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transition town
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a [[place]]
- or [[grassroot]] [[community project]]
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[[wp]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_town
- based around local self-managed communities
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[[alternate currencies]]
- these remind me a bit of [[club del trueque]] currency in [[argentina]]
- [[totnes pound]]
- [[lewes pound]]
- [[stroud pound]]
- [[brixton pound]]
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big in the UK
- [[totnes]] serves as inspiration
- [[transition network]] is a UK charity
- there's a focus on [[peak oil]] -- I had almost forgotten about the concept. is it happening? I get the feeling peak oil is always in the imminent future but we keep missing deadlines.
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I'm personally interested in the digital aspects of such projects -- in particular as they become networked.
- It seems to me the internet makes virtual transition towns possible, and perhaps useful as a metaphor, although I wonder what the people actually involved on actual transition towns would think of this idea (as the focus seems to be on local development and sustainability).
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