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Welcome!
The business we are in is Security: Economic Security and Social Stability.
That can be achieved today only through local initiatives.
Transition Centre is a Pennsylvania Nonprofit Corporation. Bill Sharp (Bio) and Bob Flatley are co-founders of Transition Centre. Joining us on the Board of Advisers is Robert Firovid.
Transition Centre has a new blog: http://transitioncentre.blogspot.com/.
1. A review of the
fabulous new book by Rob Hopkins, The
Transition Companion.
2. A review of Reinventing Fire by Amory Lovins and the Rocky Mountain Institute.
Coming soon: Transition in Action, Totnes and District 2030: Energy Descent Action Plan
Transition Towns State College Energy Forum: Marcellus Shale and Beyond
This is the second in our series of energy forms. January 18, 2012, 7:00-9:00 pm, State College Borough Community Room, 243 South Allen Street. Dr. Richard Alley and David Yoxthemier will be back and joined by Mike C. Welch, Andy Lau and Dr. Susan Stewart. Most of the program will be open for questions from the audience. Bill Sharp will present an outline of the Transition Towns Energy Descent Action Plan model which will be our local response to energy, climate and related economic issues. More coming soon on this program.
Marcellus Shale Questions and Answers
Local Foods
In March 2012 Transition Towns State College will hold a Forum on local foods.
New Transition Towns State College Steering Committee
After nearly a year and half of operation TTSC has formed a new
Steering Committee that reflects its current mission of raising public
awareness about key energy issues, including Marcellus shale and bringing
stakeholders into a strong community sustainability network. The new
members are: Charlene Chambers, Scot Chambers, Stephen Fast, Courtney Hayden, Jennifer
Landry, Bill and Priscilla Sharp.
The Mission of Transition Centre:
Promote and develop an integral model for local, self-sufficient and sustainable economies and communities. This human scaled model will be realized when communities take responsibility for providing the Twenty-two Basic Human Needs. TC uses sustainable business principles. Its “profit” motive is founded on the principle that more energy must be produced than consumed. It embraces the idea of 3 Ps: Profit, People and Planet. Its business model seeks to keep as much wealth as possible circulating within an economically viable local region where it is reinvested in local sustainable redevelopment.
The Vision of Transition Centre:
Adaptable communities (C) with the resilience to overcome the inevitable challenges arising from the three E’s, or E3: Energy, Environmental and Economic instability.
The Objectives of Transition Centre:
1. Transition Centre promotes the best practice model of the Transition Towns movement as an effective grassroots program for rebuilding local community economic sustainability and a growing level of self-reliance.
2. Transition Centre Institute working to develop the integral architecture of the self-sufficient community and local economy.
3. Establish a comprehensive learning institute to prepare children, youth and adults for the challenges of a society in a state of increasing disequilibrium.
4. Develop fifth sector leadership capable of guiding the transformation of communities, from villages to urban neighborhoods, to achieve sustainability.
5. Develop materials and resources to assist communities to achieve sustainability.
Twenty-Two Basic Human Needs © 2011
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1. FOOD 2. WATER 3. SHELTER 4. CLOTHING 5. ENERGY 6. WASTE MANAGEMENT 7. ECONOMY/Services and Made Goods 8. COMMUNITY/SOCIETY 9. FAMILY 10. EDUCATION 11. LITERATURE, ART AND RECREATION 12. Health care |
13. TRANSPORTATION 14. COMMUNICATIONS 15. GOVERNANCE 16. Security (Public Safety) 17. ENVIRONMENT/ECOLOGY 18. HISTORY 19. Arts, entertainment and communication 20. Social and psychological adjustment 21. Old Age Security 22. Science/technology |
The Fifth Sector
There are three basic sectors in our economy, three successive waves of development. The first is “extractive.” This includes mining, forestry and agriculture, the founding occupations of what we call civilization. The second came to full term with the industrial revolution and this is manufacturing. The third is postindustrial, or services. Some economists have declared a fourth sector focused on exploiting the margins of the industrial and service sectors in order to gain access to new profits. Many “green” technology industries fall into this sector. Each of these sectors requires its own unique style of management.
None of these four leadership sectors is adequate to the real needs of the E3 challenges, the emerging “Fifth” sector economy. TC is defining this new sector and its leadership. This new leadership must be trained to deal with dramatic changes in environment, economies and societies. It requires a holistic education to produce what John Brunner called a polymath. This method resonates with Peter Senge’s fifth discipline and there is more than a simple coincidence. Senge’s fifth discipline is an approach to understanding and managing whole systems. The fifth sector leader must be a systems thinker, an ecological thinker (which the founders of systems theory were), a generalists with access to a wide range of personal knowledge, a humanists, someone with high moral standards, at ease with change and diversity, cool under pressure, clear of purpose, a member of a cooperative fellowship of peers and a sustainability architect.
For questions or consultation please contact us at this site at info@transitioncentre.org
