Transition Oregon

Community Resilience, Self-Reliance, Renewable Energy & Cooperation

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

Latest Activity

on Tuesday
Louisa de Heer is now a member of Transition Oregon
on Tuesday
Weckbaugh added a discussion
In these times of recession when everyone is searching for profitable investments, oil sector provides respite. Oil and petroleum is deeply entrenched into our economy. Investment in oil can be done in a number of ways. Investment in oil can be do...
on Monday
on Monday
Doug Saldivar added an event
April 24, 2010 all day
Our local middle school is having a contest to name our Sustainability fair and recycling event - scheduled for April 24 at the Villages at Mt Hood. We are busy planning and working to find groups toset up info tables or help us in our effort to s...
on Sunday
on Sunday
on Sunday
on Sunday

Blog Posts

Mike Green

The Oregon Green Expo

Is Transition Town involved in the Oregon Green Expo?

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Posted by Mike Green on May 21, 2009 at 12:49pm

Mike Green

Connect Ashland

ConnectAshland.com is a ning platform (like this site) that is checked daily by the Ashland Daily Tidings for user generated content to put into the Daily Tidings newspaper and on our Web site at dailytidings.com. There is a Sustainable Ashland group at ConnectAshland.com and also a Sustainable Ashland section of the Daily Tiding… Continue

Posted by Mike Green on May 21, 2009 at 12:30pm

Sandi Brockway

How to begin regional networking and coalition building

Start networking with people in your area using some of the TOOLS I setup for Michigan and Tennessee. Please note, too, the CLASSIFIEDS from LiveWire, which is a FREE addon. Wiser earth map, Idealist.org are useful tools. Also, on the US transition site I setup a pe… Continue

Posted by Sandi Brockway on May 17, 2009 at 6:30pm

Steve Bowman

Something upbeat about Obama and the 1st 100 days

It's easy to get lost in all the media talk about Obama's 1st 100 days, the good, the bad etc., so here's an analysis that I find very positive.

Joseph Romm: The Green FDR , from the Huffington Post.

This is part of, what I think is the key issue for all humankind, not just the USA. We will have to wait and see how some of this plays out, but I find it a great start.

Posted by Steve Bowman on May 4, 2009 at 5:11pm

Steve Bowman

The New Story - Short Video with Brian Swimme

Check out this video in light of Transition Ashland's Goal.

The New Story

Brian Swimme, Ph.D., is a mathematical cosmologist on the graduate faculty of the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He is the author of The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos (Orbis, 1996), The Universe is a Green Dragon (Bear and Company, 1984) and The Universe Story (Harper, 1992). Brian's media work inclu… Continue

Posted by Steve Bowman on May 2, 2009 at 3:29pm

 

Who We Are...

TRANSITION OREGON 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

  • Steven Ribeiro
  • Don Hall
  • Louisa de Heer
  • Mike Morin
  • Valerie Chapman
  • Weckbaugh
  • Jim McGinnis
  • Doug Saldivar
  • molly kenney
  • Gregg Marchese
  • C. Milton Dixon
  • LizM
  • Larry Hogue
  • Les Squires
  • Mora Rogers
  • Gary Randall
  • Dave Fulton
  • Pam Vavra
  • Cindy Ceteras
  • Max Jensen
  • Titanic Lifeboat Academy
  • Les Squires for TransitionOregon
  • Shaktari Belew
  • Northwest Earth Institute
  • Max Glenn
  • David Johnson
  • Jim Newcomer

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.

Forum

Weckbaugh

Recession and Oil Investment

Started by Weckbaugh Nov 23.

Max Jensen

Barter: Couch for knowledge!

Started by Max Jensen Oct 1.

Northwest Earth Institute

Join the EcoChallenge!!

Started by Northwest Earth Institute Jul 22.

 
 

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