[permaculture] Transition Town Initiative US

Thomas Allen thallen at nwlink.com
Thu Feb 19 14:20:52 EST 2009


Transition Town Initiative US is apparently growing quickly in the  
US. No news there. My newly-formed neighborhood group in Seattle has  
made application to join with them as an official site. This action  
is complicated by the issue of non-profit status as we are also a  
part of the Puget Sound region umbrella group, SCALLOPS. They and TI  
US are, or soon will be, US tax exempt organizations. So it seems we  
must be either fish or fowl.

This issue is of interest to several groups in the area. As I have  
researched the TI US group and its adoption by Post Carbon Institute  
I have created more questions than I have had answered. In  
particular, the sudden demise of PCI's Relocalization outposts has  
raised more than one eyebrow. So far, no one I have talked to in the  
region's existing sustainability groups has any idea of what the  
relationship between PCI and TI US means for their group, if  
anything. But there is a consensus that there's no time to reinvent  
the wheel nor form competing camps. There are groups in our area that  
have been active for nearly forty years and would like to amplify  
their efforts but not at the expense of entanglements they don't  
understand.

Post Carbon Institute is rather new on the scene and we really don't  
know much about it or Julian Darley, its founder. Any comments that  
could enlighten us are appreciated.

--Tom Allen 


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