[Originally published on Transition United States in October 2009]

Myrto wrote about Raising Funds for Transition.  Several months ago, here in Los Angeles, we were discussing similar issues.  But thoughts which began with “how do we get money” soon ventured into a different realm:  “What does a sustainable service organization look like in this powerdown era […]

[Originally published on Transition United States in December 2009]
Solidarity

union or fellowship arising from common responsibilities and interests, as between members of a group or between classes, peoples, etc.: to promote solidarity among union members.
community of feelings, purposes, etc.

It’s so foreign to our American experience that I had to look it up in the dictionary to […]

[Originally published on Transition United States in October 2009]

Climate change says we should change
whereas peak oil says we will be forced to change.
– Rob Hopkins

Here in the U.S., the film “An Inconvenient Truth” made awesome strides in informing the general public about the reality of global warming.  The April 2007 Step It Up campaign […]

[Originally published on Transition United States in November 2009]
One of the most brilliant, well-written pieces I have read about the economy is “The Wrong Tree” (as in “Barking up the …”). Written by Jerry Mander of the International Forum on Globalization, it is found as part of the introduction to the the latest publication of […]

Murders, political scandals, celebrity escapades … mainstream media feeds a willing public a steady diet of it.  The American public spends hours on the stuff, immersed in the horror tales and vapid sagas all played out on bigger-bigger-still-bigger plasma screens.
But in the early 1990s I figured it out:  you don’t have to read the news.  […]