FREE FILM EVENT“CHASING  ICE”

An astonishing documentary by the National Geographic photographer James Balog showing the effects of climate change through time-laps filming of our slowly disappearing glaciers.Monday, May 6, 2013 6:30 PMCrandall Public Library Glens Falls  Guest Speaker:   John Cerveny,an expert on climate change from from Al Gore’s Climate Realty Project team

Co-sponsors: Crandall Public Library                         TriCounty NY Transitions   

please see our events page for announcement of upcoming movie at ACC "Bag It" on April 24 completed event. 40 people in attendance

Please see our events page for upcoming talk on planting and more!
Due to heavy snow The "Time to Plant" talk by Drew Monthie and Robin Healy has been rescheduled to April 1, 6-8pm at Crandall Library, Community Room, Glens Falls  successful meeting completed with approximately 80 area residents in attendance

This meeting below was held in early Jan. 2013. Approximately 30 people were in attendance and committees were formed to address some main area issues:
Alternatives to transportation including addressing co use on roadways in Northern Queensbury and no idling law implementation, alternatives to energy including a local initiative to create free energy audit availability, all things local, business, food systems, and addressing plastic issues in the area.

Please do join us on January 27 at the Crandall Library Community Room. This will be an afternoon for action...for all who have expressed interest in making changes and lessening our dependence on fossil fuel systems to come together, to brainstorm, commit, lend energy to committees which will aim to effect change over the year 2013. We will have tables set up with information on four main initiatives in the upstate area: local sustainability, including food issues, conservation of water, biodiversity, permaculture, forestry etc, then alternative energy possibilities, zero waste initiatives including our collaboration with Saratoga group BYOBAGNY as well as compost issues, and recycling center improvements....and of course transportation issues, including carpooling, car shares, getting public transportation
more accessible for greater routes, co use of roads between bikers and car drivers ....so much more. This is one great opportunity to put your energy where your concerns are. The meeting is 1-4 so as to provide with plenty of discussion and organizing time. Please do bring any refreshments you feel will sustain us. Your chosen group can decide on whatever level of commitment seems appropriate for the upcoming year. RSVP ladamson27@gmail.com

    Graphic artwork above and  through out this website: Mary Azarian, Vermont artist--many thanks

Welcome to our website !  This website is a grassroots effort! The hope is that it will be a work in progress but current and updated with information from all--- inspirational, communicative and interconnecting.  Please contact us with any ideas that can be added so that we can all benefit from the transition related work that is going on in our region.
Tricountynytransition.weebly.com--a "temporary initiating hub". If you would like to write a blog, please do let us know.

Who We Are

Tricountynytransition is an affiliation of towns, villages and cities in upstate NY in Warren, Washington and Essex Counties and in the capital distrcit. We are linked by common interest in the global Transition Town model (see www.TransitionUS.org).  This website serves as a “temporary initiating HUB” connecting regional localized efforts.

A Transition Town looks to the future and prepares for accelerating economic, oil depletion and climate change challenges by decreasing its energy dependence on fossil fuels. Transition Town draws its motivation, inspiration, and action from a community base;  it coordinates, initiates and supports local efforts in the areas of  food production and distribution, transportation alternatives, sustainable energy systems, water quality and conservation, waste/recycling/ reuse, alternative currencies and time banks, green sustainable job creation, and new infrastructures supporting community resiliency.  Among these many efforts, it supports and attracts locally owned and energy- wise businesses, and partners in planning with local town governments to promote Energy Descent Action Plans in the face
of Peak Oil.  Peak Oil refers to the fact that the amount of available oil in world regions will peak...and then run out. 

Mary Azarian Vt. artist "Angel". This angel steward suggests the reponsibility we each have in our communities to spark and continue efforts related to theTransition Town vision.

Much is already in place in our northern NY counties. We are an area rich in resources that are sustainable: Farmers' Markets, Food Co-ops, CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture). We have Town officials working on alternatives: Bike Paths, Carpooling & Ride Share Sites, Alternative Hybrid Town Vehicles, Solar Initiatives, Retrofitting.  But we have many challenges to prepare for, both common sense changing circumstance or possible emergencies / shocks facing our region in the 21st century. We need to be effective and farsighted stewards as well as  activists and innovators. Practical solutions will affect future generations in this region.  This website aims to coordinate information and give people the opportunity to share and exchange ideas. It is a work in progress; we invite you to contact us with any ideas.

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With carbon dioxide levels nearing 400 parts per million, the effects of global warming are becoming more severe. "The planet's climate recently reached a new milestone of 400 ppm of CO2 in the Arctic" per Common Dreams publication June 2, 2012. We have solutions but need intention and resolve to act. This is why energy descent action plans are needed.

What does it take to become a Transition Town?

A committed group in your town answers the Transition Town application (located at www.TransitionUS.org) to assure the international organization of the seriousness of commitment. Your town is then listed as a Transition Town and the town works toward a growing base of community involvement. This most likely comes after an extended process of studying an area's needs and resources and efforts at outreach and education, as well as some training in ways to implement.

 
Contact Information

Facilitating Committee for Tricountynytransition networking HUB:
Lisa Adamson     518 656 9794,   ladamson27@gmail.com
Diane Collins       518 792 2811,  dc.wildflowers@gmail.com
Bernice Mennis,   518 798 3992   bmennis@localnet.com
Kathryn Hull         518 932 8072   kathrynehull01@gmail.com
general email at: tricountynytransition@gmail.com

• We continue to compile an email list to notify people of trainings and study groups upcoming; let us know if you wish to be on that list. 
  

 

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