Don,

Thanks for posting this important article from the Times. It takes me more than a week to read it so I rely on folks like you to ease my recycling anxiety.

FYI all of the Post Carbon Institute Relocalization Chapters (outposts) have been spun out in the direction of Transition US. http://www.transitionus.org/. Not all have gone that way but many seem to have jumped.

I haven’t checked with Liz Mednick, coordinator of Philly Organic Democracy, or Jason Slip, coordinator of Lehigh Valley Beyond Oil, but the ECLA PA is slowly settling in to Transition US and we’re designing our new website ( a blessing and curse) since the Relocalization websites were frozen by Post Carbon.

The NYT article obviously signals a new level of awareness and interest in relocalization and transition. In Warminster I’m working through our fledgling EAC (successor to the old EnAC here). while I try to recruit new members for the ECLA PA. I encourage others to do the same in their locality.

I am available for questions if anyone wants to post here on this topic. I’m sure that Liz could be very helpful to those of you in Philly. It has been suggested that the Philly effort be organized by neighborhood to avoid the complexity of trying do do the whole city without that input.

Larry Menkes: Coordinator, ECLA PA
Relocalization & Transition Strategies
267.992.8020