Life After Oil

April 14, 2009

The Transition Town movement aims to wean us off our fossil fuel addiction — without knowing if it’ll work. How an unproven social experiment is becoming a phenomenon

By Rachel Dowd

In the late 1980s, Joanne Poyourow’s life looked like the American Dream. A certified public accountant in charge of multistate taxation at a boutique practice in Newport Beach, Calif., she had earned the shiny little sports car, three-inch heels, and business class flights to which she had grown accustomed.

Then she left it behind. more

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