Transition Town Greater Media

Hub United States

Number of people in group:

60

Active participants in last year:

200

We have 20 Working Groups with 3-12 volunteers plus a FreeStore with about 50 volunteers. Our EcoFest events have drawn about 200 visitors. Other events have been very popular as well.

Group started:

2009

Paid roles?

Yes

Legal Structure:

Charity

How active is your group?

Very Active

Live Projects:

• Community Growing
• Other food projects
• Nature
• Community hub or activities
• Festivals, fairs or events
• Community visioning / imagination work
• Building local networks
• Local economy or new economy projects
• Wellbeing or Inner Transition
• Social Justice / Just Transition activities
• Share, Repair or reuse
• Energy
• Transport

Transition Town Greater Media has been an active initiative since 2009. We have an active Biodiversity group that promotes native plants and trees, we’ve put on hundreds of educational events and potlucks, run a Solarize program and helped initiate others, put on Open Streets events and EcoFests, a Green Sunday Holiday Fair that features local handmade goods, and we work with our local municipal government and county government on several programs, including starting a borough-wide kitchen waste composting program. We have been running a FreeStore since 2014, and a small-business loan and support group since 2019.

We helped create and belong to a MidAtlantic regional hub called MAST (MidAtlantic States Transitioners) and have been active with Transition US working groups.