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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....
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August 2009 Blog Posts (30)

5 Questions for Inna Leavitt @ The reMake Lounge, SF By Willi Paul

5 Questions for Inna Leavitt @ The reMake Lounge, SF

By Willi Paul

http://www.planetshifter.com/node/1292

Re-Making the Community Green

The reMake Lounge

Art || Environment || Community

A DIY collective for creative reuse

"Our mission is to inspire the maker spirit, foster community, and keep materials out of the landfill.

We do this by offering an accessible… Continue

Added by PlanetShifterMan on August 31, 2009 at 9:12am — No Comments

Neighborhood Supported Agriculture

Hello

I am in the early stages of starting up a 'Neighborhood Supported Agriculture' (NSA) approach to urban farming.

This NSA approach follows the approach of Kipp Nash's Community Roots NSA in South Boulder CO…

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Added by David E Greenwald on August 25, 2009 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

Reminder: International Kitchen Gardeners event today...news of Broadwell Hill activities.

Broadwell Hill is joining other gardeners around the world in celebration and connection within the International Kitchen Garden event; a vital part of our food security efforts.

There is a great networking site for Kitchen Gardens International - promoting the… Continue

Added by Kathy Jacobson on August 23, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

Domestic Terrorism - Banking and Health Insurance

I feel like I've been taken hostage by the new terrorists: the banking industry and health insurers. Normal, hard working people are being terrorized out of their wits, their homes and their health. Lowering credit limits and raising interests rates to 25 or 30 percent is common now. Health insurers routinely rescind coverage just when a person really needs it. That is to say, when they begin to cost money. Unconscionable Math is an excellent analysis… Continue

Added by Terry Edlin on August 21, 2009 at 8:22pm — No Comments

Health Care Reform and Cooperatives

The Republican Right rarely bestows gifts. They were invited to the table but, resisting any proposal so far, it looks like the Obama administration may just blaze a new trail. Let's hope so. Their staunch refusal of the public option to reform health care gave way to consideration of cooperatives as a potential solution.

The University of Wisconsin's Center for Cooperatives' Research… Continue

Added by Terry Edlin on August 20, 2009 at 7:27pm — No Comments

Emerging Infectious Diseases and Global Health

Excellent presentation!

I hope we're also taking this into account as we strengthen local community resiliency.

Video also posted on Transition United States.

Emerging Infectious Diseases and Global Health

First Aired: 6/8/2009

59 minutes

Stanford Professor Lucy Shapiro is renowned for her contributions to the

fields of… Continue

Added by Kathy Jacobson on August 19, 2009 at 10:39am — No Comments

Mckibben, Colbert, and the launch of 349.org

You can also view this funny video right here on Transition United States.

Check out the map to see where your nearest International Day of Climate Action Event is going to be held on October 24th.

For info on hosting an event go to Create October 24 Action page for… Continue

Added by Kathy Jacobson on August 19, 2009 at 10:20am — No Comments

Check out my Tweets

I've set up a Twitter account for my company: Community Conscious Media. However, on twitter it is abbreviated to ComConMedia.

I tweeted about Transitions United States site the other day. I generally tweet about all things community and all things web for community.

Added by Tom Sherlock on August 18, 2009 at 1:34pm — No Comments

A Nation of Trapeze Artists

"When you are going through hell, keep going" advised Winston Churchill. Running a small business requires the courage and timing of a trapeze artist to keep all the gears synchronously shifting. In the frenzy before the collapse, we thought that major banks and corporations were too big to fail, the Titanic too big to sink. As the smoke of the economic collapse clears, we are reminded again that only death and taxes remain certain.

This… Continue

Added by Terry Edlin on August 17, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Will barter faires become the new green Wal-mart or E-Bay?

Will barter faires become the new green Wal-mart or E-Bay?

“Bartering is a medium in which goods or services are directly exchanged for other goods and/or services without a common unit of exchange (without the use of money). It can be bilateral or multilateral, and usually exists parallel to monetary systems in most developed countries, though to a very limited extent. Barter usually replaces money as the method of exchange in times of monetary crisis, when the currency is unstable… Continue

Added by PlanetShifterMan on August 17, 2009 at 2:37pm — No Comments

Request for guidance to a Transition Powerpoint library and/or an invite to post your powerpoints...

Hi Folks...

I ran some searches and was surprised that I couldn't find one place with a selection of powerpoints to view, use in presentations or use as guides to create custom-designed powerpoints for HAM radio groups, EMA (Emergency Management, Rotary and other community groups.

Is there a centralized location for a library of presentation materials?

In the meantime, I have started a discussion on the Transition… Continue

Added by Kathy Jacobson on August 17, 2009 at 1:13pm — No Comments

Blackout block party

A few days ago in Toronto, Ontario,

people got together to celebrate the 2003 blackout -

- http://www.ibiketo.ca/blog/2009/08/16/block-party-portugal-square

-… Continue

Added by Toban Black on August 17, 2009 at 1:13pm — No Comments

Community garden walking tour photos -

Here are some photos that were taken during an event here in London, Ontario -

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tobanblack/sets/72157622033231084/

There also are copies of those photos on the Facebook event posting… Continue

Added by Toban Black on August 17, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Made two presentations on Transition Towns recently... Interesting experience... PA EAC's and USGBC chapters a help

I have been doing two monthly sustainability video-discussion events for almost a 18 months. As usual, I didn't think to post the most recent events here, even they were on the Transition movement. I don't think I've ever had a response from this website. I was surprised by a nice turnout for both the Doylestown and the Warminster, PA events. Sold (at cost) several copies of the Trans Initiatives Primer. I missed out getting mailing list at both, but can recover most. I knew about half of the… Continue

Added by Larry Menkes on August 16, 2009 at 9:35pm — 7 Comments

Why I Believe in Transition

The Transition movement started as a response to the twin threats of global climate change and peak oil. The age of cheap energy is coming to an end. Managing this change is an unprecedented challenge on a global scale.

Transition Towns provide a grassroots model for meeting this challenge.

Transition…

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Added by William Wilson on August 16, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Get an Online Gallery and a Review in SF's PlanetShifter.com

Get an Online Gallery and a Review in SF's PlanetShifter.com

Please check out PlanetShifter.com, an online artist, writer, music and innovation community based in the Bay Area. We are building a sustainable future.

You can sign-up and become a member at no cost and create a free create six post gallery of your work. For example of our work… Continue

Added by PlanetShifterMan on August 16, 2009 at 5:57pm — No Comments

Interview with Favorpal.com's Founders Amir Razmara and Zeo Solomon by Willi Paul

Interview with Favorpal.com's Founders Amir Razmara and Zeo Solomon by Willi Paul.

http://www.planetshifter.com/node/1262

Have you signed-up yet?

http://www.favorpals.com/favorpals/jsp/index.jsp

Amir’s Responses = (A)

Zeo’s Responses = (Z)

Zeo and Amir Same = (A+Z)

Tell us how favors translate into a vibrant online community?

(A) It does by bringing people together to help each other and give meaning to the global village. The… Continue

Added by PlanetShifterMan on August 14, 2009 at 10:16am — No Comments

International Kitchen Garden Day and Transition Ohio efforts

Kitchen Garden Day, August 23, 2009 in conjunction with National Community Gardening Week.

Kitchen Gardeners Unite! Kitchen Garden Day in the Media…

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Added by Kathy Jacobson on August 12, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

TEDxAsheville Aug 30, 2009, featuring many transition-friendly speakers

On the night of August 30, The Orange Peel is hosting a TEDxAsheville event. (TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-conference-like experience.) Our speakers are local to Asheville and most are speaking on incredibly transition-oriented topics such as global climate change, sustainable burials, and so on.

The event will be free, first-come/first-seated, and will also feature several local performers, non-profit tables and some… Continue

Added by Soni Pitts on August 11, 2009 at 5:09pm — No Comments

Handle Like-mindedness With Care

The like-mindedness we need most, that will encourage and build enduring relationships among people who haven't gotten together before, is along the lines of "OMG, all our eggs are in one basket!" That's overlooked, not uncertain or controversial. The like-mindedness associated with positions in controversies, at first energizing (I'm not alone and maybe we're becoming the majority!), easily becomes a trap, a kind of dead end. Or it doesn't serve when the going gets rough.

As… Continue

Added by David Eggleton on August 11, 2009 at 7:30am — 2 Comments