Transition Champaign County (Illinois)

Moving Toward a Sustainable, Locally Resilient & Equitable Champaign County

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The Natural Step

Created by Gary Cziko Jan 12, 2009 at 11:50pm. Last updated by Gary Cziko Jan 13.

The Transition Primer & Handbook

Created by Gary Cziko Dec 8, 2008 at 5:15am. Last updated by Gary Cziko Dec. 8, 2008.

Invitation

Created by Gary Cziko Dec 6, 2008 at 8:02am. Last updated by Gary Cziko Feb 10.

Notes Home

Created by Gary Cziko Dec 6, 2008 at 12:27am. Last updated by Gary Cziko Dec. 6, 2008.

Latest Activity

Kate and KristenVigil joined Transition Champaign County (Illinois)
on Tuesday
KristenVigil added a discussion
Ocean Energy
The need for renewable sources of energy is increasing. Investing in renewable sources has become the latest way of conserving energy and fulfilling the needs. Among the renewable sources, Ocean energy holds an important position. Ocean energy ca...
on Monday
Laura Wetzel is attending Gary Cziko's event
Energy Efficiency at Urbana Free Library, Lewis Auditorium
November 28, 2009 from 2:30pm to 3:45pm
Green Light Limited and Burlingame Home Inspection have arranged to give a talk on Energy Efficiency, the need to convert from a Consumer Economy to an Investment Economy and the role of Energy Rating in the Energy Star program. A demonstration of...
on Monday
Gary Cziko added an event
Energy Efficiency at Urbana Free Library, Lewis Auditorium
November 22, 2009 from 2:30pm to 3:45pm
Green Light Limited and Burlingame Home Inspection have arranged to give a talk on Energy Efficiency, the need to convert from a Consumer Economy to an Investment Economy and the role of Energy Rating in the Energy Star program. A demonstration of...
on Sunday
Tony Roth joined Gary Cziko's group
Energy
The production, distribution, efficient use & conservation of all forms of energy in Champaign County.
November 17
Tony Roth joined Gary Cziko's group
Transportation
Passenger & freight transportation in Champaign County.
November 17
Tony Roth is now a member of Transition Champaign County (Illinois)
Welcome Them!
November 17
Gary Cziko updated an event
November 16, 2009 from 5:30pm to 7pm
An invitation to an upcoming talk that may be of interest. Any additional distribution you find appropriate would be appreciated as well. Monday, November 16, 2009 5:30pm 180 Bevier Hall (905 S. Goodwin Ave.) Public lecture by Matt Coolidge of t...
November 15
Gary Cziko updated an event
November 20, 2009 from 5:30pm to 7pm
Champaign-Urbana, IL Green Drinks For more than 20 years, enviros have been meeting every week in Champaign-Urbana Illinois. We discuss local and national enviro issues, often interview political hopefuls and successful politicians, and draw up a...
November 15
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November 15
bob updated their profile
November 14
Ryan Griffis added an event
Center for Land Use Interpretation at Bevier Hall, Rm 180
November 16, 2009 from 5:30pm to 7pm
An invitation to an upcoming talk that may be of interest. Any additional distribution you find appropriate would be appreciated as well. Monday, November 16, 2009 5:30pm 180 Bevier Hall (905 S. Goodwin Ave.) Public lecture by Matt Coolidge of t...
November 13
Gary Cziko updated an event
November 13, 2009 from 2:30pm to 4pm
Climate and Society Speaker Series Friday, November 13th 2:30-4:00 | Reception Following Room 5602 | Beckman Institute 405 North Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL Roger Kasperson, George Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University “Closing the Gap between ...
November 13
C. Milton Dixon added an event
Training for Transition at Pierce Cedar Creek Institute
November 20, 2009 at 7pm to November 22, 2009 at 5pm
Local Future is pleased to announce the acclaimed "Training for Transition" workshop for the weekend of November 20 at the beautiful Pierce Cedar Creek Institute, featuring expert facilitators Bill and Becky Wilson of Stelle, Illinois. Pierce Ced...
November 12
M@ (Matt) Childress added an event
November 17, 2009 from 6pm to 8pm
Learn. Build. Ride. Free EV rides. Free Pizza (hopefully). Got an Eclectic Vehicle? Want one? Wanna ride in one? Join us!
November 11
Gary Cziko added 7 events
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November 8
Gary Cziko added an event
Local Intelligence at 1005 Beckman Institute, UIUC
November 6, 2009 from 9am to 5pm
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE WHAT: The Local Intelligence Symposium is a gathering of University of Illinois faculty members from a wide range of departments and fields of study in order to foster trans-disciplinary discussion and lay the groundwork for fu...
November 6
Rick Langlois updated their profile
November 3
Rick Langlois updated their profile photo
November 3
Gary Cziko added a discussion to the group Buildings
Net energy producing Equinox House being built now in Urbana
Imagine a house designed to provide all of its energy needs plus provide enough extra energy to power an electric car 6000 to 9000 miles a year. And with a rainwater collection system designed to provide 80% of a family of four's water requirement...
November 2
 

Members

  • Brian Larson
  • Anne Marie Santos
  • Brian J. Sauder
  • Bryan Ericson
  • jennifer l burton
  • Ron Williams
  • Mike Doyle
  • Catherine Capel
  • Tom Burton
  • Robert Nagel
  • Kimberlie Kranich
  • Lisa B-K
  • Cody Bralts
  • Kendra Dickinson
  • Marti Wilkinson
  • Holly Brunk
  • Erica Schneider
  • Joe Futrelle

Weekly TCC Calendar

HTML: http://tcccal.notlong.com; iCal: http://tccical.notlong.com; XML: http://tcccalxml.notlong.com

Events

November 28

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December 2

Wednesday

Forum

General Discussions

For discussions about specific topics. please see and join a relevant Group. Use the General & Miscellaneous Group if no other Group fits.

9 discussions

The Twelve Steps of Transition

1 discussions

Help

Help and pointers for using this site. Anyone can submit a question. Anyone can provide an answer or suggestion.

1 discussions

Newsletters

Periodic letters of sustainability-related news of general interest.

4 discussions

Who we are . . .

TRANSITION CHAMPAIGN COUNTY (Illinois) is a social networking site supporting the TRANSITION MOVEMENT. 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 and practices.

The Transition Movement is a campaign that houses several other familiar slogans: Local Self Reliance, Appropriate Technology, Decentralization, Localization, Relocalization, Post Carbon, Post Petroleum, Beyond Oil and Natural Step.

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 communities in Champaign County need in order to sustain themselves 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 participants 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.

Things you can do right away . . .

  • Contact any member above by clicking on a photo. Every photo is one-click access to any person you want to contact anywhere in our community. Welcome them, particularly if you were the person who invited them.
  • Invite others to join Transition Champaign County by pasting in emails addresses one per line and a brief message why you would value their joining us.
  • Join one or more Groups that you are interested in. Join a discussion in your group or start one yourself.
  • Upload your best photo so we can get to know each other better and attach faces to words. Upload your photo to the Help forum if you need assistance editing it.
  • Update your Transition Resumé. Your answers comprise your Transition Resumé. Your keywords make you findable on this site and in Google in general.
  • Install Skype from /skype.com/download -- for conference calls, workgroups and tutorials. A centerpiece in our community building. Add garyjazz to your Contacts and he'll greet you at the door!
  • Get a Gmail account. Gmail is a great email program with over 7 GB of storage. The integrated text and audio/video chat make it easy to keep in touch. Add gcziko@gmail.com to your contacts and invite Gary, the website administrator and Transition Champaign County instigator to chat.

Blog Posts

Lezli Cline

Not Quite Indian Summer

Saturday evening - didn't it turn out to be a perfect night? You can see every star, and the wind has died down. No hard frost yet, so we're still not even in Indian Summer! That is, if the old adages still apply in this age of climate change.

Posted by Lezli Cline on October 24, 2009 at 9:54pm

Anselm Aguola Anyanwu

Sigg Sucks

I know the title sounds a bit biased, but hear me out. I'm not sure if everyone's heard about Sigg the "eco-friendly, reusable, Swiss water bottle!" but much to my chagrin I went out and purchased one, now get this, in order for you to actually find out how to take care of the bottle you had to go to their website. It turns out that you can not keep water in the bottle for an extended time: say twenty four hours, not only that but you are required to wash it every day and let it air dry with the… Continue

Posted by Anselm Aguola Anyanwu on August 18, 2009 at 9:49am

Tom Burton

Checkout Terrakeeper.com

This is a blog I keep - terrakeeper.com

Links and thoughts related to sustainability.

Posted by Tom Burton on July 9, 2009 at 2:37pm

Matt Turino

May Day Dance At The Kalyx Center

Heads Up it is gonna be real muddy out there on friday so many of the outdoor activities may not be possible, there will also be parking on the road because the drive up to the center will probably be very mucky, so If you do come out just be ready for muddyness!!


Hey everybody
for those who are interested there is gonna be a Big Ole Contra/Square
Dance this coming Friday May 1st at The Kalyx Center for
Sustainability out near Allerton Park. This is a gonna be a May Day
Celebration that includ… Continue

Posted by Matt Turino on April 26, 2009 at 5:30pm

Elise Benveniste

Central Illinois Local Foods Coalition "Food Trails" planning meeting, April 19

Dear residents of Champaign County,

For the past several months, a group of individuals interested in supporting local foods in our community have met every week to discuss the agenda and future of our group. After much discussion, we agreed on a general mission to strengthen the local foods network and make local food more accessible in Champaign County. We created a name, the Central Illinois Local Foods Coalition, and a website for the group -- localfoodsillinois.org -- that outlines the gro… Continue

Posted by Elise Benveniste on April 2, 2009 at 4:30pm

 
 

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