http://www.ambitgambit.com/2009/01/12/moving-forward-a-slogan-or-a-lie/ Ambit Gambit Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:31:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.ambitgambit.com/2009/01/12/moving-forward-a-slogan-or-a-lie/comment-page-1/#comment-2894 john tons Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:12:19 +0000 http://localhost/ambit/?p=3443#comment-2894 The Goons were walking backwards to Christmas. I laughed with/at the Goons - now I find that the goons are running the show and I am no longer laughing. There is the beginning of a world wide movement that offers some hope: Transition Towns. Transition towns recognize that we need to prepare for the possibility of a world without oil, a world where global warming has spiralled out of control. The aim of Transitions/communities is to build on our existing technologies to create local communities that are not dependent on outside resources to survive. So you will see positive encouragement of local businesses, growing food locally taking the term town back to its lexical origins. (It is used to refer to a settlement surrounded by gardens which sustain it - hence the Russian term for town is Grad and the dutch term for garden is Tuin; no where has the dual notion of concept survived.) Want to know more? Here is the link:http://www.transitiontowns.org/ The Goons were walking backwards to Christmas. I laughed with/at the Goons – now I find that the goons are running the show and I am no longer laughing.
There is the beginning of a world wide movement that offers some hope: Transition Towns. Transition towns recognize that we need to prepare for the possibility of a world without oil, a world where global warming has spiralled out of control. The aim of Transitions/communities is to build on our existing technologies to create local communities that are not dependent on outside resources to survive. So you will see positive encouragement of local businesses, growing food locally taking the term town back to its lexical origins. (It is used to refer to a settlement surrounded by gardens which sustain it – hence the Russian term for town is Grad and the dutch term for garden is Tuin; no where has the dual notion of concept survived.)
Want to know more? Here is the link:http://www.transitiontowns.org/

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