Agenda Items:   Please submit Issues/ideas that you think would be good to see a statewide forum address:

[The "process" here would be to reach out to all Transition Initiatives that are registered as formal initiatives with the network as well as "mullers", and then, interested persons so that a broad range of people who are familiar with the conceptualization of Transition as presented by Rob Hopkins, are able to consider the usefulness of a statewide gathering, add their ideas and collaborations and plan so that they can participate.

Statewide Transition seeks inclusion and the participation of those core groups that have been working with Transition for some time.  We will take time to make this inclusive of people actually already operating within the transition framework this will also give us time to build a healthy collaborative agenda - feel free to submit ideas/issues/suggestions and they will be added to this as a working draft  ~  send to mkingmsw@aol.com   ]

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Monthly Transition Statewide Phone conferences - 2nd Thursday

the evening 7:30 pm-

We had a terrific, (I thought ) discussion starting with people sharing what they've been working on in their own initiative, community or organization and the current "state of affairs".

Participants were:

Aaron Wisner (Middleville) is a teacher professionally and the mover and shaker behind Local Future org conferences which has been a great learning/meeting ground for many of us across the state,

Kim Hodge of the Michigan Alliance of Time Banks

Mark Ludwig, (Fennville Michigan) see http://www.sandlilyfarms.com/History_and_Biography.html Mark works with the Allegan Conservation District

Liz Dahl McGregor is an attorney and long time Ypsilanti Transition core member. She's been very key in the local food movement in Ypsilanti and with Growing Hope

Shelley Youngman, is a core member of Cadilac Transition and reported on developments & great activity in Cadillac with, among many other things, their Transition Handbook group, various ongoing Transition working groups and community ed film series.

Stephen Degoosh, ( professor at Northern Michigan University) shared some of the activities and developments in Marquette, which has a large core group of committed and active members. Steve's group has run successful film series, including one's with presenters attending via skype (Chris Bedford), an economic forum and most recently an exciting "100 yard dash" challenge. Steve and his group have also been in close contact and collaboration ongoingly with nearby initiatives.

Dana Johnson & Marilyn Studer (plz let me know if mispelled!)  joined us from Transition VanBuren-Allegan  and discussed the many activities and collaborations among their communities:  Bloomingdale, Fennville, Transition Bangor,

Sarah Smith Redmond from Alger Communities in Transition (ACT)

Vicky McClellan  Transition Detroit

Bonnie Bucqueroux   Lansing area - Michigan State University, Sustainable Farmer online magazine -http://www.sustainablefarmer.com/.  Bonnie teaches courses at MSU in digital journalism and Climate Change & Transition .

Thank you to everyone who participated! We're off to a good start.

We will be having a monthly phone conversation ~ 2nd Thursday evening 7:30pm (1.5 hrs) Stephen Degoosh will be facilitating next month's conversation.

No-Cost Conference Telephone Number: 712-432-3900

After you connect you'll be prompted to put in your Conference

Access Code: 161845#

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Scheduling/Coordinating broad participation:

Suggested meeting place to be identified in Lansing area with skype participation possible for all areas of state.