Greetings members from Iowa,

Transition Iowa has moved to a new location: If you desire to continue your membership in the Transition Social Network, please join http://transitionus.ning.com When you join, I will greet you and direct you to the new location.

If you created a local GROUP on this site, you will need to re-create your local group using this link: http://transitionus.ning.com/groups/group/new

It is important that you do this right away. This site will be deleted any day now.

If you have already taken this step, please visit the original site and encourage your neighbors to follow your example.

Let me know when you have questions.

Les Squires
http://transitionus.ning.com
LSquiresSkype
+1 303 926 5159

TRANSITION IOWA 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.

• 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.

• Register Your Local Transition Networking Group -- Let us know who you are and what you're doing that you consider Transition.
• HopeDance Film Library -- more than 500 films that deal with sustainability, spirituality, social justice, 911, peak oil, drama, farming, gardening, permaculture collected over 7 years
• Browse Miltonics Video Collection -- 1200 item video library on everything Transition. Thanks Milton Dixon/Transition Illinois. If you don't see your favorite here, tell Dixon!
• Drop in for a visit to Colorado US -- prototype for all 50 U.S. States -- demonstrates what TRANSITION IOWA will soon become.
• Invite others to join. -- paste in their emails one per line and a brief message encouraging them to join.
• Update your Transition Resume -- Keep your Resume up-to-date. It's your way to make yourself findable when people are searching.
• Upload your best photo -- click on the guy with the camera if you need assistance photoshopping your photo. We can crop, fix, enhance!
• Install skype from http://skype.com/download -- conference calls, workgroups and tutorials. A centerpiece in our community building. Add LSquiresSkype to your Contacts and he'll greet you at the door!