Transition Hampshire

Transition Hampshire We see a happy, healthy, inclusive and just Hampshire community that can adapt and respond to the challenges of the future. This is our response.

President Jonathan Lash challenged Hampshire to devise a strategy that will equip our community members with the skills necessary to face the most pressing problems of the future: climate change, economic crises, fossil fuel addiction, and systemic inequality, to name a few. A Call to Transition

The realities of energy crises, climate change and environmental degradation and neglect are issues th

at are embedded in and surround all the political, social and community issues we are, in different ways, concerned about on campus. The Transition Movement concept is one of the big ideas of our time. Transition aims to mitigate a future that remains dependent on corrupt systems of power, economics, and exploitation for one of resilient, relocalized and inter-dependent communities. We build resilience through small but powerful, lasting action that both raises awareness of pressing global issues and positively impacts our community. The Transition Movement approach works within communities. By building an organic awareness within specific communities of complex world issues we are able to harness frustration, anger, and sadness as motivators for positive, collective, action-oriented responses. Just as ecosystems work interdependently to sustain themselves, we see human communities functioning as localized systems of individuals working together to meet their needs. The Transition movement works in a mode that is inspirational, harnessing hope instead of guilt, and optimism instead of fear. It supports deepening critical understanding of the wide remit of environmental problems - while being grounded in diverse, locally based activities and initiatives to transition to a more caring, more equitable and ultimately more nourishing future. Questioning consumerism, interrogating exploitations and social injustices, the transition idea engages people locally, within their communities, to build new understandings together and develop a diversity of local environmental actions to make changes within actual places, lives, networks. Its aim is to foster a community seeking change toward ecological, social, and economic sustainability – to engage whole communities in a transformative process. The Transition Movement focuses on finding common goals among diverse interests and actively collaborating to achieve those goals. A shared ideology is not a prerequisite for collaboration. Transition Hampshire seeks to harness everyone’s individual talents toward a common good. “We don’t need to see eye to eye to walk hand in hand.”


Hampshire College is not a town in the conventional sense, and has its own strengths and needs. Transition Hampshire aims to build our own transition culture, develop and foster actively within our community Hampshire-based understandings of sustainability and strategies for local involvement and resilience among our student, staff and faculty.

03/26/2014

Tonight at Smith: Screening of Carbon Nation followed by a discussion with the Smith College Green Team. 6:30pm in Seelye 106. Free.

Tomorrow at the Red Barn: Slow Money Entrepreneur Showcase.
01/27/2014

Tomorrow at the Red Barn: Slow Money Entrepreneur Showcase.

The Slow Money PV Chapter is pleased to host its first Entrepreneur Showcase. Six local food system entrepreneurs will tell their story to interested investors, engage in discussion with Showcase attendees, distribute collateral, and promote themselves via event marketing. Meanwhile, Slow Money inv...

Think of the number of structures that could be built with all the bottles we throw away in this country!
12/13/2013

Think of the number of structures that could be built with all the bottles we throw away in this country!

For more information: http://www.samarpanfoundation.org CONSTRUCTION WITH BOTTLES Do you remember the last time you bought a drink in a plastic bottle? Chanc...

Sorry for the late notice, but check out Andrew Mangold's Div III show in the main gallery through today! He's got some ...
12/09/2013

Sorry for the late notice, but check out Andrew Mangold's Div III show in the main gallery through today! He's got some great statements on the current, highly unsustainable leather industry and proposes a community-based model that is good for all living things.

Great talk by William McDonough, co-author of Cradle to Cradle, challenging people to design for abundance rather than j...
11/15/2013

Great talk by William McDonough, co-author of Cradle to Cradle, challenging people to design for abundance rather than just net zero.

William McDonough '73, innovative architect, author, and consultant, presents "The Upcycle: Designing for Abundance". This lecture is a part of the Leading V...

Today at noon in the Airport Lounge. Check it out if you can!
11/04/2013

Today at noon in the Airport Lounge. Check it out if you can!

Exciting projects in our nomadic yurt, where artists and scientists work together to enable participants to explore and learn about the natural world around them.

This is a cool idea. Reverse graffiti, or environmental graffiti, cleans the surface instead of using spray paint to cov...
09/25/2013

This is a cool idea. Reverse graffiti, or environmental graffiti, cleans the surface instead of using spray paint to cover it. It's like a much evolved descendent of the "wash me" we write on dirty cars.

"In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.” David Suzuki.

Transition Town founder Rob Hopkins is going to be speaking at Tufts University on October 3rd. This is his first and la...
09/20/2013

Transition Town founder Rob Hopkins is going to be speaking at Tufts University on October 3rd. This is his first and last trip to the US, so if anyone is interested in going, we're trying to get a carpool.

We are excited to welcome Transition founder Rob Hopkins for his first visit to the US this October. Rob be will visiting and speaking at the followin...

09/03/2013

Welcome back students! What did everyone do over the summer?

Edward Humes, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Hampshire alum, will speak tonight at 7:30 in the RCC about his lat...
08/30/2013

Edward Humes, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Hampshire alum, will speak tonight at 7:30 in the RCC about his latest book, Garbology, which is this year's common reading.

Edward Humes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of a dozen nonfiction books, will speak at Hampshire College on Friday, August 30, at 7:30 p.m. in the Robert Crown Center. (Doors open at 7:15.)

This has amazing potential for increasing self sufficiency and food security as well as building community.
08/07/2013

This has amazing potential for increasing self sufficiency and food security as well as building community.

This is called "Foodscaping"

Geneva, Switzerland. Each yard is a vegetable garden and neighbors consult and plan what each will grow so they can trade. Imagine if we did this in the US?

via SEED: The Untold Story

Earth Day Keynote Speaker Annie Leonard, "The Story of Stuff" creator, at Umass on Monday. Free but RSVP!
04/18/2013

Earth Day Keynote Speaker Annie Leonard, "The Story of Stuff" creator, at Umass on Monday. Free but RSVP!

The UMass Amherst Campus Sustainability Initiative is excited to announce the Earth Day 2013 Keynote Address, film screening, and book signing with international expert in sustainability and environmental health issues, Annie Leonard, on Monday, April 22.

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