Post Carbon Fellow Rob Hopkins was interviewed by the Ecologist on the Transition experiment.

From the article:

So what is Transition precisely? Hopkins says honestly: “Well, it’s something different most days I’m asked,” but after more thought he describes it as being about “community resilience and economic development”. Which, happily, is almost exactly the same as what he has written in the first lines of The Transition Handbook: “Central to this book is the concept of resilience – familiar to ecologists, but less so to the rest of us. Resilience refers to the ability of a system, from individual people to whole economies, to hold together and maintain their ability to function in the face of change and shocks from the outside.”

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