Approach Quote by Rob Hopkins

We should use the transition to a better energy strategy as an opportunity to create a better economy and a better country all around.

— Van Jones

“Transition Initiatives are based on four key assumptions: 1. That life with dramatically lower energy consumption is inevitable, and that it's better to plan…

— Rob Hopkins

People are are moving away from the fossil fuel-based economy, to a more renewable economy. That is what is called the 'transition town' movement.…

— Satish Kumar

You can push your local communities to adopt more sustainable sources of energy and environmentally-friendly practices.

— Al Gore

Economic localization is the key to sustaining biological and cultural diversity - to sustaining life itself. The sooner we shift towards the local, the…

— Helena Norberg-Hodge

We must swiftly and justly transition to a clean energy economy that benefits all communities, creates good-paying jobs, and is in line with what…

— Dean Phillips

We need to find a balance between protecting our local economies while pursuing the longer-term goal of producing clean, affordable and reliable power.

— Ann Kirkpatrick

I'm sure if one turned one's mind back from grandiose faults to what is happening to the average man or woman or child in…

— Chinua Achebe

Clean energy jobs can exist across the state and create micro-economies to support struggling communities. Local governments can use advanced energy to retrain workers…

— Stacey Abrams

The rural areas have been deprived by the cities in the past. Development resources and energy should be directed where the people live.

— Chinua Achebe

We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.

— Mitch Daniels

Given the scale of the ecological crisis we are facing this is the appropriate scale of expansion. Occupying the streets to bring about change…

— Gail Bradbrook