Transition NewYork

Community Resilience, Self-Reliance, Renewable Energy & Cooperation

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

Latest Activity

We can only hope. Let's see what we can make happen. I'm down for a couple of days with an eye infection, but after I heal --->
November 10
Heya Jim, My family just moved up to Potsdam at the end of September, and I was very sad to hear that the official Transition Group had folded. PACT is still going, but from what I gather it is in a bit of a dormant time. Now that Winter is comin...
November 10
November 10
Hi Tim! Thank you for generating this blog spot. Discussion is very important, and I hope to spend a little time here looking at how our lives will be affected as energy prices climb and availability drops. We all need to stick together and suppor...
November 10
"Our mission is to create awareness and mobilize community action to adapt to the challenges and opportunities of Peak Oil and Climate Change"
November 10
Viki Christensen and Jim Christensen joined Transition NewYork
November 10
Jim Christensen updated their profile
November 9
Jim Christensen updated their profile photo
November 9

Blog Posts

Ariane Burgess

Transition Town New York Times Article

Greetings,

here is the link for the Sunday April 19 NY Times article on the Transition Movement:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/magazine/19town-t.html?_r=2&ref=magazine

Posted by Ariane Burgess on April 20, 2009 at 3:36pm

 

Who We Are...

TRANSITION NEW YORK 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

  • Les Squries for Transition New York
  • Nicole Zimmerman
  • Kathie Arnold
  • Celeste Froehlich
  • Don Hall
  • Joe Moore
  • Karl Klein
  • meldrc
  • Dan Miner
  • Viki Christensen
  • Jim Christensen
  • Matthew Gordon
  • Tom
  • Amber Kusmenko
  • Ariane Burgess
  • Les Squires
  • Beth Klein
  • Nadia from Bristol UK
  • Francis 'Tim' Weld Jr.
  • Northwest Earth Institute
  • Margaret Rose de Cruz
  • Dave Delozier
  • Chris Applegate
  • Melody Kiersz
  • Christian Sweningsen
  • Maureen Knapp
  • Catherine Grace, CHS

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.

Events

Forum

Catherine Grace, CHS

The Sacredness of All Creation

Started by Catherine Grace, CHS Sep 25.

Northwest Earth Institute

Join the EcoChallenge!!

Started by Northwest Earth Institute Jul 22.

Ariane Burgess

Catalyzing Transition Initiatives in NYC

Started by Ariane Burgess Jul 2.

 
 

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