Local, self-sufficient, optimistic: are Transition Towns the way forward?

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"Late last year, Rob Hopkins went to a conference. Most of the delegates were chief executive officers at local authorities, but it was not a public event. Speaking in confidence, three-quarters of these officials admitted that – despite what they say publicly – they could not foresee a return to growth in the near future.

"One said: 'If we ever get out of this recession, nothing will be as it was in the past,'" Hopkins recalls. "Another said: 'Every generation has had things better than its parents. Not any more.' But the one that stunned me said: 'No civilisation has lasted for ever. There is a very real chance of collapse.'"

Shocking stuff – shocking enough to leave many people feeling hopeless. And Hopkins has heard MPs and others in positions of power confess to similar fears in private. But the co-founder of the Transition Town movement is determined to offer courage and inspiration, and to do that he has published a short book, The Power of Just Doing Stuff, showing what people are already doing to develop a more resilient economy."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/15/transition-towns-way-forward

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1. sounds like the sort of thing we should be doing in areas that we know

will be flooded by sea level rise. starting building this sort of place uphill, in a safe place, so that people can start transitioning away from low lying areas.

start now building soil, too.