Transition Massachusetts

Community Resilience, Self-Reliance, Renewable Energy & Cooperation

A networking coalition providing Transition Initiatives based on local production, renewable energy, efficiency & resilient communities.

Latest Activity

3 hours ago
Althea Chen and David Eggleton are now friends
3 hours ago
Erica Getto updated their profile photo
6 hours ago
Clark University community members interested in the Transition Towns Movement.
6 hours ago
Elizabeth Marcus added a discussion
An article in yesterday's Guardian not to be missed. "Key oil figures were distorted by US pressure, says whistleblower" Exclusive: Watchdog's estimates of reserves inflated says top official
6 hours ago
Thanks. I listened to the whole thing but got conflicting information regarding existing green groups in the community. At one point they say being transition amids existing groups is to be avoided, and at another point they say it's a good thing....
9 hours ago
yesterday
Maryellen Rousseau and Jacquelynn Ward joined Transition Massachusetts
yesterday

Blog Posts

Glenn S

Giving Up

I've decided to formally shelve my transition town work for Needham.

I was at the event held last night at Newman school and there were upwards of 300 people. All the green groups were represented. So I don't see where Transition fits in. Nobody responded to my flyers, and yet they all show up to this? Obviously you need the right connections and the right way to promote things to mobilize people in this town, and I don't have it.

Also, logistically speaking, I just do not have the time to do… Continue

Posted by Glenn S on October 20, 2009 at 4:30pm — 4 Comments

David Eggleton

Hear ye! Hear ye! They're Aggregating Small Amounts of Slow Money

Please take a look here: http://friendsofslowmoney.com/ ....

and consider a contribution. This is good.

Posted by David Eggleton on October 2, 2009 at 1:10pm

Glenn S

Business as Usual

I just put up my playlist embeds for the finished episodes (or chapters as I call them) to Business as Usual "the doomer sitcom". I hope some people here get something out of them. The language is often crude, as it often is in the workplace, and the satire biting. I am an equal opportunity offender here. You can watch it as a doomer or watch it as a denier and still find something to laugh about and characters to relate to. That was the intention, to pull in as wide an audience as possible and… Continue

Posted by Glenn S on September 22, 2009 at 11:01am

Glenn S

Transition Diary

I think I'm going to separate blogging of my transition town activities from my external blog. The reason being that:

a) More people (at least people likely to be interested in it) will read it here
and
b) This profile page is a little less anonymous than the other one, so I won't be afriad to name my town and so on and so forth.

The other blog is more of a diary that is private by virtue of the anonymity so it goes into directions I'd rather not everyone know about.

Posted by Glenn S on September 17, 2009 at 4:31pm — 1 Comment

Katrien Vander Straeten

I blog elsewhere

Hi,
I blog at MamaStories, at http://blog.bolandbol.com
It's a mixed bag, mostly stories of gardening, mothering, and peak oil/global warming. I may once in a while cross post a relevant entry here.
Do visit!
Katrien

Posted by Katrien Vander Straeten on July 30, 2009 at 1:30pm — 1 Comment

 

Who We Are...

TRANSITION MASSACHUSETTS is a networking site for those who seek local-scale green-oriented implementation of Transition models for local communities.

This site, and many like it, are being developed through grassroots participation, and is continually evolving. It is a spontaneously arising effort to synergistically connect transition workers with each other and to identify and nurture the development of useful and necessary local Transition Initiatives, solutions, and practices.

The Transition Movement embraces several other familiar monikers: Local Self Reliance, Appropriate Technology, Decentralization, Localization, Relocalization, Post Carbon, Post Petroleum, Beyond Oil.

This emerging Transition Culture will empower communities to squarely face the issues surrounding peak oil and climate change, and unleash the collective genius of their own citizens to find innovative solutions to these momentous challenges:
For all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how are we going to:
  • drastically reduce carbon emissions (in response to climate change);
  • significantly rebuild resilience (in response to peak oil);
  • and greatly strengthen our local economy (in response to economic instability)?

Transition Initiatives make no claim to have all the answers, but by building on the wisdom of the past and accessing the pool of ingenuity, skills and determination in our communities, the solutions can readily emerge. Now is the time for us to take stock and start re-creating our future in ways that are not based on cheap, plentiful and polluting oil but on localized food, sustainable energy sources, resilient local economies and an enlivened sense of community well-being.


Members

  • David Eggleton
  • Erica Getto
  • Elizabeth Marcus
  • Glenn S
  • Kathy McMahon
  • Lee Strauss
  • Niall Robinson
  • Maryellen Rousseau
  • Jen Mazer
  • Laura Knight
  • Jacquelynn Ward
  • Daniel Ritchie
  • Nora Oliver
  • Judith Haran
  • Nancy Burnett
  • Les Squires
  • Silvia Glick
  • Nicole Zimmerman
  • Carol Harley
  • Althea Chen
  • Sandi Brockway
  • Gabor Lukacs
  • Valerie Palar
  • Steven Landau
  • Katie Mindess
  • Kate Van Olst
  • erika linenfelser

Things You Can Do Today

  • Contact Members above by clicking on their photo. Every photo is one-click access to any person you want to contact anywhere in our community. Welcome them, remembering that each person and each group carries a unique spark capable of warming and enhancing our whole community.
  • Greet each other! -- Click periodically on MEMBERS on the menu above to make sure every newcomer is properly greeted. Volunteer to show them around and answer their questions.

Forum

Conrad Willeman

The nitty-gritty of getting Transition rolling in your community | Transition US 1 Reply

Started by Conrad Willeman. Last reply by Glenn S 9 hours ago.

Elizabeth Marcus

No Impact Experiment - Friday, October 23, 2009 - Topic: Water 1 Reply

Started by Elizabeth Marcus. Last reply by Niall Robinson Oct 28.

 
 

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