site, here in dormitary town Swindon - SN2 2LZ - U.K. As permaculture works with, rather than against nature, so the transition initiative works with, rather than against, HUMAN nature - care of earth, care of people, fair share - it is as collaborative and cooperative in social tone as permaculture is in its attitude towards plants and, like permaculture, is prepared to observe and THINK, slowly. Whilst the last seven years of thinking and observation, has brought me to the conclusion that the bottom-up positive thinking at the root of the Transition Towns movement IS an absolute first step in the establishment of an "energy descent plan mindset", IT remains the case that a similar localised top-down positive thinking mindset should be established in order that an appropriate energy descent plan be established for a town the size of Swindon, with all its diversity of 250,000 inhabitants. It is therefore a fact that I totally agree with Allan Parker who has raised issues in need of consideration and urgent action, in his posted comment to the Orion Transition Initiative article. I would like to report, however, that the Transition Network's latest document - Who are we and what do we do - does at long last begin to address the inclusive top-down/bottom-up Transition mindset issue. Here in the UK Somerset County Council has set the ball rolling so to speak by “agreeing to undertake a review of its budgets and services to achieve a reduction in dependence on fuel oil and produce an energy descent action plan in line with the principles of the Transition Initiative.” Leicester City, North Norfolk Council and Bristol City have, I believe, all made similar commitments, to the extent that "a lead by example""top-down/bottom-up transition mindset initiative" may finally be in the offing. In consideration of the fact that the demographics of the people of Swindon constitute the very core of the European Economic Computer Model it would be an encouraging step forward, to address the issues raised by Allan Parker, if the Swindon Unitary Authority were to follow suit.…
County Council has set the ball rolling so to speak by “agreeing to undertake a review of its budgets and services to achieve a reduction in dependence on fuel oil and produce an energy descent action plan in line with the principles of the Transition Initiative.”
Leicester City, North Norfolk Council and Bristol City have, I believe, all made similar commitments, to the extent that a lead by example - “top-down/bottom-up transition mindset initiative” may finally be in the offing.…
hange. Humanity is waging many wars – the literal ones that cause agonizing pain lasting generations, and figurative ones. We are ‘at war’ with our politicians, with neighbors who do not believe as we do, with the people we fear, with the planet, and even with our own thoughts. Much of the conflict in our lives stems from views and habits we have inherited. Our cultural assumptions are embedded not only in our deeply held opinions, or mindset, but literally in our bodies and our language.
For example, driving home from work I passed familiar homes on the circle of split-level colonials and ranch houses where I live. It occurred to me that the words ‘colonial’ and ‘ranch’ and the physical structures themselves carry collective assumptions related to our history of colonization and notions of westward expansion and ‘manifest destiny’. This never occurred to me before, so ingrained is my mindset about ‘housing’.
In this edition of Kosmos Online, Thomas Hübl and William Ury talk about historic trauma and conflict mediation that must occur at this deeper level and how we can all play a part. I’m looking forward to our podcast with Mr. Ury later this month.…
ated not to offend or disadvantage any particular group of people in society • so "un-PC" means politically incorrect as an adjective or politically incorrectly as an adverb.
The REAL consequences of consequences of THE COMPLEX SYSTEM of POLITICS, which supposedly represents the interests of the 7.8 billion individuals of [y]our species, homo sapiens sapiens, by way of a model of representative democracy • which IS IN DENIAL of those 7.8 billion individuals, 'connessione' with NATURE • have resulted in an awakening of 200 million or more 'cultural creatives', during this last renaissance of [y]our species, to the fact that EVERY ASPECT of the OLD ORDER MINDSET IS DEAD in the WATER.
WATER that the cohorts of the POLITICAL CLASSES of every flavour imaginable, are now stealing from the people and bottling for their own self-serving profit-driven mindset, because they have long since understood that water will become the new oil, in this respect.
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