Transition Culture

►http://transitionculture.org
►http://villesentransition.net

Le mouvement de Transition est né en Grande-Bretagne en septembre 2006 dans la petite ville de Totnes. L’enseignant en permaculture Rob Hopkins avait créé le modèle de Transition avec ses étudiants dans la ville de Kinsale en Irlande un an auparavant. Il y a aujourd’hui des centaines d’Initiatives de Transition dans une vingtaine de pays réunies dans le réseau de Transition (Transition Network).

La Transition en question est le passage « de la dépendance au pétrole à la résilience locale ». Les populations locales sont invitées à créer un avenir meilleur et moins vulnérable devant les crises écologiques, énergétiques et économiques qui menacent en agissant dès maintenant pour :
– réduire la consommation d’énergie fossile ;
– reconstruire une économie locale vigoureuse et soutenable et retrouver un bon degré de résilience par la relocalisation de ce qui peut l’être ;
– acquérir les qualifications qui deviendront nécessaires.

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An interview with Naomi Klein, Part Two. “we must address inequality if we’re going to deal with climate change”. (Transition Culture)
►http://transitionculture.org/2011/03/24/an-interview-with-naomi-klein-part-two-%E2%80%9Cwe-must-address-i

You talked last night about the need for a new coalition in response to climate change, on that could come out fighting… this is the focus of your new book, but I wonder if you are in a position to start sketching out what that might look like?
I’m not sure I’m ready to do that. The only thing I can say is that people, as you know here, people don’t get involved just because it’s climate. People go to a protest because of climate change but they don’t do what they’re doing in Wisconsin – occupying the state capital for almost a month – and this is why politicians feel they can ignore climate issues. Even the people who care, as opposed to the people that deny anything is happening, even the people who care don’t care that much! They always rank it at the bottom of a list of all these other issues. They care more about education, they care more about unemployment, they care more about health. (...)

An interview with Naomi Klein. Part One: “…that world view is killing us and needs to be replaced with another world view…” (Transition Culture)
►http://transitionculture.org/2011/03/23/an-interview-with-naomi-klein-part-one-that-world-view-is-killing

Transition is a protectionist project, you are trying to protect yourself! But it’s been a dirty word for so long. It is an ideological shift. I really don’t know the answer – you know your community and you clearly know how to get things done here. You’re using language that is not alienating people and you’re building bridges across these divides. I wasn’t saying last night “you need to do this”, but I think more broadly, there is something going on where a world view is saying that there will always be more, that there are no limits, there’s a new frontier around the corner, technology will come and save us, that that world view is killing us and that that world view needs to be replaced with another world view. (...)

An interview with Naomi Klein. Part One: “…that world view is killing us and needs to be replaced with another world view…” (Transition Culture)
►http://transitionculture.org/2011/03/23/an-interview-with-naomi-klein-part-one-that-world-view-is-killing

Transition is a protectionist project, you are trying to protect yourself! But it’s been a dirty word for so long. It is an ideological shift. I really don’t know the answer – you know your community and you clearly know how to get things done here. You’re using language that is not alienating people and you’re building bridges across these divides. I wasn’t saying last night “you need to do this”, but I think more broadly, there is something going on where a world view is saying that there will always be more, that there are no limits, there’s a new frontier around the corner, technology will come and save us, that that world view is killing us and that that world view needs to be replaced with another world view. (...)

An interview with Naomi Klein, Part Two. “we must address inequality if we’re going to deal with climate change”. (Transition Culture)
►http://transitionculture.org/2011/03/24/an-interview-with-naomi-klein-part-two-%E2%80%9Cwe-must-address-i

You talked last night about the need for a new coalition in response to climate change, on that could come out fighting… this is the focus of your new book, but I wonder if you are in a position to start sketching out what that might look like?
I’m not sure I’m ready to do that. The only thing I can say is that people, as you know here, people don’t get involved just because it’s climate. People go to a protest because of climate change but they don’t do what they’re doing in Wisconsin – occupying the state capital for almost a month – and this is why politicians feel they can ignore climate issues. Even the people who care, as opposed to the people that deny anything is happening, even the people who care don’t care that much! They always rank it at the bottom of a list of all these other issues. They care more about education, they care more about unemployment, they care more about health. (...)