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Transition Gathering at the Slow Living Summit - Register by March 31 for Discounts!

Hi everyone,This year there will be a "Transition Track" at the Slow Living Summit in Brattleboro, VT, June 5 - 8. This will be a great opportunity to continue our conversations begun last October, share stories, lessons learned, and updates about what is happening in our communities.There will be a Transition Plenary (featuring Tina Clarke, Gus Speth, and Chuck Collins), Workshops, Meet & Greet, and a Business Meeting to to help move the NE Transition and Resilience Hub forward. The…See More
Mar 25
Maynard S. Clark is now a member of Transition Massachusetts
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Curtis James Falzoi is now a member of Transition Massachusetts
Mar 22
Claire Wheeler posted a discussion

Upcoming Grassroots Grant Deadline

Are you organizing your community towards transition and resilience? Turning vacant lots into local food? Lowering your community carbon footprint? Do you need funding to move your work forward? The New England Grassroots Environment Fund can help. GROW grants are dedicated to help established community groups increase capacity, collaborate, and leverage impact.Deadline: March 15th. Range: $1,000 - $3,500.For emerging groups and newly-launched efforts, try our SEED grant program up to $1,000…See More
Mar 5
Kirsten Bonanza posted a discussion

Facilitating Transition through play and games

I am a big believer that the most effective way of reaching people is through experience.  Interactive lessons, story and games are more likely to change the behavior of a person so let's do that more.On this note I'd like to make engage in the conversation about play and how we use it.Do you use interactive activities when connecting with your community around Transition?  What are they and how do they work?   Are there other good games, activities or resources that need to be shared?Do you…See More
Feb 20
 

Welcome to Transition Massachusetts!

Transition Massachusetts is an informal network where members inspire, support, and learn from each other as they consider, adopt, adapt and implement Transition Initiatives in their communities.


The Transition approach is a replicable, flexible methodology that empowers communities to squarely face the challenges of peak oil, climate change, and economic instability, and to unleash the collective genius of their own people to find the answers to this momentous question:

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.

For more information on what Transition Initiatives are and how they work, click here, and here. See The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins for a complete and inspiring treatment by the Transition movement's founder.

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Upcoming Grassroots Grant Deadline

Started by Claire Wheeler Mar 5.

Facilitating Transition through play and games

Started by Kirsten Bonanza Feb 20.

Hope workshop on February 10 in Framingham

Started by Katrien Vander Straeten Feb 5.

Avoiding the Local Trap: Scale and Food Systems in Planning Research 1 Reply

Started by Lisa Fernandes. Last reply by Lisa Fernandes Nov 30, 2012.

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