West Coast Oneness Event Series
The Global Oneness Project event series in May 2009.
The Global Oneness Project is planning a series of multi-media community events in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia for May 2009. Updates about the events and participating organizations will be posted here in the upcoming months. Please join this group if you are interested in participating. ...learn more
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Created: Sep 11, 2008
Updated: Nov 21, 2009
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Ben Brangwyn
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About
In mid 2006, after having long recognising the urgency to do something
about Climate Change and Peak Oil, I finally left the world of business
- I was part of the problem there, and not part of the solution. I
embarked on an uncompromising search to find a role that would go some
way to repay my pollution debt to the planet.
In the end, I created my own dream job. I co-founded the Transition Network (www.transitiontowns.org) with Rob Hopkins (www.transitionculture.org) - a charity that inspires, informs, supports, networks and trains communities to look Peak Oil and Climate Change right in the face and then collectively plan an orderly energy descent.
Climate Change and Peak Oil are the big challenges in our immediate lifetimes. At the community level, the former requires us to reduce our carbon emissions and the latter demands a huge increase in community resilience.
The Transition Town model asks two questions of a community and helps them design the answer:
"for all aspects of life that this community needs to sustain itself and thrive, how can we reduce the carbon footprint and increase resilience?"
Typically, the answers will revolve around relocalisation.
It's a dream job, and maybe, just maybe, we can create a society that will thrive through the challenges of Peak Oil and will help get the ppm of carbon below the James Hansen's stated maximum to avoid runaway Climate Change.
In the end, I created my own dream job. I co-founded the Transition Network (www.transitiontowns.org) with Rob Hopkins (www.transitionculture.org) - a charity that inspires, informs, supports, networks and trains communities to look Peak Oil and Climate Change right in the face and then collectively plan an orderly energy descent.
Climate Change and Peak Oil are the big challenges in our immediate lifetimes. At the community level, the former requires us to reduce our carbon emissions and the latter demands a huge increase in community resilience.
The Transition Town model asks two questions of a community and helps them design the answer:
"for all aspects of life that this community needs to sustain itself and thrive, how can we reduce the carbon footprint and increase resilience?"
Typically, the answers will revolve around relocalisation.
It's a dream job, and maybe, just maybe, we can create a society that will thrive through the challenges of Peak Oil and will help get the ppm of carbon below the James Hansen's stated maximum to avoid runaway Climate Change.