What listing? What hub page?

 

If you mean having this resource page linked to the new organization page, then it's already there. See Network section of that page under the "Resource" tab.

Ok, here it is, an organization listing for Transition Network -->

http://www.wiserearth.org/organization/view/8b64afe5f002388962e8d8fbad5be632

 

I tried linking every organization, event, resource, wikipage, people and groups in WiserEarth I could find (/am a member of). Here's the result (click to view interactive version):

 

 

Will amend the About section above so people go to the organization listing instead.

The Transition Movement is a grass-roots response to energy descent AND climate change.  It believes that one cannot work on one without working on the other.  It also is a response to this ecomony.

 

Members of the Transition movement believe in helping each other reduce their carbon footprint so as to increase the general resilience of the area.  Resilience is defined as being able to withstand a shock from the outside.  Transition PDX (Portland, Oregon) is working within neighborhoods to design an energy descent action plan for themselves that will include food security, low energy transportation and heating, education, housing, livelihood, health, waste and other areas.  It includes relocalization, weatherization of homes; learning permaculture ways of food production and storage; designing a low energy transport system; learning healing skills; designing new educational curricula, leading skill sharing workshops, etc.

 

For more information on the activities of Transition PDX and where you can get involved, go to our website:  TransitionPDX.org.  For specific questions, email at info.transitionPDX@gmail.com.

welcome, dunk, welcome. really excited about reading all your information. Movement gaining traction big time here. We are having a training this weekend and one of the TT founders is speaking next month to the people who organized for Obama ..... hoping that event will have huge impact by tapping into the online network.....  one way to bring TT viral.

Hi all, Irish Dunk, living, working and Transitioning in Barcelona here.

 

We are in the early stages here in BCN, we have our HUB group set up and have had 2 organising meeting. As im coming across critical vids related to the movement im adding them in our collective NING site, in the video section for spanish speaking movements in transition, have a look in there if you want, expect it to grow and keep on growing.

 

Also, we have a lot of nice projects up and running here, I posted an article, including 3 audio documentarys, about our community garden and the loose meeting Mike from Transition Newsletter had with us, its entitled: Bold, Beautiful, Blooming Barcelona asks: What would it mean to win?  (also found with many many links on It`s a Funny Old World)

 

A previous summary of Transition movements including links to audio files and radio shows we made during last years climate camp UK can be found at: Transition Culture: radio shows about transition towns and more

 

Ill leave you with the man who has kicked off this phenomenal viral positive joyful movement, Rob Hopkins, and his outlining of the idea... TRANSITION TOWNS: An Interview with Rob Hopkins

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5kg1oOq9tY

 

350.org

 

Wholearthbuilder.com

judith,

just entered both their names in search and didn't locate. but wow, thanks for this find. unable to find any marin group but i've contacted some people in emeryville and sf and oakland.... any other tips on how to find these people? I am really interested in finding out about the gardens as well as on finding out if anyone is working on housing issues and local barter

in response to mike's comment ... how do you find the people locally (in your region) who are aware of the need for us to localize? I have been attempting through various groups in the Bay Area but it is as if I am talking to communites which lack the perspective to even conceptualize what I am talking about.... you are so fortunate to be in Eugene which will undoubttedly be a pioneer in this but what suggestions do you have for someone like me, who lives in Marin County, one of the richest counties in the US?

I am trying to organize locally, regionally, and worldwide.

I have contacted Eugene-Springfield Solidarity (Oregon, USA) with respect to their initiative and to express to thee all that peace, equity and sustainability, and relocalization need to be the among the major pillars of an ecological economic redevelopment plan.

At risk of going into a long-winded explanation, I will elaborate some.

I am sufficiently knowledgeable and experienced to be quite cynical about the prospects for people. However, I maintain hope based on being in a position where I am allowed to pursue a right livelihood at assessing the world, local, and regional situation and imagining alternatives to what is extant.

We need to put great efforts into organizing on the local/regional level, yet we can not separate our efforts from those of other regions of the world. That is, we can not isolate ourselves. That has been the mistake of all eutopian experiments (according to Lewis Mumford, eutopian means "good place", outopian means "no place"), Thus, if we progress along the lines of local/regional organizing, we must also reach out and find, and/or foster and facilitate the formation of similar organizing efforts in all locales of the planet. Only working together as one world can we hope to overcome the peril facing the people.

We must reform the financial system. The alternative to the status quo is to form an Equity Union. Perhaps we may want to call it (in English) The Peoples' Equity Union. It would be a worldwide united equity system with cooperating inter-community entities. It would preclude the use of loans, which are fundamentally usurious. It would place the most destitute, the most in need, and all children (which I define as about 25 years old or less) as the highest priority. However, the Plan would include the needs of everybuddy. As the old Socialist slogan goes, "for all according to their needs, by all according to their abilities".

A major focus of the Ecological Economic Redevelopment Plan is the walkable neighborhood. This Plann(er) recognizes that the age of the automobile is racing to a disastrous ending and that if we want to maintain the true benefits of automotive power and sustain our precious fossil fuels (as well as other natural resources), that we must reduce the use of automobiles by 80% in the next 20 years to 40 years. There will be great resistance from the economic interests of the status quo with regards to the realization of a world-wide equity union and to the many aspects of the Plan that I will document in subsequent blogs . We need to work in cooperation with the existing economic interests. I envision a transition in which no person suffers from the transition. The only requirement for the wealthy and the Capitalist culture is that they shift their focus from standard of living to quality of life.

Locally, we need to begin to organize in neighborhoods (however they are to be defined). The City of Eugene has taken an initiative to identify neighborhoods and encourage the formation of neighborhood associations. In Eugene, this would be a good place to start, and such could serve as a model for other communities.

Walkable neighborhoods are defined as neighborhoods where people can get the things they need within walking distance and have the goal and create the resources to facilitate the maximum amount of people working in their neighborhoods and/or at home. Bring the goods and the means of communication to the people instead of all those willy-nilly inefficient, and tragically squandering automobile trips. Perhaps a part of the Plan would be an evolution to a pre-order cooperative system for food and other necessities. Such a system would go a long way to promote accurate and quality production, efficient distribution and a large reduction in waste.

 

Please visit and participate in my web log "Peoples' Equity Union" at www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com .

Please circulate this communication as widely as you see fit, and encourage people to respond and discuss.

Thank you.

I'm a Work Kin for peace and cooperation.


With much love and care,

Mike Morin
(541) 343-3808

Hi Bowo, thanks so much! That site is great. Are you involved in the transition movement?