…The Transition movement is actually just a part of something much larger, a deep and rapidly moving cultural shift in our society which, in Paul Hawken’s words, represents the planet’s immune system kicking in, a powerful and even revolutionary grassroots-to-grasstops community response to the whole broad range of converging global crises. Underneath all these various movements and organizations—and what we make explicit in the Transition movement—is the impulse for community healing and regeneration. There are two areas where we see many of these movements beginning to converge and overlap. The first has to do with food, local food. This is the local food movement, or the local food revolution—or what we call it, the local food shift. The second has to do with shifting local capital to invest in the well-being of our communities…