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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.
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New links to Twitter via GTIA -- Twitter via #TransitionTowns. Twitter now displayed on GTIA Latest Activity.
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July 2009 Blog Posts (29)

PlanetShifter.com = tenacious list of green thought leader and artist interviews

Greetings from Lake Merritt:

PlanetShifter.com is building a tenacious list of green thought leader and artist interviews through our Event Circle.

Check out the messages from:

+ Daily Acts / Green Sangha's Trathen Heckman

+ Christopher Alexander course instructor's Demetrius Gonzalez and Scott

Hunter

+ Jane Partners Principle Neal M. Dikeman

+ Oriana Sarac and Kaytea Petro from Neighborhood Fruit

And many… Continue

Added by PlanetShifterMan on July 31, 2009 at 5:26pm — No Comments

ARE GMO SUGAR BEETS IN BOULDER COUNTY PART OF THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO?

by Michael Brownlee,

Transition Colorado

(from EnergyBulletin)

It’s quite a spectacle to behold. Here in Boulder County—Colorado home of the nation’s first carbon tax and the first city to offer property-based financing for solar installations and energy retrofits—we’re watching our County Commissioners wrestle with a proposal from six local farmers seeking official approval to grow Roundup-Ready GMO sugar… Continue

Added by Michael Brownlee on July 29, 2009 at 2:54pm — No Comments

REAL PEOPLE, REAL PREPARATION, Part Three: Working Class Wealth

To access all links in this story, please visit the SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER website.

We started out just bringing muffins or extra eggs to neighbors. This has mushroomed into so much back and forth bartering, gifting and trading that it is just mind-boggling! It seems the closer we get to collapse, the more food, supplies, tools, and tips are shared. The more we give… Continue

Added by Carolyn Baker on July 27, 2009 at 7:20am — No Comments

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CHANGE: CULTIVATING RESILIENCE AT THE POINT OF NO RETURN, By Carolyn Baker

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.

I learn by going where I have to go.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?

I hear my being dance from ear to ear.

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Of those so close beside me, which are you?

God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,

And learn by going where I have to go.

Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?

The lowly… Continue

Added by Carolyn Baker on July 26, 2009 at 11:13am — No Comments

Transition Town - Brasil

http://www.cris.org.br/Transition_Towns.html

Added by MarCelo Todescan on July 25, 2009 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Green Mountain Eco Fest

Dear friends, I'm helping organize the Green Mountain Eco-Fest. We are sending everything to be printed next week and I thought this might be something you would be interested in sponsoring. Please take the time to review the site and contact me with any questions.

We are currently organizing the Green Mountain Eco Fest at Mountain Creek River Resort. We are located near Lake of the Ozarks on the Big Niangua River (Southern MO). We have a beautiful outdoor… Continue

Added by Aubree Taylor Transition Springfield'09 on July 24, 2009 at 1:26pm — No Comments

REAL PEOPLE, REAL PREPARATION, Part Two, From Speaking Truth to Power Website

Not all people preparing for collapse by relocating, choose to do so in the U.S. Some, like Dr. John and Nancy Andre, have relocated in other countries. The Andres have retired in Chile and spend a great deal of time working on their organic farm

John practiced at the cutting edge of Chiropractic and Naturopathy for 35 years. Nancy was a state of the art DDS with a focus on toxin free dental care. In their clinic in Kansas City they shared… Continue

Added by Carolyn Baker on July 21, 2009 at 3:02pm — No Comments

RECESSION LESSON: SWAP AND SHARE REPLACES GRAB AND BUY, By Nancy Trejos, Washington Post, July 17, 2009

The recession is reminding Americans of a lesson they first learned in childhood: Share and share alike. They are sharing or swapping tools and books, cars and handbags, time and talent.

The renewed desire to share shows up in a variety of statistics: A car-sharing service has had a 70 percent membership increase since the recession set in. Governments are putting bikes on the street for public use. How-to-swap Web sites are proliferating.

"I think what happens in a… Continue

Added by Carolyn Baker on July 20, 2009 at 4:36pm — No Comments

Not-so-distant waste

About an ongoing 'garbage' strike in Toronto, Ontario, Canada -

http://tobanblack.net/blog/?p=1390

Added by Toban Black on July 20, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

HR2749, the "Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009"

This info came yesterday. This gest really old..... Don't wait. Call your reps, tell them this kind of intrusion must stop. The United states is not a net importer of food, products and , btw, we export our debt. Sound secure to you?

Call your politicos and tell them to Vote no on HR2749. Remind them that you will be watching.

ruell chappell

Hello All!

HR2749, the "Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009"

has passed out of committee and is now on the… Continue

Added by Ruell Chappell on July 20, 2009 at 9:20am — No Comments

Living with the Land: Florida's First Earthship

http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/07/20/earthship-florida/

Check it out!
Peace and Love,
Eric Stewart

Added by Eric on July 20, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

Street scenes

Here in London, Ontario, Canada -

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Added by Toban Black on July 17, 2009 at 10:37am — No Comments

A garbage can

Waste --

with a message about economic expansion -

I have typed more about those photo on the Flickr… Continue

Added by Toban Black on July 16, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

Post-Carbon London photos

For months, I have been working on a photo project for our Post-Carbon group. Here's a post about that project -

http://www.relocalize.net/post_carbon_photos

Here are a few miniature samples of photos in our collections -

Like various others in one of our two photo collections, those… Continue

Added by Toban Black on July 15, 2009 at 1:32pm — No Comments

COLLAPSE STAGE ONE: MY RESPONSE TO A GUARDIAN REPORTER'S SCREAMS OF DESPAIR

[Here is my full response to Guardian reporter, Charlie Brooker's July 13 op ed piece "The Very Fabric of Society Is Breaking Down Around Us.--CB]

Hallelujah! One British reporter is waking up and smelling the coffee. That would be Charlie Brooker in his July 13 Guardian piece "The Very Fabric of Society Is Breaking Down Around Us. What The Hell Is There Left to Believe In"? This man, sounding as if his hair were on fire, rants:

It's all gone wrong. Our belief in… Continue

Added by Carolyn Baker on July 14, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Wanted: Fully Present and Productive Owners

The following is copied and pasted from my blog at woburnite.com

Because the name of my business is Applied Ecologics, I frequently startle people and activate their curiosity by simply stating it. From my angle, it's apparent they've heard something they were not expecting to hear. I see they sense it's something well-meaning, and likely beneficial, but that they cannot readily grasp. I try to help them understand, with… Continue

Added by David Eggleton on July 14, 2009 at 12:52pm — No Comments

Watch This! Not a Video, a Company

If you didn't read today's Boston Globe, catch up: http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2009/07/13/the_greening_of_gasoline/

Added by David Eggleton on July 13, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Build Rainbarrels for under $50 each

I built some rainbarrels and wrote a how-to article about it. Click here to see how I did it.

Added by William Wilson on July 13, 2009 at 9:09am — No Comments

REAL PEOPLE, REAL PREPARATION, From Speaking Truth to Power Website

[In the next few months, Truth to Power will be featuring interviews with individuals who are consciously transitioning to a post-carbon lifestyle. In spite of the volumes being written about preparation for collapse, we rarely have the opportunity to hear real people discuss at length the process they have gone through and continue to navigate in their unique journeys through the Long Emergency. Some articles in the series will be published free in… Continue

Added by Carolyn Baker on July 13, 2009 at 8:25am — No Comments