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  • Transition OKC momentum building!

    Transition OKC, a project of Sustainable OKC, became the nation's 27th official Transition initiative in May of 2009. The TOKC coordinating team took several months to lay the foundations of this project by discussing the “Transition Handbook,” hosting a Training for Transition, and setting principles, guidelines and a constitution in place (neatly stored in PVC-free binders, thanks to Shauna Struby).

  • A Look at Transition Cities

    While the Transition model is being used in communities of all shapes and sizes, rural and urban, it takes a slightly different tune each time, adapted to the settings of that particular local. In larger urban areas, and given the dense and resource intensive aspects of cities, organizers are thinking hard about how best to develop resilient local communities across a diverse geographic space.

  • Transition Colorado Hosts County-Wide EAT LOCAL! Week

    In the Transition community, we love food. All over the country, groups are coming together around food and reconnecting with where their food comes from, becoming growers and cooks a la slow food. From the learning to build a basic solar oven, to preserving food for the winter, to saving seeds for the following season. Food is where transitioners alike really dig in.

  • Sustainable NE Seattle's Planet:HOME

    As a core aspect of the Transition model, there is the push to re-skill ourselves with the necessary tools to live within our local ecological means. Sustainable NE Seattle held a "Planet Earth" Community Festival on August 21, 2010 for local residents to come together and share skills to to do just that.

    The Festival expressed the theme of our planet as our home by arranging exhibits according to rooms of a house. In the "Kitchen" there was a cheese-making demonstration, while in the Garage there were electric bikes that you could test ride.

  • July Round-up of What's Happening in the World of Transition - US Edition

    Here are some highlights of what's keeping Transition Initiatives busy across the country and around the world...

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