Samstag, 22. August 2009

Transition Towns... Islands!

Pape’ete

Topics of the day: Transition towns, islands and times, bikes, WILPF, India

I slept over at Roti’s house so I don’t really know what Raphael did today (I think he cleaned the flat and wrote an abstract of his thesis in English (for Terii Vallaux)). I distracted Roti, talked to her about WILPF (Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom – she suggested I join them for their international summit (?) in India next year to present “my” ideas – don’t really think I’d be ready for that and the money (for the (polluting) flight) would probably be better spent on something practical (planting trees, building irrigation systems, class rooms, a small biogas plant (running on cow shit – in India)…) and politics in general, wrote for the blog and a newsletter ((“Transition Times”) which we want to distribute around Pape’ete on our day of action - the first issue is going to focus on different types of bicycles (to transport children (seats and trailers), adults (rickshaws/bike-taxis) and things (like tools and groceries)). I also read a bit about transition towns – a grass roots initiative which is starting to spread across the world (already more than 1500 towns participating worldwide). The aim is to reduce or in the long run eliminate fossil fuel dependency by localizing electricity (and heat) generation, encouraging public transport, minimizing (and recycling) waste (locally) and encouraging agricultural self sufficiency (the production of local food without using petrochemicals (organic/permaculture)). In a nutshell: “forming groups to look at all the key areas of life (food, energy, transport, health, heart & soul, economics & livelihoods, etc)”.



I found a lot of interesting websites… there is so much happening online (and even more in real life) which is really encouraging – we’re not alone (and I’m not talking about extraterrestrials on earth)!

Here’s a link: www.transitiontowns.org

Final thoughts of the day: Wouldn’t it be amazing to participate in a grass roots (transition towns) movement? There is so much information out there that just needs to be put into practice – by YOU… yes, of course… I know you don’t have time (so much work) and when you get home you just want to sit down and have your peace and quiet – must be my youthful foolishness making a suggestion like that - but it’s at least worth a thought, isn’t it?! Even if you just donate an hour of your precious time every week - that’s only about 8 minutes and 34 seconds a day.

3 Kommentare:

gaby hat gesagt…

Hi Kimsley,
kannst du dir Klein Borstel als Transition Town vorstellen? - Beharrlich genug sind die Einwohner dort bestimmt, allen voran eine junge Frau, die gerade am anderen Ende der Erde (von Klein Borstel) für eine bessere Welt kämpft. Mach' weiter so, ich mach' gern mit! - Deine "final thoughts of the day" gefallen mir heute besonders gut!
Gaby

Reiner hat gesagt…

Hi Kimberley,
thanks for TT-Link! I ran over it some times ago, but didn't take action.
Now I have to do something about that.
I'll build a TT-Group in Munich.
Another idea is to get politicians on a new track:
What about this Terii ... ?
Could he attend the global classroom of Otto Scharmer in September?
Or anybody else of the Tahitian Administration?
http://www.presencingglobalclassroom.com/

Reading Maevas speech I thougt of Theory U: Open Mind, open Heart, open Will.

We as planetary family will overcome those dark ages :-)

See you
-Reiner-

Kimberley Ellis hat gesagt…

Iaorana Reiner,
It's great to hear that you want to start up a TT-Group in Munich!!!

I can recommend the book:
"Das Energiewende Handbuch"

http://energiewende.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/das-energiewende-handbuch-ist-erschienen/

get in touch by e-mail my adress is my firstnamelastname @ gmx dot de
Greetings from Pape'ete
Kimberley

PS: hope you read this

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