3 The Transition Movement and the Post Carbon Institute
The Transition Movement and the Post Carbon Institute advocate a pro-active approach to preparing a low-carbon economy, for both climate change and peak oil reasons. Transition towns are a grassroots, bottom-up approach, often planning on a 20-year timescale. The Post-Carbon Institute's campaign is aimed at local and regional governments.
The following resources provide helpful information:
Post Carbon Institute website
Transition Towns UK wiki
Transition US website
Wikipedia article on peak oil
Peak oil online primer
The best list of critiques of transition is in a pro-transition blog
‘Transition culture’, a thoughtful article by Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition Movement
Activity 7
Make notes on the following question:
Would transition towns and post-carbon cities still be a good idea if there was no climate change and no peak oil?
2.2 Limitations of permaculture as an approach to tackling climate change