What's Next For Earth

Sedentary transportation is antithetical to the human experience.

“Localmotion” is a play on words between “local” and “locomotion”. It represents the intersection (or rather, re-intersection) of two core human experiences - that of transportation and human movement.

With the dawn of the 20th century, transportation has increasingly become sedentary. So much so that transportation has largely become equivalent to sitting in a petroleum fueled chair.

“Our current transportation system is almost entirely fueled with depleting, climate changing petroleum. Building resilience in this sector therefore has a great deal to do with reducing oil consumption in moving both people and stuff.” —Richard Heinberg, And hunk Resilience course, Resilience in Major Sectors.

And it begins at the foot.