Oct 11 2013
It Can Be Done: How Local Communities Are Transitioning to a New, Sustainable Economy
New reports on climate change portend a grim future. Our use of fossil fuels seems to have no end in sight. Climate change deniers claim that 95% of climate scientists who know the planet is warming are somehow hysterical and deluded. Oil and gas companies assume our energy supplies are limitless.
It can be dizzying to think about what it will take to reverse global warming and survive without oil. But a growing movement worldwide suggests that now is a good time to adapt our lifestyles toward self-sufficiency and sustainability.
Pioneering British environmentalist Rob Hopkins has founded the “International Transition Town Movement” through which he promotes what he calls a “transition response” in communities readying themselves for a world without oil and creating a new economy that is based on efficiency and sustainability.
GUEST: Rob Hopkins has written several books including The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience and his latest, The Power of Just Doing Stuff: How Local Action Can Change the World.
Transition LA presents: Rob Hopkins in LA
WHAT: “Just Doing Stuff” Panel Discussion with Rob Hopkins
WHEN: Sunday, October 13, 2013 — 5:00pm – 7:00pm
WHERE: Westchester United Methodist Church, 8065 Emerson Ave., Los Angeles 90045
HOW: Click here for tickets.
Transition Pasadena presents: Rob Hopkins in Pasadena
WHAT: Rob Hopkins and the Just Doing Stuff Transition Town Fair
WHEN: Mon, October 14, 10:30am – 2:00pm
WHERE: Throop Unitarian Universal Church in Pasadena, 300 S. Los Robles Ave., Pasadena 91101
HOW: Click here for tickets.
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