Transition India

Building Sustainable Community and Self-Reliance

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Milestones

  • Added Custom Search for Times of India -- Enter your own Keywords.
  • TRANSITION is about GROUPS MEETING GROUPS -- far more important on the Internet than "friends meeting friends."
  • Add your local GROUP to our registry of Groups supporting Transition in India. Enter a name, brief description, link to your website, and invite people to join you.
  • View local groups registered in India to date -- Click on a group to see more detail. Join the group to be a part of the group mailing list.
  • 3 new discussions on solar, energy, renewable energy
  • 23 August -- News Feed from The Times of India Environment Section added to homepage. Below.
  • 21 August 2009 -- Dr. Muhammad Mukhtar Alam proposes Carbon-Neutral Leisure "I would like maximisation of carbon neutral leisure for reducing the emissions across the cities. I argue for adoption of carbon neutral leisure as leisure is one of the most important engagement that consumes fossil fuel based energy... Read and respond.
  • July 2009 -- Member Recruitment Opened
  • Discussion Forum and Member Events installed.
  • July 2009 -- Transition India founded.

Members

  • Arshi Aftab
  • bhasker bhimnath
  • Dineshwar Tiwary
  • M V Bhaskar
  • dexter jerome bernardo
  • Narsi Santhanam
  • Christopher Rego
  • chaitanya kumar
  • Meera Patankar
  • Joel Suganth
  • Kenrick Chin
  • Diana Korchien
  • Rory Short
  • Gregory Greene
  • Patrick Andrews
  • Tahir Iqbal
 

Welcome to TRANSITION INDIA

Greetings members from India,

Transition India 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 INDIA is an informal networking site for those interested in exploring and/or implementing the Transition model in India communities, and exploring what India communities can teach the rest of the world. This site is being created through grassroots participation, and is continually evolving. It is a spontaneously arising effort to connect interested "transitioners" with each other and to encourage and support the development of local Transition Initiatives.

The Transition approach empowers communities to squarely face the challenges of peak oil and climate change, and to unleash the collective genius of their own people to find the answers to this momentous question:

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)?

The Transition Movement emerged in the UK from of the work of Rob Hopkins (see his blog at www.TransitionCulture.org), and is spreading virally to many nations. See the current list of official Transition Initiatives here.

Forum

George Bader

Foreigners in India 1 Reply

In these days the Indian Authorities are creating much stress and anxiety in the lifes of many foreigners.The rules for the visa extensions have become so strict, that it has become nearly impossible…Continue

Started by George Bader in Inbox. Last reply by Dr.Muhammad Mukhtar Alam Apr 17, 2010.

Dr.Muhammad Mukhtar Alam

Community Based Ecostrategic Planning for Integrating Action on Climate Change

Convergence in policies and programme , realising the principle of simultaneity for actions across the domains of development is indeed the need of the hour for mitigating ecological and security…Continue

Started by Dr.Muhammad Mukhtar Alam in WORKGROUP:: LOCAL GOVERNMENT & OUTREACH Dec 8, 2009.

sushil yadav

Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment 1 Reply

The link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues.The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing exponential rise in psychological problems besides destroying the…Continue

Tags: culture, sustainability, consumerism, activism, society

Started by sushil yadav in Inbox. Last reply by Dr.Muhammad Mukhtar Alam Dec 8, 2009.

Les Squires

France wants a 'carbon tax' on EU imports

France wants a 'carbon tax' on EU importsSachin Parashar , TNN 30 November 2009, 02:00am IST…Continue

Tags: carbon tax

Started by Les Squires in WORKGROUP: ZERO CARBON Nov 30, 2009.

Les Squires

India offers to cut carbon intensity by 20-25%

India offers to cut carbon intensity by 20-25%Saibal Dasgupta & Nitin Sethi, TNN 28 November 2009, 12:16am IST…Continue

Tags: copenhagen, carbon emissions, china

Started by Les Squires in WORKGROUP: ZERO CARBON Nov 27, 2009.

Les Squires

Global warming: India in a fix as China pledges big emission cuts

Global warming: India in a fix as China pledges big emission cutsSaibal Dasgupta, TNN 26 November 2009, 09:30pm IST…Continue

Tags: global warming

Started by Les Squires in WORKGROUP: ZERO CARBON Nov 26, 2009.

SamHill

Oil Drilling

The need for oil and gas is increasing everyday, with much of the world still developing. It is predicted that the world energy demand will increase at the rate of about 1.8% per year in the coming…Continue

Started by SamHill in WORKGROUP:: ENERGY Nov 24, 2009.

Les Squires

India targets 1,000mw solar power in 2013

India targets 1,000mw solar power in 2013Nitin Sethi, TNN 18 November 2009, 12:42am IST…Continue

Tags: solar power, New Delhi, tnn, solar

Started by Les Squires in WORKGROUP:: ENERGY Nov 17, 2009.

Les Squires

Rural India Gets Chance at Piece of Jobs Boom

New York TimesBy LYDIA POLGREENPublished: November 12, 2009…Continue

Tags: outsourcing, small towns, rural youth, india

Started by Les Squires in WORKGROUP:: ECONOMY Nov 13, 2009.

Kris

Permaculture in Delhi or Pune?

I'm visiting family in Delhi and Pune Dec 23-Jan 3. Are there permaculture projects underway there that I might visit or do some work at? I would also be interested in co-teaching/helping develop an…Continue

Tags: Pune, Delhi, permaculture

Started by Kris in Inbox Nov 9, 2009.

Things You Can Do Today

  • Add your local GROUP to our registry of Groups supporting Transition in India. Give it a name, brief description, include a link to its website, and invite people to join you. The internet is about GROUPS MEETING GROUPS -- not only friends meeting friends View all local groups registered in India to date -- Click on a group to see more detail. Join the group to be a part of the group mailing list.
  • Read and respond to Dr. Muhammad Mukhtar Alam's position paper Carbon-Neutral Leisure -- Carbon Neutral Neighborhood Discussions/ Consultations (CNND/Cs) for Ecological Audit: Personal and Neighborhood Processes for Mitigating Climate change.
  • Discussion Forum -- Post your questions, observations, opinions, suggested solutions. Talk, debate and move together to action.
  • Member Events -- Announce events you consider important to India's development. Invite others to attend the events.
  • Register your Organization -- Declare your organizations support, thereby creating an India Registry of local groups. See Ecostrategic Communicators as an example.
  • Find out more about the Transition movement in India, or to arrange for a Transition speaker in your area, or to start a Transition initiative in your community, contact Olivier Hetzel -- Auroville India -- or LesSquires -- Denver Colorado USA.
  • Learn more about the Transition Movement worldwide
  • Upload your best photo -- ask the guy with the camera if you need assistance photoshopping. We can crop, fix, enhance!
  • 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.
  • Review Your Profile Questions -- Your answers comprise your Transition Resume. Your keywords make you findable on this site and in Google in general.
  • 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
  • Invite others to join Transition India -- paste in emails one per line and a brief message why you would value their joining us.
  • 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!

Proposed Admin Tasks for India Admins

Initial Admin Responsibilities
  1. Team. Serve on a team of 3-4 persons.
  2. Scope and Direction of Website. Policy, content, geographical requirements, appropriate directions.
  3. Communications. Via Skype with team members.
  4. Ning. Participate in a 3 hour training -- ongoing as needed -- let's experiment with introducing social networking to India.
  5. Meetings.Engage in weekly team meetings (max 45-60 minutes). Occasionally during the week.
  6. Newcomers. Greet newcomers within 6-8 hours of their joining. Make connections between individuals and groups.
  7. Customer Support. Assist users with problems (login, navigation, howto)
  8. Additional Admins. Define special roles and assist in recruiting volunteers to perform those roles.
  9. Groups. Help defining like-minded groups, encouraging them to join in our collaborative.
  10. Discussions. Read newly posted content and facilitate discussions. Assist with creating categories relevant to the Indian culture.
  11. Fun! Have a ton of fun, learning how to create special interest movements of this kind in India, while promoting reciprocal learning among all countries.

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