Sentences with phrase «transition towns»

Think of your community's centers of influence - community colleges, church groups, transition town councils, neighborhoods.

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

Involvement in Transition Town Media has waxed and waned over the years, as members have experienced changes in their personal lives and professional commitments, and as new endeavors take center stage for some of the initiative's most active organizers.

Yesterday we looked at Al Jazeera's report on Transition Town Totnes — offering a vision of how small towns are tackling climate change and peak oil through community involvement.

by Deborah McNamara on August 14, 2013 0 Apeiron Institute for Sustainable Living Rhode Island Earth Institute Transition Towns Transition US

For those wanting to learn more about Transition Towns in the US, check out the new Transition US website, or take a look at Rob Hopkins» welcome video below.

To find out more about other Kiwi Transition initiatives, check out Transition Towns New Zealand Aotearoa.

It explores agroforestry models in France, permaculture and TRANSITION TOWN initiatives in England and the organic farming revolution in Cuba.

More on Food Security: Staple Food Prices to Rise Up to 45 % Over Next Decade, UN FAO Warns Transition Town Plants Up Nut Trees For Food Security Raising Water Productivity to Increase Food Security

It has helped us educate others about Transition Town Media and create a very close - knit community.»

The international movement known as Transition Town began in 2005, in England, as a response to concerns over peak oil, unsustainable economic systems and the exploitation of nonrenewable resources.

Rob Hopkins is the cofounder of Transition Town Totnes and of the Transition Network.

«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 Justin McCoy.

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

It's an important and timely question - and one that my own local Transition Town group has pondered long and hard.

«In Transition» Documentary Streams Live Today We're pretty crazy for Transition Towns here at TreeHugger.

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.

BTW, the article mentions the initiative «Transition Town Bielefeld» which references «Deep Ecology»... which is rather interesting.

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

Why It Matters Transition Towns can more easily fulfill their mission of building resilient communities by understanding specific economic principles.

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.

Are Transition Towns Just Rebranding the Seventies Back - to - the - Land Movement?

Yet even with such a large community of dedicated volunteers, in the FreeStore and other Transition Town Media initiatives, some challenges have inevitably arisen.

«There was, and has been, throughout Transition Town Media's many events and projects, a sense of possibility and aliveness in people taking bold ideas and putting them into action right in our town for the benefit of all,» explains Myles.

More at CP&DR; More on Agenda 21 Agenda 21: The United Nations Threat To Control Our Lightbulbs, Our Lifestyles and Our Lives Transition Towns a «Conspiracy» to Take Your Land Away?

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.

Hosted by Sarah McAdam, Transition Network and Hilary Jennings, co-founder of Transition Town Tooting.

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.

The Kinsale Town Council enthusiastically adopted the plan, and the principles underlying it became the precepts of Transition, as outlined in Hopkins» 2008 Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience and as adopted by Transition Towns worldwide.

: 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..

While she was mostly interested in keeping things out of their local landfill, DiRemigio says that the FreeStore, which is located in the annex of a local Methodist church, has also made Transition Town Media much more widely known throughout their local community.

One lawn - to - garden conversion at a time, one local currency transaction at a time, one farmers» market conversation at a time, Transition Town residents are laying the foundations for a more resilient, post-carbon world.

According to Brown, roughly 50 people gathered in the UCC Nov. 23 to welcome Transition Town Missoula to a network of more than 1,000 Transition initiatives across the globe.

A few years back, he launched Transition Towns, aimed at helping communities lead the way into a post-fossil-fuel world.

Since then, Myles and her fellow Transition Town Media members have helped to make it one of the most robust and successful Transition Initiatives in the United States.

Many of the more prominent buildings in their downtown area had already been outfitted with solar panels when Transition Town Media began.

A collaboration between Transition Town Stoke Newington and Hackney Cycling Campaign, this volunteer - run maintenance workshop takes place three times a month — twice in Hackney and once in Stoke Newington.

The movement started in late 2006, when Rob Hopkins and Naresh Giangrande co-founded the original Transition Town in Totnes, England.

Given the recent fuel crisis in the southern United States, Transition Town Atlanta may be a good idea...

While Alex Steffen may think Transition Towns have a dark side, and even I have been concerned about some transitioners tendency to assume that the collapse of capitalism is inevitable, one thing that this social movement does

Churches across the UK are getting involved with the widespread and influential Transition Towns movement — a community led response to peak oil and climate change.