I live in a Transition Town

Chapel Hill is a Transition Town. So ... What's that?

http://www.transitionnetwork.org/

 The website says, "A Transition Initiative (which could be a town, village, university or island etc) is a community-led response to the pressures of climate change, fossil fuel depletion and increasingly, economic contraction."


The site explains the whole process of how you can start making the place YOU live a transition town. The founders of this movement are frank that they don't know if this idea will work and that it is a huge social experiment, but the government is not really fixing this problem and individuals can't do much either. Uniting with a community movement might not work either, but it's certainly worth trying. 


Chapel Hill has a population of 50,000 but mid size cities like Albany NY and Austin TX are also trying this as well as some large cities like London and Bangkok.