Organic Transitions

Surviving the Approaching Storm

We are fast approaching a tipping point in terms of climate disruption, food production, financial meltdown, and Peak Oil.

To survive and thrive in turbulent times we will need to organize ourselves at the grassroots level to carry out a series of Organic Transitions - not only in terms of food and farming, but also in transportation, housing, health, and education.

While remaining engaged in pressing governments and businesses to green and revitalize the economy and stabilize the climate, OCA believes that we must "dig in" and prepare ourselves locally and regionally to become as "organic" and self-reliant as possible.

Sign the Garden Pledge!

In a major victory for organic and local food activists, First Lady Michelle Obama broke ground on the White House's first organic kitchen garden since the Roosevelt Administration.

According to the First Lady "I've been able to have my kids eat so many different things that they would have never touched if we had bought it at a store because they either met the farmers that grew it, or they saw how it was grown."

Are you ready to follow the First Lady's lead? Would you like resources and tips for growing or expanding your own victory garden?
Sign OCA's organic victory garden pledge!

Essays

• Organic Transitions: Beyond Economic Depression, Climate Change, & Peak Oil by Ronnie Cummins
• Open Letter to the President- Elect by Michael Pollan
• How to Build Your Financial Safety Net by Mike Adams

Resources

• Rodale Institute: Inspiring & informing farmers worldwide
• The Food and Farming Transition: Toward a Post-Carbon Food System
• Questions? Community Solutions' FAQ on peak oil
• Deconstructing Dinner
• OCA's Organic Transition Tips
• Co-op Grocer's Guide to Starting a Food Co-op
• Path to Freedom - How-to's for jumpstarting community, home gardens, sustainable energy & waste alternatives:
  DIY Projects
  Path to Freedom Forum
• Learn more about how you can help your child's school integrate healthier foods into the cafeteria by visiting OCA's Appetite for a Change Campaign
• The Greenhorns Guide for Beginning Farmers
• Community Food Security: Growing Healthy Farms, People and Communities
• The Permaculture Institute:
  What is Permaculture?
  The Flowering Tree Story (PDF)

Publishers

• Acres USA - A voice for eco-agriculture! Books on sustainable organic farming and eco-living.
• Chelsea Green - the politics and practice of sustainable living.
• New Society Publishers - books on ecology, social change and other areas of activism.

Join us!

Contact the OCA about organizing an Organic Transition committee in your community

• Send an Email
• 218-226-4164 or
  888-403-1007

Join Others!

• Join up with these organizations to develop strategy in your area:
• Transition
  United States
• Transition Culture
• Transition Social Networking (US)
• Post Carbon Institute
• Urban Tilth
• North American Food Policy Councils
• BALLE Chapters
• Code Pink Chapters
• 1Sky Chapters
• Local Co-ops and Natural Food Stores
• Sierra Club Chapters
• Local Community Supported Agriculture Groups

Take Action