Sentences with phrase «started transition towns»

He started Transition Towns Totnes in early 2006, and it took off like a rocket.

«Serendipitously,» Steuber recalls, «the local environmental group I had joined a few years back had formed a book group to read The Transition Handbook and decided they wanted to start a Transition Town in Media.»

Not exact matches

Tom's strategy, which he would recommend to all investors, but especially to those that are just starting out, is that every time you perform a fix - and - flip, take the $ 20,000 to $ 30,000 profit and go out to the fringe areas of the town that you live in (where it starts to transition from suburban to rural).

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.

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.

When I set out to investigate the appeal of Transition, a sustainability movement that has spread to 1,105 towns in 43 countries over the past eight years, I started with what I thought was a basic question: What are «Transition Towns» transitionintowns in 43 countries over the past eight years, I started with what I thought was a basic question: What are «Transition Towns» transitioninTowns» transitioning to?

Looking through the latest offerings on Transition Culture, the blog written by community peak oil activist Rob Hopkins (who we interviewed here), it would appear that the Transition Towns initiative that he started is gaining in influence by the week.

This summer we welcome Transition US, which is the national hub for the Transition Town Movement which was started in the UK in 2005.