"If I could, I'd delete my previous comment and replace it with a complete one.
What's missing was between brackets. The missing piece is:
"insert plausible peak oil scenario""
What's cool in the GTIA Portfolio...
- MIMIC THIS! When you get invited to events 3000 miles away (or 20 of them just across town), use COPY & PASTE with the really interesting events to seed your own community's plans for similar events. Why start from scratch.... Beg, borrow and mimic! More....
- Welcome recently added members. Check periodically to see if friends you have invited have joined.
- Find others members in your hometown, region, state, country. (E.g., Country=Austria or City, State = Vashon, WA)
- Produce a list of members who use keywords similar to your inerests when describing theirs (E.g.,Permaculture, intentional community).
- See LATEST ACTIVITY on GTIA for results of comprehensive scans of Transition activities around the globe.
- New links to Twitter via GTIA -- Twitter via #TransitionTowns. Twitter now displayed on GTIA Latest Activity.
- Experiment by clicking on TOP NEWS vs ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO SHARE in the center column -- two types of Latest Activity.
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David Eggleton commented on Larry Menkes's blog post 'Made two presentations on Transition Towns recently... Interesting experience... PA EAC's and USGBC chapters a help'David Eggleton commented on Larry Menkes's blog post 'Made two presentations on Transition Towns recently... Interesting experience... PA EAC's and USGBC chapters a help'""What do you say instead of peak oil?"
Instead of asking if they know what a word or phrase means, we can ask if they have plans for . It can be direct or indirect, as in "How will life be different when gasoline costs…"
Bill Eichman commented on Larry Menkes's blog post 'Made two presentations on Transition Towns recently... Interesting experience... PA EAC's and USGBC chapters a help'"Given the context, I assume GCC is an anagram of Global Climate Change, and PO is peak oil - is that correct?If that is correct - 90% had never heard of peak oil?What do you say instead of peak oil?"
Alison Headland commented on Larry Menkes's blog post 'Made two presentations on Transition Towns recently... Interesting experience... PA EAC's and USGBC chapters a help'"I've actually stopped using PO as a term when promoting talks/presentations on the subject. I did an informal survey at our local Farmer's Market one day, and 90% of those folks I asked had never even heard of the term, let alone had…"
Bill Eichman commented on Larry Menkes's blog post 'Made two presentations on Transition Towns recently... Interesting experience... PA EAC's and USGBC chapters a help'"What do you propose about conservation to these councils? What kinds of language and suggestions seem to get people's attention?"
"Keep up the good work! A friend in Delaware (Bear) is interested in Transistion Towns & community support groups. How can she find folks in her area?"
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- How are you currently involved in the Transition movement?
- I am a coordinator for a Post Carbon Relocalization chapter; the ECLA PA. I have been using the Transition Towns Handbook as an adjunct to Post Carbon Cities. I think that the merging of both groups is a positive step and will leverage both to greater capacity for effecting positive change.
- In what ways do you identify with the Transition movement? Why are you interested?
- I think that the Transition movement offers an outstanding bottom-up model for building community resilience and is an outstanding adjunct to Post Carbon Cities. The chapters on the psychology of climate change and on oil addiction alone, are worth the price of the book.
- How can you help the growth/acceptance/vitality of the Transition movement? What can YOU teach us? What can your GROUP teach us?
- I am working actively in my own community to build resilience. I am using the concept of fiscal responsibility as an entry point for discussion. This approach bypasses potential arguments about the validity of peak oil and global climate change. In my experience, by the time people eliminate the 50% to 75% of energy waste in the current system there will be enough data and events to overwhelm any opposition to sustainable living.
- Your Favorite Books/Websites/Blogs/RSS Feeds for Information about the Transition Movement
- Natural Capitalism
Peak Everything
Collapse
The Black Swan
The Great Turning
The Turning Point
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
Utopia or Oblivion
Post Carbon Cities
The Transition Towns Handbook
The Natural Step
The Paradigm Conspiracy
The Little Book on the Human Shadow
Small is Beautiful
Plan B 3.0 or greater
Exploring New Ethics for Survival
Filters Against Folly
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
The Paradigm Conspiracy
Cradle to Cradle
Biomimicry
Leadership and the New Science
A Failure of Nerve
Design Outlaws on the Ecological Frontier
The Death of Nature
Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings
Deep Economy
Green Politics
Meeting The Shadow
www.postcarbon.net
www.relocalize.net
www.rmi.org
www.aceee.org
www.usgbc.org
www.natcap.org
www.fritjofcapra.net
www.sacredlifeboats.com
www.ucsusa.org
www.earthcharterus.org
www.realclimate.org
www.nsidc.org
www.columbia.edu/~jeh1
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- http://www.relocalize.net/groups/earthcharterpa
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MEDITATION ON A BLACK SWAN
Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:00pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
I venture to say that few Americans have ever seen a Black Swan (Cygnus astratus) and more than a few might assert that, given their inexperience, there is no such thing.
With the publication of Nassim Taleb's classic book of the same name the metaphor has jumped into our common language. (www.fooledbyrandomness.com) As a metaphor its greatest contribution outside of economics may be to the environmental and…
Continue Fiver's blog: Pulling the "D" ring"
Posted on June 4, 2011 at 12:00am 0 Comments 0 Likes
A few days ago I went to Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia to experience the latest Delaware Valley Green Building Council's presentation on the latest green building standards. The presenter, Laura Blau, called it Apples to Apples and did a quick comparison of three of the best of the high-performance building standards now on the market. They were the USGBC's LEED standards[1] They were compared to Passive House[2], and the very stringent Living Building Challenge[3].
At…
Continue MEMORIAL DAY MEMORIES
Posted on May 31, 2011 at 1:00pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
There's nothing like taking a decent road trip over a holiday weekend, like Memorial Day, to catch up on some blogging. We went from Bucks County, PA, where gasoline was selling for $3.75 at one local station. We got a $3.79 fillup without going out of our way. That was quite a relief from the $4 plus prices we saw in the previous weeks. It reinforces my attention to energy and climate as key issues.
On the way home, we found gasoline for $3.49 in Waynesboro, Virginia. We had…
Continue BLESSINGS & CURSES
Posted on March 2, 2011 at 6:30pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
FIVER'S FIRST BLOG 3/2/11
It's both a blessing and a curse for the curious to come to know the future. When my Green friend Ed invited me to see the movie Split Estate I attended thinking it would deepen my understanding of peak oil. The blessing was that it did. The curse was that I wasn't expecting how that occurred.
My spiritual practice teaches me not to assume anything. I have found that tenet…
Continue Can a Pennsylvania Environmental Advisory Council be an effective hybrid Transition Town?
Posted on February 4, 2010 at 6:55pm 4 Comments 0 Likes
Comment Wall (7 comments)
- At 4:16pm on September 17, 2009,
Philip C. Wert said… - Hi Larry,
I met you last night in Bethlehem for Jim Kunstler's talk. I sent you a friend request here on Transition.
- At 11:59pm on August 26, 2009,
Jonathan Cloud said… - Hi Larry,
Look forward to continuing to dialogue around this. We have launched a Sustainable Leadership initiative (see http://SustainableLeadershipForum.org) that is designed to support those involved in sustainability on both a local and a regional basis, whatever they are working on. This is in keeping with Paul Hawken's vision in Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming. Please check it out. We support folks in permaculture and the transition movement as they emerge, along with people working on electric vehicles, renewable energy systems, green business, etc., and have some unique tools and approaches, which we are interested in sharing with others. Let me know if you are interested in having us doing something in your area. Thanks.
- At 5:58am on August 19, 2009, Jonathan Cloud said…
- No, went to the one in March, and have been in touch with many colleagues since then. The consensus (at least at this time) seems to be that the "Transition movement" is not the right model for NJ at this point; there is already a strong Sustainable Jersey coordinated initiative (with close to 250 towns signed up), and a need for a lot more basic education in permaculture, slow food, etc. I am still open to the possibility of supporting a real Transition NJ initiative - we registered TransitionNJ.org for this purpose, amongst other things - through my work as the head of the Sustainable Business Incubator at FDU. But I have not seen genuine signs that this is ready to take off, at least not yet; and I believe others, e.g., in NY, have had similar experiences.
- At 7:34am on May 7, 2009,
Bill Sharp said… - Larry,
I agree, it is a good time to be alive and what I see of the Transition movement is one of the most hopeful signs of a coordinated response to times that are both challenging and ripe with potential.
Bill
- At 7:02am on May 5, 2009, Bill Sharp said…
- Larry,
Don't know if you remember but you contacted me some time ago when we were Relocalization. Happy Birthday.
Since Transition I have been promoting an initiative in Centre County and yesterday named the group, to which I hope to attract some members over the next few days.
Bill
- At 7:18pm on March 31, 2009,
Larry said… - Clean Energy for Green Jobs!
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- At 11:10am on February 1, 2009,
Mike Morin said… - Larry,
Maybe you could transition your town to PeaceMinister!
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