Transition Town Greater Media

Steering Group Monthly Meeting
2023-09-11 19:00 - 20:30, 2023-10-09 19:00 - 20:30, 2023-11-13 19:00 - 20:30, 2023-12-11 19:00 - 20:30, 2024-01-08 19:00 - 20:30, 2024-02-12 19:00 - 20:30, 2024-03-11 19:00 - 20:30, 2024-04-08 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) and 3 more dates | Head Room, 24 Veterans Square, Media, 19063, United States
The Steering Group is the governing body of Transition Town Media. Comprised of representatives of each of the current Working Groups, the officers of TTM, and any other interested and committed members of TTM, this body meets once a month to discuss current projects and initiatives and makes decisions regarding future activities.
Everyone is welcome to attend these meetings and contribute to the discussions. We value your ideas and input.

The Regeneration Handbook:Presentation, Q&A, and Book Signing
2024-07-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Providence Friends Meeting, 105 N Providence Rd, Media, PA, 19063
Ever wonder what people are talking about when they talk about “regeneration”? Currently applied to fields as diverse as ecology, spirituality, health, and economics, regeneration has become a bit of a buzzword lately.
Defined by Mirriam-Webster as the “renewal or restoration of a body, bodily part, or biological system,” Don Hall, author of The Regeneration Handbook: Transform Yourself to Transform the World, argues that we might come to understand regeneration more broadly as the “act of helping to bring something back to life – ourselves, our communities, and, ultimately, the Earth.”
In the face of mounting environmental, economic, and social crises, Hall, a long-time activist with the international Transition Towns Movement, observes that “more and more people genuinely want to help bring about a just and regenerative future, but feel overwhelmed or don’t know where to start.” “Fortunately,” he says, “there are so many things we can do right now to make a real difference, starting wherever we are.”
According to Hall, a regenerative community might look like one where there’s an abundance of small farms and gardens, a vibrant culture and economy powered by sustainable local businesses, solar panels on every rooftop, more bikes than cars, good public transit, and plenty of spaces to gather and commune with nature. It would also be a place where people from all walks of life regularly come together to dream, discuss, and design their own destiny.
Hall’s U.S. book tour, the “Regenerative Communities Roadshow,” will be stopping in Media for a presentation, Q&A, and book signing on Monday, July 15. This event will take place at the Providence Friends Meeting, 105 N Providence Rd, Media 19063 from 7-8:30PM. Admission is free, but those attending are encouraged to register in advance at https://forms.gle/EUnbFWJb3MKdo3B99.
For more information, you can visit Hall’s website, evolutionarychange.org, where you can pre-order his book, subscribe to his blog, and find other upcoming events. In these increasingly uncertain times, one thing’s for sure: we’ll be hearing a lot more about regeneration in years to come.
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About The Regeneration Handbook: The Regeneration Handbook offers an abundance of insights, stories, tools, practices, and resources for experienced and aspiring changemakers to step into their full power at this time of unprecedented global crisis. https://newsociety.com/books/r/the-regeneration-handbook
About Don Hall: Don Hall has served in a variety of capacities throughout the Transition Towns Movement over the past 15 years and is currently Training Coordinator for the international Transition Network. Don holds a Master’s in Environmental Leadership from Naropa University, blogs at evolutionarychange.org, and lives in community in Boulder, Colorado. https://evolutionarychange.org/don-hall

Zero Waste Working Group Meeting
2024-07-17 19:00 - 20:00 | Online
We learn and promote ways to reduce our impact on the environment we inhabit by reducing the waste we generate. Some examples are increasing food and yard waste composting, improving recycling, and reducing the amount of plastic we produce and use. Visit our web page to learn more about our goals and activities.
Join us to make a significant impact on our waste generation. We meet via Zoom on the 4th Wednesday of each month at 7 PM. Contact us at zerowaste@ttgmPA.org to request the Zoom link.

Protecting Biodiversity Group Meeting
2024-07-17 19:00 - 20:00 | Online
We promote, encourage and support planting natives to increase biodiversity and restore habitat to protect our ecosystems. Ecosystems depend on a rich biodiversity to function. And biodiversity is dependent on native plants that feed insects.
Join us to make a significant contribution to help prevent bird and insect decline, habitat loss, and global ecosystem collapse. Gardeners of all levels of experience are welcome. Anyone can contribute, even if you live in an apartment. Contact us at biodiversity@ttgmPA.org to learn more.
We meet via Zoom on 3rd Wednesday of each month at 7 PM. Contact us to request the Zoom link.

Zero Waste Working Group Meeting
2024-08-06 16:30 - 17:30, 2024-09-03 16:30 - 17:30, 2024-10-01 16:30 - 17:30, 2024-11-05 16:30 - 17:30, 2024-12-03 16:30 - 17:30, 2025-01-07 16:30 - 17:30, 2025-02-04 16:30 - 17:30 | Online
We learn and promote ways to reduce our impact on the environment we inhabit by reducing the waste we generate. Some examples are increasing food and yard waste composting, improving recycling, and reducing the amount of plastic we produce and use. Visit our web page to learn more about our goals and activities.
Join us to make a significant impact on our waste generation. We are currently meeting with the Media EAC Zero Waste Group, via Zoom on the 1st Tuesday of each month at 4:30 PM. Contact us at zerowaste@ttgmPA.org to request the Zoom link.

EcoFest 2024!
2024-09-28 10:00 - 14:00 | Heritage Park, 5th & Broomall St, Media, PA, 19063, United States
Join us for the 2nd Annual Media EcoFest!
Saturday, Sept 28th,10am-2pm
Heritage Park, 5th & Broomall St, Media PA 19063
Enjoy food, music, activities for kids & adults, and great resources from over 30 local environmental and community groups.
Have lots of fun and even learn something cool – how to recycle correctly, what trees and shrubs work best in your yard, how to eliminate mosquitoes cheaply and safely, and so much more!
Rain date: Sun, Sept 29th.

Zero Time to Waste - Kicking Off a Zero Waste Holiday Season
2024-11-16 13:00 - 14:30 | Media-Upper Providence Free Library, 1 East Front St, Media, PA, 19063, United States
In partnership with the Media-Upper Providence Free Library, the Delaware County’s Office of Sustainability will provide a 101 on Zero Waste, including information about our impacts of current waste practices, how waste moves through the waste stream, and more.
The program will conclude with tips for a Zero Waste holiday season and an interactive demonstration on waste-free gift wrapping!

Green Sunday Holiday Craft Fair 2024
2024-11-17 13:00 - 17:00 | Media Providence Friends School Gym, 4th & Broomall St, Media, PA, 19063, United States
Transition Town Greater Media is hosting the Green Sunday Holiday Local, Small Business, Handmade Craft Fair again this year on Sunday, Nov 17th, 1–5PM! It’s part of our vision of a community that celebrates local talent creating handmade goods. It’s both a response and an alternative to the commercialism of Black Friday & Cyber Monday.

Green Sunday features over 50 juried vendors, unique handmade gifts, raffle baskets with handmade items from the vendors, a craft station for the kids, scrumptious food and refreshing beverages, and a fun, frenzy-free shopping experience! Everyone is welcome, so bring your friends and family—there’s plenty of fun for them all!

Admission is free, and so is parking. We have reserved the lot at 4th and Olive St, right next to the gym entrance, for your parking convenience.

If you are a local small business that creates beautiful gift items for sale and would like to have a table at this year’s Green Sunday, please apply here: https://tinyurl.com/GSVendor24. Applications are due by Fri, Oct 18th. The vendor acceptance process is juried and is based on the category and quality of the items. Applicants will be considered and notified on a rolling basis.

We thank the Media Providence Friends School (MPFS) and Media Friends Meeting (MFM) for donating the use of their gym every year for this Holiday Fair. MPFS offers K-12 education based on Quaker values, teaching students about their responsibility as citizens of the world and stewards of the earth. MFM is also a leader for environmental responsibility in the community. They first installed solar panels on the meetinghouse more than 10 years ago and has expanded them three times since then. They also have three medicinal raised bed gardens that are harvested, with the help of MPFS Middle Schoolers, for Singularity Botanicals, who provides tinctures and teas to alleviate the health impacts of industrial pollution in affected communities.

Community Resilience Group Meeting
2024-11-19 18:30 - 20:00, 2024-12-17 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-01-21 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-02-18 18:30 - 20:00 | Personal home
The Community Resilience Group focuses on learning about resilience issues in food systems, water systems, energy systems and more. We are reviewing ways in which we could survey our community and create a resilience baseline to gain some indication of where we can improve.
Our group initially focused our meetings on discussing the book The Community Resilience Reader (available for free at: resilience.org). We will be shifting to exploring The Community Resilience Toolkit in order to do a community resilience assessment of the Greater Media area. You can learn more about that here.
We’re also learning about the long term impact of climate change on different regions of the country. Using the American Resiliency channel on Youtube which gives forecasts and projected outlooks for every state in our country, we compared the PA and NJ assessments. The projections for NJ are much grimmer than for PA. Something our group recognized is that the videos focus narrowly on Climate, We’re committed to exploring what Community Resilience requires within the broader polycrisis and ecological predicament we face.
In the future, the Community Resilience group will also be organizing community documentary film nights around Greater Media – coming soon!
Our regular meeting date is the 3rd Tuesday of each month at 6:30pm. We meet at a group member’s house and you can email Will Powers for the address if you’d like to attend.

2025 TTGM Annual Planning
2025-01-11 08:00 - 14:00 | Fellowship Hall, First Church Media, 350 W State St, Media, 19063, United States
Join us on Saturday, Jan. 11, 8AM – 2PM for our 2025 TTGM Annual Planning. This meeting will set the agenda for our organization in 2025. It is free to attend and open to the public.
A light breakfast and lunch are included. A suggested donation of $20 would be appreciated but not required.

If you want to influence the direction of your community in 2025, this is the place to start. We will be looking at projects across the areas of:
Biodiversity/Trees/Ecosystems
Local Food/Zero Waste
Local Economy
Community Building
Energy/Resilience/Climate Change
Inner Transformation
Some new areas will be explored as well, depending on interest.

If you are a representative from a partner organization like an EAC or a non-profit, bring your ideas on how we might better support you with your initiatives. Joint projects are always welcome.

Location: Fellowship Hall at the Methodist Church, State & Lemon St, Media 19063 (entrance on Lemon St)
Time: 8AM Doors open, light breakfast available
9AM Workshop begins
12:30PM Lunch
We hope to wrap up by 2PM but all are welcome to stay and continue their conversations.

Film Screening: Choosing Earth, Choosing Life
2025-01-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Swarthmore PAC Center, 129 Park Avenue, Swarthmore, PA, 19081, United States
Transition Town Greater Media presents a Film Screening and Discussion
Choosing Earth: Choosing Life
a 63-minute documentary
Film created by Choosing Earth
Thursday, Jan. 30, 7PM
PAC Center, 129 Park Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081,
Centennial Room

Explore a paradox: the speed, depth and magnitude of our growing planetary crisis, and the opportunity we have to meet this crisis consciously.

The film features Duane Elgin, Victoria Santos, Jack Kornfield, Joanna Macy, Nate Hagens, Beena Sharma, Lynne Twist, Todd Lando, Rama Mani, Barbara Easterlin, Jan Edl Stein, and other contributors who grapple with this paradox and offer guidance for navigating the times ahead.

As Swarthmore is embarking on a new Comprehensive Plan and Media prepares to do likewise, this is a chance to contemplate what infrastructure will best serve our 21st Century needs, and discuss it in a safe space.

The evening will start with a short film explaining what a Transition Town is, to give you a feel for who we are.

Light refreshments will be served.
