With Rob being in the UK, had he travelled to the conference this trip would have involved a significant amount of carbon emissions and squandered fuel, something that
the Transition Town folks do not take lightly.
Not exact matches
One of those challenges is time, and with so many nonprofits already working to solve their own pieces of the sustainability puzzle, McCoy says lots of
Transition - minded
folks in
town are already busy.
Doing one of my regular check ins on
Transition Culture, the blog of
Transition Towns founder Rob Hopkins, I find that the NYT just ran a 5000 word article profiling the
Transition Towns movement, and getting to meet the
folks behind
Transition Town Sandpoint, Idaho.
As a pilot, this first taster of Growing Communities focuses on members of
Transition Town Lewes in England — the same
folks who brought us this rather catchy video and rap about our dependence on oil — and discusses everything from individuals keeping chickens in old playhouses in their backyards, through urban beekeepers in their local graveyard, to a collective artists studio that has transformed the land around it into a community garden.