PASA Conference

[ February 4, 2010 9:00 am to February 6, 2010 5:00 pm. ] Please note the PASA (Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture) conference coming up on Feb. 4-6. Information is at their website http://www.pasafarming.org/.

The workshops look great! Nancy and Bob Bernhardt have been going for many years, and turned us on to this great annual event!

Note that a workshop on Transition Towns is included in the [...]

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Transition Party at Arcadia University

[ October 22, 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] This Thursday, 7-9PM Arcadia University, Stiteler Hall, Glenside, PA

Introduction to Transition Towns — a festive, fast-paced overview of peak oil, climate change, and our collective Cheltenham – Arcadia response to re-create local community— local: artisans, food, energy, goods, service. This makes our collaborative community more resilient in the face of oil crises [...]

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Transition Towns

[ October 17, 2009; 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. ] Is a High Performing Low Fossil Fuel Society Feasible?
How will it feed, house & power itself without Oil?
Will it be Business as Usual via Carbon based fuels OR
Can We Re-Energize a Clean & Sustainable Planet?

Please come and Participate in a Presentation of Transition Towns

Transition Communities design & use Energy Descent Plans to [...]

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Training for Transition at Genesis Farms

[ September 10, 2009 to September 13, 2009. ] A few places still available.

Training for Transition Times
in collaboration with
the NYC Awakening the Dreamer Community
and the Sustainable Ridge and Valley Alliance

We live in a time of transition – movement into the Ecozoic Era, as Thomas Berry has called it. Signs are increasingly apparent:

* Peak oil, climate unpredictability, and ecological and economic [...]

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Transition Workshop Followup

I recently attended a Transition Towns workshop at Arcadia University on July 17-18, 2009, although I was only able to stay for 1 day due to family commitments. I thought I would build a google map of all the attendees so that we would have a way of seeing where we all lived and be [...]

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Transition Towns Workshop

[ July 17, 2009 to July 18, 2009. ] July 17 & 18, Friday & Saturday

Transition Towns Workshop for 50 self-selected Philadelphia Area citizen leaders and activists. An in-depth exploration of Transition Towns and the skill sets needed to encourage the collective genius of your community to build local resilience, reduce carbon and create a more joyful, connected, and healthy future. We will [...]

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Transition Towns in The Guardian

Another column in The Guardian (Britain) about the Transition Towns movement, contrasting it with the current disarray of the Labour Party:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/series/politics-and-reform
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A glimpse of Japanese Transition Towns movement

Here’s a video interview with a leader of the Japanese Transition Towns movement (in Japanese with English subtitles – to see subtitles, make sure your cursor isn’t on the “screen”):

http://www.energybulletin.net/node/48955
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Crum Creek Transition Initiative

[ June 20, 2009; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] The first meeting of the combined Crum Creek Sustainable Community / Transition Group will take place June 20 at 7:15 p.m. in the Whittier Room of Swarthmore Friends Meeting. We hope to make this an action-oriented meeting that launches some focused efforts to promote the Transition Towns concept in Swarthmore and its surroundings. [...]

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Virtues of community emergency planning

Here’s a debate between Rob Hopkins (founder of the Transition Towns movement) and Richard Heinberg (longtime author and lecturer on Peak Oil) on the virtues of community emergency planning. Both deserve our thoughtful consideration:
http://transitionculture.org/2009/05/27/to-plan-for-emergency-or-not-heinberg-and-hopkins-debate/
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