A hub for supporting new Transition Initiatives, working together to power down for a brighter future.
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Started by David MacLeod in Supporting Links and Opportunities Jul 20.
I listened to Julian Assange on Democracy Now! this morning, talking about the WikiLeaks imbroglio and the 92,000 documents released publicly. He uses an interesting piece of logic. Since the documents contain the raw material of the field reports by the soldiers PLUS the names and dates of the units and actions, it allows anyone to compare and contrast details as the reports move up the chain of command and are redacted and tweaked for political purposes. As he said, this re
… ContinuePosted by Walter Haugen on July 28, 2010 at 11:04am
Posted by Celt M. Schira on July 18, 2010 at 11:00am
Posted by Celt M. Schira on July 12, 2010 at 6:00pm
If you have only the slightest green thumb, you should be swimming in broccoli right now. I just put up 12 quart bags for the freezer and the whole process took less than an hour. Blanche 3-5 minutes, plunge in ice water for the same amount of time, drain, bag and label. Yes, freezing takes energy, but think of how much energy you are using to get to work every day and all your other activities that tie you into the mainstream death culture. Also, if you are growing your own broccoli, the vit
… ContinuePosted by Walter Haugen on July 12, 2010 at 12:30pm
Posted by Walter Haugen on July 10, 2010 at 10:02pm
Thank you all for your generosity, we reached our fundraising goal for the Great Unleashing, and have some financial resources left to help with the next stages of Transition. We are all volunteers and we thank the community for helping support the cost of putting on such a huge event!
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.
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July 23, 2010 at 6pm to September 1, 2010 at 7pm – Oasis
Saturday
July 29, 2010 from 8am to 6pm – Old World Deli
Saturday
July 31, 2010 from 10am to 1pm – Fairhaven Park Picnic area
July 31, 2010 from 7pm to 8:45pm – The Parkade, downtown Bellingham
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A strategically timed item in the New York Times presents an overview of the geology that makes the Gulf of Mexico so rich in oil, how new technology has enabled us to track these deposits - and the risks we run to extract them. It was published Wednesday [July 28], one day before a special judicial panel in Boise, Idaho began to consider “how to bring order to the hundreds of civil lawsuits” stemming from BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. The seven judges will “consider which U.S. court, or courts, should oversee hundreds of spill-related suits by injured rig workers, fishermen, investors and property owners,”
Matt Simmons, author of Twilight in the Desert, has long been one of the most famous and influential voices on the subject of peak oil. After the release of his book, Simmons rose to fame as Saudi Arabian oil production declined and global oil prices skyrocketed. However, Simmons has lately been making hyperbolic claims related to the deepwater spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Based on the scenarios Simmons has outlined, he argues for responses such as using a nuclear explosion to seal the well and evacuating 20 million people from the Gulf Coast. Extraordinary responses such as these would impact a great many people, so The Oil Drum staff felt that a critical look at some of Simmons’ claims was in order.
In 1972, the now-classic book Limits to Growth explored the consequences for Earth’s ecosystems of exponential growth in population, industrialization, pollution, food production, and resource depletion. That book, which still stands as the best-selling environmental title ever published, reported on the first attempts to use computers to model the likely interactions between trends in resources, consumption, and population. It summarized the first major scientific study to question the assumption that economic growth can and will continue more or less uninterrupted into the foreseeable future.
Our global society is in crisis, and the core of the crisis seems to be about resources: resource limits, overuse and misuse of resources, resource-related conflicts, and the resulting destruction of our natural life-support systems. The crisis is at an extreme stage, as we are approaching the final hard limits of a finite earth. This is all the more frightening because our governments seem powerless to respond effectively to the crisis. We can all see the rocks ahead, and yet the crew steams straight on, as the ship-of-state carries us toward destruction.
Last weekend I attended the Transition Movement 2-day introductory training course in Vancouver, along with three fellow Bowen Islanders. We immediately and unanimously agreed to establish a "Bowen in Transition" chapter, affiliated with the Vancouver Transition network (called Village Vancouver).
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