Society

Peak Moment 180: Taking back our lives from the Wall Street mafia (transcript added)

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Get rid of Wall Street!” says David C. Korten, author of Agenda for a New Economy and The Great Turning. Wall Street is about phantom wealth — real wealth is about food, shelter, education, and mutual support. David advocates rebuilding local economies for healthy families, communities and the earth. To do that, we must change the rules to reduce the power of corporations, the politicians in their pocket, and a destructive money system.

Peak Moment 179: Fences down! Fostering community in an urban neighborhood

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Gardens replace driveways, a chicken coop replaces a garage, and personal relationships are deepening. Meet the residents of three adjoining houses, who removed the fences and talk about shared projects (and their one auto!), meals together, ecological living, and treasured conviviality. This idea could transform urban and suburban neighborhood life anywhere.

Throwing some light on the patterns….

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The idea of this patterns business is that, rather than the linear process suggested by the Transition Handbook’s ‘12 Steps’, (first do this, then do that etc…) what we see actually happening in Transition initiatives in practice is something much more organic, dynamic and self-organising, arranged in different ways in different places according to circumstances, interests and what is appropriate.

A threat to burn the Koran and the role of the Transition Movement

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When change unfolds, people want real solutions more than they want to hate. Our work helps people get focused on practical action, brings emotional rewards of connection and common purpose. Transition is an inoculation against human breakdown. It is inoculation against hate.