Creating an Economic Transition 
In episode 76 of The Sustainable Living Podcast Nicole Bienfang Seed Person of The Transition discusses with host Jenise Fryatt how our organization helps people take action.
You may wish to check out the following related links that are mentioned in the interview:
Twin Oaks Communities Conference
Show Discussion Chronology
1:00 – Chronic Illness – Binge documentary watching
3:00 – The Venus Project – Resource Based Economy
6:00 – Michael E.V Knight – Build a Resource Based Economy Now Facebook Group
10:00 – Intentional Communities – considered patchwork solution by Venus Project
11:15 – Identifying common themes within the tribe
13:00 – Decided to create our own website
15:15 – Status of RBE Facebook Group now
16:30 – How the website helps people to take action
18:00 – Pitfalls of too many groups trying to do the same thing
20:45 – Difference between The Transition and Transition Towns
24:15 – Top Down vs Bottom Up Approach
27:45 – Objectives of The Transition and how it takes action to meet them
29:45 – Identifying best ways to start taking action and developing “Your Action Plan”
31:00 – Matching resources to needs
32:45 – The Transition is a reciprocal organization – Stone Soup
36:45 – The powerful hidden fringe benefit of all this
39:30 – “There is no soup unless you put in some potatoes”
41:45 – Making fringe society mainstream
43:30 – Attracting and organizing volunteers and groups
45:00 – Developing a crowd-funding platform for funding member projects
47:30 – Some of the projects that are being helped by the site
49:30 – Site being used as a filter to find serious people for projects
51:00 – How can people make the best use of The Transition website?
54:45 – The importance of non-violent communication
57:30 – The importance of re- assessing the usefulness of our current system
59:00 – Ways to contribute to the Transition community and benefits of contributing
1:02:20 – Yearly conference at Twin Oaks Intentional Community
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