Adaptation Conference – an open invitation to Transition Communities Worldwide
A Transition Initiative has formed in the Redwood Capital of Northern California.
What Caine's Arcade Can Teach Us: The Potential of Collaboration with Young People to Advance Transition
While I was analyzing responses to the survey I conducted last month (March 2012) on youth participation in Transition initiatives, I came across an intriguing story that illustrates both the challenge and the opportunity that young people present to us in the Transition movement.
How Transition Initiatives Engage with Young People: Detailed Survey Results
This document provides numerical results of responses to the questions in the survey conducted between March 26 and April 11, 2012. Nearly all of the 114 official Transition initiatives in the U.S.
Has anyone tried Tabella at Clear Creek Winery in Kemah...behind T Bone Tom's? T...
Spring-infused Hope and taking the Transition Challenge
Good day Transitioners. Here in Northern California, spring's verdant emergence is upon us. The fruit tree blossoms are popping, the chickens are laying and after recent rains, the soil is moist and the rain tanks are full. I love this season. Spring is imbued with a vitality that infuses one with hope. The kind of hope that comes from lived in visions, ones with our heads, hearts and hands aligned in meaningful action.
What your group can do
Here are 7 things your group can do to further positive change.
Here is a link to a two-sided handout version (pdf) that I created in anticipation of a speaking engagement. It was written for church communities and other organizations which are interested in participating in the Transition process.
If you would like to edit the handout for use in your local area (for instance if you want to substitute your local climate change impacts for L.A. ones), email me and I will send you the raw Word doc (MS Word 2010)
Info anyone can use at Easter time!
How to peel a farm-fresh egg - FARMcurious
www.farmcurious.com
[caption id=attachment_3588 align=alignleft width=300 caption=Farm-fresh eggs][/caption] Have you ever tried to peel a super-fresh egg straight from the backyard or ...
March Round-up of What's Happening out in the World of Transition - US Edition
Building on the monthly "Roundup of What's Happening in the World of Transiton" pulled together over at Transition Culture, here are some highlights of what's keeping Transition Initiatives busy across the US...
In Transition 2.0 movie launches!
There’s a buzz building around the new In Transition 2.0 movie! With the North American version (NTSC for US & CAN DVD players) in production now, we wanted to highlight the enthusiastic responses this movie is getting! The NTSC version is available through Transition US, and you can pre-order your copy now. You'll receive your order as soon as they're ready!
7 Minutes for a Resilient Generation
Evan Frisch, father and fellow Transitioner, contacted us about a survey he designed for Transition Initiative organizers to identify their aspirations, challenges, and experiences regarding teens and Transition. We were so excited about this project that we want to ask TI organizers to help Evan by checking out the survey and contributing their experiences and perspective.
HeartBeats: What does "The Revolution is Love" really mean?
Perhaps many of you have seen the viral video of Charles Eisenstein called "the Revolution is Love". If you haven't, take a look here.
A review of Local Dollars, Local Sense
I hastened to buy Local Dollars, Local Sense by Michael Shuman, because I was attracted to the title and had high hopes for the emphasis on localization. Shuman's book represents a small step in a needed direction, but I was yearning for much deeper.
The cover claims that it is "a Community Resilience Guide" -- I don't think so: not at face value, not without plenty of caveats and sidebar explanations to adapt Shuman's recommendations to a dramatically changing economic picture. Certainly, Go Local. But do so ready to adjust to the radically different landscape we now face. This new era of economic contraction alters many long-held presumptions.
Debt and the Transition Economy
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --George Santayana
The virtual credit world we currently live in isn't an original creation. Mankind has done this before, says anthropologist David Graeber, author of Debt, the First 5,000 Years. Credit "is the original form of money. In ancient Mesopotamia they were doing most things by credit. Coinage was only invented 2,000 years after the first accounts we have."(1)
Throughout recorded history, Graeber tells us, we have alternated between a credit-based economy and a world where coins or some kind of metal or material object was used in everyday transactions. But today, as we wrestle with the consequences of one burst credit bubble and await the bursting of another(2), there are some significant lessons to be learned from how credit was done in the past.
Thanks for the wonderful gathering tonight everyone! I think we have some great...
The UHCL Sustainability Club is screening Tapped on the 2nd! See you there!
TAPPED! Movie Screening
Friday, March 2 at 6:00pm
Check out the Bay Area Unitarian Universalist Church's community garden page! Gi...
BAUUC Community Garden
The BAUUC Community Garden serves the Clear Lake City suburb of Houston, Texas.
OSW Water Harvesting Presentation
New Blog! Heartbeats: On the Frontlines of Change
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