Zero Time to Waste - Kicking Off a Zero Waste Holiday Season
2024-11-16 13:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | 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, 2025-03-18 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.

Zero Waste Working Group Meeting
2024-12-03 16:30 - 17:30, 2025-01-07 16:30 - 17:30, 2025-02-04 16:30 - 17:30, 2025-03-04 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.

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.

Film Screening: The Great Simplification
2025-03-30 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
The Great Simplification
a film on Energy, Environment, and Our Future by Nate Hagens

Film presented by the Institute for the Study of Energy & Our Future
Sunday, March 30, 7PM. Doors open at 6:45PM.
PAC Center, 129 Park Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081

Centennial Room
Free of charge, donations appreciated. Please RSVP here.

The Great Simplification examines energy, the environment, the economy, human evolutionary psychology, the aggregate of 8 billion humans on a finite earth, and what it all means for our future.
The evening will start with a short excerpt from The Battle Against Climate Change, a documentary by Paul Kingsnorth that asks a crucial question for our times. This film is produced by vpro.

Discussion will follow, centered on the question posed by Paul Kingsnorth and informed by The Great Simplification.

Cultivating a Local Peace Economy
2025-04-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Providence Friends Meeting, 105 N Providence Rd, Media, PA, 19063
Cultivating a Local Peace Economy is our answer to the culture of war, dissension, and greed. Had enough of us vs them mentality? Ready to find ways to work together to create an economy that works for all of us, based on trust and caring for each other. An economy that helps our communities thrive while bringing us joy and a sense of belonging?
Gather together to share ideas, local projects, and building communities of trust and care. Join Transition Town Greater Media and CODEPINK’s co-Founder Jodie Evans at Providence Friends Meeting, 105 N Providence Rd, in Media PA on Wed, April 9th. We will be highlighting some important local projects and initiatives that embody the Local Peace Economy, encouraging us all to divest from the war machine and the war economy that drives it.
Let us know if you can join us – please RSVP here.

Community Resilience Group Meeting
2025-04-21 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-05-19 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-06-16 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-07-21 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-08-18 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-09-16 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 Monday 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.

Zero Waste Working Group Meeting
2025-04-22 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 are currently meeting via Zoom on the 4th Tuesday of each month at 7PM. Contact us at zerowaste@ttgmPA.org to request the Zoom link.

Earth Day EcoTour 2025
2025-04-27 11:00 - 14:00 | Media Borough Hall, 4th St between Monroe & Jackson St, 301 N Jackson St, Media, PA, 19064, United States
Media’s Environmental Advisory Council is partnering with TTGM to stage a fun, half-mile guided walking tour to highlight the natural world and environmental issues of the day.
Subject experts will give a brief talk at each of seven information stations, including Water Management, Biodiversity, Traffic Calming, Tree Canopies, Government Environmental Actions, Environmentally Sound Lifestyles, Renewable Energy, and Native Landscaping.
Tours will leave every 20 minutes from the 4th Street parking lot behind Media Borough Hall and end at Heritage Park, 5th and Broomall St. Please use this form on Media Borough’s website to sign up for a time slot. Walk up participation will be limited to space available.
Interested in helping as a volunteer tour guide? Please email: Woody Kotch at hrkotch@gmail.com

Film Screening: Planet Local
2025-05-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Franciscan Spiritual Center, 609 S Convent Rd, Aston, PA, 19014, United States
Transition Town Greater Media presents a Film Screening and Discussion
Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution

A film by Local Futures
Wednesday, May 7, 7PM. Doors open at 6:45PM.
Franciscan Spiritual Center, 609 S Convent Rd, Aston, PA 19014
Free and open to the public, donations appreciated. Free parking adjacent to building. Please RSVP here.
Planet Local is about a quiet and transformative revolution emerging worldwide. As people work to protect and restore their local economies, their communities, and the natural world, countless diverse initiatives are demonstrating a new path forward for humanity. It’s a path that localizes rather than globalizes, connects rather than separates, and shows us that human beings need not be the problem—we can be the solution.

Community Building Picnic
2025-05-18 17:00 - 20:00 | Ray Roche Park, First Ave, Upper Providence, PA, 19063, United States
Join TTGM members for a fun picnic at Ray Roche Park in Upper Providence (behind the Walden School)! As always, it’s a BYOE (Bring Your Own Everything) potluck.
We ask that you bring a dish to share and also bring everything you need for eating – plates, bowls, cups, mugs, utensils, napkins, whatever you need to partake of the scrumptious potluck feast. You may also want to bring a chair or blanket to sit on. And we strongly encourage you to bring games, outdoor sports that can be played with a small group, musical instruments or anything else that might be fun to enjoy.
Bring friends and neighbors! Let’s get together, get to know each other, share yummy food, and play! It’s all about community.

Worm Composting Workshop
2025-05-20 19:00 - 20:00 | Campbell AME Church, 33 W 3rd St (3rd & Olive), Media, PA, 19063, United States
Learn how to compost your own food scraps even if you live in a small apartment or don’t have a yard where you can compost food waste. Let the worms do it for you!
Our Zero Waste Group is hosting a free worm composting workshop on Tuesday, May 20th, 7-8PM at the Campbell AME Church, 33 W Third St, Media 19063. The Church is at the corner of Third and Olive St.
Ira Josephs will lead this fun and easy workshop, demonstrating how to create a worm composting bin from start to finish. You’ll get a handout with all the information, including where to source the simple, inexpensive materials. You could be the winner of the finished compost bin that he puts together in the workshop!
Come join us and learn this useful skill. Your garden will love all the yummy compost your worms will create for you!
Please RSVP by emailing ZeroWaste@TTGMPA.org.

Media Garden Tour 2025
2025-06-14 10:00 - 14:00 | Media (see map), Media, PA, 19063, United States
The Media Recreation Board is sponsoring their 2nd Annual Media Garden Tour on Saturday, June 14th, 10AM–2PM. Everyone is invited to enjoy the local gardens listed on the Garden Tour Map. We look forward to sharing all the beauty, care, and creativity that will be showcased! (Rain Date is June 15). We encourage you to be sure to visit gardens marked as including native plants, and learn how important they are in supporting our birds and beneficial insects. Of particular note is the beautiful Water Management Native Plant Ecosystem at the Media-Upper Providence Library, 1 E Front St, Media, designed by Refugia Design, complete with informational markers.

Film Screening—Conscious Being: The Wisdom of Joanna Macy
2025-06-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Franciscan Spiritual Center, 609 S Convent Rd, Aston, PA, 19014, United States
“The most radical thing any of us can do at this time, is to be fully present to what is happening in the world.” —Joanna Macy
Join us for a short documentary about Joanna Macy, a renowned environmentalist, Buddhist scholar, and systems thinker who has inspired thousands through her Work That Reconnects framework.
Who is Joanna Macy?
At 96 years old, Macy is one of the most influential ecological thinkers of our time. Her work helps people respond effectively to climate change and social justice issues without burning out.
Why attend?

Learn practical tools for transforming despair about the social-ecological crises into responsible active hope
Discover the Work That Reconnects framework that has helped activists and community leaders worldwide
Experience how facing difficult emotions about our planet can actually lead to greater joy and purpose

Conscious Being: The Wisdom of Joanna Macy was produced and graciously shared by Naropa University to celebrate the launch of the Naropa Joanna Macy Center for Resilience and Regeneration. This 30-minute film offers an intimate look at the basic tenets of Macy’s internationally recognized legacy of The Work That Reconnects, including her efforts addressing nuclear crisis and the principals of “deep time”–connecting with past and future generations, and what Macy presents as liberation dharma or our individual place in society as we face the spiritual dilemmas of our time.
After the film, we’ll break into small groups to discuss what resonated with us, then come together to share insights as a community.
Free and open to the public; a donation of $5 at the door is appreciated. Free parking is across the street from the building.
Please RSVP here.

Backyard Biodigester Workshop at Edge Farms
2025-06-28 10:00 - 16:00 | The Edge Farms, 3410 Conestoga Rd, Glenmoore, PA, 19343, United States
Join us at The Edge Farms’ First Annual Hands-On Biogas Workshop and Backyard Biodigester “Make and Take”.
Sign up by May 31st for a $50 discount using the code “EARLYBIRDIES”!
Alexandra and Blake, owners of The Edge Farms, will be building their own biodigesters. Other participants get a chance to join a team and begin to build their own!
We will be following the book, How to Build a Solar CITIES IBC Tank Biodigester, with its author, world renowned Janice Kelsey, co-founder of Solar CITIES. Check out her TEDx talk on YouTube! Each person who signs up for the Make-and-Take Now ($400) or Practice & DIY Later ($350) ticket options will receive a copy of this hands-on manual at the event. Others who are practicing with a team of people, attending to Gain Experience ($75) or just thinking about building their own backyard biodigester (Free) can also purchase a copy to reference as a downloadable PDF.
We will prepare many materials for building them, as well as all of the tools and resources from the kit needed to build the main body of a biodigester. We will have a very informative display set up, complete with mobile classroom and kitchen so you can see biogas in action!
We are also offering a FREE same-day tour of one of the Solar CITIES biogas proving grounds right here in Chester County, just 1/4 mile away, where a local family has been cooking with biogas and gardening with the live fertilizer for over a decade.
Pot Luck Lunch. Please bring food to share in community, as we will be sitting down together for Q&A and idea sharing.
Proposed Agenda for the Day:
Arrive by: 9:30AM
Program begins: 10:00AM
Pot Luck lunch: 12:00 Noon
Hands-on Construction of a Biodigester: 12:30PM
Closing discussion & tour: 4:00PM

Community Building Picnic - Houtman Park
2025-08-17 17:00 - 20:00 | Houtman Park, 448 S Jackson St, Media, PA, 19063, United States
Join TTGM members for our next community picnic at Houtman Park in Media (448 S Jackson St, Media 19063)!

Let’s gather our community to connect, eat, and play! Bring your own everything* plus a dish and/or beverage to share. (Don’t forget your serving utensils!) TTGM will supply the tables. We’ll play some fun outside games (bring your favorite!) and just get to know our neighbors better. A “Free Table” of small giveaway items will also be hosted by Cindy. Unclaimed items will be donated to the Media FreeStore. We will also have a kid’s craft activity! Plentiful street parking! (Note: Houtman Park does not have restrooms.)
While we do have some activities planned, this is a “Be” not a “Do” kind of event — a chance to relax, connect, and enjoy time together. No pressure, just presence.
Check out our Facebook event page – invite your friends and neighbors! It’s all about community. See you there!
*BRING YOUR OWN EVERYTHING: For this event, that means:
– cups, dishes, and flatware
– water
– chairs – TTGM will supply the tables.
