Transition Marbletown
a Transition Initiative with www.transitionus.org in Marbletown, New York
We were officially recognized as the 108th U.S.Transition Initiative on Dec. 23, 2011
We are a group of Marbletown residents, partnering with a group of Rochester residents, who are meeting regularly, imagining a more resilient and self-sustainable community, and working to bring that about. We hope that more and more town residents will join us. We meet the second Tuesday of each month, 6:30PM at the Marbletown Community Center on Main Street (Route 209) in Stone Ridge. (See our Events Calendar.) You are most welcome to join us!
Our vision includes cooperative efforts on all fronts:
- A growing sense of community in every neighborhood
- A growing sense of community in our town
- A health care center making affordable care available to all
- Growing access to locally farmed fresh foods
- Development of a local community garden
- A local economy that finds innovative ways to support local businesses
- Education and support for increasing green energy technology
- Free classes for learning skills together, such as canning, sewing, gardening
We are part of the Transition movement, now an international movement. It began in Totnes, England and spread rapidly throughout the UK soon becoming international. http://www.transitiontowntotnes.org
Guiding Principles
- Positive Visioning
- Help People Access Good Information and Trust Them to Make Good Decisions
- Inclusion and Openness
- Enable Sharing and Networking
- Build Resilience
- Inner and Outer Transition
- Subsidiarity: self‐organization and decision making at the appropriate level
Our Vision for Marbletown
Our work embraces the future of our town by facilitating a way in which residents can live together harmoniously, supporting each other in community in a self sustaining way. We wish to look truly carefully at how we live and develop our resilience together in the face of the challenges ahead. We will proceed using local assets, innovating, networking, collaborating, replicating proven strategies, and respecting the deep patterns of nature and diverse cultures in our local culture. So much work related to this goal is already being done by many local individuals and groups in Marbletown. We hope to create a network of all these individuals and groups that are working for self-sustaining community. Together, we wish to raise everyone’s awareness about what each person and group is already doing, we wish to express our gratitude for this work, we wish to support everyone’s efforts in any way we can, and we wish to develop many new cooperative initiatives. This network will bring these specific initiatives into one larger initiative with a shared perspective and group genius.
Events
We plan to celebrate these efforts with an annual Festival. For information on this and other upcoming events, go to Events page.
“Be the change that you want to see in the world” — Gandhi
“…the global is realized through the individual and that has always been the case. When there are enough people… vibrating at a certain level, the change will be significant and will be felt, and will resound in a wonderful song.”
Paul Selig, I AM THE WORD, page 15