Wired Women: Where eco-friendly people meet online
November 4, 2009 by admin
Filed under A & E, Wired Women
On a Tuesday night this summer, more than 200 people showed up at the Nomad Theatre in Boulder to watch the documentary “The World According to Monsanto.” A few weeks later, a group gathered early on a Sunday morning and gleaned 2,200 pounds of sweet corn from the Munson Farm in Boulder and gave it to food banks in Boulder and Broomfield counties.
For both events, and dozens more like them, word was spread via the social networking site TransitionColorado.ning.com.
“(Social-networking sites) have really served the Transition movement in this country very well,” says Dana Miller, an initiative group member of Transition Denver. “And Transition Colorado was the first Ning site to be put up.”
The Transition movement started in the United Kingdom in 2005, and spread across the Atlantic Ocean last year when Transition Boulder County became the first such group in the United States in May 2008. Since then, the Transition movement has blossomed.
Ning is an open-source Internet platform first launched in 2005 that allows users to create and customize their own social-networking site.
A large part of the Transition movement’s mission is to connect communities and facilitate sustainable-living practices in a time of climate change, and to reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
The Transition Colorado Ning site boasts more than 1,100 members. Smaller — Transition Boulder, Transition Denver, Transition Lyons, Transition Naropa, and several more — have sprouted from the Transition Colorado Ning site. Members can create and join discussions on various topics, and communicate with each other about upcoming events.
The movement might not have spread so fast if it had sprouted a decade ago, before the advent of online social-networking sites, Miller says.
Eco-Cycle has also joined the social-media trend by creating Facebook and Twitter pages. Updates on Eco-Cycle’s Twitter page have included links to stories about reducing waste, the problems with plastic, a look at mega-concert Bonnaroo’s Zero Waste efforts and eco-conscious facts.
– By Mark Collins
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