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Transition Voice is back

By Erik Curren | August 1, 2014

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This is a story we probably should have done a few months ago, in February, when we decided to put Transition Voice on hiatus for a few months. But honestly, we didn't want to clutter your email boxes with news that we thought wouldn't interest anyone besides ourselves. Apparently, we were mistaken. Earlier this week, we published our first new story since February, Gerri … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: big cities, resilience, small cities

For health, smarts and resilience, drink your beer

By Staff Reports | April 8, 2013

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Anybody interested in buying more food from local farmers and learning how to cook and preserve it at home knows that taking control of what goes in your mouth is a powerful way to get healthier. But if you're trying to eat more organic kale, more free-range eggs and more pastured beef, you may also be trying to cut back on booze to stiffen up that beer belly or shrink those … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food, Transition Tagged With: beer, local food, resilience

You built that: 3 top strategies for resilience

By Erik Curren | October 17, 2012

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President Obama aroused the GOP's ire for reminding business owners of the obvious point that their success relies in part on roads and bridges built at public expense. But the rest of us would do well not to place too much faith in big government in the uncertain times coming with peak oil, climate change and economic collapse. Whether you think we're facing another … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: Barack Obama, climate change, economic collapse, environmental economics, peak oil, resilience

Making Transition happen, starting now

By Staff Reports | August 5, 2011

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The Transition Town movement starts from the realization that modern consumer culture is not sustainable. We currently use too much oil and other fossil fuels, resources that won't last forever and are being used up fast. Fossil fuels permeate modern life. At home, work, play, or moving in between, we're almost always burning fossil fuels. Or we're using petroleum-based … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: relocalization, resilience, survivalism

Children in Transition: Art, nature, life

By Staff Reports | June 9, 2011

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Recently I sat in on a Transition US webinar on Children in Transition with Dianne Monroe. Monroe calls herself an “Expressive Arts Facilitator"—she creates, leads workshops, and mentors in San Antonio, Texas. Her purpose with the presentation was to look at how our interactions with children, as parents, extended relatives, educators, and community members, can help them … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: children, parenting, resilience, Rob Hopkins, spirtuality

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