Current Article on Descent

There is a great article out now about the Transition town movement in Orion Magazine, "The Transition Initiative".  They are talking about my jam:  community empowerment through knowledgea and skill building.  "The core purpose of the Transition Initiative is to address, at the community level, the twin issues of climate change and peak oil—the declining availability of “ancient sunlight,” as fossil fuels have been called." 

Here is another excerpt:

“The people who see the value of changing the system are ordinary people, doing it for their children,” says Naresh Giangrande, who was involved in setting up the first Transition Town. “The political process is corrupted by money, power, and vested interests. I’m not writing off large corporations and government, but because they have such an investment in this system, they haven’t got an incentive to change. I can only see us getting sustainable societies from the grassroots, bottom-up, and only that way can we get governments to change.”   Yeah!

Read it and let's discuss.