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Transition Howard County
Information
This group is for anyone interested in Transition Towns in Howard County and vicinity.
Location: Howard County Maryland
Members: 19
Latest Activity: on Tuesday
Organizations and Resources
Welcome to the Transition Howard County Group. We have created Discussion Forums on different aspects of transition/sustainability:
Advocacy: government and corporate advocacy
Climate: climate prediction, adaptation
Economy: green businesses, green jobs, state/county banks, common security clubs, buy local, alternative currencies, corporations, socially responsible investing
Education: children and adult learning, environmental literacy
Energy: clean energy (including wind, solar, geo-thermal, bio-mass), energy conservation, climate change abatement
Food: Local food production, farmer's markets, CSAs, urban farming, composting, gardening, permaculture
Health: health care, pollution remediation, environmental justice
Transportation: pedestrian, public transit, high speed trains
Waste Reduction: recycling, waste to energy
Water: water safety, storm water management, Chesapeake Bay, impervious surface tax, stream clean-up, water conservation, rain barrels, rain gardens
The following Howard County organizations are working to create a sustainable future.
Climate Change Initiative of Howard County:
http://www.hococlimatechange.org
Earth Forum of Howard County:
Discussion Forum
Volunteers needed to create display and staff THC table at GreenFest 5 Replies
Many thanks to Ted for doing the paperwork to get us a table at GreenFest!! So now we need to schedule a meeting in the next couple weeks to start designing/creating the display and associated information. Here are some potential dates for the…Continue
Started by Margo Duesterhaus. Last reply by Margo Duesterhaus on Tuesday.
Looking for articles on Transition 11 Replies
We are planning a "Coffee and Conversation" on Transition at Betsy's house on Saturday March 3rd at 10am. So this is a call for articles and video clips. If you know of any good articles/videos on transition, please post them here. For our…Continue
Started by Margo Duesterhaus. Last reply by ted schmeckpeper Feb 17.
Columbia Community Exchange Time Bank 2 Replies
Columbia Community Exchange Time Bank open to all in Howard Co.Join the CCE Time Bank ASAP! "Time Banking" in its many forms is essential aspect of Transition! Fill out easy application in CCE Time Bank offices. Easy to do at orientation training…Continue
Started by Ruth Alice. Last reply by Laura Mueller Feb 15.
Baltimore Free Market Feb 18 and April 21
It would be great to have a "Free Market" in Howard County. Right now a group of dedicated volunteers for the temporarily closed Baltimore Free Store are searching for a new location in Baltimore and in the meantime holding ad hoc FREE MARKETS.…Continue
Started by Ruth Alice Feb 9.
Comment Wall
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Comment by Kelsi Nibbana on March 14, 2011 at 9:25pm -
I can't see a way to add an event just for our group. The nice thing about posting it to the whole community is that it gives the event more exposure. I would love more clarification about how this group is going to be used... Is it meant for discussion like a forum, or more of a way to disperse information to members?
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Comment by Margo Duesterhaus on March 15, 2011 at 9:53pm -
Hi Kelsi,
This group is meant for both discussion and for dispersing information. So I'd like to encourage everyone to post relevant information, questions and comments here. Also, invite everyone you know who is interested in sustainability to join us.
The ultimate goal is to get a Transition Town movement going in Howard County. So I'm interested in learning what transition areas you (and others) are most interested in.
Thanks!
Margo
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Comment by ted schmeckpeper on February 7, 2012 at 2:14am -
Hi group! If I've done this right, the link above will allow you to read (or download? I don't know) a Word doc entitled A Way Forward. In the doc I discuss the importance of recruiting new members, and present a table of several Transition Areas, and example Issues within those Areas, that will need to be addresses over the coming years. Hopefully as our Movement grows, we can all get involved in beginning to take action in areas of interest to each of us, ASAP.
Ted S
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Comment by Lore Rosenthal on February 7, 2012 at 12:49pm
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Ted, the document worked! Not sure how you did that, smile. I have printed it out and will read it over. Thanks for thinking this thru!
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Comment by ted schmeckpeper on February 7, 2012 at 1:32pm
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Lore, when you are in the comment box, click on the paperclip icon at the top. That brings up a window in which you click the "Choose File" button. Then you can select a file just like attaching a file to an email.
Somewhere in there it says that the file will be saved as a "link". I think this means that it will upload the file (5 MB max) to the Ecolocity server, and then leaves a link to the uploaded file as you saw in my comment. When the link inside the comment is selected, it downloads the file to your PC, then you can do what you want with it. It's a nice feature, well-implemented.
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Margo, congratulations! The THC NING now has 19 members. Wow, I think you have hit a "critical mass". When I saw your "call for volunteers" for Green Fest, I thought "why bother to post on the NING, if only a handful of people will read it". But, with 19 . . .now we're talking! What percentage of the people who attend THC regularly on Friday nights are using this platform? Just curious?
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Comment by Margo Duesterhaus on February 15, 2012 at 11:38am
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Most of the regular attendees are on NING now. A few of the spouses,including mine, are not (but obviously they hear about stuff through their SO). It's very exciting to see it growing. Including information about THC on the CCIHC e-news blasts has definitely helped.
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