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, 2009.

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, 2009.

Notes Home

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

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Justin Ellis updated their profile photo
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Justin Ellis is now a member of Transition Champaign County (Illinois)
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Gary Cziko added 7 events
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Gary Cziko updated an event
February 11, 2010 from 4pm to 5:45pm
This Spring, the University is offering a unique lecture and discussion series on sustainability entitled "The Human Place in Nature." The series aims to address some of the most central questions about sustainability, to help us to explore together…
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Susan Monte added 2 events
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Hi Charles, If we are lucky enough to get this off the ground, seeds would probably be welcome. Thanks for the offer. Laura
on Friday
Would a donation of seeds help.
on Thursday
Gary Cziko updated an event
February 5, 2010 from 5:30pm to 7pm
Champaign-Urbana, IL Green Drinks Friday Environmental Forum Meet Melia Smith, and learn about Champaign County Community Sustainability. Her program is concerned with energy conservation and changes in the countryside. Bruce Hannon For more than…
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February 1
Laura Wetzel added 2 discussions to the group Food
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Joan updated their profile photo
January 30
Joan joined Gary Cziko's group
Preserving & restoring the natural habitats & wildlife of Champaign County.
January 30
Joan is now a member of Transition Champaign County (Illinois)
January 30
Gary Cziko updated an event
April 9, 2010 from 2:30pm to 4pm
2009-2010 Climate and Society January 29 Stephen Humphreys London School of Economics “Access to technologies for climate change adaptation and mitigation under international law” Fridays, 2:30-4:00 | Reception Following Room 5602 | Beckman Ins…
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Catherine Capel updated their profile photo
January 23
evelyn joined Gary Cziko's group
Passenger & freight transportation in Champaign County.
January 23
 

Members

  • Kate
  • 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

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General Discussions

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

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Help

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

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Newsletters

Periodic letters of sustainability-related news of general interest.

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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

Cindy Fallsen

no more commuting

It is going to be interesting to see how work from home opportunities continue to rise. They can simply pay a salary and provide Health Insurance and retirement to an employee. In turn the employee is able to complete much of the work from a home office. A Community Health Network is already beginning to see the benefits of this… Continue

Posted by Cindy Fallsen on January 2, 2010 at 9:30am

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

 
 

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