Transition Town Greater Media (TTGM) is a grassroots organization, dedicated to improving community resilience - the ability to respond to the winds of change while remaining true to our belief in the power of community. We actively work to promote a more just, connected, and thriving local economy and a society founded in respect for all living beings.
Since 2009, TTGM has been working with local and county governments and other non-profits in the Greater Media area to model and promote a cleaner, healthier way to live on this planet, limiting the pollution and waste we create, respecting the rights of nature and each other to live and flourish.
Our work is focused in six main areas:
- Protecting Biodiversity by planting trees and pollinator gardens with native plants, hosting Green Wagons (native plant “lending libraries”), and promoting natural ways of controlling mosquitoes and other non-beneficial insects rather than using chemical sprays.
- Supporting Local Economy by running the Media FreeStore (since 2014) which promotes sharing resources rather than buying new and throwing out the old; hosting a Green Sunday Holiday Fair every November where local artists and craftspeople can sell their handmade goods directly to the public; and providing low-interest loans to minority- and women-owned businesses that provide real needs of their communities.
- Supporting Local Food by providing an online Local Food Resource Guide that lists nearby farms, farmers’ markets, restaurants and grocery stores that provide locally grown food, and organizing local farm tours and workdays so we can meet the farmers and learn about their work.
- Promoting Resilience from climate change by educating the public through film screenings discussing the problems and possible solutions; re-skilling workshops to re-learn skills such as food preservation, composting and vegetable gardening, and repair and reuse; and promoting biking and transit in the area to lessen car use.
- Encouraging Inner Work to help us deal with the emotional and personal responses to the stresses of our society and to help us transform our relationship with our planet from an extractive, resource-based view to a collaborative, relational view, working with Nature instead of against her.
- Supporting Community Building with programs like Civic Response that works at the neighborhood level to strengthen our emergency responses through communications networks and asset mapping; with events like EcoFest that brings local environmental organizations together with the public in a fun, family-friendly learning experience; and get-togethers like Fire Circles where neighbors can hang out and share thoughts and experiences.
Our vision is a society that respects the beauty and many benefits of our natural world while living within its limits, and also respects and celebrates the creativity of our human family to face our common problems together. If you have similar hopes for the future, then please give generously to support our efforts! Thank you.