TransitionConnecticut

Community Resilience, Self-Reliance, Renewable Energy & Cooperation

A networking coalition providing Transition Initiatives based on local production, renewable energy, efficiency & resilient communities.

Latest Activity

I am also a fan of Janaia Donaldson's Peak Moment TV
October 25
I can sympathize with Michele, I have a 45 to 60 minute commute each way to work in Meriden to a very demanding job. Typical work week is usually over 50 hours. Non the less I am committed to creating an alternative way of living in my "spare" tim...
October 25
Hi, Andrew -- I updated my profile with a little more information. It's hard to summarize things but I tried. I moved back up to Woodstock where I went to high school after many years living in Brooklyn, NY. I've found it a difficult path, I'm not...
October 24
Rebecca Hyde updated their profile
October 24
Charlotte and I attended the garlic festival in Bethlehem not to long ago. It was nice to see a lot of local farms out selling there produce. I had a thought, would it make sense to have have cards printed out with the web site address on it that ...
October 23
Welcome to transition CT. Charlotte and I are up in the other corner of the state, in Litchfield. We took the training up in Vermont about a year ago. We are slowly becoming more independent, and live more lightly on the earth. That has been a lif...
October 23
OK, Quiet Corner, time to wake up. :-)
October 23
October 13

Blog Posts

Terry Halwes

Transition Greater New Haven is "Official"

Transition Greater New Haven is now an "Official" Transition Initiative.
http://transitiontowns.org/NewHaven/NewHaven

Would you like to join our Google Group for announcements?
The address is http://groups.google.com/group/transition-greater-new-haven?hl=en
You can see there links to the kinds of things we've been sending people.

Posted by Terry Halwes on July 4, 2009 at 2:08pm

George Lisi

Lawn to Garden Conversion Guide for download

Lawn2gardeninfosheet.pdf

This is essentially a distillation of Vermont Permaculturist Mark Krawczyk's EXCELLENT Lawn to Garden Conversion workshop. All you need to know to get started! Mark has generously encouraged us to distribute it far and wide.
Enjoy!
George Lisi, Transition Town Montpelier, VT

Posted by George Lisi on June 24, 2009 at 7:26pm

Terry Halwes

Two New transition Books from Chelsea Green

The Transition Timeline: For a Local, Resilient Future -- by Shaun Chamberlin

Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change -- by David Holmgren

Posted by Terry Halwes on April 14, 2009 at 2:33pm

Andrew Graves

Hello Everyone

Just found out about the CT site from George Lisi up in VT. Just finished the training in Montpelier on the 8th. Very energizing. It was good to be with a group of people who had looked at the ugly truth facing us all and had decided to participate in creating a positive vision for the future. I am just starting to strategize on how to get things started up here in Litchfield. Hardest thing is finding the time with a busy and demanding schedule. My wife Charlotte attended with me, so I already h… Continue

Posted by Andrew Graves on March 21, 2009 at 8:04pm — 1 Comment

 

Who We Are...

TRANSITION CONNECTICUT 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

  • Dav id Cross
  • Diane McKenna
  • Jennifer Chin
  • Christopher B. Cryder
  • David Floyd
  • Rebecca Hyde
  • Max Saltonstall
  • aaron
  • Justin Pegnataro
  • Anna Packard
  • Bernard Brennan
  • Brian
  • Northwest Earth Institute
  • Amanda Smith
  • Martha Hansen
  • Andrew Graves
  • Alicia North
  • Les Squires
  • Les Squires
  • Jason Garnett
  • Richard St.Laurent
  • George Lisi
  • Alicia-Marie Lavoie
  • Connie Tate
  • Derek Brandt
  • Terry Halwes
  • Dic Wheeler

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

Northwest Earth Institute

Join the EcoChallenge!!

Started by Northwest Earth Institute Jul 22.

Terry Halwes

Transition Awareness-Raising Presentations

Started by Terry Halwes Jul 15.

Northwest Earth Institute

Programs for Transformative Dialogue - Learn How to Be the Change

Started by Northwest Earth Institute Jun 17.

 
 

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