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Three thousand actions and counting

By Staff Reports | May 13, 2013

The annual Transition Challenge is in motion! This month, thousands of people across the country are taking action to build community resilience, enhance local food systems, and reduce energy and water consumption. Over 3,000 actions have already been registered, bringing us one step closer to our goal of 5,000 actions. For those of you that have yet to take the plunge and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: Transition US

The blind men and the elephant

By Staff Reports | January 5, 2012

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One of the challenges of community organizing in the Transition model is the sheer variety of people involved. Many are enthused and inspired by the hope that Transition offers in response to the challenges of economic contraction, peak oil, and climate change. People are roused, excited, wanting to break new ground and create an inspirational working model of what the world … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition, Transition US Tagged With: communication, community organizing, relocalization, Transition US

Presents or presence?

By Staff Reports | December 14, 2011

baby in a snowsuit on a sled

Does anyone else find Thanksgiving and Christmas a bit of a contradiction? We spend a couple of days focused on Thanksgiving; usually setting up the menu, grocery shopping, or juggling travel plans for a day spent with our families. What started as a day for family and gratitude, is often replaced with family watching football on TV, mapping Black Friday’s shopping spree, or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: Buy Local, Christmas, consumerism, materialism, Thanksgiving, Transition US

#18: Telling the Transition story

By Staff Reports | December 14, 2011

We're huge fans of the Transition movement. We love it so much, we even put the word in our name. And while many folks within and outside of the Transition movement proper are talking about a transition to the post-fossil fuels economy/society/culture, it's an idea that still needs more traction in the wider world if we're to avoid the worst fallout of the converging crises of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 31 Reasons to Support Transition Voice, relocalization, Rob Hopkins, Transition, Transition Network, Transition US

Occupy Main Street

By Staff Reports | November 4, 2011

mural on main street

I have made only one foray to the OWS nearest me: Occupy Seattle. Living on South Whidbey Island, where 25,000 people occupy a few scattered towns and much rural farmland and forests, the only possible 1%-ers own vacation estates. Protest there and we’d only be shouting down long driveways at the gardeners – who are our friends. We could occupy Wells Fargo (the only national … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: Occupy Wall Street, Transition US, Vicki Robin

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