Rob Hopkins, Founder of the global Transition Town movement welcomes Transtition Nelson from his home in Totnes, Devon, United Kingdom. Created for the Transition Nelson “Expo Celebration”, May 14th, 2010, at the Prestige Inn, Nelson, BC. Find more videos like this on Transition Nelson

FIRST PRIZE WINNERS!! “Imagine Transition” music competition, Feb. 27th, 2010, Capitol Theatre, Nelson, BC. Find more videos like this on Transition Nelson

This video was created for the “Imagine Transition” video competition, Feb. 27th, 2010, Capitol Theatre, Nelson, BC. Find more videos like this on Transition Nelson

Without fossil fuels, the world’s population would be about 1 Billion today, instead of its current 6.8 Billion. Roughly 10,000 years ago, increasing population pressure on wild food resources led to a shift from food gathering (hunter-gatherers) to food production (agriculturists) in several parts of the world. This led to demand-induced technologies and demand-induced searches for [...]

An Energy Descent Action Plan (EDAP) is a local plan for dealing with Peak Oil and Climate Change and its related effects: War, famine, etc. It goes well beyond issues of energy supply, to look at across-the-board creative adaptations in the realms of health, education, economy and much more. An EDAP is a way to think [...]

Over 13 Billion litres of oil are consumed worldwide each and every day. This is expected to rise to over 18 Billion litres per day by 2030. That’s This information comes from the OPEC (Organization or Petroleum Exporting Countries) report “World Oil Outlook” (2008). See page 33 for details by [...]

March 20th, Capitol Theatre in Nelson, 7:00 pm – panel and discussion to follow. Sponsored by the EcoSociety FUEL is a comprehensive and entertaining look at energy in America: a history of where we have been, our present predicament and a solution to our dependence on foreign oil. Rousing and reactionary, FUEL is an amazing, in-depth, personal journey of oil [...]

It takes about 10 calories of fossil fuels to produce each calorie of food we eat.  Pesticides and  fertilizers are made from fossil fuels.  In 1994, it took 400 gallons of oil equivalents to feed each American broken down as follows: 31% for the manufacture of inorganic fertilizer 19% for the operation of field machinery 16% for transportation 13% [...]

In 1931, just as oil began replacing labour, 32% of Canadians lived on farms. In 2006, it was only 2%. Cheap oil allowed farms to both grow in size and productivity. See this CBC interview with Alfons Weersink on trends in Canadian farming.  As oil prices rise, labour becomes more affordable and this trend will [...]

Resilience is the ability of our community to cope with turmoil like oil, climate and economic shocks. It is our ability to reorganize while undergoing change so as to retain essentially our same identity and quality of life. It can also be thought of as an extra sack of potatoes in the root cellar and [...]