You are invited to our RCDL Launch Party on the Autumnal Equinox! We have been cultivating and myceliating with an incredible set of partners to elevate the solutions needed for community resilience. Join us on the evening of September 21st for an introduction to our team and the suite of tools we have assembled for incubating bioregional strategies.

In this teleseminar, Jay Tompt will talk about the catalyst projects that have been producing great results, such as the Local Entrepreneur Forum and the REconomy Centre. And offer a few tools and tips that can help anyone, almost anywhere, get similar results, too.

What if our economy actually served people and the planet, and built stronger communities? Instead of extracting resources, what if businesses built local wealth and resilience while regenerating ecosystems? And what if we create enterprises that provide good jobs, reduce income inequality, and lower our carbon footprint?

Join Transition Trainer and local economic development practitioner, Fred Brown of Pittsburgh, PA, to explore how Transition Towns can bridge the urban community with the global economy, using principles of “economic gardening” – a strength-based approach to community development that spans socioeconomic strata.

Climate change and extreme economic inequality are two sides of the same coin, and our current debt-based monetary system is the enabler and driver of these two modern day disasters. If we want to successfully transition to an environmentally sustainable future, we must tackle the transition to a economically sustainable monetary system.

Carlos Espinoza-Toro shares information about the successful fellowship program at the Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition. The program serves as a model for helping potential leaders from underprivileged backgrounds tackle economic inequality and climate change when most of their time is devoted to working to earn a living.

The alternative currency known as Timebanking seeks to re-weave community in a similar fashion to Transition: from the bottom-up. At its core, Timebanks gather neighbors together to accomplish simple tasks for one another.  At first, this seems to be a simple concept, but the small acts of helping neighbors, reskilling, and volunteering in community are at the heart of making Transition work. Timebanking, as a bottom-up tool to solve the problems created by the mismatch of unmet needs and unused skills, provides the space for the work of building true community through co-creation (rather than co-consumption.)

The topic of this conversation will be  "What does the relocalization of economic systems in Transition look like?" Featured panelists include Marco Vangelisti, Essential Knowledge for Transition (ek/4t), and Brett Barndt, Fellow, NYC Accelerator, Cleantech Renewables; New Economy, Money and Banking.

What is the sharing economy, and what is a sharing city? How can the principles of the grassroots sharing economy be applied to towns and cities in ways that strengthen local economies, empower the underserved, and increase community resilience?

Our monetary system is the operating system of our economy. Right now, it is impoverishing the majority of our population, and killing our ecosystem. It is past time for a re-think. 

this teleseminar is part of the Spring of Sustainability, a nine-week virtual gathering of sustainability leaders and innovators. Learn about innovative models for building resilient local economies - including Transition Network's REconomy Project and Transition Colorado's Local Food Shift.

As we work to transition our world, a huge challenge lies in our ability to power the good work necessary to build a better future. We used to live in a world where money was the thing that enabled things to happen. But with dollars becoming more and more scarce, success will only come if we develop a myriad of alternative economies to empower our work.

Essential Knowledge for Transition presented by Marco Vangelisti provides an understanding of the large systems that affect our lives and communities: the monetary and banking system, the economic system and the financial system. Such understanding is a prerequisite to transforming them in a way that allows the emerging of a socially just, environmentally sound and compassionate society.

Do you have a vision for building a vibrant local economy? Do you want to invest in Main Street instead of Wall Street? Do you have a small business idea and are wondering how to raise capital?  

hOurworld is a network of 116 time banks across the U.S., with more than 10,000 members who have provided and received more than 665,000 hours of service!

Giles Hutchins makes a compelling case for applying the same principles of biomimicry to the development of a new business paradigm. He demonstrates clearly how behaviours and organizations found in nature can be applied to help our organizations flourish in chaotic and uncertain times.