Transition Pittsburgh

(This is a cross-post from my personal blog, and I’d love to see others’ thoughts on the same question of why they are part of the Transition movement.)

There are a lot of frameworks for improving things out there – organizations, frameworks, networks. I’ve looked at a lot of them over the years (many are mentioned in this post), but I am increasingly convinced that the one I stand behind the most is this one - …

I am really excited to be able to say that Pittsburgh will be represented in the new Transition Network film titled "In Transition 2.0". Mark Dixon (Y.E.R.T.) spent a day in our neighborhood filming the farm and gardens as well as conducting interviews with my girlfriend and I and a few of our neighbors. It looked like we were not going to make the final cut, but I recieved an email yesterday saying that they loved the footage and we would be in the film.

Needless to say I can't wait…

Hey All - community question. The new Transition Companion is out (320 full color pages of Transition-y goodness), and I would like to get a copy. I figured some others might want one too, and there are some nice discounts on bulk orders (normally 29.95, in bulk 21ish or less). So, two questions:

1.) Has anyone already ordered a bunch so that I could buy one off of you?

2.) Who else would be interested - if we can get at least 10 people, I’ll front the money to order a case of…

OccupyPGH is an experiment in community-building, small-group resilience--and like any good set of sterile, lab-coated scientists, they've got their successes, failures, and work-arounds. This is what I've learned from talking to people at Mellon Green who have kept that experiment ongoing: 

The consensus decision-making model can be tedious but nonetheless fruitful. I am told I can Google it and find something similar to the 8-ish steps they're using; also…