Transition Towns

I can't believe two days have gone by without a blog post from me!

I have been occupied with friends, family, and getting a better broadband service. 

I am going to share a little personal stuff, ignoring the advice from three friends that nobody cares about it. I am tired - that's my excuse, and I want to keep posting on most days.

I spent this morning with five male friends, with whom I have been meeting for about eight years. I want to celebrate the support we have given each other over the years.

Yesterday I helped Jean and David get their hire car dropped off, and had a farewell coffee together, before they leave Australia to go back to the USA, via Istanbul and Tiblisi, Georgia, where their son is teaching.

I have made a two year contract for broadband services which I expect will be far better than my current arrangement.

I have been to meetings for the last three evenings on Climate and Sustainability issues, and community group management. This afternoon I also went to a talk with a great title:
"Climate change, economic justice and the political process - why democracies struggle with the bleeding obvious", by Richard Denniss 

I took some notes - maybe I could post the answer to that tomorrow!
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Finally I came home from a small meeting of five people interested in moving along with the concept of "Transition Towns". I found it a most impressive concept and will stay in this group.

Here is something from their internationally oriented website:

"A Transition Initiative (which could be a town, village, university or island etc) is a community-led response to the pressures of climate change, fossil fuel depletion and increasingly, economic contraction. There are thousands of initiatives around the world starting their journey to answer this crucial question:
"for all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly rebuild resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil and economic contraction) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?""

There is a handbook, which I will describe when I am less tired. I must sleep or I will burn out (again).

More:
"What we are convinced of is this:

• if we wait for the governments, it'll be too little, too late
• if we act as individuals, it'll be too little
• but if we act as communities, it might just be enough, just in time."