10 May 2010
by Emily Hodgkinson
Over the last year I’ve been working for Transition Leicester, one of the Transition Town organisations. The Transition Towns movement is a response to the challenges of peak oil and climate change. The basic premise is that we have built modern life based on the availability of cheap oil, and that this won’t be around for much longer. In the near future we will need to become more resilient in every way as we become less able to depend on cheap oil for our everyday living. It is an attempt to wean ourselves off of our addiction to oil. The Transition Towns ethos arises from the principles of permaculture and the insights of deep ecology, and organisations try to facilitate empowerment of communities by positive visioning, re-skilling, and providing emotional and psychological support for processing change.