Transition Maryland

Community Resilience, Self-Reliance, Renewable Energy & Cooperation

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

Groups

Blog Posts

Charlie Davis

Hatched: The capacity for sustainable development

Posted by Charlie Davis on May 14, 2010 at 5:38pm

andrew eisenberg

Get a Move On

Posted by andrew eisenberg on February 3, 2010 at 6:30pm

William Barnes

Sustainable Industrial Society: Oxymoron or Possibility?

Posted by William Barnes on January 12, 2010 at 3:55pm — 1 Comment

Geoff Stack

Worldchanging: Transition Towns or Bright Green Cities?

Posted by Geoff Stack on October 28, 2009 at 8:18am — 1 Comment

EcolocityDC

Transition Handbook online

Posted by EcolocityDC on August 13, 2009 at 6:53pm

Who We Are...

TRANSITION MARYLAND 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.


 

PLANS FOR TRANSITION SOCIAL NETWORK IN THE STATE OF MARYLAND

Greetings members from Maryland,

Transition Maryland has moved to a new location: If you desire to continue your membership in the Transition Social Network, please join http://transitionus.ning.com When you join, I will greet you and direct you to the new location.

If you created a local GROUP on this site, you will need to re-create your local group using this link: http://transitionus.ning.com/groups/group/new

It is important that you do this right away. This site will be deleted any day now.

If you have already taken this step, please visit the original site and encourage your neighbors to follow your example.

Let me know when you have questions.

Les Squires
http://transitionus.ning.com
LSquiresSkype
+1 303 926 5159

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  • Karen Krueger
  • Les Squires
  • Harlan Ryang
  • Michael Despines
  • Barbara Larcom
  • Max Obuszewski
  • Richard Hoye
  • Suz
  • Bronwyn A Phillips
  • Hannah Joyner
  • Michael Broderick
  • cary augerblade
  • Ty Mellon
  • Gloria Brooks
  • Scott Carlson
  • Joyce Dowling
  • Kate Upshur
  • Sally Brucker
  • Laurie Zook
  • Susan Belchamber
  • Diane Cameron
  • Bruce Baker
  • Adam Davis
  • Tim Willard
  • Anne Hull
  • Les Squires for Transition Massachusetts

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Linda Davis is now a member of Transition Maryland Jul 8, 2010
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Mike Skalka updated their profile Jul 7, 2010
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Transition Baltimore

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To promote the blossoming of wisdom to inspire participation in positive social/cultural change that addresses persistent war and anthropogenic global warming
Lore Rosenthal joined andrew eisenberg's group Jun 27, 2010
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Baltimore Green Forum Sustainable Picnic Sunday June 27th 4:30pm-6:30pm at Maryland Presbyterian Church

June 27, 2010 from 4:30pm to 6:30pm
BALTIMORE GREEN FORUMa monthly environmental education and discussion forumSunday June 27, 20104:30-6:30 PMMaryland Presbyterian Church1105 Providence Road, Towson, MD 21286http://www.mpchurch.org/About.htmPotluck Picnic & Circle Reunion, Co-Sponsored by SMEIWe will be celebrating a successful year of Baltimore Green Forum gatherings. Here is a great chance to hang out with folks you have begun to know throughout the year. The BGF Planning…See More
Lore Rosenthal is attending William Barnes's event Jun 21, 2010
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Baltimore Green Forum Sustainable Picnic Sunday June 27th 4:30pm-6:30pm at Maryland Presbyterian Church

June 27, 2010 from 4:30pm to 6:30pm
BALTIMORE GREEN FORUMa monthly environmental education and discussion forumSunday June 27, 20104:30-6:30 PMMaryland Presbyterian Church1105 Providence Road, Towson, MD 21286http://www.mpchurch.org/About.htmPotluck Picnic & Circle Reunion, Co-Sponsored by SMEIWe will be celebrating a successful year of Baltimore Green Forum gatherings. Here is a great chance to hang out with folks you have begun to know throughout the year. The BGF Planning…See More
Event posted by William Barnes Jun 16, 2010
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Transition meeting at Paneras Riva/Annapolis June 12th 2010 10 am at Panera Bread at Festival at Riva shopping center

June 12, 2010 from 10am to 11:30am
Skill Up Now for Sustainable Energy Transitionwww.meetup.com/SunsetLifeboatCome have coffee together, discuss /share 'skilling up' plans, then see some of the ways that colonial era Annapolis got it right!See More
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Transition Greenbelt

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Patricia Gershanik joined Lore Rosenthal's group May 31, 2010
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Baltimore Green Forum: Alternative Currencies at Maryland Presbyterian Church

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May 23, 2010 from 4:30pm to 6:30pm
BALTIMORE GREEN FORUMa monthly environmental education and discussion forumSunday, May 23, 2010, 4:30-6:30 PMMaryland Presbyterian Church1105 Providence Road, Towson, MD 21286to carpool, contact Chip Barnes, wcbarnes67@gmail.com, 410-790-1962(name, email, phone number (s), general vicinity you’ll be coming from)ALTERNATIVE CURRENCIESFrom Wikipedia: Alternative currency is a term that refers to any currency used as an alternative to the dominant national or multinational currency systems…See More
Lore Rosenthal is attending EcolocityDC's event May 23, 2010
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Baltimore Green Forum: Alternative Currencies at Maryland Presbyterian Church

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May 23, 2010 from 4:30pm to 6:30pm
BALTIMORE GREEN FORUMa monthly environmental education and discussion forumSunday, May 23, 2010, 4:30-6:30 PMMaryland Presbyterian Church1105 Providence Road, Towson, MD 21286to carpool, contact Chip Barnes, wcbarnes67@gmail.com, 410-790-1962(name, email, phone number (s), general vicinity you’ll be coming from)ALTERNATIVE CURRENCIESFrom Wikipedia: Alternative currency is a term that refers to any currency used as an alternative to the dominant national or multinational currency systems…See More
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Events

Forum

Jutta Tobias

The Economist got it right: Political Spin shouldn't stop urgent action in the face of Global Climate Change

Started by Jutta Tobias in Inbox Mar 23, 2010.

Lore Rosenthal

Social Change Articles

Started by Lore Rosenthal in Inbox Feb 5, 2010.

JacobWendler

Fossil Fuel Energy 1 Reply

Started by JacobWendler in Untitled Category. Last reply by William Barnes Jan 12, 2010.

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