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I am sharing this story because of inspiration I have taken from Forrest Craver's most recent posts:

There came a time in our community when we grew tired of arguing over who was right and who was wrong. Despite all the arguing there were still hungry people and the environment kept declining. What we needed was more places for people, plants and creatures to fit.

Then we came to realize that the market could not solve all our problems. The market is wonderful for what it does – a spur… Continue

In the early 18th century, Jethro Tull wrote a book called Horse-hoeing Husbandry in which he advocated vigorous tillage as the best way to make a profit at farming. We humans have been depleting soils around the planet ever since. Vigorous tillage, or plowing, burns the organic matter in the soil releasing nutrients faster than the plants can use them. It removes the protection of vegetative cove… Continue

It has been a little over a year since the Transition Colorado web site was set up and as of this writing we have 1,137 members. That is impressive growth that, I think, reflects the level of understanding we have in Colorado about the seriousness of continuing a system dependent on fossil fuels. We can be proud of what we have accomplished this past year. And, this is a good time to think about how we can build on that accomplishment.

I am concerned, as I follow the activities on this site, th… Continue

The first three posts on Living in Place brought you up to date on my experiments with these ideas. I can now give a blow by blow as new results come in. Last night we had a meeting of the Core Group for Transition Westminster/Arvada/Broomfield for the purpose of discovering our common values. We started by trying to answer the question 'Why Transition?' There is an on going discussion by the group in our group pages here on Transition Colorado but I woke up this morning thinking about these thi… Continue

In my place most of the people are relatively well off. Most people are not aware of all the forces playing out around and through them. Most people are focused on their part in the set of transactions that create this ecosystem and this economy.

And I suppose that is how it has been since the beginning. We each start out completely dependent and learn what our community learned about how to fit – what it takes to survive. And then we focus on finding a place for ourselves and our primary conce… Continue