Transition North Carolina

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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Dirk Herr-Hoyman is now a member of Transition North Carolina
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Thanks Nick and welcome Weaverville. It's great to see both here. Now that you've created this group your members can INVITE likeminded people from Weaverville and from Transition North Carolina to commingle, add further information and links as t...
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C Robb Worthington

Relocalisation

As I listened to the BBC World Service this morning I heard a story about the Chinese economy and efforts to stimulate consumerism to keep the economy growing. Aside from the obvious futility of a continuing to rely on the infinite growth paradigm, a physical impossibility in a finite ecosystem, the commentator was discussing efforts to get the Chinese public to consume more locally produced goods thus double stimulating the economy. As western economies have tried to rebound from their self inf… Continue

Posted by C Robb Worthington on September 16, 2009 at 8:46am

C Robb Worthington

Inner Work at Transition Training

I've just returned from the Transition Training weekend in Totnes.

The training was good. We covered many techniques to use in developing a Transition Initiative as well as went through some inner work that was surprising in it's intensity. What I'd like to talk about here is that inner experience rather than the nuts and bolts of piecing an initiative together.

As one might expect most of the attendees were already engaged with the threats posed by climate change and peak oil and fully accept… Continue

Posted by C Robb Worthington on September 9, 2009 at 5:00am

C Robb Worthington

Employment opportunities presented through Transition.

Check out the list of possible employment creation available to communities that pursue a transition initiative. This list is specific to Totnes in England but many of these will apply anywhere. Thanks to Rob Hopkins at Transition Culture for this table.

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Posted by C Robb Worthington on July 1, 2009 at 2:07am

C Robb Worthington

Changing the scale of change

The article "The Transition Initiative Changing the scale of change" in the July/August 2009 of Orion Magazine by Jay Griffiths is well worth a read, here are some excerpts;

"If the Transition Initiative were a person, you’d say he or she was charismatic, wise, practical, positive, resourceful, and very, very popular. Starting with the town of Totnes in Devon, England, in September 2006, the movement hContinue

Posted by C Robb Worthington on June 26, 2009 at 5:30am

 

Who We Are...

TRANSITION NORTH CAROLINA 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

  • Thurman
  • Maggie Tubilleja
  • gael
  • Dirk Herr-Hoyman
  • Les Squires
  • steven hall
  • Charleen Fischer
  • Seleora
  • Heather Valli
  • C Robb Worthington
  • Morgan Glover
  • Maggie Tubilleja
  • Kevin Bose
  • Alastair Lough
  • Don Hall
  • Roger Bass
  • Gwendolyn Thomson
  • Nick Letts
  • KRISTIN SHEA
  • Dick Norris
  • Jim
  • Kevin Sean
  • steven hall
  • Northwest Earth Institute
  • Jim Griffin
  • Soni Pitts
  • Eric Halber

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

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Northwest Earth Institute

Join the EcoChallenge!!

Started by Northwest Earth Institute Jul 22.

Dick Norris

Ram pumps

Started by Dick Norris Jul 14.

 
 

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