[OKC] Transition update and an invitation to conversation with Rob Hopkins hosted by Richard Heinberg

[Shauna Struby]

Transition Conference

Today's Transition Culture blog post by Rob Hopkins recaps the recent
Transition Conference in Liverpool, UK, and is a calm, cool, hopeful spot in
this summer of exceptional drought and heat. A couple of encouraging
highlights:

*        One of the things that was also clear over the conference was that
there were people from initiatives on a range of scales, from the very small
to the much larger, and it is important to value the challenges and
opportunities of both. For those smaller groups, it is important, even
though it can feel as though not much is happening, to keep those fires
burning and to keep doing what you do. You never know when tipping points
will happen, they can occur at the most unexpected times. Even though it
might feel that you are not having much of an impact, you never know where
those impacts might occur.

*        In Naomi Klein's 'The Shock Doctrine', a book which grows more
prescient with each month that passes, she quotes Milton Friedman, one of
the key architects of neo-liberal economics.  The quote is: "Only a crisis -
actual or perceived -- produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the
actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around ... That, I
believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing
policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible
becomes politically inevitable."

The full post is here :::
http://transitionculture.org/2011/07/12/some-reflections-on-the-2011-transit
ion-network-conference/. 

 

You're invited to a conversation with Rob Hopkins hosted by Richard Heinberg
July 18

Transition US is hosting a phone conversation - free and open to all -- with
Rob Hopkins on Mon., July 18. Rob is the author of the Transition Handbook
and co-founder of the Transition Network <http://www.transitionnetwork.org/>
. Conversation host, Richard Heinberg, is an author, educator, speaker and
senior fellow-in-residence at the Post Carbon Institute
<http://www.postcarbon.org> .

 
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Shauna Lawyer Struby

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Co-chair, Transition OKC

Past-president, Sustainable OKC

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