In this issue: Community Resilience = Emergency Preparedness.
Plus: The first-ever Transition US Online Summit, Working Group Support, Effective Collaboration, Free Books & more! Read on... |
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What's Happening in Transition
 Save the Date: TUS First-Ever Online Summit Slated for October 27th!
Please mark your calendars, RSVP, and tell your local resilience-building friends about Transition US's first-ever Online Summit, a day-long event that will bring transitioners together all across the country to celebrate 10 years of Transition in the US. On October 27th, we encourage Transition Initiatives to plan local events to share the keynotes, panel discussions, connection & celebration!
 Surviving the Future Copies to Thank Ready Together Donors of $100+!
Thanks to the generosity of publisher Chelsea Green, Transition US is able to offer copies of the new David Fleming book, Surviving the Future, to the first 30 people to donate $100or more to our Ready Together crowdfunding campaign. Keep your eyes open for an email with more info, but you can also claim your copy now by making a $100+ donation to the campaign and filling out this form. Are you ready to survive the future?
 Don Hall: When the Levee Breaks
TUS Co-Director Don Hall was recently featured in an engaging interview-based article in American City & County, which situates the Transition Movement in the broader context of climate change, atmospheric carbon dioxide and sea level change. With federal leadership failing to rise to the challenge, he says, it's up to cities and counties (and local Transition groups!) to lead the charge. Read more here.
 A Note to Our EU Subscribers!
The UK-based Transition Network recently took massive action to comply with the new European privacy law known as GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), requiring permission to maintain contact with people who signed up for their emails. If you reside in the EU, please notify us! We'll soon be requiring EU subscribers to opt in as well.
 Website Volunteers Needed ASAP!
We are making HUGE progress on the long-awaited redesign and relaunch of our website, www.transitionus.org - and we're calling on our wider community of tech-savvy change agents to join and support the project! We need volunteers to help transfer over our many years worth of information and resources, as well as testers to try the new site before its launch this fall. We'll also be empowering bloggers to create content on an ongoing basis. Please reach out if you're willing to be a website volunteer or tester!
Stories from the Movement
 10 Stories of Transition: The Evolution of
Transition Town Media, PA
Transition US has published the fourth installment in the ongoing '10 Stories of Transition' series, a deep dive into the story of Transition Town Media (TTM). This all-star initiative has been responsible for a world-renowned Free Store, a growing time bank, a powerful Solarize Greater Media campaign, Inner Transition work, and numerous other inspirational projects. Read more here.
 10 Stories of Transition: Working Group Support in Woodstock, NY
The most recent post in our '10 Stories' series is about Transition activity in Woodstock, NY, where a Working Group Council (with representatives from the initiative's many project-based groups) has evolved to foster organic egalitarian leadership within the local network of change-makers. "I see Working Group Support as our heart," says Polly Howells, one of the founders of the Transition group.
 Surviving the Future Reading Groups Forming All Across the Country!
In addition to offering copies of Surviving the Future those donating to our Ready Togethercampaign, we recently shared an offer of free copies of this great book to local reading groups. You can learn more and sign up for this offer here. So far, we've received requests from dozens of diverse groups from around the country, including Transition Initiatives, faith groups including Muslim, Christian and Pagan members, and regional sustainability groups. Unity! Learn more.
 Sandpoint Transition Initiative 10 Year Celebration Featured in the News
In a recent issue of the Bonner County Daily Bee, Sandpoint Transition Initiative was honored for celebrating 10 years in Transition. Their great unleashing event packed a local theatre full of over 500 people, turning away dozens more for lack of space. Click here to read more about the evolution of this long-lasting Transition Town. Congratulations on 10 years, Sandpoint!
 Transition Town Play by Local Youth!
Transition US staff recently attended a play entitled Transition Town, which was entirely created and performed by local girls in Sonoma County between the ages of 8 and 13, based on their interviews with visionary adult activists in the Transition Towns Movement! Props to the Walking Elephant Theatre Company for this brilliant production. You can catch a couple of clips here. Stay tuned for the full videorecording.
 Love in a Time of Climate Change
In the latest dispatch from the Transition-aligned blog Think of it as an Adventure, Twin Cities Transition organizer Leslie MacKenzie writes on "the lessons of love, loss, hope and sacrifice," including a provocative invitationto "treasure so highly the beautiful places around the world that we don't destroy them by flying there." Read it for yourself and join the conversation.
Interested in starting a Transition Initiative?
Browse the US initiatives map and learn more about becoming an Official Transition Initiative!
Upcoming Events Transition US Co-Director Don Hall and Conscious Collaboration co-founder Nick Osborne will be offering an online Effective Collaboration training. This group filled up quickly and registration for this group is now closed, but if you're interested in this training you can email Don to be put on a list for future Effective Collaboration opportunities.  Transition US cordially invites you and your entire community to join us for our first-ever online summit on October 27th! We will be commemorating 10 years of Transition in the US with a multi-hour online gathering, featuring keynote talks, engaging panel discussions, and opportunities to connect and build a stronger movement with Transition organizers from all around the country.
We will share more information about this event soon, and we encourage local Transition Initiatives to host local events the same day that will incorporate presentations from this online national summit. For now, please mark your calendars for October 27th, spread the word in your local community of resilience-builders, and email in...@transitionus.org if you'd like to join the planning team.
Here's to a full decade in this movement to build thriving, resilient community for all!
Resources to Make the Movement Move!
 Free Copies of Surviving the FutureAre you interested in receiving a copy of this brilliant book exploring the ideas of the late David Fleming? There are now two ways to do so: Make a donation to our Ready Together crowdfunding campaign of $100 or more and receive a copy of this book as a thank you while supplies last -- or -- start a reading group to discuss Surviving the Future and the book's publishers, Chelsea Green, will send FREE COPIES of this excellent book to your local groups. Simply fill out this request form. For more information, read this flyer. We also recommend this video of a recent TUS Workshop with author Shaun Chamberlin.  21 Stories of Transition now in PDF!Our ongoing 10 Stories of Transition in the US blog series was inspired by the recent book 21 Stories of Transition: How a Movement of Communities is Coming Together to Reimagine and Rebuild Our World, an excellent compilation of shining stars in the Transition Movement that was "harvested" by Rob Hopkins. The book, which features inspirational stories of local resilience-building from all over the planet, is now available as a free PDF. Download it here. If you're living your own amazing "story of Transition," you can always send your stories to ni...@transitionus.org More Free Tools for Your Group! Transition US Presents: Policy Toolbox & Governance ToolboxTransition US is dedicated to supporting movement stakeholders in growing and maintaining healthy and effective groups. We'd like to offer your group some free tools we've been compiling to support your local initiative (or other group) in addressing governance and policymaking. Check out our new Policy Toolbox, our newly updated Governance Toolbox, and other useful guides here. Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons Book Available as Free PDFOur friends at Shareable have produced a new book on Sharing Cities, which they've made available as a free PDF download. The book looks at examples of transforming the commons all around the world. There is also a promotional video and book launch events planned all around the globe. Read more, download your copy, and check out Shareable's upcoming events here. Post Carbon Institute Announces New Community Resilience ReaderSubtitled "Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval," the new PostCarbon Community Resilience Reader brings together "the essential tools of resilience science, and the wisdom of activists, scholars, and analysts working on the ground" for a new look at the movement to build resilience at a community level. You can learn more, read the book online, or order your copy here.  NEC's Common-Bound Conference is Happening Now! June 22-24 in STL!Our allies at the New Economy Coalition are currently hosting their iconic movement-building conference, CommonBound. The gathering will be held in St. Louis, MO, from June 22 to 24. They have recently published a live-streaming schedule, if you are interested in attending remotely. You can sign up here. Transition US is a member of NEC and Transition organizers will definitely be in the house this weekend. We hope to see you there! Click here to learn more.  Join Transition US Community on FB!Interested in socializing and sharing online content with other Transitioners out there? Join the Transition US Community on Facebook! Here, you can participate in an ongoing, vibrant discussion about Transitionand share your tools, resources and ideas. This is a free place to connect, share, and build community! Many Voices, One Song: Sociocracy BookOur friends at Sociocracy For All are preparing to release a new manual to dynamic governance entitled Many Voices, One Song. Click here to watch the video and learn more about the book release. To learn more about Sociocracy and access a plethora fo free tools for managing group decision-making more effectively and horizontally, check out SoFA's website. Check Out Post Carbon's Think Resilience Course & Other Great Educational Materials"We live in a time of tremendous political, environmental and economic upheaval, which begs a profoundly important question: What should we do?" Join PostCarbon senior fellow Richard Heinberg for the ongoing "Think Resilience" online course, and view Post Carbon's other educational materials here. Heinberg was also a keynote speaker at the Transition National Gathering! Video here.  Transition Network's Essential GuideChances are, your fingers have already danced through the pages of the time-honored Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins... but that book is sadly out of print. Did you know that Transition Network has recently published a rather glorious and freely downloadable "Essential Guide to Doing Transition"? Get your free copy here! |
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Are you ready to scale up this movement?
Transition US is calling on partners and allies across the country and around the world to rise up in a vibrant people's movement toward resilient community.
Let's mobilize of thousands of new community organizers and take action together
to build the world that we envision.
We see health and happiness, resilience and sustainability, peace and justice. We see communities that are connected in celebration of life, working to provide the essentials for our people: food security, clean air and water, housing and transportation, arts and media, emergency preparedness - all in a way that honors planet and people.
Join the Transition Movement today!
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Transition US is a nonprofit organization that provides inspiration, encouragement, support, networking, and training for Transition Initiatives across the United States. We are working in close partnership with the Transition Network, a UK based organization that supports the international Transition Movement as a whole. |
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Let's Get Ready Together!
Effective Collaboration Online Training with TUS Co-Director Don Hall and Nick Osborne is Already FULL! Get on wait-list for next round!
Bloom Network's Pollination 2018!
Permaculture Convergence Coming to Hopland, CA September 20-23. Open Registration & Call for Workshops
Transition US is calling on partners and allies across the country and around the world to rise up in a vibrant people's movement toward resilient community.
