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Transition Voice is the online magazine on peak oil, climate change, economic crisis, and the Transition Town movement. Located in Staunton, Virginia, Transition Voice was designed by Curren Media Group. Transition Voice welcomes content submissions and donations of support. All articles on Transition Voice are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Letter to a plutocrat: Your pipeline made me a criminal

By Staff Reports | May 22, 2015

natural gas pipeline

Dear Sir/Madam: I'm writing to you who control our government now -- that is, the big corporations of the world. Let's not pretend it is otherwise. Thanks to a system in which money buys elections, nearly all of our politicians are in your employ. Thanks for wrecking everything. If I were a Millennial, this might not surprise me or even be worthy of mention. They have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: activism, civil disobedience, natural gas, pipeline

Joel Salatin: How food can restore America’s integrity

By Staff Reports | May 1, 2015

Joel Salatin

Joel Salatin originally published this article in the spring 2015 Polyface Farms newsletter. We run the piece here with Joel's permission. -- Ed. While I was in Australia in February, imported Chinese raspberries carrying Hepatitis A (from human sewage) hospitalized a dozen people and heightened interest in my seminars to a fever pitch. The news media and individuals fell … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food, Transition Tagged With: food-borne illness, Joel Salatin, local food

We need a map out of the nightmare of consumerism

By Staff Reports | April 15, 2015

nightmare of consumerism

One of the most harrowing challenges of modern American life is navigating through the massive desert of our mindless, materialistic consumerism. It is within this landscape that a soul can become lost and drenched in despair. From the endless stream of vacant-eyed wraiths who glide down catwalks, to the pervasive advertising that never ceases to demean the values of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Spirit Tagged With: consumerism, plutocracy, psychology

Earth shelters: Building an eco-friendly bunker

By Staff Reports | March 17, 2015

earth bunker

A bit of a departure from our usual fare, here's something for the survivalist in all of us and especially for those folks lucky enough to have some land, preferably in a rural area. -- Ed. Most of us have a proverbial "plan-B," or at least a rough idea of how we would protect ourselves and our families in the event of an emergency. As turmoil increases around the world, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: DIY, shelter, survivalism

A two-century fight for the small, the local and the beautiful

By Staff Reports | November 18, 2014

Wendell Berry

Twentieth-century America witnessed the blossoming of Agrarianism as an intellectual and cultural movement. Its roots lay within the mythos of the early American Republic, which cast the self-sufficient yeoman farm family as the foundation of ordered liberty. As Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1785: Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Agrarians, Andrew Lytle, Ralph Borsodi, Southern U.S., Wendell Berry

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