Transition North Carolina - Community Resilience, Self-Reliance, Renewable Energy & Cooperation

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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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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Blog Posts

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

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

Check out this North Carolina story about the growing interest in urban agriculture

"A growing revolution: Urban gardens are changing the landscape"

Posted by Morgan Glover on August 2, 2009 at 8:00pm

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

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 h… Continue

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.

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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.

Register Your Local Transition Networking Group -- Let us know who you are and what you're doing that you consider Transition.
HopeDance Film Library -- more than 500 films that deal with sustainability, spirituality, social justice, 911, peak oil, drama, farming, gardening, permaculture collected over 7 years
Browse Miltonics Video Collection -- 1200 item video library on everything Transition. Thanks Milton Dixon/Transition Illinois. If you don't see your favorite here, tell Dixon!
Drop in for a visit to Colorado US -- prototype for all 50 U.S. States -- demonstrates what TRANSITION NORTH CAROLINA will soon become.
Invite others to join. -- paste in their emails one per line and a brief message encouraging them to join.
Update your Transition Resume -- Keep your Resume up-to-date. It's your way to make yourself findable when people are searching.
Upload your best photo -- click on the guy with the camera if you need assistance photoshopping your photo. We can crop, fix, enhance!
Install skype from http://skype.com/download -- conference calls, workgroups and tutorials. A centerpiece in our community building. Add LSquiresSkype to your Contacts and he'll greet you at the door!