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Community Resience starts with Seeds

Posted by Terri Wilde on March 21, 2022 at 3:03pm 0 Comments

Salish Seeds .....Local Community Seed Project

The Salish Seed Guild has started a remarkable project toward local food security. We are collectively growing out useful seed for home gardeners that are selected for and adapting to Whatcom County.  We knew at the beginning of the pandemic that it was well time to take our community's sustainability seriously. While we had been organizing Bellingham's community seed swap for years, much of the seed shared was last year's left overs from…

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Interview with Larry Korn, Author of One Straw Revolutionary - May 2016

Posted by David Pike on January 18, 2020 at 5:18pm 0 Comments



An Interview with Larry Korn, Author of One-Straw Revolutionary

May 4th 2016

By: David Pike



Since The One-Straw Revolution was published in 1978 it has been translated into more than 25 languages and sold over one million copies worldwide. In “One-Straw” as the book has been dubbed, Mr. Masanobu Fukuoka presented an entirely new approach to agriculture which he called “natural farming.” After 25 years of research and trials he demonstrated he could achieve yields…

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Ten Weeks In

Posted by Rick Dubrow on September 22, 2017 at 4:07pm 0 Comments

Succession came to pass on July 1st, ten weeks ago. A-1 Builders, Inc. is now A-1 Builders, A Design/Build, Worker-Owned Cooperative!  My former employees are now my bosses! For the time being I’m helping the new team deal with marketing on a part time basis; my hours worked per week since July 1st has been on the order of working 1/4 hour a week!  Can’t really call this ‘part time’; I think I’ll call it ‘microscopic time’.

Perhaps in other…

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Slow Sand Fresh Water Filter

Posted by David Culver on November 22, 2016 at 6:54pm 1 Comment

I live in an all-electric home and when the power grid is out we have nothing. No water, no sewer, lights, cooking or anything else. I will have a generator to run sparingly to keep the freezer and the refrigerator going. Our home is a passive solar home with great insulation.

If the Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake happens, the grid could be out for a year. During that time, with the well pump not working, we will need a source of clean fresh water.

A slow sand filter, made…

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Second Aid: Lessons Learned From Past Adventures

Posted by Rick Dubrow on November 3, 2016 at 11:51am 0 Comments

All too often I’ll run into another hiker and the following conversation ensues:

“How many nights are you staying out?”

“None… I hope. We’re on a day hike.”

“Then why are you carrying so large a pack?

Allow me to unpack my answer… an answer that addresses situations well beyond wilderness travel. An answer that extends into my settled, civilized life as well.  Why, at home, are Cindi and I prepared for a major natural or…

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Welcome to Transition Whatcom's Community Networking Site!

This is a community networking site for those interested in helping us achieve our vision of resilient and more self-reliant communities throughout Whatcom County with a local food supply, sustainable energy sources, a healthy local economy, and a growing sense of vitality and community well-being.

About Transition Whatcom

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You can find other TW members in your neighborhood by typing your neighborhood into the search box on the Members page.

To learn more about Transition Whatcom, Start Here


We aim to unleash the collective genius of our community to find the answers to this momentous question:

For all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we...

Dramatically reduce carbon emissions (in response to climate change);
Significantly increase resilience (in response to resource scarcity);
Greatly strengthen our local economy (in response to economic instability)?

Transition Initiatives make no claim to have all the answers, but by building on the wisdom of the past and accessing the pool of ingenuity, skills and determination in our communities, the solutions can readily emerge. Now is the time for us to take stock and to start re-creating our future in ways that are not based on cheap, plentiful and polluting oil but on localized food, sustainable energy sources, resilient local economies and an enlivened sense of community well-being.

 

To learn more about the issues, start here

(Why Transition, Peak Oil, Climate Change, Economy, Peak Everything)

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Transitional Shared Housing with Holistic Healers Request

My mother is in hospice and I've been living with her in Oak Harbor. I need to find a new home while I sort out my financial situation. Then ultimately I would like to purchase a small geodome home and find a shared community to have this home. Something along the lines of an intentional community that grows produce in greenhouses and there are spaces to offer healing for animals and humans.I'm currently waiting for disability so that I can heal from neurological conditions that are Lyme…See More
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Patricia Herlevi liked Hunter Lydon's event FREE CLOTHES MENDING, KNIFE SHARPENING, APPLIANCE REPAIR, & GOOD VIBES.
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Patricia Herlevi liked Karl Meyer's event 26th Annual MLK Jr. Day Event
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Greg Aanes is now a member of Transition Whatcom
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David MacLeod is attending Brian Kerkvliet's event

Salish Seed Swap at Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship

February 7, 2026 from 12pm to 3pm
Saturday February 7 @ 11:30 am – 3:00 pmAt the – Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship Downstairs, 1207 Ellsworth St, Bellingham, WA 98225Open to the public -12 noon to 3pmBring seeds to share, Learn about seeds and seed saving, get seeds for your garden, talk to other people interested in growing things!$10 suggested donation, at the door. No one turned away for lack of fundsEarly entrance (11:30 am) for …See More
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FREE CLOTHES MENDING, KNIFE SHARPENING, APPLIANCE REPAIR, & GOOD VIBES. at 112 Ohio St

January 25, 2026 from 12pm to 3pm
All of the repairs we do are free or by donation. The volunteers are absolutely the greatest people ever. More than half of the volunteers have been doing this since the beginning.*clothing mending*small appliance repair*knife sharpeningMany of these menders are happy to show you how to do repairs yourself in the future if you are interested in learning. If not, come down and take advantage of their expertise, and let them make repairs for you. This event is free or buy donation. The next event…See More
Jan 11
Karl Meyer posted an event

26th Annual MLK Jr. Day Event at Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship

January 19, 2026 from 7pm to 9pm
Community Food Co-op Hosts 26th Annual MLK Jr. Day Event Bellingham, Wash. | In honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Community Food Co-op will host its 26th annual MLK Jr. Day Event. Join us to celebrate Dr. King’s notion of a “Beloved Community,” envisioned as a society based on justice, equal opportunity, and love of one's fellow human beings. This year’s format will be focused on celebrating Dr. King through songs of freedom, harmony, and justice, led by special musical guest and choir…See More
Jan 9
Brian Kerkvliet posted an event

Salish Seed Swap at Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship

February 7, 2026 from 12pm to 3pm
Saturday February 7 @ 11:30 am – 3:00 pmAt the – Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship Downstairs, 1207 Ellsworth St, Bellingham, WA 98225Open to the public -12 noon to 3pmBring seeds to share, Learn about seeds and seed saving, get seeds for your garden, talk to other people interested in growing things!$10 suggested donation, at the door. No one turned away for lack of fundsEarly entrance (11:30 am) for …See More
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Venezuela’s goo-in-the-ground isn’t usable oil at current prices (and may never be)

Venezuela's supposedly vast reserves of crude oil aren't what they seem to be.

The center cannot hold…

And while the center burns itself to ash, life goes on. Pretty much as it always has. With bad and good, joy and grief, pain and beauty and such wonder. Give attention to that, to the reality of your life, because that’s the best medicine for bewilderment. And it’s also… just life…

A handbook for regenerative design

The Pattern Book for Regenerative Design is written for ‘engineers (and other humans)’ who want to “transform the built environment industry into a force for good.” Despite coming into the “other human” category here, I found its mental models and some of its thinking devices useful.

We are in a crisis – How to build communities that can respond

We have our greatest democratic possibilities in the communities where we live, and this is where we can begin to turn around the trend to concentrated oligarchic power that threatens democracy as a whole. We must build the future in place.

Ditching Dualism #8: Sentience

Authority, for materialist monists, issues from the universe as directly accessed, assuming matter is real (rather than imagined, as in idealism). Materialist monists do not presume that we know better: that the universe is incapable of producing all that we experience based on the constituents and interactions on full display.

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