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.

Latest Activity

Patti added a photo
February 1
David MacLeod and Robert Schultz are now friends
January 23
January 21
Susan Husa is now a member of Transition Washington State
January 15
January 15
Cindy Blackshear updated their profile photo
January 15
Patti joined Maxine Walker's group
Newly forming in the Duvall, Carnation, Fall city, Snoqualmie and North Bend area. Have library presentations on the Transtions movement at all except North Bend in January.
January 14
Robert Schultz added a discussion
5 Jan 2010 4:16 PM by Steph Larsen - GRIST These days it seems the most popular person to be in the food system is the “local farmer.” Farmers markets are popping up everywhere, and their size and popularity grow all the time. Local food is trendy—…
January 6

Blog Posts

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 a… 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 criticism fro… 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 Climate Change, as well as exponential population grow… 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 you into our cau… 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.


Members

  • Briana Barrett
  • Leo Brodie
  • Lindsey Swan
  • Patti
  • Christopher Brady
  • Jenny Cochrane
  • Erick McWayne
  • Marisha Auerbach
  • Susan Gleason
  • Britt Walker
  • Carmen
  • Katharine
  • David MacLeod
  • Gabriel Brown
  • Rick Dubrow
  • Kate Clark
  • Susan Husa
  • Cindy Blackshear
  • Brian Allen
  • Lisa Quinn
  • Fulvio
  • Susan Gregory
  • Jonathan Betz-Zall
  • Bruce Palm
  • Liza Johnson
  • Robert Schultz
  • Leon Breckenridge

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

Forum

Robert Schultz

It takes a community to sustain a small farm

Started by Robert Schultz Jan 7.

Northwest Earth Institute

Join the EcoChallenge!!

Started by Northwest Earth Institute Jul. 22, 2009.

 
 

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