Introductory Post

As a society, we are facing some serious challenges related to our overuse of resources, which can probably be traced back to the number of people that currently exist on the planet – 6 Billion and counting – more than at any other time in the history of the planet.  The Transition Town Movement (more on that in a later post) is an effort that allows communities to become self-empowered to meet the challenges we all face with respect to energy and environment.  Although we here in York County, in Southern Maine don’t currently have a formal Transition Town Project there is a lot going on here with respect to building our local resilience and self reliance as a   community.  This blog is intended to function as a virtual Transition Town  for Arundel and the Kennebunks until such time as we can form an actual one  – perhaps by some other name.
I intend to write about the local  resilience and local self reliance activities in which I am involved – and hopefully this blog will lead me to become involved in others of which I am currently unaware.   I see this blog as fostering a web of connections between community members which hopefully, will foster a more tight-nit community and help to develop a largely self reliant local economy which can sustain the people who live here.