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Geoff Stack Worldchanging: Transition Towns or Bright Green Cities?

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

Added by Geoff Stack on October 28, 2009 at 8:18am — 1 Comment

EcolocityDC Transition Handbook online

Download or read The Transition Handbook online. Continue

Added by EcolocityDC on August 13, 2009 at 6:53pm — No Comments

Tim Willard Cheer Up, It's Going to Get Worse

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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Added by Tim Willard on June 20, 2009 at 2:40pm — No Comments

andrew eisenberg What is better than doing all that you can? Not doing what you can't

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

Added by andrew eisenberg on June 11, 2009 at 12:17pm — No Comments

Kolya Braun-Greiner Climate Justice & Spirituality

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

Added by Kolya Braun-Greiner on May 6, 2009 at 9:01pm — 2 Comments

Joseph Hamilton Transition Baltimore Event on Facebook

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

Added by Joseph Hamilton on April 4, 2009 at 8:05pm — 3 Comments

andrew eisenberg HR 875: Now you can't even plant a seed

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

Added by andrew eisenberg on March 14, 2009 at 7:30pm — 2 Comments

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