Transition Orlando

06/28/2011

A community vision...

'Community' is a term widely used in conversation and writing on Transition. What does community mean to you? Here's a guest post shared by Jim Belche...

06/12/2011

is there a link or not? What is the threshold of destruction that will inspire action? Is there no compassion for any of the other 8 million species?

an op-ed by Bill McKibben, author and founder of 350.org, narrated and illustrated by Plomomedia http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-link-between-climat...

06/06/2011

Send this to your favorite teacher!

(Thanks to Jim Belcher of Transition Orlando for submitting this piece to the Transition US Community Blog) People are longing for connection. Last se...

06/02/2011

Sure oil is depleting, but there's lots of stored energy in plants. Here's how it works.

05/26/2011

This is for real. It's about a table-top machine that can convert waste plastic to gasoline at home.
Hmm, now for a snappy name. "Mr. Petrol"? :-)

Plastic doesn’t seem so fantastic these days—more an ecological nightmare that is overflowing our garbage dumps, accumulating in vast, drifting islands, killing wildlife and disrupting the food chain. But Akinori Ito, the CEO of Blest Corporation, wants us to see waste plastic as a resource, especia

05/24/2011

Pay no attention to that ice cap behind the curtain.

What to think about record-breaking natural disasters.

05/06/2011

WASHINGTON - May 5 - By a vote of 241-171, the House of Representatives today blocked the repeal of just one of the many taxpayer-funded subsidies that benefit big oil companies.

05/06/2011

The author of more than 40 works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, Wendell Berry has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors.

04/27/2011

There will be an Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium on Saturday, May 7 here in Orlando!

Bringing Forth An Environmentally Sustainable, Spiritually Fulfilling, Socially Just Human Presence On This Planet.

04/25/2011

How do we feed Orlando? Where will we get the water?

The University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment is discovering solutions to Earth's biggest problems, including the big question of how are we goi...

04/23/2011

Can we afford to wait until the revolution fits our schedule or conforms to our comfort zone needs?

In March, a federal jury convicted environmental activist Tim DeChristopher of two felony counts for disrupting the auction of more than 100,000 acres of federal land for oil and gas drilling. He faces up to 10 years in prison. Last weekend he spoke at Power Shift 2011 conference and urged youth cli

04/23/2011

We are the leaders we have been waiting for. The leaders of today. The children of all species are banking on us.

More than 10,000 people converged in Washington, D.C., this past week to mobilize around the issue of climate change at the Power Shift 2011 Conference. Van Jones, a longtime environmental advocate and former green jobs advisor in the Obama White House, gave the keynote address. ''We pull out of the