At our Transition Los Angeles core team meeting, we had fun with a visioning exercise.
We imagined being in June 2014, a mere 5 years from now. Perhaps it's a mention in the Los Angeles Times. Perhaps it's an article in a local paper like the Argonaut. Perhaps it's a man on the street or at farmer's market.
He says "Transition Los Angeles? Oh, they're the ones who ...
- Helped start community gardens, garden guerilla movement
- Had that great tshirt with the car logo
- Held that great demonstration that closed the 405 freeway
- Got rid of the lawns
- Organized a great green film festival
- Helped insulate LA from the recession/depression the rest of the country is experiencing
- started our own currency
- Took over buildings as reskilling centers for handcrafted goodies, jam, vegetarian meals
- Woke up city hall
- Got all the kids up on water issues (and more)
- Inspired schools to have classes in this stuff, transformed education
- Created alternative medicine clinics & academies at schools
- Introduced car-free days
- Got bikeshare pods going (carshare, zipcar)
- Got rid of 25% of car parking spaces/car parks and turned them into green space or food gardens
- Converted parking garages to root cellars and mushroom gardens
- Got the busses to be free
- Got a program going installing the really big cistern systems
- made solar cookers/rocket stoves ordinary instead of people thinking they were weird
- Opened a green store in Mar Vista where you could get toilets, etc
- Helped make LA self-sufficient in water
- Planted/harvested a million fruit trees
- Created that great movie Legacy
- Started the “Made in LA” label
- Inspired a whole lot of gardeners
- Trained all the Latino gardeners to turn LA into market gardens
- Created small local-scale solar power centers
- Got us to rethink our sense of consumerism, and change to locally crafted clothing and essential stuff that could be repaired
- Turned LA back into lots of little villages
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