Learning Resources

[PaulS]

I thought it might be useful to accumulate some of the sources of information that inform the Transition Movement.

 

Here is a link to an existing library of learning resources: http://www.transitionnc.org/node/50

 

 

As a start, here is an interview with Richard Heinberg, includes remarks about Transition:

Can civilization survive the end of oil?, Richard Heinberg

Interview with Richard Heinberg • September 17, 2010

Heinberg says we need to begin planning for a "steady state" economy that runs on a lot less energy - most, if not all of it, from renewable sources. But for different reasons he says government leaders, business officials and environmental groups aren't dealing with the problem.

If that doesn't change, Heinberg foresees a bleak post-oil future in which population declines drastically and people fight over what resources remain in an environmentally devastated landscape.

Here is an interview with Heinberg on Post Carbon Institute: http://www.postcarbon.org/audio/140416-can-civilization-survive-the...

[PaulS]

Life After Growth - Economics for Everyone

The economic crash of 2008 revealed not only the frailty and vulnerability of the economic system, it also showed the false basis that the growth economy is built on – the financial bubble grows bigger and crashes bigger, but we don't seem to be getting any happier. To the contrary, we suffer from greater job insecurity and environmental chaos threatens.

The prescription from the mainstream economists and our own government is more growth – but is this just taking more of what ails us?

Has growth become uneconomic?

Is there another way?

This film is part of an ongoing project to document the rise of a new movement – calling not for more economic growth, but LESS. The degrowth movement, or "mouvement por le decroissance", argues that through a voluntary reduction of the economy we can work less, consume less and live better, fuller lives.

Many have been pointing out that our current economic system is leading us to an environmental
and social catastrophe. "Life After Growth" begins to point to the people and communities who are looking for ways out. These are the pioneers who are rethinking the role of economics in our lives, and are engaging in different types of economic activity, right now.

The D word is still taboo in many circles – politicians are loath to go against the growth orthodoxy that our society is based on. But everywhere people are engaging in degrowth type activity - the beginning of a wave that is laying the groundwork for a post-capitalist future...

Because it's not the size of the economy that counts, it's how you use it!

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IT'S TIME TO RECLAIM THE ECONOMY

Video: http://vimeo.com/10871269

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[PaulS]

Personal Energy Descent Plan

A comprehensive guide to hat you cand do now.

You can’t expect to implement
this all in a hurry, but you will be at an advantage by
preparing early. It will not be easy, but it will be
rewarding.

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