"Transition was created, as I say, as a kind of Trojan Horse, into which one could stuff permaculture, the psychology of change, etc. etc, and then manage to simply wheel it into the wider consciousness, sidling it past people who would glance over their shoulders and say “oh, it’s just Transition”."

http://www.transitionnetwork.org/stories/guest-editor/2011-10/where-does-permaculture-now-sit-within-transition