Transition Washington State

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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Joanne Lee

Transition Olympia

Thurston County Progressive Network held its annual picnic Sunday, July 12th. Despite our spectacular thunder and lightning storms that day, we had 140 people turn out for an outdoor event! 21 candidates for local offices spent 3 minutes each answering questions about their positions on issues of concern to progressive voters. The food was great. The company scintillating. And the event was capped off with a Transition Initiative workshop. We spend about 10 minutes warming folks up by creating… Continue

Posted by Joanne Lee on July 15, 2009 at 10:56pm

Joanne Lee

Transition Initiative Olympia

Just wanted to let you know that the first TI public awareness raising presentation in Olympia on Monday night went really well. Olympia Climate Action group asked me to speak. They have been meeting most (?) of the last year and do a public educational event once a month.



We had 45 people turn out on a gorgeous sunny evening (it’s hard to compete with global warming ;^). Very engaged group. Lots of good interaction. Much positive feedback and some good constructive criticism. The… Continue

Posted by Joanne Lee on June 10, 2009 at 4:41pm — 1 Comment

Katherine Burks

Inspiration from Paul Hawken to the Graduates of 2009

Just read an amazing commencement speech that Paul Hawken gave at the U. of Portland in May, and want to share it, if it's new to you:

http://globalmindshift.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/the-unforgettable-commencement-address-by-paul-hawken-to-the-class-of-2009-university-of-portland-may-3-2009/

Posted by Katherine Burks on June 6, 2009 at 12:13pm

Joyma

This is an incredible video with great music

maybe we should wake up and do something!



http://transitiontownashland.org/trantown.html



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Here's a delightful video slide show (with wonderful music)

about the many Transition Towns in New Zealand:



What is a Transition Town?

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It all starts off when a collection of motivated individuals within a community come together with a shared concern: How can our community respond to the challenges, and opportunities, of Peak Oil and… Continue

Posted by Joyma on June 3, 2009 at 7:03pm

Dick McManus

Running on Empty Caucus of Washington State Democrats

Joining the ROE caucuses

We have started a Running on Empty (ROE) caucus of Washington State Democrats . We have also started a national ROE caucus. The goal of this caucus is to bring more emphasis by our Party to the coming end of cheap oil and natural gas which will result in an extreme disaster.



To become a member of our caucus we require some more information from you. If you agree or basically agree with the following statements and you are a Democrat, then we will accept… Continue

Posted by Dick McManus on May 25, 2009 at 12:45pm — 3 Comments

Who We Are...

TRANSITION WASHINGTON STATE 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.


 

PLANS FOR TRANSITION SOCIAL NETWORK IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON

Greetings members from Washington State,

Transition Washington State has moved to a new location: If you desire to continue your membership in the Transition Social Network, please join http://transitionus.ning.com When you join, I will greet you and direct you to the new location.

If you created a local GROUP on this site, you will need to re-create your local group using this link: http://transitionus.ning.com/groups/group/new

It is important that you do this right away. This site will be deleted any day now.

If you have already taken this step, please visit the original site and encourage your neighbors to follow your example.

Let me know when you have questions.

Les Squires
http://transitionus.ning.com
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+1 303 926 5159

Members

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  • Stuart Reed
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  • Randy Chatterjee
  • Jeffrey Mocniak
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  • Gregg Bryant
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  • Rick Dubrow
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Sustainable West Seattle Meeting at West Seattle Senior Center

September 20, 2010 from 7pm to 9pm
This months Sustainable West Seattle meeting will address Peak Oil and Transition. We’ll be joined by two local leaders on the subject, Derik Andreoli, founder of Energy Transitions Northwest and Leo Brodie of Sustainable Northeast Seattle.Learn more about Peak Oil and its potential impact on cities, transportation and the economy and what is or is not being done locally to address these issues.See More
Event posted by Bill Reiswig Sep 13, 2010
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Darien Payne is now a member of Transition Washington State Aug 25, 2010
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Jaco ten Hove is now a member of Transition Washington State Aug 15, 2010
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Scott James commented on Larry Koss's group 'Transition Bainbridge Island'
Hey friends, stop by www.TransitionBainbridge.org for an invite to join me for TT training up in Bellingham...
Aug 9, 2010
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Transition Bainbridge Island

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This group has been formed in order that those interested in this possibility for our community might have a ready means of being in communication.
Scott James joined Larry Koss's group Aug 9, 2010
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Scott James is now a member of Transition Washington State Aug 8, 2010
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PLEASE MOVE FROM TRANSITION WASHINGTON STATE TO LINK TRANSITION WASHINGTON STATE USA

The Ning people will be charging for sites outside of TRANSITION UNITED STATES in a few days.Please join up to: http://transitionus.ning.com/group/linktransitionwashingtonstateusa This will allow members of Transition Towns to stay in touch, communicate and help one another out. I believe you have to be a member of Transition United States to join Link Transition Washington StateUSA. Easy. Hope to see all of you…See More
Discussion posted by lane Jul 4, 2010
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Transition Washington members on http://transitionwashington.ning.com move their memberships to http://transitionus.ning.com/group/linktransitionwashingtonstateusa and no members will be lost. Let me know if you or any of the other members have…
Jul 3, 2010

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