Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Preparing for the polycrisis?

[Becca-Person Brackett (ecbrackett]

Sue Donaldson is expressing what many others are concerned about, a
combination of global warming, resource depletion, consequences of the
human over-exploitation of the earth and dependence on technologies that
cannot be produced locally.
Have you heard of Transition towns?   Starting in England in 2007, it is a
movement to encourage communities to take steps to localize their food
production, and energy use.  All groups are self organized.
Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_town

Hooking up with those groups seems a reasonable next step.
Sort of related was an educational presentation how the natural gas network
is organized under our streets. If many homes on a block go solar and
electric only, the remaining gas customers are going to have higher bills
for the same gas  I would think.
Does Village Hill  have natural gas for stoves in their kitchens, like here
in Minneapolis?  There are probably blocks of homes, or areas on the edge
of a town which are " dead ends" of the gas pipes.  If the inhabitants in
those "cul-de-sacs" organized to ALL go electric, they could request
closure of the pipes to their area.  Never worry about gas explosions again!

OH, there was a transition group in Amherst, Massachusetts,  not sure if
still active
284, Norwottuck Rail Trail, Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts,
01002, United States of America

There is one in Northampton UK as well  :)

Becca Brackett