Tom brandstetter's Blog (9)

The paradox of wanting to be Bjorn again

As many in the Peak Everything education world know. Facts and figures Charts and graphs Just don't get through to people if the information is beyond their normal experience. You end up being as ineffectual as Ross Perot while running for president trying educate the public with big sheets of paper and magic markers. He was the butt of many jokes for actually using data to support his position. As with Jimmy Carter appealing to logic for all us to…

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Added by tom brandstetter on February 25, 2012 at 5:00pm — No Comments

energy collective in UK

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Added by tom brandstetter on September 17, 2010 at 5:01pm — No Comments

Federal Reserve deflation warnings and The Transition Network Conference Response

The Transition Movement is asked to respond to a very daunting collection of emergencies. Climate disruption and Peak Oil being the most frequently talked about. The third in this lovely triad is monetary systems. Global economic Ponzi systems. Because these money systems are legalized gambling based on falsehoods concerning unlimited natural resources of the planet they will fail first. These are leveraged bets… Continue

Added by tom brandstetter on August 11, 2010 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

Going through withdrawal like me ?

Working hard daily to end my personal addiction to oil has met with mixed results. I've ended up trading one addiction for another. I've become addicted to watching us get into the media. Many of us get into the news. Almost every week one of us has a microphone in our face or camera pointed at us. Formerly shy people now eagerly jumping on soapboxes and testifying. I find it so way over the top cool to be part of a group of passionate caring people. I see many faces and names of people I…

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Added by tom brandstetter on August 3, 2010 at 11:59am — No Comments

The new operating platform from Transition Culture

The new operating platform for Transition Initiatives is now available for preview in PDF form. This is basically what the new handbook will look like next spring.

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Added by tom brandstetter on July 30, 2010 at 5:09pm — No Comments

Transition Handbook 2.0 12 Steps (out) Pattern Language (in)

The Transition Handbook will look very different in the spring of 2011. Rob Hopkins has decided to drop the 12 steps method and replace with The Pattern Language approach. For those that wish to stay on top of this I'd read the book by Christopher Alexander that inspired this change

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Added by tom brandstetter on July 28, 2010 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Post Carbon Reader Chapters on-line

The Post Carbon Reader book will be coming out in October. This looks like it will be essential reading for all involved in Transition. I hope this Fall we can get together and have a book club centering around the 28 essays. A study group to digest all this information. Urban planning, water issues, transportation on and on

A few chapters have been put on-line at the Post Carbon Institute. The chaper I'm posting should be popular with Transition Milwaukee members. Chris…

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Added by tom brandstetter on July 13, 2010 at 6:10pm — No Comments

Erik goes national again with The Aspiration Gap

Back in May Erik did the world a great service by laying out a psychological map for all of us. Erik coined the term Aspiration Gap and went on to describe the how he sees a way to live within the world of cognitive dissonance. A way of progressing both internally and externally towards a meaningful transition. I have thought about that posted essay many times over the past two months and hoped it had a similar influence on others. Now once again I'm very proud to see Erik's work is being…

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Added by tom brandstetter on July 12, 2010 at 9:42am — No Comments