The Transition Movement first landed in Colorado in May of 2008 when Transition Boulder County became the first official Transition Initiative in North America. Then, in September of 2008, Colorado played host to the first two-day Training for Transition on this continent, facilitated by Michael Brownlee and Lynette Marie Hanthorn, unleashing a flood of new Transition Initiatives throughout Colorado and beyond. Since that time, in the United States, fifty-two initiatives have been officially recognized, including five in Colorado: Boulder County (now Transition Colorado), Lyons, Denver, Louisville, and Westminster/Arvada/Broomfield. This makes Colorado the second-most active state in the US, after California with thirteen official initiatives. Now—a year and a half later—it is time to look back on what Transition in Colorado has accomplished so far and where it is headed…

…David Murphy observed in his October 28 review: “I have been to every ASPO-USA conference (save the first ever in Denver) and this is the first time that contradiction was so evident.” From the “Chicken Littles” posted outside the Sheraton Hotel handing out copies of “‘Peak Oil’ is a Waste of Energy,” to  informal conversations in the hallways, you could not miss contradiction as a central theme of this year’s conference.

Most of us have heard of  Slow Food, an international movement to preserve local food cultures that boasts over 100,000 members in 32 countries. And many of us are now becoming aware of  Slow Money, an ambitious effort to redirect investment capital to support local food systems. In the light of these inspiring examples, I have been thinking that it might be time to begin to explore the concept of Slow Leadership.

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A review of Andre Angelantoni’s presentation on “Personal and Family Resilience in the Post Oil World” in Boulder, Oct. 8, 2009

You can almost always tell how well-received a presenter is by how long people hang around afterwards. Nearly an hour after Andre Angelantoni’s talk at the Boulder Meadows Community Room earlier this month there was still a group huddled around him, eagerly soliciting his advice.