Margaret Mead 1901-1978
TRANSITION ISLAND KEY CONCEPTS
Independent - separate from party politics, personal ambitions, etc: instead driven by Community Action...
Community Action - not government, multi-nationals, 'experts', etc: but people who will continue to live here...
Local - groups of people within neighbourhood areas, reducing petrol use and other carbon footprint factors...
Sustainable - keeping the ecological cost of living within what the environment can provide in the future...
Resilience - our ability to survive major changes expected that will alter our currently comfortable lifestyles...
Skills - by using human nature at its best for creativity, drive, pride-in-achievement, humour, teamwork...
Inclusive - joining with everyone who wants to help and those already working on these problems...
Emerging - in an everyone-does-a-little-bit, no-one-pays-too-much, exploring-creativity-&-opportunity sort of way...