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Good News From Transition
Our monthly newsletter containing updates from us at Transition US and the latest stories from the field.
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Transition Spotlight: NorCal Resilience Network
From climate change-fueled wildfires to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the world is waking up to the urgent need for local resilience. NorCal Resilience Network created training program to support sites in a diversity of communities to become Hubs over the next year, becoming more resilient, while strengthening their community ties and ready for disasters. For this pilot training, they are welcoming communities of all structures and sizes - from neighborhood centers to places of worship to city blocks. The sessions will be highly interactive and will include opportunities to build relationships and trust across silos, sectors and communities.
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Call for Submissions: Stories to Action
Good stories offer us hope that a better world is possible. They also expand our imaginations, spark new dreams, convey lessons learned, and move us into action.
In phase three of our “From What Is to What If” campaign, Transition US is inviting community resilience-building initiatives all over the country to share your inspiring stories with our national network. We are especially looking for stories of innovative, successful, and replicable projects that have furthered the causes of sustainability, justice, cooperation, and regeneration in neighborhoods, towns and cities, states, and regions throughout the U.S.
Stories that are submitted no later than December 15, 2020 will also be eligible to receive one of four $500 stipends to offer a webinar through Transition US and facilitate an online learning cohort to help other grassroots leaders replicate these projects nationwide.
You may submit more than one story, however it is not guaranteed that all submissions will be featured.
Stories do not need to be from 2020 only. You are more than welcome to highlight past projects that are full of inspiration and prime for replication!
Need inspiration for stories?
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National Network Strategy Conversation 11/24 - Building Capacity and Increasing Our Impact
In this phase of our national campaign, “From What Is to What If”, we invite active members of our network and strategic partners to join us in a series of National Network Strategy Conversations. Each monthly conversation will build upon a key theme of the Transition US strategic planning process.
The next conversation will be next week, November 24th at 4pm PT / 6pm CT / 7pm ET on "Building Capacity and Increasing Our Impact as a National Network."
This discussion will explore how we can collectively grow the capacity of Transition US as the national Transition hub - and the grassroots network it supports - by sharing power and responsibility for supporting local Transition Initiatives with the Collaborative Design Council, National Working Groups, emerging Regional Hubs, Transition US Board of Directors, strategic partners, and others. For more background, please read “Growing Capacity of Transition US” on page 17 of our Strategic Planning Input Paper and review our National Organizing Framework.
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Resourcing Our Movement
On October 27, Transitioners and collaborative partners from across the nation participated in a National Network Strategy conversation entitled “Resourcing Our Movement,” co-facilitated by Ranae Hanson, Transition ASAP (MN) and Galen Meyers, Transition US Collaborative Design Council.
This conversation explored strategies for funding and resourcing Transition at all levels–from tiny all-volunteer groups, to 501(c)3 Transition groups that are able to provide paid work, to the Transition US national hub. A second theme in the conversation focused on how Transition (and affiliated) groups impact the wider community with activities like investment circles and worker-owned cooperatives.
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Transition US in Collaboration with Stop the Money Pipeline & The Years Project
Transition U.S. joined the Stop the Money Pipeline campaign to stop the destruction of our ecosystems by targeting the big banks and financial institutions that are driving us towards climate chaos. Chase, Wells Fargo and Bank of America top the list of climate profiteers that continue to invest billions of dollars into new fossil fuel infrastructures. We need to stop them and send an unequivocal message to #stopthemoneypipeline. Here’s a video that explains it. Please join us and share it on social media!
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Tell Us About the Impact, Relevance and Potential of the Transition Movement
The international Transition Network is working with the international Transition Hubs Group to support a collective evaluation of what the Transition movement is achieving and how it might need to adapt to respond to current and emerging challenges. We know many groups and hubs are already exploring the impact, relevance and potential of Transition. Now you have an opportunity to contribute to a broader conversation and hear the perspectives and experiences of people in many different places.
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Upcoming Events
Visit our events calendar for a complete list of upcoming online events.
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Connection Café Drop-In Practice Group
Nov 23 @ 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm PT
The Connection Café is a space to deeply share, reflect, and explore what’s going for us as we move toward more just and regenerative ways of understanding and living. We will especially focus on inner resilience as it applies to the dismantling of the systems we live in, and the building of new ways, both in our inner and outer worlds. Facilitators from the Transition US Inner Resilience Network will offer practices and tools to go deep into a connective space.
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Stories to Action: The From From What Is to What if Book Club Discussion With Author Rob Hopkins
Nov 24 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm PT
From What Is to What If is Rob Hopkins’ rallying cry for our imaginations—both as creatively impoverished individuals and as communities dreaming a positive vision for our future. Now, more than ever, this book is timely and relevant and demands our thoughtful attention. And surely the best way to read it is with others, discussing the ideas, and putting them to creative action! Join the From What Is to What If book club discussion! In partnership with Transition US, please join author Rob Hopkins for a 90-minute virtual Q&A to cap off our collective book club reading experience!
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Trans-Local Entrepreneur Forum
Nov 26 @ 8:00 am - 11:00 am PT
Join REconomy practitioners for a bold experiment in solidarity, self-organizing and trans-local collaboration. It will be a trans-national event held on Zoom and in local places – a "blended event."
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Transition and Prosocial Learning Groups
Dec 1, Dec 15, Dec 29 @ 8:00 am and 3:00 pm PT
This series of Learning Groups provide an introduction to the Prosocial processes including practical tools that we can use within our groups to enhance openness to collaboration, willingness to take the perspective of others, and commitment to shared action and relations with other groups. This series is offered twice (8am and 3pm PT) to accommodate global participants.
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Bioneers Conference 2020
Dec 5-6 and 12-13
“Beyond the Great Unraveling: Weaving the World Anew” will offer the chance to engage with the wisdom from visionary thought leaders, activists and scientists leading the world’s most important movements — simply by logging in. Use the Transition US discount code while registering: kebr3c
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What If? There Was a Daily Imagination Lesson?
"The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal.”
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From Fear and Anger to Collective Purpose
"What greater purpose and meaning is there than working together to create a world that secures the health of Earth and the well-being of families and communities?"
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Top Tips on Lowering Your Christmas Carbon Footprint
Dreaming of a green Christmas? Transition Town Letchworth gives tops tips on how to reduce your carbon footprint this festive period.
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