Transition Massachusetts

Community Resilience, Self-Reliance, Renewable Energy & Cooperation

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

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Now reading A Nation of Farmers by Sharon Astyk and Aaron Newton, I came upon a reference that provides a wealth of evidence that small farms are indeed more productive in every way than large farms: http://www.mindfully.org/Farm/Small-Farm-Benefits
10 hours ago
Elizabeth Marcus added a discussion to the group Transition Newburyport
Hello All - As we are gearing up for our 2010 programs it occurred to me that we should spend some time refining our public presence. Justin & Kirsten are working on the logo and flyers for our movie series.  I think it would also be a good opportu…
21 hours ago
Seth Gregory and Lilly Jeffs Lombard are now friends
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This is a test for a Transition Shutesbury group.
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Tony updated their profile
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Blog Posts

Steven Landau

Boston Area Permaculture Events Toby Hemernway Lectures.

This notice came on the Permaculture Listserve.

Saturday, February 27th 7-9pm
A Presentation by Toby Hemenway: What Does Permaculture Look Like?
Sponsored by the Urban Homesteaders' League, the Tufts Food Systems Planning Coalition, and Tufts Slow Food

Sliding Scale: $15-25 (Tufts students are free.)
Buy tickets here:http://www.eventsbot.com/events/eb651647603

Location: Tufts University/Pearson Hall RM 104
62 Talbot Avenue Ave, Medford… Continue

Posted by Steven Landau on February 1, 2010 at 12:32pm

Glenn S

Copenhagen

First you had climategate, then I read a report talking about a likely 9m sealevel rise in a century even if temperature stabilizes at +2'C. And now Copenhagen is a failure. I have to admit this is taking a really heavy emotional toll on me. I'm thinking that in order to really be honest with the science it may be necessary to abandon the idea that grass-roots powerdown will, for instance, save Boston. I mean, we may turn the Metro Boston area into the best transition utopia imaginable, but then… Continue

Posted by Glenn S on December 18, 2009 at 11:10pm — 3 Comments

Nicole Zimmerman

Event at Clark University " Shaping a Local Green Economy" Wed. Nov 18, 2009

Hi All,
I would like to invite you to an event here at Clark University that is to take place on Wed. Nov. 18, 2009 from 7:00pm-9:00pm Below are the details

SHAPING A LOCAL GREEN ECONOMY
WED. NOV 18, 2009
7:00PM- 9:00PM
TILTON HALL, HIGGINS UNIVERSITY CENTER.

What can and will a local, green economy look like? Many social change organizations, institutions and individuals in Worcester are committed to creating a green economy here. Concerns include the importance of green job creation and the… Continue

Posted by Nicole Zimmerman on November 14, 2009 at 4:57pm

 

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

  • Conrad Willeman
  • Tony
  • David Eggleton
  • Tony Bernardo
  • Glenn S
  • paul levasseur
  • Laura Knight
  • Seth Gregory
  • David Tesar
  • Judith Haran
  • Katrien Vander Straeten
  • John Brown
  • Deb Carey
  • Rob Riman
  • Laura
  • Steven Landau
  • Ziplok
  • Ryan
  • Ed Falis
  • Deborah Carey
  • Charlotte Dion
  • Steven Nutter
  • Steve Chase
  • Daniel Bergey
  • Carolyn Starrett
  • Joseph Porcelli
  • Sean Roulan

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

Slow Money: Investing as if food, farms and fertility mattered 2 Replies

Started by Conrad Willeman. Last reply by Conrad Willeman 10 hours ago.

Katrien Vander Straeten

Inspiring Farm Coop example 2 Replies

Started by Katrien Vander Straeten. Last reply by Glenn S Feb 7.

paul levasseur

Transition, Putney, VT 3 Replies

Started by paul levasseur. Last reply by paul levasseur Feb 6.

 
 

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News from EnergyBulletin.net

Job Losses Push Need for Energy Bill

Millions of job losses are pushing the U.S. Senate to consider a Jobs and Energy bill, even though Cap and Trade appears to be on life support. What are Five Key Measures that must be in a new Bill to avoid being a "half-ass..d" effort? (term from Sen. Lindsey Graham descrbing limited climate bill)

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The energy consumption of avatars


Virtual worlds (World of Warcraft, Second Life) and the avatars that exist in them use energy. Often more than the average person in many countries of the world. Many IT pundits forget or ignore that computers are physical objects that require resources for their construction and maintenance and that they thus have an (under-explored) ecological footprint.

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Post-Carbon Schools: Back from Hell

Creeping corporate influence on K-12 education promises to corrupt what little soul remains of our disintegrating industrial culture. As an alternative in the coming post-carbon era, I suggest here a curriculum centered on morals, community, and the Land Ethic -- with emphasis on practical skills. Long live the sacred!

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The Challenge of Algal Fuel: Economic Processing of the Entire Algal Biomass

Micro-algae have considerable potential for the production of biofuel, but at present the process of producing fuel from algae would appear to be currently uneconomic. If fuel from micro-algae is to be economic the entire algal biomass should be utilised and anaerobic digestion could play an important part in the exploitation of algae to produce algal energy.

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Economics - Feb 9

-False Profits: We Will Be Suffering from Greenspan and Bernanke's Ineptitude for a Long Time
-G7 close to accord on banks paying for global recession
-How Brussels Is Trying to Prevent a Collapse of the Euro
-Europe loses seat at top table
-Corruption, Culpability and Short-Termism

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