Transition Area Bouzovsko? Max Vittrup Jensen M.sc. Planning and Environmental Management, Aalborg University, Denmark Is the Transition approach applicable in socially / culturally less responsive areas?

What does the following images have in common?

‘Totnes- the Nut Capital of Britain’

Tool library; community owned and operated

Vegetable farm in Havana, Cuba

Unschooling

Watt-Watchers. Community initiated electricity saving device

Participatory decision making

City Repair; Reclaiming the neighbourhoods

Community Supported Agriculture

Who’s designing a creative, positive energy descent? (Europe)

What’s stopping us? Cognitive Overload Theory (fruit salad experiment) Short term vs long term thinking Belief in authority figures Sunk cost, or investment in the present “it’s difficult convincing a person of something when his job depends on him not believing it” Optimism an optimistic outlook is neurochemically self-fulfilling

Bouzovsko (Or a similar rural area in a post-socialist country) -Majority of the educated population has left the area -The town hall represents the remaining voters -Lack of employment opportunities, especially for skilled labor -Non-progressive development -Non-participatory feudal decision processes -Peer-to-peer exchange system -Massive centralizing of property, heating, electricity and food production systems Massive distrust against organized Cooperation

In other words From top-down socialism …to... Egoism

Solution?

Establish viable plans for Post-Collapse solutions

People transportation Freight transportation Transportation infrastructure Health Care Education Water at the community level Land use Urban design Building community Local agriculture and local food supply Local agriculture as an industry Local hunting Local aquaculture Local manufacturing Repair as a local industry Retail trade Energy production Waste disposal Household preparation Social and psychological adjustment Information infrastructure Topics for Post-Collapse solutions

...Or our “common future” may be like this;

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