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Posted Thu Sep 18 2008: from Christian Science Monitor:
Communities plan for a low-energy future http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1221749623
 Transition Towns (or districts, or islands) designate places where local groups have organized to embrace the challenge of adapting to a low-oil economy. As the movement's website (www.transitiontowns.org) states, it's an experiment in grass-roots optimism: Can motivated citizens rouse their neighbors to act in the face of diminished oil resources and climate change? "We don't know if this will work," says Ben Brangwyn of Totnes, England, who in 2007 helped launch the Transition Network to support Transition Towns worldwide, "but if we leave it to the government it will be too little, too late. If we do it on a personal level, it won't be enough. But if we do this as a community, it may be just enough, just in time."
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