To me it's some high society invention that has been planned for many years; the transition from petrol to other resources. A few decades ago they destroyed individuals and companies that tried something like this and bought their patents and put it in a safe. Maybe this was going on for over 100 years, as some think about the 'free energy' inventions of Tesla. But after their destruction, their investments have shifted in that 'green' energy.
There is even data about an Obama related Chicago environmental bank that is going to make billions of dollars in commissions with the market in Carbon Dioxide rights, while all data about the BP explosion indicates that this was not an accident, but pure the result of management. Of-course, after this 'accident' the American public might be in favor of that change...
One of their big deceptions was the bio-diesel and bio-alcohol; whole forests are cut-down for that big lie, with the paid help of former activists.
I am in disfavor with this in my opinion deceptive project, as long as I don't see banners with "full democracy", "vote for vote", "free democratic owned media". That should be the intention of something with the name of "Transition Towns", but suppose that was not the principal idea behind all of this...
peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis
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This conversation is about drupal and its uses for particular organisations, your comments have no place here.....
Reasonable... & where was the decision making?
Nevertheless its promoted on Drupal as a sort of democracy community supporting tool, trying to convince Drupalists that its of high moral open community standards to support this project; so there is the political aspect put on Drupal to start with. And then we shouldn't discuss these aspects nor the sanity of the mentioned projects arguments; at least not here. Reasonable; somewhere has to be drawn a line, like: Drupal projects can be political of almost any kind and represent their information as they want, but the ideology around projects should not be discussed here. And indeed it could get a real mess on a technical -and also technical-organisational- site, not drawing these lines.
Maybe you can inform me where to find the info about who took and takes decisions over the ideology framework basics of this project?
(last political here: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy)
Thanks in advance!
Try TransitionCulture.org
Hi, ClearXSClearXS. Your topic is a worthy one to discuss, since my personal opinion is that our democracies are going to be stressed as events play out. In fact, I would be surprised if this topic hasn't already been discussed to some degree on any of the sites I list below.
However, as AlexJ points out, this group is populated by people implementing Drupal not people discussing the direction of the Transition Initiative. If there is enough desire, I suppose we could create another group to accommodate that. Two distinct groups would allow the technical people to get their questions answered without wading through long discussions that don't pertain to their immediate needs.
In the meantime, for that sort of discussion, I would try any or all of three locations:
www.transitionculture.org — This is Rob Hopkin's blog, one of the founders of the Transition Initiative
www.transitionus.org — If you are located in the U.S., you can converse with the leadership there
www.transitionnetwork.org — This is the hub for all countries (including the UK) that currently do not have their own country hubs. You'll find the worldwide TI leadership there.
Last, you could attend the Transition Network conference to be held in November and really dig into the topic:
http://www.transitionnetwork.org/news/2010-09-03/transitions-diverse-rou...
Naturally, if you see a need for a module that supports democratic decision-making in local communities, by all means code it up and we'd be delighted to make it available to the community.
Best,
André
Andre Angelantoni
Founder, PostPeakLiving.com
Transition
ClearXSClearXS
Have a look at the blog and forum posts on our network site, that I currently co-moderate,
you might be surprised if you actually investigated the movement itself rather than what is written about it.
Maybe you will join us on our network and we can continue our discussion there, we welcome
all participation.
http://transitiontownsireland.ning.com/
Regards
AlexJ
International Conference:Transitions Diverse Routes to Belonging
You would indeed be very welcome to join us in Scotland for the Conference.
And to join us on www.transitionscotland.org
The more the merrier!
Fiona