Transition culture is about redesigning how we grow and supply our food, how we heat our homes, how we get to work, indeed the work we do, our education, our arts and crafts, how we care for the... [more]
We have an uncomfortable choice on the near horizon. We can either face the future in a state of unplanned, disconnected chaos or we can begin the process of building resilience, re-skilling ourselves, slowing down our culture and co-operating with each other.
The key to permaculture is observing nature and learning what makes natural systems endure, establishing simple yet effective principles, and using them to mirror nature in whatever we choose to design.
The destruction that will ensue from climate change and the limitations of declining fossil fuels is forcing humanity to open to new ideas and become radically creative.