Posted by Sami Grover on TreeHugger
Image credit: Transition Culture
The Transition Movement, a community-led response to peak oil and climate change, has been a huge inspiration to TreeHuggers everywhere. From the gigantic impact of just one transition group to the resulting global coverage of community alternatives to fossil fuels, this is one of the success stories of the environmental movement. But...
Posted by Rady Ananda on The People's Voice
May is heating up with special events for the food and farm freedom movement. For three days starting May 14th, people around the country will be taking specific actions in food, water, energy, and building community. Four special Guides on organic gardening have also just been published.
An important rally will be held in Washington, D.C. on Monday, May 16 at 10 AM at the Upper Senate...
Posted by on International Making Cities Livable
There are countless initiatives out there striving to make our cities, towns, communities, and regions more livable. The blogosphere is bubbling with what must be hundreds of individuals sharing their own thoughts on the status quo and future potential. Well, a new (to us) initiative has caught our eye and we’ve sat down to examine how this one stands out from the rest.
The Transition Movement is...
Posted by Patricia Hemminger on E Magazine
Hayes Valley Farm—an urban, community farm in San Francisco, California.
Across the U.S., Communities Are Forming “Transition Towns”—Pooling Skills and Resources to Prepare for an Uncertain Future
Sitting beside her wood-burning stove one snowy afternoon last January, Kim Latham ticked off her recent lifestyle changes: She installed an energy efficient geothermal heating system,...
Posted by Kentaro Toyama on The Atlantic
"Do you worry about whether you've buried the entrails deep enough?" was among the questions I heard at my first Transition meeting, in Albany, California. The meeting featured an informal discussion with Novella Carpenter, author of Farm City, who had converted an empty plot of land in the Oakland inner city into a viable vegetable and animal farm. Carpenter had just mentioned raising rabbits...
Posted by Ruth Ann Smalley on Daily Gazette (Schenectady, NY)
I’m thinking we’re about due for another “British Invasion.”This time, instead of fresh musical influences, look for the entrance of the Transition Towns movement, a set of exciting ideas for creating and organizing social change in response to the challenges of peak oil and global warming.The Transition Town movement has been gaining momentum, with 146 places — cities, towns and villages — in...
Posted by Robert Haw on LA Progressive
The Transition Initiative, fundamentally, is all about food. It’s also about more than that, but food quickly excites people when it’s withdrawn. Cheap energy has allowed our society to cut a lot of corners in the farm-to-market business, and now we’ve come to expect cheap and abundant food as an entitlement.
So the question has to be asked: will groceries remain...
Posted by Sami Grover on Treehugger
The Transition Movement has spread like wildfire across the planet. Yet when the Transition USA movement was featured in the New York Times, some interviewees grumbled that the touchy-feely hippy aspects were only appealing to a self-selecting niche of green minded people. Likewise, others have pondered how this community-lead response to peak oil and climate change can avoid becoming just a...
Posted by Jerry Grillo on Georgia Trend
Transition, a growing grassroots movement, is planning for a resilient, sustainable future
Bruce Rodgers had his second heart attack in March 2003, just before the invasion of Iraq, and through a post-surgery medicated haze he watched the conflict unfold from a hospital bed. He soon went home to continue his recovery and was jolted by the broken heart of a man 7,000 miles away in the middle of...
Posted by Betty Louise (Host) with Trathen Heckman on Transformation Talk Radio: Coach Betty Live
Host: Betty Louise
Guest: Trathen Heckman
Join Coach Betty as she interviews this amazing entrepreneur and visionary, Trathen Heckman, who lives, eats and breathes sustainability in Northern California. He is the founder of several non-profit organizations which help people make the right choices for health of individuals and communities. He is bound to inspire you with his down-to-earth (...
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