Hi Cleve! I have connections to the land & peoples of Lopez Island!
Great to see you're on the Cascadia Transition site, and youre considering starting an Initiative on Lopez. Two of my favorite folks on Lopez are Ona & Neil. (at the 'dump-mall' and the garden...please tell them Hi and share a hug from their traveling gardening friend.

It was supposed to be: Transition Cascadia

Cleve: I am from Guemes Island. You know, near you somewhere. We are trying to
research Co-housing in Skagit County. It is in the comp plan.\. but no one seems
to know what it is. I know that the Lopez Land Trust is doing a lot. There is an
effort on Orcas called Sustainable Orcas that the head librarian is heading up.

We just got some wheat seed to test from him and I think O.J. probably packed
sorted the seed. I started http://transitionus.ning.com/group/transitioncascadia" target="_blank">Transition Cascadia

i AM WONDERING IF WE COULD ALL WORK TOGETHER I am having trouble with the Ning software, sorry, I can't se what I am writing.

Even though Guiemes is not in San Jaun County, we are in the San Juan Island.. If you know Dave Gugich who was the purser opn the internation ferry, he is one of my best friends. Excuse all the typos. We have a little non-profit here on the island called Madrona Center:http://madronacenter.org and I sure can't make that link hot. My best. Lane Parks

Dear Clive -

Sorry I didn't respond to your sweet note earlier. It looks like they've removed the "Cohousing and Transition" break-out session from the cohousing conference's schedule. But they do have TWO sessions on Saturday, both at 4:30, that sound similar: Suburban Permaculture, Neighborhoods and Cohousing and Journey Toward Creating a Regenerative Life Together.

I hope you get to go and carry the Transition message! Thanks for all your caring work.

Judith

A man of action....

Welcome Clive Great to see you here on the social networks for Transition U.S. and Transition Washington State. You highlighted in your profile "... "Mulling" starting an initiative on Lopez Island..." -- Super! Great place to start! I'd encourage you to join the Newcomers group below and put your questions about these topics to David and the other members of that group. In addition, you may want to declare Lopez Island a Group, thereby making it visible to our whole membership.

Some Links Members Have Found Helpful

• Send me your Skype ID so we can spend a few minutes talking about what you’d like to do here. My ID is LSquiresSkype. I’ll give you a brief Skype “phone call”.
• Join our Newcomers Group -- if you want to hang out with others who are in the early stages of mulling things over.
• Read how highly we regard contributions of individuals and groups
• Edit your profile -- Forgot something really important? Like a photo…
• Declare yourself -- What do you personally bring to the potluck? Give it a title and say much more than you included in your Profile. Lay out your offer in detail. Or, tell us what you’d really like to learn! Others will join in.
• Profile your group -- Make your constituents visible. Find some creative ways to offer their special values to mentor all Transitioners.
• Reinforce, reinforce, reinforce -- Connect the dots -- friends to friends, newcomers to oldcomers, groups to groups, groups to members, skills to skills, special interests to special interests. This is your garden. Cultivate for the harvest.
• Next steps TransitionUS -- Set up local Transition initiatives as official Transition communities; sign up for training; build your community resilience.

Have fun!