When Neighbors Meet to Compare Energy Bills, Much Bigger Ideas Are Born

Transition Town Totnes/Video screen captureWhen I posted about the award-winning Transition Streets program, I wrote about neighborhood groups which coached each other in energy conservation and lower carbon living. But that initial focus on cutting each others carbon at home seems to have spawned something much bigger and more exciting—a deeper, more collaborative sense of community.From solar power spreading across rooftops on

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