Transition Silicon Valley

Santa Clara County is about to be hit by a “senior tsunami.” In less than 20 years, 1/4 of our county’s adult population will be over 65, as the Baby Boom generation ages. Many will be non-drivers – living in cities that were mostly designed around the automobile. What can we do to adapt our cities to assure that our growing senior population – and others in our community – can live active, interesting, and productive lives, without having to drive or own a car?

Learn more about this rapidly approaching “senior tsunami” and what our cities can do to prepare for it.

Jeff Rubin, the former Chief Economist of CIBC World Markets and the author of Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller. Mr. Rubin predicts $225 per barrel oil by 2012 and with it the end of globalization, a movement towards local sourcing and a need for massive scaling up of energy efficiency.

This is a very interesting discussion of economic issues related to the peak oil and climate change threats discussed by the Transition Network.

Now that Transition in Silicon Valley is beginning to take shape it's time to set up a web site.

Transition Silicon Valley is envisioned to be an incubator and umbrella organization for Transition groups within Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley is too large to be effectively organized by one Transition group, and it's likely there will be several of them in the area. Read more on the About page.