Banff Transition

Global Guerrillas: : “The real value of the Transition Towns approach isn’t its emphasis on energy descent (which may neither be sufficient nor ultimately valuable for resilience), but rather its concisely crafted methodology for catalyzing community participation via a messy open source organizational process (which allows people to deviate from the “energy descent approach” if they desire to).

 

The Oil Drum: “Can Sustainable Development be sustainable? Naturally not, for merging together two antonymous concepts, it simply cannot exist. So why is this oxymoron in the order of the day? Why does it get such attention? Why are so many so willing to discuss it so passionately? Sustainable Development is one of several philosophical concepts (having as much eeriness as mythology) that emerged in the wake of a series of decades of breathtaking, unprecedented growth. Growth as in development, the physical expansion of the Human-sphere, its population and interactive processes with nature, harnessing energy and concentrated matter, deploying waste heat and dispersing matter. These mythological concepts are simply a reflex of a society intoxicated with growth in front of the first signs of physical constraints to its development.