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All, I offer the link below as something that I found as thought-provoking - I don't endorse it one way or the other. What are your thoughts on it? http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/010672.html I look forward to working with you all to advance sustainability in Baltimore and beyond in any way we can. I am thrilled to know that others are looking at the big picture and questioning many of the basic systems that we rely on. Th… Continue

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Transition movements are starting to get some good press. Transition Santa Cruz was featured in an article in the Santa Cruz Weekly, Santa Cruz Group Gears Up for Life After Cheap Oil.

Peak oil” is a familiar catch phrase, though the gravity of its truest meaning still eludes much of the populace. In theory it represents the end of modern society as we know it, a scenario in which

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The ends justify means. To this gandhi would disagree for he felt the ends and means to be interchangeable. We all, to include myself, are hypocrites. We call for change yet employ the same methods that cause the problems. We must accept this if we are to transition from thoughtlessness to an increase in awareness and action. I feel imperfect; I need community. I express myself as a lion, attacking the subjectivity in our fragile perspectives. My perspective is that of a design, where the probl… Continue

As we begin to face the enormity of changes before us and especially for our children's generation, it will become imperative for us to ground and center ourselves in the deep roots of spiritual traditions that will sustain us, otherwise we may easily be overwhelmed with fear and grief for the future. Present and future generations are counting on us to respond. This is a Kairos moment, an exciting and yes, sobering time to be alive. I will be co-leading a course at Ghost Ranch Reteat Center --… Continue

Just an FYI to everyone: in an effort to promote the meeting in Baltimore on April 26th to my friends on Facebook, I created an Event in Facebook. Search on Introduction to Transition, Baltimore, MD. http://www.facebook.com/editevent.php?picture&eid=149141785693&created&new&m=1#/event.php?sid=8a43c0e1138aa51f17e9f514a10bd576&eid=149141785693&ref=search Continue

I've spent the last few hours with gandhi flower inspiration and fellow blossomer Sarah (growthandlove.blogspot.com) reading, taking notes and discussion the provisions, contradictions and backyard implications of the proposed bill HR 875. "The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009" Rep. Rosa DeLauro Conn. (D) Summary by Andrew Eisenberg Library of Congress- HR 875: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.875: Sit down with someone you care about and read the bill for yourselves.… Continue