Transition Maryland

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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Here is a wonderful website from Shirley, about the SLOW movement. It includes many of the topics we have been discussing, such as PERMACULTURE, ALTERNATIVE CURRENCIES, etc. check it out. http://www.slowmovement.com/
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REPORT ON OUR FIRST MEETING - Thurs, Nov 19 Present: Bob F., Cary C., Shirley M., Lore R. We heard initial reports from Bob (Berkshares), Shirley (Ithaca Hours), Lore (Time Bank). Several people had purchased The End of Money and were starting to...
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Samuel Hopkins, Anna Socrates and Anne Hull joined Transition Maryland
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actually, it was Nov 18th, grin
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Minutes of our first Re-Skilling Workshops Working Group, Nov 19, 2009
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Blog Posts

Geoff Stack

Worldchanging: Transition Towns or Bright Green Cities?

All,

I offer the link below as something that I found as thought-provoking - I don't endorse it one way or the other. What are your thoughts on it?

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/010672.html

I look forward to working with you all to advance sustainability in Baltimore and beyond in any way we can. I am thrilled to know that others are looking at the big picture and questioning many of the basic systems that we rely on.

Th… Continue

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

EcolocityDC

Transition Handbook online



Download or read The Transition Handbook online.

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

Tim Willard

Cheer Up, It's Going to Get Worse

Transition movements are starting to get some good press.

Transition Santa Cruz was featured in an article in the Santa Cruz Weekly, Santa Cruz Group Gears Up for Life After Cheap Oil.

Peak oil” is a familiar catch phrase, though the gravity of its truest meaning still eludes much of the populace. In theory it represents the end of modern society as we know it, a scenario in which
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Posted by Tim Willard on June 20, 2009 at 2:40pm

andrew eisenberg

What is better than doing all that you can? Not doing what you can't

The ends justify means. To this gandhi would disagree for he felt the ends and means to be interchangeable. We all, to include myself, are hypocrites. We call for change yet employ the same methods that cause the problems. We must accept this if we are to transition from thoughtlessness to an increase in awareness and action.

I feel imperfect; I need community. I express myself as a lion, attacking the subjectivity in our fragile perspectives. My perspective is that of a design, where the probl… Continue

Posted by andrew eisenberg on June 11, 2009 at 12:17pm

Kolya Braun-Greiner

Climate Justice & Spirituality

As we begin to face the enormity of changes before us and especially for our children's generation, it will become imperative for us to ground and center ourselves in the deep roots of spiritual traditions that will sustain us, otherwise we may easily be overwhelmed with fear and grief for the future. Present and future generations are counting on us to respond. This is a Kairos moment, an exciting and yes, sobering time to be alive. I will be co-leading a course at Ghost Ranch Reteat Center --… Continue

Posted by Kolya Braun-Greiner on May 6, 2009 at 9:01pm — 2 Comments

 

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.


Members

  • andrew eisenberg
  • Chris Belchamber
  • Samuel Hopkins
  • Anne Hull
  • Anna Socrates
  • Kolya Braun-Greiner
  • Kristin Hamilton
  • larry sullivan
  • Geoff Stack
  • EcolocityDC
  • Les Squires
  • Tetrahedron
  • Joseph Hamilton
  • Mary Rooker
  • Janet Kane
  • Michael J. Hartman
  • Lonna Anderson
  • Tim Willard
  • Donna Hoffmeister
  • Bonnie North
  • William Barnes
  • Les Squires for Transition Massachusetts
  • Angela
  • Bob Fireovid
  • Northwest Earth Institute
  • Cynthia Newcomer
  • Sarah Meggison

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

EcolocityDC

Take action

Started by EcolocityDC in Inbox Oct 19.

EcolocityDC

Vacancies at Maitri House

Started by EcolocityDC in Untitled Category Oct 19.

EcolocityDC

Call for community gardens in Baltimore food deserts 1 Reply

Started by EcolocityDC in Inbox. Last reply by Lore Rosenthal Aug 6.

 
 

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