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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Dakota Rural Action Farm Beginnings Program starts in October!
Posted by Karl J. Schmidt on August 19, 2009 at 4:43pm — 1 Comment
Who We Are...
This site is developed through grassroots participation, and is continually evolving. It connects transition workers with each other to identify and nurture the development of useful and necessary local Transition Initiatives, solutions, and practices.
The Transition Movement embraces several facets: Local Self Reliance, Appropriate Technology, Decentralization, Localization, Relocalization, Post Carbon, Post Petroleum, Beyond Oil. Groups working on any of these issues are transition groups. By collaborating and acknowledging the larger vision of Transition, active groups can leverage their efforts.
The emerging Transition Culture will empower South Dakota communities and enable us to find innovative solutions to the momentous challenges facing us.
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For all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how are we going to: |
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.
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 SOUTH DAKOTA 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!
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Started by Northwest Earth Institute Jul. 22, 2009.
Programs for Transformative Dialogue - Learn How to Be the Change
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The Challenge of Algal Fuel: Economic Processing of the Entire Algal Biomass
Micro-algae have considerable potential for the production of biofuel, but at present the process of producing fuel from algae would appear to be currently uneconomic. If fuel from micro-algae is to be economic the entire algal biomass should be utilised and anaerobic digestion could play an important part in the exploitation of algae to produce algal energy.
Economics - Feb 9
-False Profits: We Will Be Suffering from Greenspan and Bernanke's Ineptitude for a Long Time
-G7 close to accord on banks paying for global recession
-How Brussels Is Trying to Prevent a Collapse of the Euro
-Europe loses seat at top table
-Corruption, Culpability and Short-Termism
Iran - to sanction or not to sanction? - Feb 9
-Sanctions Are the Talk of the Day
-U.S. Wants Iran Sanctions In Weeks; Embassies Attacked
-Iran begins enriching higher-grade uranium, says state TV
Sustainable Firewood: Recycling Atmospheric Carbon
Wood is a renewable fuel because young trees grow up to replace those harvested for fuel. That’s a simple enough statement, but there is much more to consider when you look into the details.
Film Review: ‘Food Inc.’
At this year's Soil Association conference I was chatting with Mike Small of the Fife Diet in Scotland. He told a story about how a film crew from Sky News came up to Fife to do a news story about their work. While they were filming, Mike chatted to the director and asked him what was the angle on the story. "Well", said the director, "it's about a community eating local food". "Amazing to think that that's now seen as news!" said Mike. Of course, now such a thing is news, so bizarrely distorted has our food system (and our media, but that's another story) become. Unfortunately the sprawling monster that actually now feeds most of us isn't news, but only because it is so well hidden, something that the excellent new film "Food Inc" tries to change.
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