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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January 27
Ellen LaConte is now a member of Transition North Carolina
January 27
That's Ace! I love it.
January 7
Dick Norris added a blog post
Just wanted to share a recent project with everyone. I have been composting in a wood frame bin for years and recently had an idea to use a plastic barrel that I wasn't using to collect rainwater. I found the bearings on an old piece of equipment th…
January 6
david mcconville is now a member of Transition North Carolina
January 3
steven hall added a discussion
i have now spent 12 months working on the farm in ashe county and i have accomplished much but i am reaching a point of diminishing returns because i now have more questions than answers.it seems no one is posting regularly on this site and i am fru…
January 1
steven hall updated their profile photo
December 24, 2009
steven hall added a photo
December 24, 2009

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Dick Norris

Compost barrel

Just wanted to share a recent project with everyone. I have been composting in a wood frame bin for years and recently had an idea to use a plastic barrel that I wasn't using to collect rainwater. I found the bearings on an old piece of equipment that was going to the scrap dealer and the rest of the stuff I found in my shop (cause I keep everything). It spins easily and since it is black it composts quickly, even in cold weather. Got any questions let me know.

Dick… Continue

Posted by Dick Norris on January 6, 2010 at 12:43pm — 1 Comment

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

 

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

  • Ellen LaConte
  • C Robb Worthington
  • Dick Norris
  • gael
  • david mcconville
  • vicspies
  • steven hall
  • Soni Pitts
  • Kimchi Rylander
  • Theresa El-Amin
  • KRISTIN SHEA
  • Don Hall
  • Gwendolyn Thomson
  • Sara Day Evans
  • Brian Moore
  • Les Squires temp for TransitionNorthCarolina
  • Eric Halber
  • Jeanne
  • Jim Griffin
  • Northwest Earth Institute
  • Kevin Sean
  • Kathie Flood
  • Mareena
  • Jim
  • Gred
  • Thurman
  • Maggie Tubilleja

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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Northwest Earth Institute

Join the EcoChallenge!!

Started by Northwest Earth Institute Jul. 22, 2009.

Jim

Time for a Transition NC teleconference?

Started by Jim Jul. 20, 2009.

 
 

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