Transition Maryland

Community Resilience, Self-Reliance, Renewable Energy & Cooperation

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

Blog Posts

andrew eisenberg

Get a Move On

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

EcolocityDC

Transition Handbook online

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

Tim Willard

Cheer Up, It's Going to Get Worse

Posted by Tim Willard on June 20, 2009 at 2:40pm

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

  • Ian Tasker
  • Bruce Baker
  • Ken Stailey
  • Karen Krueger
  • Lore Rosenthal
  • cary augerblade
  • andrew eisenberg
  • Scott Carlson
  • William Barnes
  • Jack Arnold
  • Bonnie North
  • Samuel Hopkins
  • andrew histand
  • Kristin Hamilton
  • Joseph Hamilton
  • Sarah Meggison
  • Ernest J.P. Muhly
  • Erik Harper
  • Laird Towle
  • Karen Stupski
  • Les Squires
  • Hannah Joyner
  • Kate Upshur
  • Shannon Brescher Shea
  • Harlan Ryang
  • Angela Flynn
  • Anne Hull

Latest Activity

Ken Stailey added 2 videos
yesterday
Notes from Jan 26 meeting of GTT Alternative Currencies Discussion Group Attendees: Cary Coppock Lore Rosenthal Robert Fireovid Outcomes: · Idea of introducing an alternative currency in Greenbelt was tabled · We will consider organizing a public v…
on Sunday
on Saturday
The Alternative Currency Research Group has also been looking in to the Shop Local movement. Here is the Shop Local Greenbelt flier, designed by Barbara Davis. Hope you will patronize these local businesses and keep our dollars in our community. sho…
on Saturday
Here is Greenbelt's Shop Local brochure. I will post it to Transition Greenbelt too.shop_local_flyer_012710a.pdf
on Saturday
Lore Rosenthal added a discussion
http://www.pnas.org/content/106/44/18452.full?sid=5250773d-adf3-46d6-8541-f62c22184346 Household actions can provide a behavioral wedge to rapidly reduce US carbon emissionsThomas Dietz, Gerald T. Gardner, Jonathan Gilligan, Paul C. Stern, and Micha…
on Friday
andrew eisenberg added a blog post
Food is freedom. All I'm doing these days is learning about and participating in farming. I'm glad to see a few of you are making things happening. I'm headed back out west. I've recorded an album which I"m dedicating to supporting the Small Farms C…
February 3
"Mitigation". As a student of urban planning, its the world stamped in government documents dealing with every problem associated with Urban America; they don’t care for solutions, and the can’t. To “solve the problem” would mean to abandon the syst…
February 3
To promote the blossoming of wisdom to inspire participation in positive social/cultural change that addresses persistent war and anthropogenic global warming
February 1
Ken Stailey added 2 videos
January 31
Jack Arnold updated their profile
January 31
andrew histand updated their profile photo
January 28
andrew histand and Ken Stailey joined Transition Maryland
January 28
cary augerblade is now a member of Transition Maryland
January 26
January 25
Karen Stupski updated their profile photo
January 19

Events

Forum

Lore Rosenthal

Social Change Articles

Started by Lore Rosenthal in Inbox Feb 5.

JacobWendler

Fossil Fuel Energy 1 Reply

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

William Barnes

Derrick Jensen

Started by William Barnes in Inbox Jan 12.

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.

 
 

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