Featured Groups
The Stories We Tell Ourselves
11 members
BUILDINGS
8 members
COMMUNITY
10 members
EDUCATION
5 members
FOOD
16 members
All Groups (17)
People's College of Transition Skills
13 members Latest Activity: Feb 11 The People’s College of Transition Skills is a grass-roots, informal network of neighbor teaching neighbor. We meet in homes, backyards, parks, schoo…
Transition 2020 - Let's Grow! ...... Community Garden Planning
21 members Latest Activity: 3 hours ago Interested in helping create community gardens in Rogers Park? We're exploring Dubkin and Pottawatomie Parks. The Chicago Park District has a compre…
HEART AND SOUL
7 members Latest Activity: Feb 11 There's much more involved in the transition than changing light bulbs. We need a whole realignment of thinking. We need to ask the questions of how w…
Urban Gardening
19 members Latest Activity: Feb 11 Let's learn and grow together! This group is for members of Transition Rogers Park to share information and resources as we build community and becom…
EDUCATION
5 members Latest Activity: Feb 11 Imagine an educational curriculum that teaches its students to respect life and conserve resources, while providing them life skills for sustainable,…
LOCAL COMMERCE
11 members Latest Activity: Feb 11 Trade locally, eat locally, produce locally - and encourage businesses to adopt sustainable practices. These are some of the indicators of a self-rel…
Advocacy and Legislation
3 members Latest Activity: Mar 5 Identifying and acting on opportunities to change laws, rules and/or regulations to bring about a more just, sustainable and livable community.
TRANSPORTATION
7 members Latest Activity: Feb 17 Peak oil and climate change are two of many reasons why our current reliance on the automobile needs to change. What would a community less dependent…
FOOD
16 members Latest Activity: Mar 6 How will Rogers Park build a food system that responds to the twin challenges of peak oil and climate change? What would our community's food system…
Documentaries
8 members Latest Activity: Feb 11 Let's continue awareness raising. Didn't make it to a previous showing? Want to invite friends? Host a movie in your home or a more public setting. We…
BUILDINGS
8 members Latest Activity: Feb 11 Many people are surprised to learn that buildings are the single largest contributor to global warming. In fact, buildings are responsible for nearly…
COMMUNITY
10 members Latest Activity: Feb 11 Imagine a future where life is more socially connected, more meaningful and satisfying, more sustainable, and more equitable than what we are experien…
RESKILLING
12 members Latest Activity: Feb 11 Most of us know longer have the basic skills that our grandparents took for granted. What do we need to do to ensure that our community has the basic…
Arts
2 members Latest Activity: Feb 19 Creative thought is our biggest resource. Transition won't be possible without it! What better way to encourage change than by nurturing the inner c…
HEALTH
5 members Latest Activity: Feb 13 Imagine a future where the establishment and maintenance of good health is more important than the treatment of disease. What would a community healt…
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Initiating Group
7 members Latest Activity: Feb 11 Here you'll find notes, plans and musings for catalyzing Transition Rogers Park towards a May 1, 2010 "unleashing". Feel free to add your thoughts a…
The Stories We Tell Ourselves
11 members Latest Activity: Mar 8 This group is a place where we can question the stories that underpin our failing civilisation, examine the stories of other traditions, and perhaps c…
About
Pathways for Change!
-Rob Hopkins, Founder
Transition Towns Movemen
We're In the News!!
Seeks a Sustainable Future for the Neighborhood
by Christine Wellman
You just met Dr. Who and he has given you an opportunity to join him in the TARDIS for a journey to the year 2025. What will Rogers Park be like?
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By Kristen Thometz
"The group is responding to skyrocketing oil prices, a shaky economy and glaciers melting at a rapid rate due to climate change."
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