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Photo by Tom Davis, Edible-Yard.org
The world is changing:
the age of oil is ending,
the climate is changing (warming, here in Texas),
and the economic system is teetering.
Will we live that change as a planned, even joyous transition,
or will we stand here and let it hit us like an oncoming train?
We of Transition Austin choose to get ready, and to
thrive in the new world that's coming.
Our Mission:
Sparking Austin's Transition to ecological and social resilience
amid global economic and environmental crises
through education, organizing, and community building.
Our Task:
To raise awareness among Austin's people about
the reality of peak oil and global climate change,
and to teach & model effective ways for all of us to get
through those crises
in ways that enhance the quality of life of the people of Austin.
what's going on with Transition Austin.
Go to the e-list's home page at Yahoo,
log in with your Yahoo ID (or create one if you don't have one yet),
and click the "Join This Group!" button.
Donations to Transition Austin are
tax-deductible for Federal income tax purposes.
It's not the fact that we're running out of resources that's going to do us in - it's the economic collapse that'll happen on the way to that point. How Resource Limits Lead to Financial Collapse argues that it's the cost of resources as their availability wanes, rather than the waning itself, that's going to end our current way of life.
"The world is in transition from an era of food abundance to one of scarcity." The article New era of food scarcity echoes collapsed civilizations compares the situation before the collapse of earlier civilizations with the current situation, and finds a lot of similarities. Can our collapse be far behind?
And another country shows the benefits of local food production. The title says it all: In 1999, 35 million small family plots produced 90% of Russia's potatoes, 77% of vegetables, 87% of fruits, 59% of meat, 49% of milk — way to go, people!
See this page for older articles.
The April 2013 edition of the Transition US Newsletter
can be found
here.
New -
Issue #5 of the Transition United States Nation
in Transition: Stories from the Field can be found
here.
The May 2013 edition of the global Transition Network
Newsletter can be found
here.
We recommend all three!
Events
For the present, the Hub meetings are being replaced on the second Thursday of each month by a Transition Movie Night, hosted by Tom Davis. Come as early as 6:30 (BYO...); the movie starts at 7:00. For location and details, e-mail tmd@Tom-Davis.org.
If anyone would like an introductory presentation for a community group, please send a message to the Transition Austin speakers bureau.
To give us a comment about this site, including telling us
about things we ought to put in the "News" section above,
contact
the webmaster.