How To Get Your Town Off Oil

You might, hopefully, be thinking that you would like to start a Transition Initiative in your community. You might be looking around you and wondering where to start, how on earth you might be able to even begin planning such an Initiative. In the book I introduce the Twelve Steps of Transition, which addresses your 'Where do we start, and then what?' questions.

Before that, though, it is useful to address some of the questions that often arise for people at the early stage of planning a Transition Initiative, and which may well prevent them from proceeding any further. I call these 'The Seven Buts'.

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Comments

[richeeee]

There is a major policy opportunity for Senator Obama to seize upon; the start of the solution to our energy crisis.
Almost every city in the world, American cities included, are power pigs. Skylines and buildings are lit all night while empty.
There are lessons to be learned from our past. During WW2 the American public was asked to turn out the lights at night. Now we are faced with ever rising oil costs and electricity is one of the great users and contributors to this dependency. We are under attack by the oil producing countries and their partners in crime, multi-national oil companies.
We should mandate that when a building is not occupied, the lights should go out. If people are working the lights could stay on. Vanity skylines must be a thing of the past. We turn lights off in our homes when we leave a room, why not the same thinking for office buildings. We as nation have become power pigs and it time for this to change.
This is an opportunity for Senator Obama to present a beginning to solving the energy crisis. It would be an intelligent first step that doe not cost the American public one dime. More realistic than the gas tax stupidity.
I hope that this thought doesn't get lost in internet space. It's up to the public to make their voices heard. If you agree make your voice heard to anyone who would listen.
A WIN-WIN SOLUTION!!!!

[williamina]

Wow, good to see that some of the Valley Girls landed a gig blogging on HuffPo.