Transition New Mexico

Community Resilience, Self-Reliance, Renewable Energy & Cooperation

A networking coalition providing Transition Initiatives based on local production, renewable energy, efficiency & resilient communities.

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James R. Martin added a discussion to the group Transition Abq
Any Transition news from Albuquerque? I'm in Santa Fe. Seems NM is moving pretty slowly.
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Inspired people, groups or organizations wanting to empower a Transition Movement in the City of Albuquerque . Group in formation. Dec/23/08
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James R. Martin and Molly Sturges are now friends
November 19
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Community Centers (by any name) at Transition USA http://transitionus.ning.com/forum/topics/community-centers-by-any-name
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Blog Posts

Molly Sturges

Transition Town Training in Santa Fe

Hi everyone,

I am talking with some folks from Boulder transition about setting up a training in Santa Fe. I think we would want to do some significant reaching out to bring in people from many different communities in Santa Fe. I am happy to host. Are there some of you out there who might be interested in participating and helping to get the training up and going? Thanks, Molly

Posted by Molly Sturges on January 8, 2009 at 3:59pm — 4 Comments

 

Who We Are...

TRANSITION NEW MEXICO is a networking site for those who seek local-scale green-oriented implementation of Transition models for local communities.

This site, and many like it, are being developed through grassroots participation, and is continually evolving. It is a spontaneously arising effort to synergistically connect transition workers with each other and to identify and nurture the development of useful and necessary local Transition Initiatives, solutions, and practices.

The Transition Movement embraces several other familiar monikers: Local Self Reliance, Appropriate Technology, Decentralization, Localization, Relocalization, Post Carbon, Post Petroleum, Beyond Oil.

This emerging Transition Culture will empower communities to squarely face the issues surrounding peak oil and climate change, and unleash the collective genius of their own citizens to find innovative solutions to these momentous challenges:
For all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how are we going to:
  • drastically reduce carbon emissions (in response to climate change);
  • significantly rebuild resilience (in response to peak oil);
  • and greatly strengthen our local economy (in response to economic instability)?

Transition Initiatives make no claim to have all the answers, but by building on the wisdom of the past and accessing the pool of ingenuity, skills and determination in our communities, the solutions can readily emerge. Now is the time for us to take stock and start re-creating our future in ways that are not based on cheap, plentiful and polluting oil but on localized food, sustainable energy sources, resilient local economies and an enlivened sense of community well-being.


Events

Members

  • Bill Cole
  • Erik and Cindy Stout
  • Dan Gips
  • Don Hall
  • janel beeman
  • Stephen B.Garretson
  • James R. Martin
  • Northwest Earth Institute
  • Stella Osorojos, DOM, L.Ac.
  • Tamara
  • Asher Gelbart
  • Robert Wilder
  • Allyson Siwik
  • Joseph Yaroch
  • Les Squires temp for TransitionNewMexico
  • Molly Sturges
  • Louise
  • C. Milton Dixon
  • Betty Leggiero
  • Linne Lalire
  • Jason Silverman
  • Miriam Miranda
  • Sam Knowlton
  • Les Squires
  • chrissie Orr
  • jmojenn
  • Tim Fowler

Things You Can Do Today

  • Contact Members above by clicking on their photo. Every photo is one-click access to any person you want to contact anywhere in our community. Welcome them, remembering that each person and each group carries a unique spark capable of warming and enhancing our whole community.
  • Greet each other! -- Click periodically on MEMBERS on the menu above to make sure every newcomer is properly greeted. Volunteer to show them around and answer their questions.

Forum

James R. Martin

Brewing Ideas and Activities for Santa Fe 1 Reply

Started by James R. Martin. Last reply by James R. Martin Nov 16.

Northwest Earth Institute

Join the EcoChallenge!!

Started by Northwest Earth Institute Jul 22.

Erik and Cindy Stout

Starve a Corporation, Buy Nothing New

Started by Erik and Cindy Stout Jul 12.

 
 

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News from EnergyBulletin.net

Light posting over Thanksgiving

There will be light posting over the Thanksgiving holiday. Regular posting will resume on Wednesday, December 2.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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The oil-economy connection

Saudi Arabia’s oil production company is Saudi Aramco. Its former Vice President of oil exploration and production, Sadad al Husseini, recently made the following comment on oil prices at the 30th Oil & Money Conference, held in London on October 20-21: "...as you go up to say $90 a barrel, you’re consuming 4.5% of the global economy [for oil]. That in itself is a ceiling - you cannot go indefinitely into more expensive alternatives without destroying [the] economy and therefore destroying demand..."

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Peak Oil Reality: Industry Experts Offer Growing Drumbeat of Supply Warnings (press release)

Groups and individuals speaking out about forthcoming world oil supply challenges are frequently stereotyped as a fringe element with little knowledge about the oil industry. But their warnings are increasingly supported by some surprising allies: senior petroleum industry officials, consultants and analysts. Call these serious-minded critics the Harsh Realists.

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Peak gold, the future of algae, and carbon-eating rocks? - Nov 25

-Peak Gold, Easier to Model than Peak Oil? - Part I
-Could Peak Phosphate be Algal Diesel's Achilles' Heel?
-A Rock That Helps Out In a Hard Place

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Bottleneck by William Catton - A Review

First I should confess to a strong bias toward the content of this book. As readers of my blog, Question Everything, will realize, I have been moving inexorably toward the same conclusion as the author, so you will perhaps forgive me if you think I may be suffering from a lack of sufficient critical thinking. Put bluntly, I think this is a book every thinking human being should read, and then consider for themselves.

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