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Comment on Dan Allen's Resilience or Death: Preparing Our Farms for the End of Agriculture
Started by Walter Haugen in Food and Agriculture. Last reply by Walter Haugen May 18. 4 Replies 1 Like
RE-Skilling Fair
Started by Tom Anderson in Transition Whatcom News and Info. Last reply by warren miller May 7. 14 Replies 1 Like
Want to Help the TWOG (Transition Whatcom Organizing Group)?
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Review of Jeff Rubin's "The End of Growth"
Posted by Walter Haugen on May 20, 2012 at 7:49pm 1 Comment 1 Like
The Whatcom County Library just got in a copy of Jeff Rubin's new hot-off-the-presses book, The End of Growth (May 8, 2012). I just finished it today so it will be available again in a couple of days. Rubin's book should not be confused with Richard Heinberg's book of the same name, which treats the same subject from a different angle. The Growth Model is over, done, finished, kaput. [Both books are excellent, BTW.] Rubin's book focuses on a strictly economic perspective in…
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How to create 50 jobs in a small town
Posted by ross rabette on May 15, 2012 at 9:00am 0 Comments 0 Likes
I had a conversation with a friend a couple of weeks back about what we are doing at Localswitch – We talked about a town close to us who have recently set up a LocalSwitch Association. The Borrisokane LSA have given us a mandate to help them create 50 jobs, with a population of 1200 people. He found it hard to believe that something like this was possible in the current economic environment. To tell you the truth, this is something we are hearing a lot at Localswitch.
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Are You Ready for a New Economic Paradigm?
Posted by David MacLeod on May 8, 2012 at 10:15pm 7 Comments 1 Like
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The gross national product includes air pollution and advertising for cigarettes, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors, and jails for thepeople who break them. The gross national product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of napalm and…
Comment on the Age of Limits Conference May 25th-28th
Posted by Walter Haugen on May 6, 2012 at 9:07am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Great - you can fly out to Pennsylvania, thus incurring a huge carbon footprint which negates all the conservation measures you implemented in the last year AND waste 4 days going to MEETINGS plus a day on either side traveling to the conference and decompressing because of the horror of modern air travel; OR you can spend 6 days planting something to eat. Your choice.
Using the Positive Feedback Loop
Posted by Walter Haugen on April 22, 2012 at 3:30pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Assume for a moment that I exist (and no, this is not a proposition by Wittgenstein!). Now assume that it takes energy to keep me alive. Now we can ask how much energy it takes to keep me alive. The answer is 2500 kilocalories per day, since I am an average US male who is not an active athlete (e.g. cycling 50-100 miles/day). A further fact we need to know is that I expend about 500 kilocalories in an 8-hour sleep period (the standard…
ContinueWelcome 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.
This website is here to facilitate communication among folks within Whatcom County who are interested in learning about or implementing the Transition model locally.
The Transition approach empowers communities to squarely face the challenges of peak oil, climate change, and economic instability.
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Help plan the next big TW event! Visit the Forum to see how you can help.
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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 peak oil);
Greatly strengthen our local economy (in response to economic instability)?
The goal of Transition Whatcom (and all Transition Initiatives) is to create a long term Energy Descent Action Pathway, a blueprint- by the community, for the community- of how to significantly reduce energy use and yet provide for our basic needs in times of energy scarcity.
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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Spring Homesteading Series
April 15, 2012 at 2pm to June 3, 2012 at 4pm – Riverhaven Homestead
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Wild Medicinal Plant Walk with Suzanne Jordan
May 27, 2012 from 2pm to 5pm – Washington Park
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May 29
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Rendering Lard & Making Masa & Tortillas from Scratch
May 29, 2012 from 6pm to 9pm – Lynden
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June 2
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June 3
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School Garden Bike Ride and Diggin' the Beats!
June 3, 2012 from 1pm to 6pm – Bellingham
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Shenandoah Myrick commented on Shenandoah Myrick's event Center for SACREd Change presents Building Bridges to Other"Thanx Heather! All fixed up now :)"
David MacLeod updated an event
Frances Moore Lappe: Spring of Sustainability Webcasts at online
May 25, 2012 at 12pm to June 22, 2012 at 12:30pm
Free and online Live webcasts through June 22nd. If you can't listen live, you have 48 hours to do a free download.These are a series of interviews with leaders of the global sustainability movement.http://springofsustainability.com/Some of the notable folks being interviewed:Sharif Abdullah, May 22Bill McKibben, May 23Frances Moore Lappe, May 25 (another keynote speaker for TW)Hazel Henderson, June 4Rob Hopkins, June 12 (founder of Transition…See More
Sara Charette updated an event
SB Roving Garden Party - 5/29 - Columbia Neighborhood - 6pm at Columbia Neighborhood
May 29, 2012 from 6pm to 9pm
SB Roving Garden Party - 5/29 - Columbia Neighborhood - 6pm Join Sustainable Bellingham's 4th annual Roving Garden Party series, where volunteers help their neighbors create an edible garden. These fun events consist of approximately 90 minutes of gardening, followed by a shared meal. Everyone is welcome! To get on the mailing list to hear about future SB Roving Garden Parties and other local events, please email …See More
Patricia Herlevi commented on David MacLeod's group Community Asks and Offers"I'm writing an essay on sense of place on the Birchwood Neighborhood. Deadline for the essay is June 1st and just found about this submission call.
If you live in Birchwood and would like to answer a few short questions, please contact me…"
Patricia Herlevi posted a status"Working on an essay on sense of place for Bellingham. Focusing on the Birchwood Neighborhood and its unique & ironic history."
Brian Kerkvliet left a comment for Ginger Kennell"Hi Ginger, my daughter Rosalie is interested in meeting with you to see what you do there. She is interested to do something with animal therapy for her eighth grade project. Is there a good time and number to reach you at?
All the best,
Brian"
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Limits We are Reaching – Oil, Debt, and Others
The world is clearly reaching many limits. What limits are the human and natural systems reaching now?
ODAC Newsletter - May 25
G8 leaders meeting last weekend in Camp David will have been cheered by the recent slide in oil prices – albeit that the weakening in price is largely a consequence of the increasingly dire economic news. Nevertheless the group issued a statement to the effect that should the price start heading back in the other direction they will be calling on the IEA to take action...
Drill, Baby, Drill! More drilling doesn't necessarily mean more oil
Oil pundits and politicians are pushing the idea of United States energy independence due largely to the current boom in hydraulic fracturing. But behind the rhetoric, is there any truth to these claims?
Peak oil notes - May 24
A midweekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Developments this week
Energy policies will lead to diesel fuel rationing in Europe
During the last six years the world’s production of oil has, overall, been flat. From 2005 up to and including 2010 annual it was around 81.5 Mb/d with top production in 2010 at 82.1 Mb/d. World oil production has never been greater than in that period. We describe the maximum rate of oil production from an oilfield, region or the world as “Peak Oil”.
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