Sentences with phrase «as transition town»

The Transition Movement is a worldwide organization of small neighborhoods, which is forming as Transition Towns, to address some of the current problems we are facing in our country and world.

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«While more remains to be done to optimize our electricity system — building transmission lines to carry more clean power to those jurisdictions still burning fossil fuels, investing in smarter grids in our towns and cities, bringing more clean power online — these regulations create a foundation as we transition to clean energy and an economy built to last.»

Such organizations as Friends of the Earth, The Permaculture Association, The Centre for Alternative Technology, The Soil Association, Garden Organic (previously the Henry Doubleday Research Association - HDRA), the many Wildlife Trusts and Conservation bodies and the recent Transition Towns Network try to address these issues.

In the event Old Town School goes through a business transition, such as a merger, being acquired by another company, or selling a portion of its assets, users» personal information will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred.

Mr. Bellone has named Regina Calcaterra, a New Suffolk resident, Manhattan lawyer and foster care advocate, to his transition team as well as Babylon Town Councilman Antonio Martinez.

Ms. Eisenstein said a transition was always in the works, as the group set two - year term limits for its board positions, and that it is not related to her campaign for a Southold Town Board seat.

These pants can be worn as a casual work day look & can easily transition to an evening out on the town.

With everyone's schedules jam - packed and getting increasingly more hectic as the holidays approach, it makes sense to have a couple of go - to pieces that can easily transition from work meetings to a movie date, or from shopping to a night out on the town.

After making a surprisingly chilling force of evil in Billy Bob Thornton's Sling Blade, Yoakam, who also co-wrote, makes a disastrous transition to lead status as Val Casey, the marshal of a small western town in the early 1900s.

Apart from a strong supporting role as an FBI agent in Ben Affleck's excellent The Town, Jon Hamm hasn't made the expected transition from the TV success of Mad Men to real film stardom.

As an employee of Career Transition Counseling, Ryan makes his living flying from town to town firing people so that their bosses don't have to.

We know the Caravan will not last much longer as Dodge makes its transition to a performance brand, leaving mainstream duties to Chrysler, but the Town & Country is still a solid pick for those who can't do without sliding doors and seemingly endless cargo space.

Crossovers have become a natural transition from the truck based SUVs of the last 20 years, because most drivers finally realized that driving around town in an expensive vehicle built off a truck platform wasn't as much fun as it looked.

Hybrids brake electrically during mild braking and transition to mechanical on harder braking or when the propulsion battery is fully charged as occurs in extended down hill travel so a gentle test drive around town can obviously not reveal a brake problem.

2003 marked a period of transition of the Lincoln model line, as both the Town Car and LS underwent mid-cycle updates (with the Town Car receiving a full chassis redesign), with Lincoln introducing the second generation of the Navigator.

The 5.6 - liter V8 provides sufficient muscle to cope with in - town traffic or freeway overtaking and, while the QX56's tall profile and curb weight of nearly three tons can elicit considerable body roll during really brisk cornering or transition maneuvers (as would be reasonably expected of such a vehicle during such driving), its standard and driver - selectable Vehicle Dynamics Control (VDC) package provides reassurance, particularly during slippery conditions.

Actress Andie MacDowell, whose first hit was Steven Soderbergh's Sex, Lies and Videotape, transitions to the heartwarming, as Judge Olivia Lockhart in the upcoming Hallmark series, Debbie Macomber's Cedar Cove, based on the series of best sellers set in a small town in Washington state.

Seamless transitions in and out buildings would be something We'd like to see, as ridding of the short loading times between transitions would add to the feel of the town constantly being alive.

Castle of Heart provides bright fields, foggy mountains, and massive castles and towns as the backdrops to each level and the game transitions well between docked and handheld mode, providing crisp visuals that easily convey what you're supposed to focus on.

This suite of small works — started as visual interpretations of his pulp novel Ten High in the early «80s — feature several recurring characters (including one very skinny horse) in a setting that looks like it's already made the transition into a ghost town.

As London makes its gentle autumnal transition from rich green to dark gold, last weekend saw the fair come to London town.

The transition in Searle's focus from the work made as a masters student (Searle received her M.F.A. in 1995)- resin sculptures encasing found objects - started with her piece for the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale show in 1997, «Life's Little Necessities», staged at the The Cape Town Castle, when Searle introduced the pentagram shape of the Castle laid out in spices as part of her installation.

The transition toward town life in the devastated Darfur region of Sudan, is coming with increasing environmental costs, as brick kilns burn round the clock, reports my friend and colleague Neil MacFarquhar, in a «Letter from West Darfur» posted on The Lede:

Because that initial email provided such a stimulus for me to write a lengthy response, I chose to make my email public (slightly edited) and offer it as an open letter to all Transition Towns.

Ruah Swennerfelt is an activist, homesteader, blogger, and author working on environmental issues as General Secretary of Quaker Earthcare Witness and on the boards of Vermont Interfaith Power and Light and Transition Town Charlotte, Vermont.

So, I left the Port Townsend Peace Movement in 2006 to turn my attention, with others, to instigating what was to become our Transition Town, Local 2020 and discover what it might mean to become more sustainable as a community.

Installing solar panels as part of Transition Town Media's Solarize Greater Media initiative.

With an it'll - take - shape - as - we - go ethos, most Transition Town websites sport a «cheerful disclaimer»: «Just in case you were under the impression that Transition is a process defined by people who have all the answers, you need to be aware of a key fact.

Of course, news that Transition Town Totnes will be getting a massive Government check as part of the low Carbon Communities project suggests that many other networks may be descending on the town to see what they do withTown Totnes will be getting a massive Government check as part of the low Carbon Communities project suggests that many other networks may be descending on the town to see what they do withtown to see what they do with it.

When I posted the trailer for In Transition — the documentary about the Transition Towns movement as a response to peak oil and climate change — commenter CB was less than enamored with the film making style.

But while the Transition Movement has made admirable strides in mobilizing large swathes of the population into environmental action, as was hinted at in the New York Times article on Transition Towns, they are still skewed toward a left - leaning, greeny, liberal and counter-cultural demographic.

As witnessed by Rob Hopkins» response to Alex Steffens» critique of Transition Towns, this is a movement that is intent on building bridges and making friends.

When I ask Rob if the Transition initiative has an ultimate goal or a destination, he hesitates slightly before offering one of his infectiously enthusiastic smiles «There are 1000 towns and cities in the UK, 10, 000 villages and twice as many hamlets.

Transition Towns have been dismissed by some as a rebranding of self - sufficient hippydom, for example, and

Transition Town Whitehead in Northern Ireland is going to be planting 60,000 trees in the coming weeks in an effort to reforest a region that is known as the least wooded spot in Europe.

This latest is no exception, as Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition Towns Movement, explores peak oil, the end of the oil age, and how resilience differs from sustainability.

Rather it's a transition, a wholesale shift in the way we construct our towns and cities, how we move ourselves and goods around, how we make and package the goods we consume (as well as how many of them we purchase), how we grow our food, and more.

While not everyone is as pessimistic as the sexy yet depressing Oliy Cassandra, many if not most people in the Peak Oil / transition town movements not only believe that refocusing our economies to a more local level is inevitable, but also that it is desirable.

As someone who was busy changing diapers, rather than attending meetings, I have no particular insight (nor right to comment) on why Transition has not (yet) taken off in my town.

As a pilot, this first taster of Growing Communities focuses on members of Transition Town Lewes in England — the same folks who brought us this rather catchy video and rap about our dependence on oil — and discusses everything from individuals keeping chickens in old playhouses in their backyards, through urban beekeepers in their local graveyard, to a collective artists studio that has transformed the land around it into a community garden.

I'll be documenting our lives as we transition into a new home together in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico after leaving the comfort of our home town Dallas, Tx.