GoHuman Blog

Last night Stephen Colbert interviewed Douglas Rushkoff, author of Life, Inc. Rushkoff makes a compelling argument for how the world has become a corporation and how that’s not a good thing. We tend to agree! Keep it local for the economy and environment.

Here’s one model for banding people together in local communities to effect change. A Transition Town begins with a Transition Initiative, which is a community (lots of examples here) working together to look Peak Oil and Climate Change squarely in the eye and address this BIG question:

“For all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?”