappoint.
Voices of Transition is an independent, participatory documentary film project with the ambitious goal of inspiring each and every one of its viewers to join a worldwide social and environmental movement. It is an “action film” in the truest sense of the word: instead of sitting back and passively watching, viewers are encouraged to get up, join in and contribute to the transformation of our society.
A video for your thoughts
So here’s the deal. Readers of Transition Voice can win one of two copies of the DVD by answering, in 100 words or less, this question:
What does the transition to a fairer, post-oil economy look like for you?
The more original the better. Don’t be afraid to be personal. Or to be funny.
Just leave your thoughts on this question in the comment area under this article. Please don’t email us your comments! We’ll only read the ones in the public comment area. We want everyone to be able to see what you write.
The deadline is this coming Monday, August 25 at 5pm U.S. Eastern Time. We look forward to hearing from you.
Meanwhile, watch the trailer.
— Staff, Transition Voice
Transition is about doubt and the energetic movement that will arise out of this doubt. Where you and I wholeheartedly start to question our usual way of thinking and acting, transition starts. Transition is learning about our earth, about ourselves, about our children, with love, with poetry and music. Transition is about gleaming eyes and a knowledge of doing good things. Transition is waiting with a sense of urgency, but with patience and compassion, for people who seem to be ignorant. Transition is healthy soil under your nails…
Transition is about getting it right, and realising we need to change. We have the chance now to do things the right way; right for our spirits, the land, our health, right for our kids and our shared future. It’s a series of small steps. It’s learning and re-learning, bit by bit, what works and how it’s done. It’s about curiosity, teaching and sharing the knowledge and the rewards. Apples off our backyard tree, the local freestore, good clean messy fun times together. It’s hope, achievement, sharing and safe futures. We can do it.
Transition is about letting go of fear. It is about setting the individual free from the sinking system of rising resource consumption, by embracing a new way of community growth. The insecure global village made safe as a world of villages. It is the way to hope.
Means learning from the past, crossing boundaries to help the less fortunate and to free the next generation from the wrongs of history!
I am always grateful for positive responses to what is coming up so quickly in all our lives. My husband and I have retired from our teaching jobs and are starting to live on our acreage in the Midwest. We are amazed at how we are rethinking space, water, food, transportation. I love that these issues are becoming conscious to us. I am loving the research and practice of new methods. I hope we will make it. we are sure having an amazing time reeducating ourselves, and as teachers, look forward to passing on our knowledge.
Transition happens when business as usual fails. There’s plenty of that already, with more to come. Even people who prefer lobster, asparagus, ice cream and macadamia nuts will barter for locally-grown potatoes when the gourmet grocer closes. Transitioning individuals and transition towns develop alternative sources of food, shelter and so on before they are forced, when necessary resources and skills are difficult to find. Transitioners focus on the peaceful and productive aspects of surviving collapse; survivalists on the less peaceful. Which will dominate depends on whether collapse is sudden and severe, or more gradual. Let’s hope for gradual.