Transition Louisiana

Community Resilience, Self-Reliance, Renewable Energy & Cooperation

A networking coalition providing Transition Initiatives based on local production, renewable energy, efficiency & resilient communities.

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Northwest Earth Institute added a discussion
This fall I am going to be participating in a fun event, the EcoChallenge with the Northwest Earth Institute, and I would love to have you participate along with me! The EcoChallenge is a two-week sustainability challenge, where you choose one way t…
July 22, 2009
Northwest Earth Institute added a discussion
Looking for ways to foster growth and change within your community and amongst your friends? Take one of Northwest Earth Institutes seven discussion courses! The Northwest Earth Institute is a recognized national leader in the development of innova…
June 17, 2009
Northwest Earth Institute is now a member of Transition Louisiana
June 17, 2009
April 20, 2009
da Bonster added a blog post
Just moved here from Tampa. Got here March 4th and am loving my new home and family. I went looking online for meetup groups about peak oil, and loe and behold, there were none. So I go to start one and to my surprise, the meetup group people want m…
April 20, 2009
da Bonster is now a member of Transition Louisiana
April 20, 2009
Emmett Ostern added a blog post
For more information visit my hoodia news, articles and reviews site. What is there to say about Hoodia pills that has not already been said on almost every weight loss website and magazine out there? The positive benefits of taking Hoodia pills hav…
March 24, 2009
michael is now a member of Transition Louisiana
March 22, 2009

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da Bonster

'ello Louisiana, specificlly Baton Rouge

Just moved here from Tampa. Got here March 4th and am loving my new home and family. I went looking online for meetup groups about peak oil, and loe and behold, there were none. So I go to start one and to my surprise, the meetup group people want money. Hmm, not gonna happen from this chick, I can tell you that. Anyway, I care about Massey coal blowing off the tops of our beautiful mountains to get the veins of coal that are continuing this unsustainable life we enjoy. I am sorely pissed that T… Continue

Posted by da Bonster on April 20, 2009 at 9:25am

Emmett Ostern

hoodia

For more information visit my hoodia news, articles and reviews site.


What is there to say about Hoodia pills that has not already been said on almost every weight loss website and magazine out there? The positive benefits of taking Hoodia pills have been well documented and thoroughly discussed but it seems a lot of people still don't know all of the facts ab

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Posted by Emmett Ostern on March 24, 2009 at 1:02pm

Emmett Ostern

hgh

For more information visit my hgh news, articles and reviews site.


Somatotropin is one of the most misunderstood hormones in the human body. Though many people only view Somatotropin as a way to quickly build muscle, it has many other functions. Proper levels of Somatotropin are necessary for maintaining good health and good metabolism. As we age our levels of So

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Posted by Emmett Ostern on February 22, 2009 at 2:33am

Emmett Ostern

hgh

IGF 1 stands for insulin like growth factor 1, and is probably the most important hormone in your body next to HGH. We know that IGF 1 stimulates a high rate of protein synthesis in muscles, and helps ensure that a larger amount of protein we eat is digested and used in our bodies. IGF 1 is thought to have an important effect on skeletal muscles and may improve the fu

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Posted by Emmett Ostern on January 26, 2009 at 7:01pm

 

Who We Are...

TRANSITION LOUISIANA is a networking site for those who seek local-scale green-oriented implementation of Transition models for local communities.

This site, and many like it, are being developed through grassroots participation, and is continually evolving. It is a spontaneously arising effort to synergistically connect transition workers with each other and to identify and nurture the development of useful and necessary local Transition Initiatives, solutions, and practices.

The Transition Movement embraces several other familiar monikers: Local Self Reliance, Appropriate Technology, Decentralization, Localization, Relocalization, Post Carbon, Post Petroleum, Beyond Oil.

This emerging Transition Culture will empower communities to squarely face the issues surrounding peak oil and climate change, and unleash the collective genius of their own citizens to find innovative solutions to these momentous challenges:
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)?

Transition Initiatives make no claim to have all the answers, but by building on the wisdom of the past and accessing the pool of ingenuity, skills and determination in our communities, the solutions can readily emerge. Now is the time for us to take stock and start re-creating our future in ways that are not based on cheap, plentiful and polluting oil but on localized food, sustainable energy sources, resilient local economies and an enlivened sense of community well-being.


Members

  • Les Squires temp for TransitionLouisiana
  • A. Z. Saubert
  • Mel Riser
  • liam
  • Les Squires
  • Warner
  • Emmett Ostern
  • michael
  • da Bonster
  • Northwest Earth Institute

Things You Can Do Today

  • Contact Members above by clicking on their photo. Every photo is one-click access to any person you want to contact anywhere in our community. Welcome them, remembering that each person and each group carries a unique spark capable of warming and enhancing our whole community.
  • Greet each other! -- Click periodically on MEMBERS on the menu above to make sure every newcomer is properly greeted. Volunteer to show them around and answer their questions.

Events

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Northwest Earth Institute

Join the EcoChallenge!!

Started by Northwest Earth Institute Jul. 22, 2009.

Northwest Earth Institute

Programs for Transformative Dialogue - Learn How to Be the Change

Started by Northwest Earth Institute Jun. 17, 2009.

 
 

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News from EnergyBulletin.net

The Challenge of Algal Fuel: Economic Processing of the Entire Algal Biomass

Micro-algae have considerable potential for the production of biofuel, but at present the process of producing fuel from algae would appear to be currently uneconomic. If fuel from micro-algae is to be economic the entire algal biomass should be utilised and anaerobic digestion could play an important part in the exploitation of algae to produce algal energy.

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Economics - Feb 9

-False Profits: We Will Be Suffering from Greenspan and Bernanke's Ineptitude for a Long Time
-G7 close to accord on banks paying for global recession
-How Brussels Is Trying to Prevent a Collapse of the Euro
-Europe loses seat at top table
-Corruption, Culpability and Short-Termism

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Iran - to sanction or not to sanction? - Feb 9

-Sanctions Are the Talk of the Day
-U.S. Wants Iran Sanctions In Weeks; Embassies Attacked
-Iran begins enriching higher-grade uranium, says state TV

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Sustainable Firewood: Recycling Atmospheric Carbon

Wood is a renewable fuel because young trees grow up to replace those harvested for fuel. That’s a simple enough statement, but there is much more to consider when you look into the details.

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Film Review: ‘Food Inc.’

At this year's Soil Association conference I was chatting with Mike Small of the Fife Diet in Scotland. He told a story about how a film crew from Sky News came up to Fife to do a news story about their work. While they were filming, Mike chatted to the director and asked him what was the angle on the story. "Well", said the director, "it's about a community eating local food". "Amazing to think that that's now seen as news!" said Mike. Of course, now such a thing is news, so bizarrely distorted has our food system (and our media, but that's another story) become. Unfortunately the sprawling monster that actually now feeds most of us isn't news, but only because it is so well hidden, something that the excellent new film "Food Inc" tries to change.

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