from Transition Voice http://transitionvoice.com
What’s Out |
What’s In |
| “God, I’m soooo busy!” | “Sure, I’m free.” | Plutocracy | Block Captains |
| Plastic Bottles | Oil Conservation |
| Retirement Communities | Granny Pods |
| Desertification | Coastal Storm Surge |
| Rustic Weddings | Lunch Hour Weddings |
| Central Heating | Wool Robes |
| Fiscal Cliffs | Ecological Cliffs |
| 113th Congress | Essentially Anyone Else (except Ann Coulter) |
| Metropolitans | Micropolitans |
| Clubbing | Parades |
| The Furthest Reaches of the Universe | Your Neighbors |
| Peak Oil | Peak Denial |
| Silicon Valley | Shenandoah Valley |
| Body Wash | Pine Tar Soap |
| Mayan Apocalypse | 2013 |
| Gangnam Style | The Virginia Reel |
| Social Media Obsession | Social Media Vacations |
| Credit Default Swaps | Fossil Fuel Portfolio Divestments |
| Lipitor® | Butter |
| The 1% | The 47% |
| e-Learning | Pulling Radishes |
| Fluoridated Municipal Water | Strategic Municipal Budget Cuts |
| Wall Street Banks | Time Banks |
| Adam Smith | Charles Eisenstein |
| Apps | Axes |
| Brazilian Blow Outs | Silver Foxes |
| Grocery Stores | Buying Clubs |
| Keeping Up with the Joneses | Tool Sharing |
| The Euro (Again) | The Brixton Pound |
| College | Apprenticeships |
| Smart Phones for Kids | Chores |
| Shanghai | Brooklyn |
| Fracking | Stacking a Cord |
| Morton Salt | Pink Salt |
| Twinkies | Forest Berries |
| Sunscreen | Vitamin D |
| Centrum Multivitamins | Blue Ice Cod Liver Oil |
| Westboro Baptist Protests | Hell’s Angels Rides |
| Porn | Sex |
| The Debt Ceiling | The End of Growth |
| Plastic Covered Plastic Forks | Mess Kits |
| Mad Men | Little House on the Prairie |
| Career Climbing | Post-Jobs Lifestyle |
| Lawyer Foyers | Mud Rooms |
| Daily Showers | Sponge Baths |
| Haiti | The Rockaways |
| Recycling | Upcycling |
| Climate Change “Debate” | Extreme Storm Prep |
| Assault Rifles | Little Children |
| Romney-Ryan | The Whig Party |
| Gerrymandering | Constitutional Convention |
| Hollywood | Bollywood |
| Canola Oil | Lard |
| Washington Gridlock | Total Systems Failure |
| Clothes Dryers | Clothes Pins |
| National Campaigns | City Council Runs |
| MP3 Players | Harmonicas |
| Tofuti | Bacon Ice Cream |
| Occupy Wall Street | Occupy Sandy |
| Cans in the Basement | Community Canneries |
| Private Equity | Farmland |
| Barack Obama | Elizabeth Warren |
– Transition Voice