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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.
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.

September 2011 Blog Posts (28)

Mimic This! Colorado Transition Network -- EVERY Community is a Street.

Wall St. to Main St. Workshop

Michael Moss invited you · …

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Added by Les Squires on September 30, 2011 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Mimic This! COP 17 -- a United Nations conference on climate change

24 Hours of Reality taught many important lessons. One of them is this: If you care about the climate crisis, you're not alone.

The live…

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Added by Les Squires on September 30, 2011 at 12:48am — No Comments

Mimic This! Within Reach Movie -- Fall in love with this country again!

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Added by Les Squires on September 29, 2011 at 7:30pm — No Comments

soil food web song: Interview with Antonio Roman-Alcala, sf urban ag alliance. By Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com

soil food web song: Interview with Antonio Roman-Alcala, sf urban ag alliance.

By Willi Paul, Publisher, Planetshifter.com Magazine

http://planetshifter.com/node/1941

I believe Alemany is more of an education strategy than a localization strategy.

It will continue to educate and inspire, like so many other projects, in order

to build a base of… Continue

Added by PlanetShifterMan on September 29, 2011 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Nectar: Interview #2 with Permaculturist Kevin Bayuk. By Willi Paul, Publisher, PlanetShifter.com

Nectar: Interview #2 with Permaculturist Kevin Bayuk. By Willi Paul, Publisher, PlanetShifter.com Magazine

excerpt:

"It is my observation that some of the permaculture teachers and leaders

who have been designing and teaching for two decades or more seem to

communicate in a way that is less than optimally collaborative.

I'm not sure that I have any suggestions on how any perceived

schism might be repaired,...."…

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Added by PlanetShifterMan on September 26, 2011 at 11:15am — No Comments

German Ary Report - Peak Oil Crisis by Tom Whipple, 22nd Sept 2011

German Army Report - Peak Oil Crisis - by Tom Whipple.

Published by Falls Church News-Press.

http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-09-22/peak-oil-crisis-german-army-report

In the last five or six years at least 20 major studies have been published by governmental and non-governmental organizations that either deal with or touch upon the possibility of severe energy… Continue

Added by Helen Elizabeth Dew on September 25, 2011 at 7:16pm — No Comments

Mimic This! Community Land Trust NZ -- Answer to the Banks?

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Added by Les Squires on September 24, 2011 at 12:33am — No Comments

Mimic This! Peak Moment TV -- Keep Prosperity LOCAL!

Local Investing Made Easy

Added by Janaia Donaldson on September 22, 2011 at 9:30amSend Message View Videos

Peak Moment 201: We're "keeping money flowing locally so…

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Added by Les Squires on September 23, 2011 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Permaculture Age Symbols 3: Colors, Archetypes & New Myths. Willi Paul, openmythsource.com

Permaculture Age Symbols 3: Colors, Archetypes & New Myths. Willi Paul, openmythsource.com

http://planetshifter.com/node/1939

Transitions of the magnitude that we are visioning together now will not happen without

new tools, values and myths. Consider the following 12 colors and what we can build with

them - with our parents and children in the Permaculture Age.…

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Added by PlanetShifterMan on September 23, 2011 at 11:18am — No Comments

New Myth 13: BioChar & Shovel, Permaculture Union Local 473, 2023 AD. Audio on YouTube.

New Myth 13: BioChar & Shovel, Permaculture Union Local 473, 2023 AD.

Audio on YouTube. By Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Magazine

http://planetshifter.com/node/1938

The bad smiles from the seed bankers always please. Dowsers and crushed

pavement fairies are here tonight, voting on a benefits package from the

permie princesses, farmers and… Continue

Added by PlanetShifterMan on September 21, 2011 at 9:54pm — No Comments

Mimic This! New York Times -- The Health Payoffs of Time Banks

September 20, 2011, 8:30 PM

The Health Payoffs of Time Banks…

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Added by Les Squires on September 21, 2011 at 12:41pm — No Comments

Towards an alliance of the Transition and Commons movements

If transitioners and commoners are members of two sister movements, I'd say, the Commons movement is the younger sister. Although the commons is as old as humankind itself, as a self-aware social movement is only a toddler.

The "commons" has many descriptions. Here are three of my favorites:

“The commons is the social and political space where things get done and where people have a sense of belonging and have an element of control over their lives, providing sustenance,… Continue

Added by George Por on September 21, 2011 at 5:30am — 7 Comments

Joanna Macy, Funny-Money & the Perils and Persistence of Business As Usual

The weekend of September 17th, world teacher, Buddhist philosopher, deep ecologist, activist and best-selling author Joanna Macy was in Chapel Hill. She gave several well-attended talks on the Great Turning and led work-shops in the Work That Reconnects, a self-, community-, and Earth-healing process laid out in her book (co-authored with Molly Young Brown) "Coming Back to Life." The workshop, which she has offered in days-long and day-long formats all over the world, opens people’s heart-minds… Continue

Added by Ellen LaConte on September 20, 2011 at 7:43am — No Comments

AQUAPONICS PERMACULTURE INTENSIVE IN ECO PARADISE

AQUAPONICS PERMACULTURE INTENSIVE IN ECO PARADISE

DECEMBER 4-14 2011

HOSTED BY LIVING MANDALA

In Association With

Nor Cal Aquaponics

Finca las Nubes

FInca Neptuno

Mendocino Ecological Learning Center

Instructors & Facilitators

Max Meyers

& Special Guests

Course Inspiration

What if there was way to produce an abundance of organic food using 98% less water, while producing up to ten times more food in the same… Continue

Added by Living Mandala on September 19, 2011 at 2:11pm — No Comments

The Permaculture Revitalization Act of 2011. A Vision by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Magazine

The Permaculture Revitalization Act of 2011. A Vision by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Magazine

http://planetshifter.com/node/1937

From the piece:

- Building more Community Gardens – like the eco village farm, sf

- Design and implement training for permaculture design certificate grads

- Promote and better connect new Permaculture… Continue

Added by PlanetShifterMan on September 19, 2011 at 9:56am — No Comments

Too Big Not to Fail

Here’s an argument, adapted from "Life Rules," that Transitioners—whom I call “the already-converted”—can use to convince or at least challenge the assumptions of the as-yet-unconverted, those true believers in the possibility of doing business-as-usual against the odds of finiteness into the next century or millennium:

Global economic theory tends to rely on one particularly counterintuitive notion: that huge transnational corporations and organizations are not vulnerable to the… Continue

Added by Ellen LaConte on September 18, 2011 at 12:43pm — No Comments

The Prime Directive of Worms, Sound Alchemy: Guitar & Samples. Willi Paul, openmythsource.com

The Prime Directive of Worms, Sound Alchemy: Guitar & Samples. Willi Paul, openmythsource.com

http://planetshifter.com/node/1936

Deep soils allow good crops, retain more rainfall, and also have the hugely important role of
being the world's largest and most important living stores of carbon.

Added by PlanetShifterMan on September 17, 2011 at 4:13pm — No Comments

Tamera SolarVillage - New Micro-Biogas Plant

New Micro-Biogas Plant

Together with the urban planner and energy activist T. H. Culhane from the US, (see: solarcities.blogspot.com) the participants of the Global Campus built a new, small biogas plant within three days and finished another one that had been started last year. With the organic kitchen waste of just one day, enough gas for two hours of cooking can be produced. This way the solar kitchen can be complemented with a biogas driven stove at night or during rainy… Continue

Added by Peter Koll Tamera on September 17, 2011 at 1:30am — No Comments

Community Alchemy: How to Use 12 Principles of Permaculture to Grow Sustainable Organizations, by David Jaber, innative.net

Community Alchemy: How to Use 12 Principles of Permaculture to Grow Sustainable Organizations, by David Jaber, innative.net

http://planetshifter.com/node/1935

Permaculture is basically the process of figuring out how to survive in a place -- using the powers of observation, ambient energy and water, and provision of as many resources as possible from local sources. Which starts… Continue

Added by PlanetShifterMan on September 14, 2011 at 2:28pm — No Comments

Life Rules One Day at a Time

"For the viral global economy to cease to pose a threat to most of us and the Earth's immune system of natural communities, it would have to become something it cannot become: not global." Life Rules, p91

Added by Ellen LaConte on September 14, 2011 at 12:41pm — No Comments