Undulating Ungulate

A wee while back I read the Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins. (Online version here.) He founded the Transition Towns movement. The gist is accepting that our lives are going to change a lot due to the reality of peak oil and global warming our lives, so we may as well be proactive about adapting to this by making our local communities more resilient and prepared. The handbook is the story of where they are coming from, and how the first TTs went about establishing themselves, and in general is well worth a look.

The Transition movement strikes me as the closest so far to my own thinking. So I went along to a meeting of my local group. (There are a bunch of groups in Wellington.) And it was interesting to connect with other people who get it and are willing to do something. It is very much a do-ocracy, and I am still very much figuring out what it is what to do – but yeah. Interesting.

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