Wisdom from the U.K.

I read with great interest the story of Totnes in Devon, UK, a town that wants to become a "transition town," or one that’s come to terms with a future that doesn’t include the reliance on cheap petroleum products that drive our current civilization.

Transition towns are communities which have accepted that peak oil will happen and have started to take steps to ensure that when it does start to impact, they’re ready for it.

They’re not wild-eyed survivalists, they’re just ordinary men and women with an eye to a potentially difficult future.

They believe in relocalisation, growing their food locally – even if that means digging up the local playpark and planting fruit trees or vegetables.

Jim Kunstler would be proud of them!