Sentences with phrase «on transition town»

(TreeHugger has a lengthy series of posts on the transition town movement that has taken Europe by storm, but which has apparently only begun to make inroads in North America.)

Further Reading on Transition Towns 400 Fruit Trees Project: Wonderful Video from Transition Kilkenny In Transition: The Transition Movement Documentary Planet Green's Green Glossary: Transition Towns Transition Towns Reach the US The Times Newspaper on Transition Towns and «Apocalypse Now» Transition Towns and Cities Emerge in the US Transition Towns New Zealand Gains Strength Transition Towns Reach Japan Transition Towns Reach New Zealand Transition Town Plants Up Nut Trees for Food Security Interview with Rob Hopkins, founder of the movement Transition City Bristol The Transition Handbook Transition Towns Reach Australia The Virtual Orchard Project

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.

I first heard about this document via Rob Hopkins over at TransitionCulture, who wrote about a debate on Transition Towns that featured himself and Alastair Brown of ManTownHuman, in which Brown aparently suggested that «real resilience comes from expanding the human footprint.»

Further Reading on Transition Towns Planet Green's Green Glossary: Transition Towns Transition Towns Reach the US The Times Newspaper on Transition Towns and «Apocalypse Now» Transition Towns and Cities Emerge in the US Transition Towns New Zealand Gains Strength Transition Towns Reach Japan Transition Towns Reach New Zealand Transition Town Plants Up Nut Trees for Food Security Interview with Rob Hopkins, founder of the movement Transition City Bristol The Transition Handbook Transition Towns Reach Australia The Virtual Orchard Project

Chew Magna's Go Zero Project Community Solutions to Coming Challenges: Peak Moment TV Further Reading on Transition Towns Transition Towns Reach New Zealand Transition Town Plants Up Nut Trees for Food Security Interview with Rob Hopkins, founder of the movement Transition City Bristol The Transition Handbook Transition Towns Reach Australia The Virtual Orchard Project And Some Other Ideas for Weaning Us Off Fossil Fuels Kite Powered Shipping Backyard Permaculture Urban Aquaponics Local Farming Systems Bikes, Cargo Bikes, Electric Bikes, Electric Scooters, Electric Cars, and Electric Trucks Telecommuting New Urbanism Trains Vegetarianism and Reduced Meat Diets Algae and Waste Grease for Biofuels Community Gardens DIY Hydroponics Freecycle Car sharing Airships Turboprop Aircraft Micro -, Macro - and Bloody - Massive - Scale Wind Turbines Solar Power to Power a House or to Power the World

Chew Magna's Go Zero Project Community Solutions to Coming Challenges: Peak Moment TV More on Transition Towns Transition Towns Reach New Zealand Transition Town Plants Up Nut Trees for Food Security Interview with Rob Hopkins, founder of the movement Transition City Bristol The Transition Handbook Transition Towns Reach Australia The Virtual Orchard Project

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A small but important component of East Hampton Town's transition to renewable energy will be detailed at Town Hall during a meeting of the town board's energy sustainability advisory committee on Monday at 5 Town's transition to renewable energy will be detailed at Town Hall during a meeting of the town board's energy sustainability advisory committee on Monday at 5 Town Hall during a meeting of the town board's energy sustainability advisory committee on Monday at 5 town board's energy sustainability advisory committee on Monday at 5 p.m.

Republicans on Curran's transition team include Westbury Village Mayor Peter Cavallaro and Hempstead Town Councilwoman Erin King Sweeney, who has worked with Curran on Baldwin redevelopment efforts.

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

Nothing brings me more joy than finding clothes that work in the boardroom and transition well for a night 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.

The dark palette features an array of lush plums and rich chocolates, perfect for a daring day at work that transition to drinks on the town.

It's the perfect transition top from the office with a pair of dressy culottes, to a leather skirt in the evening for a night out on the town.

These dresses perfectly transition from the wedding day to a night on the town, and easily bring to mind the style and flair of the Big Apple.

I was on the hunt for a LWD that would easily transition from workwear to a night about town and this dress works very well with a day or evening look.

We will expand to focus on other cities, towns, and provinces later in 2015 AFTER THE TRANSITION TO BEING A TOTALLY FREE SITE.

The premise on its own sounds intriguing: a woman joins some men for antics in town but things get out of hand when they transition from a party to a robbery.

To combat this problem, Indian Island and Old Town High School administrators are working together on transition programs.

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.

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.

Part of transitioning to a new town means getting used to the local traffic patterns on your drive to and from work.

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.

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:

We talk to people involved in three Friends of the Earth groups, on the potential for community - owned and managed renewables in Denmark, on the perfect plan for transitioning Estonia away from dirty oil shale, and on how local resistance and perseverance has turned a small Czech town into an example of the just transition we need to move away from dirty fossil fuels.

He is great on the merits of emerging sharing economy models, new public transport systems and town planning that are serving to design out the car, the Transition Town movement and its focus on community energy, China's land grabs in Africa, and the crushing and debilitating damage done by the Anglo - Saxon work - life imbalance — his description of a «Universal Job Description for life in the service economy» that runs: «Sit at desk, write emails, answer phone, make tea and / or coffee, go to meetings, fiddle with spreadsheets, eat lunch,» will be sadly redolent to mtown planning that are serving to design out the car, the Transition Town movement and its focus on community energy, China's land grabs in Africa, and the crushing and debilitating damage done by the Anglo - Saxon work - life imbalance — his description of a «Universal Job Description for life in the service economy» that runs: «Sit at desk, write emails, answer phone, make tea and / or coffee, go to meetings, fiddle with spreadsheets, eat lunch,» will be sadly redolent to mTown movement and its focus on community energy, China's land grabs in Africa, and the crushing and debilitating damage done by the Anglo - Saxon work - life imbalance — his description of a «Universal Job Description for life in the service economy» that runs: «Sit at desk, write emails, answer phone, make tea and / or coffee, go to meetings, fiddle with spreadsheets, eat lunch,» will be sadly redolent to many.

There's a town in England that's doing it too, although I think that's on the Transition website.

States, cities, towns, and businesses are moving forward at full speed on the transition to clean energy.

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.

Transition Towns would do well to consider using NWEI courses to bring people together into dialogue with each other on a variety of topics that center on sustainability.

The transition movement is a global movement based on the premise of peak oil, and the belief that individual towns and cities can empower themselves to decrease their impact on the world and increase local self - sufficiency.

«The real overarching theme is that we're working on this transition from a fairly unstable and unsustainable way of doing things towards something that is more stable, resilient, sustainable, regenerative,» says Transition Town Missoula spokesman Justransition from a fairly unstable and unsustainable way of doing things towards something that is more stable, resilient, sustainable, regenerative,» says Transition Town Missoula spokesman JusTransition Town Missoula spokesman Justin McCoy.

: Transition Asheville is presenting a community - wide event, Saturday, August 27, from 5:00 to 10:00 pm at Carrier Park on Amboy Rd. in West Asheville, to celebrate Asheville being officially named the 88th Transition Town in the U.S..

On the economic front, some Transition Towns have introduced alternative currencies that drive consumers to local businesses.

When Aleisa Myles attended a talk on permaculture in 2010, hosted by Transition Town Media, she immediately knew that she had found an initiative she could get behind.

The group campaigns on areas including protection of local biodiversity, sustainable water management, climate and energy, genetically modified organisms, simple living, economical degrowth, and transition towns.

Their goal of building a sustainable community to combat the impacts of peak oil and climate change quickly went viral, eventually taking root in towns on six continents; besides Missoula, some of the latest official Transition U.S. initiates include Two Peaks, Colo., Bedford, Mass., and Milwaukee, Wis..

Yesterday we reported that the Transition Towns movement had reached the pages of the BBC's Gardener's World Magazine when TV gardening guru Monty Don was prompted to reflect on the oil - intensive habits of himself and his fellow gardeners.

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.

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The Powerdown Show - Transition Towns and Energy Descent Pathways from Rob Carr on Vimeo.

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The Transition Town concept, a community focused response to climate change and peak oil, which was pioneered by Rob Hopkins, and which we reported on here and here, is spreading even further.

True, the talk of the end of industrial culture may not play well with those who see a darker side of Transition Towns, but it seems hard to argue against the fact that our current reliance on fossil fuels to feed and clothe ourselves leaves us incredibly vulnerable to future price shocks and disruption of supply.

Doing one of my regular check ins on Transition Culture, the blog of Transition Towns founder Rob Hopkins, I find that the NYT just ran a 5000 word article profiling the Transition Towns movement, and getting to meet the folks behind Transition Town Sandpoint, Idaho.

On a brief visit to the Transition Town New Zealand web page we counted 52 communities that are actively engaged in the transition process, either formally or iTransition Town New Zealand web page we counted 52 communities that are actively engaged in the transition process, either formally or itransition process, either formally or informally.

Doing one of my regular check ins on Transition Culture, the blog of Transition Towns founder Rob Hopkins, I find that the NYT just ran a 5000 word article

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.

It's been a little while since we've heard from Rob Hopkins of the Transition Towns movement, so we checked in on his Transition Culture blog to see what has been going on.

The viral spread of the Transition Towns movement has been an encouraging sign that communities are ready to tackle their fossil fuel dependence head on.