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Transition Towns with Rob Hopkins

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The Limits of Transition

I think one of the things that we got right at the beginning of transition was that balance between being over prescriptive and under prescriptive. So basically we have a set of values and some principles and we say, if these resonate with you, then you're doing transition. We have a very simple kind of light touch procedure for becoming an official transition initiative. But beyond that, people just do what they want to do. It has a lovely self-regulating element to it. If you become a total egomaniac sort of messiah, everyone's going to go off and start another group. I don't know of any examples where that has ever happened. For transition

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