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Permalink Reply by PlanetShifterMan on June 1, 2010 at 12:28pm

Hi Les - We're please to announce our new partnership with CoolTribe.com as we build a global community engine for emerging sustainability markets, esp. China. Ask me for details and look for the press release on PlanetShifter.com....

We are Global Transition in Action! ;-)

Cordially,

Willi Paul, PlanetShifter.com Magazine & Networks
Client Relations and Sustainability Consultant
415-407-4688 | willipaul1@gmail.com
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Permalink Reply by Les Squires on June 1, 2010 at 12:39pm

Super! What an exciting time!

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Permalink Reply by Tina Clarke on June 13, 2010 at 7:27pm

Hi, Les - It's great to see your enthusiasm, but could I make two requests?

1) The Transition Network has created a web site for the Transition movement to share projects, ideas and models -- for everyone to share globally. Instead of duplicating that work, why not encourage people to go to www.transitionnetwork.org to share their local ideas and models?

2) Could you call your social network something other than Transition U.S. Social Network? It's been very confusing to people who don't realize that you're an individual giving your energy to create a Ning site, but that there is a whole separate, officially-connected, Transition U.S. organization that is the U.S. collaboration of Transition Initiatives/Towns in the U.S. www.transitionus.org. Perhaps you could call your Ning site something like "The Squire's Social Network in Support of the Transition Movement". ;- ) Well, that sort of has a British ring to it, now doesn't it?!

Thanks for all your devotion to the cause!
Tina Clarke

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Permalink Reply by Charley Quinton on June 14, 2010 at 10:22am

Greetings from Paducah, Kentucky USA and from the Paducah Chapter of Transition Kentucky - a growing part of the resilient and well-organized Transition United States network at Ning.com.

Thanks Les and multiple kudos for the fine work you've done ...and the great advise, encouragement, inspiration, ...
Thanks Tina for helping me get my group's initiative page on the board at TransitionNetwork.org ...awesome!

Tina, could you look into why the only choices for Geographic region in the drop-down list are:

United Kingdom

I should be able to see United States >> Kentucky >> Jackson Purchase in order to place Paducah properly within its geographic context. (I guess I'll let ya'll slide on this minor kink. ;)

 Perhaps this forum can become a main sounding board for US-UK liaisons and regional organization and support for the amazingly complex matrix of geopolitical entity relationships we all have to deal with.

Talk to me!

Cheers,
Charley Quinton (yeoman)
Transition Paducah Kentucky USA

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Permalink Reply by mary rose on June 17, 2010 at 6:17pm

For about 12 years, i have facilitated what is called a "Co-learner's List" for a group of people as we share information and discuss it if anyone has comments. Since the "food link" is so very important in keeping all fed, i thought i would share a post i wrote and disseminated this morning for the benefit all those subscribed here. The title "Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS" captions this post as it is one i will be incorporating into a new program by this name which will underlie the Future Dawning Virtual Learning Center and Think Tank website. This mission for this venture at www.futuredawning.org is to bring together one million of the most creative minds we can find worldwide to address the unprecedented in past recorded history challenges the human family faces today. If you feel you belong to this group, please sign up at the Future Dawning Admin Center site. This center still remains as a Ning website; however i have moved the Portals and Pathways that make up the rest of this virtual learning center campus to the Transition US Social Network.

Another focus of Future Dawning Enterprises, which is directed more toward "evolving human consciousness," is to unite the larger movements, e.g., sustainable living movement, women's movement, indigenous people's movement, and human consciousness/spiritual movement together so that we are speaking with one voice and moving into a higher level of awareness with regard to how our world works, particularly at the quantum level. Since the TransitionUS group is seen as a "movement" we also wanted to become a greater part of it. And what Les has set up here has allowed us to accomplish this gracefully and gratefully. May we do good things together.

Moving Into: TOTAL WELLNESS

Plan B 4.0 by Lester R. Brown

Lester R. Brown is the president of the Earth Policy Institute, a research
organization based in Washington, D.C. Brown has been honored with numerous
prizes, including MacArthur Fellowship, the United Nations Environment
Prize, and Japan's Blue Planet Prize.

This book may be downloaded without charge from the Earth Policy Institute
website: www.earthpolicy.org

This book while bringing out several different important points that must be
addressed, e.g., deforestation, soil erosion, falling water tables, and
rising temperatures, brings to the forefront that food is the weak link just
as it has been in many prior civilizations. Brown writes that we have now
entered a new food era, "one that is marked by higher prices, rapidly
growing numbers of hungry people, and an intensifying competition for land
and water resources that has now crossed national boundaries as
food-importing countries try to buy or lease vast tracts of land in other
countries". . . . "and suddenly food security has become a very complex
issue."

Brown also points out that "Energy security may affect future food security
more than agricultural policy," and that "Eradicating hunger may depend more
on the success of family planners than that of farmers." And, "raising water
productivity may contribute more to future food security than expanding the
irrigation water supply would."

He as well makes the point that the question is "not what we need to do,"
because that seems rather clear, but the challenge is "how to do it in the
time available." And while we do not know that exactly how much time we
have, all we need to do is to take a good look at what is happening in
nature as the sixth greatest extinction in world history takes place, to
realize what is happening is happening on a scale and in a timeframe
unprecedented in recent recorded history.

We must act now

Shovel It - Nature's Health Plan by Eva Shaw

We have discussed this book several times, and it makes gardening most
appealing when one considers the benefits derived from this endeavor. Not
only is it physically good for you, when the benefits as a stress reliever
are considered, it is even more appealing. Then, of course if it is
providing you with nutrition in a time of need, it may also be considered a
"life saver" - what more can one ask. Gardening really can be considered a
"fitness program" when all of the benefits including exercise are
considered.

I like this book more than Brown's because it brings the subject of how to
obtain our food supply down to a personal level and gets us away from the
visual view of large tracts of land being used to mono-crop fields of grain
used mainly to feed beef cattle. Gardening in pots in terraced gardens with
hanging baskets of food coupled with raised planter beds below are not only
attractive and lend ambiance to an area, but research shows the growth
factor can be dramatically increased while at the same time reducing water
use. And, this type of gardening virtually does away with soil erosion.

As we learned a few days ago, the U.N. is now recommending that we move into
veganism, and raising our own food makes sense from the point of view that
no energy is involved in transporting our food from point of production to
point of use. Raw food eating can be quite delicious while also
eliminating the need to use energy in food preparation. And nothing tastes
better than fresh food right out of the garden or off the tree.

I have also suggested that a really healthy way to live is to grow only the
most nutritious foods one can find and do this in the smallest area possible
outside of one's kitchen door. And in thinking about this, the question
again arises as to whether we are "eating to live" or "living to eat."

When talking about healthy food, we might also want to consider pH balance
as a factor because it is difficult for disease to live in a ph balanced
body. Foods have both alkaline and acidic content and the healthiest way to
eat is to balance these two factors. There are several sources for lists on
the Internet that provide information on the acid/alkaline content of foods
--- Google for them.

Research studies show that eating in a healthful manner can virtually
eliminate disease.

In her book, Shovel It, Eva Shaw also mentions Tai Chi as a way of managing
the body's energy system most effectively so that the immune system is
greatly enhanced. This form of exercise is recommended by many other
sources as well which also extend the recommendation to Qigong and Yoga.
Since the Chinese have been investigating and refining this type of energy
management from both an emotional and a physical point of view, for at least
three thousand years, then why are we trying to reinvent the wheel?

If the body/mind field is in balance and all systems are coherent, research
studies show that we are much more capable of making intelligent and
informed decisions.

Think about it, and consider how you want to live.

Your Logo, Inc.

FutureDawning.org



Mary Rose, www.futuredawning.org
CEO and Founder - Agent for social transformation

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Permalink Reply by Les Squires on October 11, 2010 at 10:23am

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