
{"id":9370,"date":"2010-03-18T10:56:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T18:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=9370"},"modified":"2010-03-18T10:56:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T18:56:21","slug":"the-transition-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/03\/18\/the-transition-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"The transition initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So what the heck is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153transition,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d anyway? Well, this guy from the UK, Rob Hopkins, found that his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153design\u00e2\u20ac\u009d work with permaculture consistently showed our current energy use in the modern world to be unsustainable. One of the primary reasons is that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re addicted to oil.<\/p>\n<p>With oil as the energy component of most processes in our culture, it makes the design unstable and unsustainable, because oil is an inexpensive yet powerful form of energy. As demand for oil increases and supply stays the same, or decreases, the cost will go up. When the cost of oil goes up, everything will begin to change.<\/p>\n<p>So Rob decided to make a plan to go from \u00e2\u20ac\u0153oil dependency to local resilience.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He fashioned it after other dependency programs, with 12 steps to recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Our steering committee is planning \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Great Unleashing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on May 15 at the Century Center. The idea is to bring the community together to create a specific \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Plan B\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for the future, which minimizes the use of oil. We see Transition Carrboro\/Chapel Hill as an umbrella organization for the many local organizations already preparing for a positive future. We will have speakers, discussions and an all-day open-space networking session.<\/p>\n<p>Please check out our website, transitioncch.org, and join us for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Great Unleashing.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>TIM PECK<br \/>\n<em>Transition Carrboro\/Chapel Hill Steering Committee<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what the heck is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153transition,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d anyway? Well, this guy from the UK, Rob Hopkins, found that his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153design\u00e2\u20ac\u009d work with permaculture consistently showed our current energy use in the modern world to be unsustainable. One of the primary reasons is that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re addicted to oil. With oil as the energy component of most processes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9371,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9370\/revisions\/9371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}