Community Sustainability

The Transition Movement

The Transition Movement is a vibrant, grassroots movement that seeks to build community resilience in the face of such challenges as peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis. It represents one of the most promising ways of engaging people in strengthening their communities against the effects of these challenges, resulting in a life that is more abundant, fulfilling, equitable and socially connected.

Transition United States
Provides inspiration, networking, and training for Transition Initiatives across the United States, working in close partnership with the Transition Network , a UK based organization that supports the international Transition Movement as a whole.

Sandpoint Transition Initiative
Just one of a dozen successful Initiatives here in the Pacific Northwest. Co-founded by long-time Guild member Richard Kuhnel.

PermacultureExchange
Covering the Pacific Northwest and Bay Area PermaculturExchange.com is a new employment & innovation community for the Transition underway that utilizes the ethics and principles in permaculture.

Intentional Community

Intentional Community is an inclusive term for ecovillages, cohousing communities, residential land trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing cooperatives, intentional living, alternative communities, cooperative living, and other projects where people strive together with a common vision.

Intentional Communities Website
A complement to the Communities Directory and Communities magazine in providing people with the information needed to find, create, and support intentional communities of all kinds.

NW Intentional Communities Association (NICA)
Information about and resources for existing and forming intentional communities in the Pacific Northwest

Cohousing Association of the United States (CoHo/US)
Cohousing resources including workshops, tours and conferences, plus an online Cohousing Directory.

Global Ecovillage Network
A growing network of sustainable communities and initiatives that bridge different cultures, countries, and continents.

Local & Global Communities

Across the globe people are working together to achieve the common goal of making their own neighborhoods, towns and cities healthier, happier and more prosperous places to live and work.

SCALLOPS
Sustainable Communities ALL Over Puget Sound is an all-volunteer group of locally-based organizations. As a grassroots model, SCALLOPS offers promise for regional sustainability everywhere.

WiserEarth
The social network for sustainability - 45,000 members and growing. Connecting you to people and organizations with similar interests.