TRANSITION IN ACTION SOCIAL NETWORK

What's cool in the GTIA Portfolio...

MIMIC THIS! When you get invited to events 3000 miles away (or 20 of them just across town), use COPY & PASTE with the really interesting events to seed your own community's plans for similar events. Why start from scratch.... Beg, borrow and mimic! More....
Welcome recently added members. Check periodically to see if friends you have invited have joined.
Find others members in your hometown, region, state, country. (E.g., Country=Austria or City, State = Vashon, WA)
Produce a list of members who use keywords similar to your inerests when describing theirs (E.g.,Permaculture, intentional community).
See LATEST ACTIVITY on GTIA for results of comprehensive scans of Transition activities around the globe.
New links to Twitter via GTIA -- Twitter via #TransitionTowns. Twitter now displayed on GTIA Latest Activity.
Experiment by clicking on TOP NEWS vs ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO SHARE in the center column -- two types of Latest Activity.

December 2008 Blog Posts (28)

Local Emergency Planning Committees

The Transition movement addresses climate change and peak oil realities while building community resilience.

Our respective community preparedness and response partners are also tasked to build a robust and resilient infrastructure in order to address worse case scenarios within an all hazard approach.

I have posted an event announcement and additional information on the Transition Ohio ning site for an up-coming… Continue

Added by Kathy Jacobson on December 30, 2008 at 1:30pm — 1 Comment

Bardo and Transition

(Cross-posted at Peaknix)

Craving stability in our living arrangements, our food sources, our political and governing state as well as our personal security is a natural enough thing, truly. As babies, this is something we are instinctually driven to do, find food, find our mother's voice, her smell, her… Continue

Added by nika on December 30, 2008 at 12:00pm — No Comments

We need your vote by DEC 31 on Change.org to further sustainable communities!

Please vote for our idea on Change.org. We think this idea will greatly further the sustainable communities movement, and if your contacts are at all interested in sustainable communities please pass this on the them.

http://www.change.org/ideas/view/sustainable_communities_pay_it_forward_fund

THANK YOU!

WE ONLY HAVE UNTIL DEC. 31 and his idea is currently in 14th Place in… Continue

Added by Mandy Creighton on December 29, 2008 at 7:42pm — No Comments

Very neat article on MSN today about Co-op's

http://green.msn.com/Home/How-to-Save-Money-by-Joining-a-Food-Co-op/?gt1=45002

They have some great links to find farms, co-op's, and farmers markets.

Melissa

Added by Melissa Campbell on December 28, 2008 at 8:05am — No Comments

Deepest Winter - Snowmageddon

(cross posted to Humble Garden)

When we first moved here 13 years ago the first couple of winters were impressive. We had three or four 3-foot storms that first winter. I just figured that this was par for the course around here.

Since then, the past 10 years or… Continue

Added by nika on December 27, 2008 at 12:57pm — No Comments

Sustainable Farming, microfarming

[editting - if anyone can tell me how to reduce the photos at the end plz do! i tried everything i knew!]

The Sustainable Farmer: this wonderful Online magazine site has both local and broad usa coverage regarding sustainable farming enterprises: http://www.sustainablefarmer.com/index.html

Bonnie Bucqueroux, teaching faculty at MSU, has a new online magazine that is wonderful, and that will be featuring a Michigan section in the… Continue

Added by Monica King on December 26, 2008 at 11:14am — No Comments

Developing idea for entrepreneurial gardening initiative in East Bay

12/18/08 - 12/21/08

Discussion Participants: Matt, Mike A. Farmer, Laurence, Judith

List of services:

• Test soil (can’t even talk until we know what’s in soil)

• Tree pruning

• Building beds

• Creating garden design

• Harvesting

• Consultation (design)

• Maintenance

• Drip irrigation install

• Internship / job training /gardening skills

Upfront expenses: tools, advertising, flyers, wages, insurance, cart

Expenses for… Continue

Added by Judith on December 23, 2008 at 10:08am — No Comments

Notes from East Bay T4T meeting 12/19

Notes from meeting

East Bay Transition

December 19, 2008

6pm

Attending: Cheli, David, Judith, Mike A., Willow

What are the elements everyone has an interest in?

• Emerging: Food – money – water – involves everyone as a given.

• Analogous to oil

• Everything comes down to food and water

Relevant organizations - models

• City Slicker Farms

• My Farm SF

• Green jobs – Van Jones

• Alemany Farm

• People’s Grocery

•… Continue

Added by Judith on December 23, 2008 at 10:06am — No Comments

Transition Culture Art Archives

http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/TTartworks?alt=rss&kind=album&hl=en_US&access=public

You can add pictures to the pile by emailing them to picasaweb.com

RECOMMENDED: The Librarians' Internet Index Clip Art

Added by Sandi Brockway on December 20, 2008 at 11:53pm — No Comments

We're Gonna Need More Pie (A Solstice Gift from Transition Bloomington)

Sharon is the author of Depletion and Abundance, a down-to-earth response to Peak Oil & Economic Crash. Enjoy...and Happy Solstice.

Keith

We're Gonna Need More Pie

By Sharon Astyk • Dec 18th, 2008

Yup, another rerun, but this is one of my all-time favorite posts. I thought about editing the parts that reflect badly on me, but those are the funniest bits, as usual, so I just left them in. I had so much fun writing this - and Edson [Sharon's son]… Continue

Added by Keith Johnson on December 20, 2008 at 6:36pm — No Comments

Build a Rideshare Program that Works

DIYcity Challenge: Build a Rideshare Program that Works

Sarah Kuck

December 11, 2008 11:30 AM

DIYcity.jpg

Using computer and communication applications to improve the rate and ease at which we work is something we write about often at Worldchanging (see more stories here, here and here). Applications like Twitter and Facebook not only help us stay connected within our networks; they are also… Continue

Added by Sandi Brockway on December 18, 2008 at 8:56am — No Comments

Sharon Astyk's Prognostications for 2009

Given that she nailed most of her 2008 predictions, Sharon Astyk's 2009 prognostications are worth paying attention to:

"In previous years, I was fairly lighthearted about my predictions - this year, I don’t find it possible to be. I really hope I’m wrong about… Continue

Added by Keith Johnson on December 17, 2008 at 9:27pm — No Comments

New Titles of Interest at Permaculture Activist magazine

The Organic Opportunity: Small Farms & Economic Development DVD 25 minutes

"The Organic Opportunity" explores Woodbury County's pioneering program of (1) economic development tax rebates for farmers who transition to organic, (2) county purchasing that prioritizes local, organic food, and (3) financing for new, small farmers committed to organic agriculture. It is a story… Continue

Added by Keith Johnson on December 17, 2008 at 6:01pm — No Comments

TRANSITION TOWN PARMA--THE FIRST BABY STEP

From the Parma Powerdown blog. "Creating an abundance of permaculture in a time of energy, economic, and environmental depletion." http://parmapowerdown.blogspot.com/

Yesterday I read The Transition Handbook in its entirety and out of 200+ pages of information, the fact I can't escape is the global warming issue:

"If we break through the 1C barrier as now seems inevitable, we'll see a Mount Kilimanjaro completely bereft of ice, the almost complete collapse of the Great… Continue

Added by MRasey on December 17, 2008 at 10:51am — No Comments

American meat eaters yearly responsible for 1.5 more tons of carbon dioxide per person

Humans' beef with livestock: a warmer planet

American meat eaters are responsible for 1.5 more tons of carbon dioxide per person than vegetarians every year.

By Brad Knickerbocker | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

from the February 20, 2007 edition

As Congress begins to tackle the causes and cures of global warming, the action focuses on gas-guzzling vehicles and coal-fired… Continue

Added by Sandi Brockway on December 17, 2008 at 5:16am — No Comments

Transition Towns movement: Premature Triumphalism?

Premature Triumphalism

In last week’s post, I mentioned in passing that a presentation at the 5th Annual Peak Oil and Community Solutions Conference at the beginning of the month had left me with hard questions about the Transition Town movement. A good fraction of the comments I received in response to that post centered on that one brief reference. This probably shouldn’t have surprised me; these days, the Transition… Continue

Added by Sandi Brockway on December 17, 2008 at 1:30am — No Comments

Honda's Zero Emission Hydrogen Fuel Cell Sedan - Now leasing

Whenever anyone tells you that we will have to build an infrastructure for hydrogen, just remember, it can be harvested and stored anywhere from any source of electricity or fuel, and is a lot more landfill friendly than batteries. This car is getting good reviews, BTW. Honda has been in the lead. About 8 years ago they started setting up solar powered H2 stations around the world, in particular LA where… Continue

Added by Sandi Brockway on December 16, 2008 at 8:06pm — No Comments

That New Permaculture Smell

Today I finished reading the Transition Handbook and my mind is reeling. With possibilities, ideas, inspirations, and scary scenarios. The fact that really stuck with me is that we are looking at a 2C increase in temperature pretty much no matter what we do. Goodbye Great Barrier Reef.

Anyway, I've pretty much read the book and now need to plan for the next step(s). First a detailed action plan of the things I can do to create an infrastructure. A rough draft of said… Continue

Added by MRasey on December 16, 2008 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Permaculture solves problems - got any problems?

These are some of the services offered by well-trained, skilled and practiced permaculture designers. The following example introduces a variety of projects / services offered by friend and fellow designer Larry Santoyo and the consortium of designers that work with him via Earth Flow Design Works.

The Home Ecosystem

New… Continue

Added by Keith Johnson on December 11, 2008 at 10:30pm — No Comments

visualize your gardens

Very soon the days will be getting longer. As a gardener this excites me! Wet earth, decomposing leaves and the sun shining through the bare skeletons of the trees. Now is the time to begin your next garden.....in your imagination. I like to work backwards, seeing and tasting a ripe tomato or staining my fingers with raspberry juice. I visualize in reverse, seeing each step of the creation of my garden harvests. My imagination retreats in time until today and I know what the next step should… Continue

Added by robin harper on December 10, 2008 at 9:58pm — 1 Comment