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Transition Los Angeles

Guiding our local communities

from oil dependency to local resilience

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Transition Los Angeles
is a group of local grassroots citizens who are preparing our communities for a positive outcome through the sweeping changes coming with global warming and peak oil.

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Transition Los Angeles

Political Action interest group

Our mission ...

TLA's Political Action interest group works with our local politicians to simultaneously

raise awareness of the twin crises of peak oil and climate change, together with the Transition concept as a route to preparing our communities.
( i.e. helping create a "shift in consciousness" )

prevent further peak resources from being invested into techno-fantasy scenarios.
( i.e. creating "holding action")

suggest possible alternatives to legislative proposals which would help our society Transition, or preserve the resources we need for the Transition era.
(i.e. "creating new structures")

How we do it ...

We select our actions very carefully for maximum impact; we don't go after every "enviro" issue that gets flown.
In many cases we work with politicians with whom we have already built relationships ("bridges" in the Transition lingo).
The current members of the team prefer to use the vehicle of a well-considered letter, rather than noisy marches, or presenting at hearings where only a sound-bite of our message gets out.
Our approach has been to promote long-term planning for the Transition era and the "Life After Oil" time period.

What we've done ...

California Climate Adaptation Strategy

The California governor mandated that the state prepare a strategy document to design climate adaptation for certain sectors. Our comments were that we will be experiencing peak oil at the same time as climate change, and that any adaptation must be designed taking both crises into account.

Read more here.

Los Angeles International Airport Environmental Impact Report (EIR)

The expansion/renovation project at LAX airport has been subdivided into many project phases. Our comments on the EIR for one phase of the airport expansion/renovation project, April 2009.

Read more here.

HR 875 "Food Safety Modernization Act"

Letter to the bill's author, Representative DeLaura, as well as to several of our Southern California area representatives, and to the Congressional Peak Oil Caucus, April 2009.
Read more here.

Senate Hearing on Improving Water Conservation and Management

Letter to Senator Fran Pavley, Chair of the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water, February 2009.

Read more here.

page last updated May 2009




	Want to join the Transition Los Angeles Political Action interest group?
	Send us an email that describes why you're interested, what political issues are "hot" for you, where in the LA basin you live, and what your Transition experience is.
	TransitionLA <at> gmail.com