Community-County Collaboration for Neighborhood Preparedness
By Leslie MacKenzie, Transition US
Port Townsend’s unique county-community neighborhood preparedness project, NPREP, grew from a big-hearted sister-city project that took volunteers from a coastal town in Washington State to Bay St. Louis, Mississippi (pop 9,260).
Embodying and Releasing Climate Grief
By Leslie MacKenzie, Transition US
What are the skills needed to witness grief and our deep relationality with the earth and other people? And how can these skills be woven into our community life?
Bringing Community to the Table in Climate Adaptation
By Leslie MacKenzie, Transition US
Transition Longfellow connected climate change to the things our neighbors love and care about the most – their children’s health, their chickens and vegetable gardens, their homes, and favorite businesses.
Transitioning Our Money to Invest Local
By Leslie MacKenzie, Transition US
People often ask, “So what do Transition Town groups do?” One answer to that question would be, “We take good ideas, bring them home, and make them real.”
Transition Streets Gets an Update!
By Leslie MacKenzie, Transition US
This 2019 revision of the Transition Streets handbook not only captures what's new, it includes additional information to consider in how we think about the lives we lead and the changes we want to make.