status: Unknown -> Open
facility_type: Unknown -> Info/Hotline
mission: This project was created to share information about how communities become more self-sustaining, use less currency, and create what we need for ourselves. We are a progressive community, hoping that as we feed the current, dysfunctional system less — while still staying involved with all the aspects of progressive change we hope to see — the system may weaken and allow all of us a greater ability to affect positive change. So it's a long view. American culture has divided us all by teaching us to compete rather than collaborate with our neighbors. If we're competing with our neighbors for hippest consumption while struggling to keep our heads above water in an economy that's sinking most of us, we're not going to last long. We need to work together. Just think of all the ways that we could be more community oriented! We could learn lifestyles that are more sustainable, allowing us to be more self-sufficient. This project offers a place to store those solutions we find that are alternatives to the current system and a way for people to exchange ideas. At the same time, many are concerned about peak oil and what will happen when we suddenly reach the point where the lifestyle we've become used to becomes an impossibility. The Transition Movement offers an alternative to fossil fuel-based living based on permaculture principles. There are towns all over America and in other countries that have become, or have resolved to become, Transition Towns. These citizens have committed to work towards all the changes necessary to ensure a soft landing on the far side of peak oil. We embrace this effort and want to combine it with other approaches in order to realize green, DIY, close-knit, and collaborative communities. There is also a growing movement referred to as maker culture, people who prefer building over buying, creation over consumption, and we embrace this movement as well; by learning (or re-learning) how to make what we need, we can make the world greener, sustainable and more self-sufficient. As this movement expands, so will the breadth of what we tackle here. We have started various groups here on the site. Links we like are bookmarked within each group. Here's a sampling: Background—Energy to Food/Peak Oil PERMACULTURE RECIPES AND PRESERVING (note: food preserving/canning is more central to what we're doing than giving people recipes.) USDA HARDINESS ZONES EDIBLE PLANTS SEEDS WATER RECLAMATION FOOD SOVEREIGNTY SHARING/BARTER LEGAL ISSUES ALTERNATIVE CURRENCY ENERGY HOUSING AND ALTERNATIVE/HOMELESS HOUSING TRANSPORTATION INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES GENERAL DIY/HOW-TO IT/OPEN SOURCE/COMMUNITY WIRELESS NETWORKS/REFURBISHING COMPUTERS We envision this site as a social forum, not just a link library. Although the administrators will remain responsible for providing groups to post in, we want readers to help us police, propose, and (politely!) critique bookmarks. There are other ways to become involved as well. If you look at the top left of the page, you'll see tabs for blogs, bookmarks, members, groups, the wire and pages. "The Wire" is what we hope you'll use, in addition to the comments sections under bookmarks and pages, to talk to each other. We're willing to eventually host appropriate blogs for members to share their thoughts and experiences at greater length. As we're still in the development stage with pages, we look forward to your great ideas! As you can tell, this is a new site, and we're very excited about it. The site embraces a wide and diverse range of subjects. There is much to look at, consider and discuss as we get to know each other. We invite you to join us in making it a dynamic, interactive force for positive, progressive change. The project will ultimately become what readers make of it. We hope the result is a springboard for positive change that leads us all to green, self-sufficient, sustainable and satisfying lives. -> This project was created to share information about how communities become more self-sustaining, use less currency, and create what we need for ourselves. We are a progressive community, hoping that as we feed the current, dysfunctional system less — while still staying involved with all the aspects of progressive change we hope to see — the system may weaken and allow all of us a greater ability to affect positive change. So it's a long view. American culture has divided us all by teaching us to compete rather than collaborate with our neighbors. If we're competing with our neighbors for hippest consumption while struggling to keep our heads above water in an economy that's sinking most of us, we're not going to last long. We need to work together. Just think of all the ways that we could be more community oriented! We could learn lifestyles that are more sustainable, allowing us to be more self-sufficient. This project offers a place to store those solutions we find that are alternatives to the current system and a way for people to exchange ideas. At the same time, many are concerned about peak oil and what will happen when we suddenly reach the point where the lifestyle we've become used to becomes an impossibility. The Transition Movement offers an alternative to fossil fuel-based living based on permaculture principles. There are towns all over America and in other countries that have become, or have resolved to become, Transition Towns. These citizens have committed to work towards all the changes necessary to ensure a soft landing on the far side of peak oil. We embrace this effort and want to combine it with other approaches in order to realize green, DIY, close-knit, and collaborative communities. There is also a growing movement referred to as maker culture, people who prefer building over buying, creation over consumption, and we embrace this movement as well; by learning (or re-learning) how to make what we need, we can make the world greener, sustainable and more self-sufficient. As this movement expands, so will the breadth of what we tackle here. We have started various groups here on the site. Links we like are bookmarked within each group. Here's a sampling: Background—Energy to Food/Peak Oil PERMACULTURE RECIPES AND PRESERVING (note: food preserving/canning is more central to what we're doing than giving people recipes.) USDA HARDINESS ZONES EDIBLE PLANTS SEEDS WATER RECLAMATION FOOD SOVEREIGNTY SHARING/BARTER LEGAL ISSUES ALTERNATIVE CURRENCY ENERGY HOUSING AND ALTERNATIVE/HOMELESS HOUSING TRANSPORTATION INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES GENERAL DIY/HOW-TO IT/OPEN SOURCE/COMMUNITY WIRELESS NETWORKS/REFURBISHING COMPUTERS We envision this site as a social forum, not just a link library. Although the administrators will remain responsible for providing groups to post in, we want readers to help us police, propose, and (politely!) critique bookmarks. There are other ways to become involved as well. If you look at the top left of the page, you'll see tabs for blogs, bookmarks, members, groups, the wire and pages. "The Wire" is what we hope you'll use, in addition to the comments sections under bookmarks and pages, to talk to each other. We're willing to eventually host appropriate blogs for members to share their thoughts and experiences at greater length. As we're still in the development stage with pages, we look forward to your great ideas! As you can tell, this is a new site, and we're very excited about it. The site embraces a wide and diverse range of subjects. There is much to look at, consider and discuss as we get to know each other. We invite you to join us in making it a dynamic, interactive force for positive, progressive change. The project will ultimately become what readers make of it. We hope the result is a springboard for positive change that leads us all to green, self-sufficient, sustainable and satisfying lives.