All Discussions Tagged 'transition' - Transition Whatcom2024-03-29T13:55:26Zhttps://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=transition&feed=yes&xn_auth=noThe "Launch" of Rob Hopkins' new book: The Power of Just Doing Stufftag:transitionwhatcom.ning.com,2013-06-15:2723460:Topic:913862013-06-15T20:36:00.406ZDavid MacLeodhttps://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/DavidMacLeod
<p>Rob Hopkins writes, "Today is the day of the publication of <a href="http://ow.ly/lHusJ"><em>The Power of Just Doing Stuff</em></a>. I’d like to mark this historic occasion by presenting you with this short video of the recent poignant and moving launch event we recently held with the Mayor of Totnes to welcome the book into the world."</p>
<p>This short video is hilarious, trust me. As is written on…</p>
<p>Rob Hopkins writes, "Today is the day of the publication of <a href="http://ow.ly/lHusJ"><em>The Power of Just Doing Stuff</em></a>. I’d like to mark this historic occasion by presenting you with this short video of the recent poignant and moving launch event we recently held with the Mayor of Totnes to welcome the book into the world."</p>
<p>This short video is hilarious, trust me. As is written on <a href="http://www.transitionnetwork.org/power-just-doing-stuff/about-book" target="_blank">the web page about the book</a>, "We are really hoping that you will be able to help us to get it out into the world with a splash." Looks like we can check that one off the list!</p>
<p></p>
<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pcoUYnDniAk?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe>
</p>
<p></p>
<p>About the book:</p>
<p><strong><em><a href="http://www.transitionnetwork.org/power-just-doing-stuff" target="_blank">The Power of Just Doing Stuff</a></em>: How Local Action Can Change the World</strong></p>
<p></p>
<p><strong>“Something is stirring. People around the world are deciding that the well-being of their local community and its economy lies with them. They’re people like you.They’ve had enough, and, rather than waiting for permission, they’re rolling up their sleeves, getting together with friends and neighbours, and doing something about it. Whether they start small or big, they’re finding that just doing stuff can transform their neighbourhoods and their lives.<span style="font-size: 0.813em;"> </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 0.813em;"><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2060941222?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2060941222?profile=original" width="160"/></a></span></strong></p>
<p>The Power of Just Doing Stuff argues that this shift represents the seeds of a new economy – the answer to our desperate search for a new way forward – and at its heart is people deciding that change starts with them. Communities worldwide are already modelling a more local economy rooted in place, in well-being, in entrepreneurship and in creativity. And it works”.</p> Transition Companion Book Study Group Formingtag:transitionwhatcom.ning.com,2012-11-16:2723460:Topic:851742012-11-16T19:28:29.698ZDavid MacLeodhttps://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/DavidMacLeod
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">A Win-Win-Win-Win Proposition*</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2060941933?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2060941933?profile=original" width="104"></img></a></p>
<p>Join us as we study <a href="http://transitionculture.org/shop/the-transition-companion/">The Transition Companion</a>, by Rob Hopkins. (…</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">A Win-Win-Win-Win Proposition*</span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2060941933?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2060941933?profile=original" width="104"/></a></p>
<p>Join us as we study <a href="http://transitionculture.org/shop/the-transition-companion/">The Transition Companion</a>, by Rob Hopkins. (<a href="http://transitionculture.org/2011/10/19/the-first-review-of-the-transition-companion/">review</a>)</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Win #1</strong> - You will learn the history and principles behind the Transition Town movement, which is transforming communities around the world.</li>
<li><strong>Win #2</strong> - You will learn what other communities are <em>actually doing</em> -- what worked well, what didn't.</li>
<li><strong>Win #3</strong> - You will explore the Head (what do we need to know?), the Heart (how do we feel and how do we relate to one another?), and the Hands (what do we need to DO?) of Transition.</li>
<li><strong>Win #4</strong> - You will connect with other Transition Whatcom folks (including the TWOG: TW Organizing Group) and begin envisioning a more resilient and vibrant community here in Whatcom County and your neighborhood.</li>
</ul>
<p>We are currently planning to meet the first Thursday of the month (once per month) from 6:30 to 8:00pm. There is some flexibility here, depending on need and interest.</p>
<p>Ownership of the book would be helpful, but not necessary. If you have the earlier Transition Handbook, we will have some comparison between the two. Many important parts of the Transition Companion are available online as the <a href="http://www.transitionnetwork.org/ingredients" target="_blank">Transition Ingredients</a>.</p>
<p><strong>If you have any interest, please let me know. Email miles58 at yahoo dot com, or call 360-733-3541.</strong></p>
<p> </p>
<p>* In the spirit of non reinventing the wheel, most of this blurb was borrowed from another initiative in Nashville that formed a study group.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2060941790?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2060941790?profile=original" width="303"/></a></strong></p> Permaculture Design Course at Wild Thyme Farmtag:transitionwhatcom.ning.com,2011-01-22:2723460:Topic:412462011-01-22T00:10:30.624ZKelda Millerhttps://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/KeldaMiller
<a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2060940608?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2060940608?profile=original" width="500"></img></a><br />
<p><a href="http://www.herbnwisdom.com/Events.php">http://www.herbnwisdom.com/Events.php</a></p>
<p> </p>
<pre>Reduce your ecological footprint.<br></br>Learn permaculture, food production, and energy efficiency for your home<br></br>and community.<br></br><br></br>Permaculture Design Course<br></br>February 27 - March 20, 2011<br></br>Wild Thyme Farm, Oakville, WA<br></br><br></br>Marisha Auerbach, Dave…</pre>
<a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2060940608?profile=original"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2060940608?profile=original" width="500"/></a><br />
<p><a href="http://www.herbnwisdom.com/Events.php">http://www.herbnwisdom.com/Events.php</a></p>
<p> </p>
<pre>Reduce your ecological footprint.<br/>Learn permaculture, food production, and energy efficiency for your home<br/>and community.<br/><br/>Permaculture Design Course<br/>February 27 - March 20, 2011<br/>Wild Thyme Farm, Oakville, WA<br/><br/>Marisha Auerbach, Dave Boehnlein,and Kelda Miller<br/>Special Guests include:<br/>Michael "Skeeter" Pilarski, Jenny Pell, Rick Valley, Leonard Barrett ,<br/>Mark Lakeman, John Henrikson, Kirk Hanson, and more...<br/><br/>Globally, we are experiencing unpredictable changes in climate, economy,<br/>and resources. Through intentional design, we can anticipate what adaptive<br/>skills will be necessary for a joyful and abundant future. In this<br/>permaculture design course, students will be immersed in strategies to<br/>build community resilience and respond to uncertainties of the future. Our<br/>stellar teaching team will offer an over 144-hour permaculture curriculum<br/>with a focus on hands-on skill-building in food production, plant<br/>propagation, and energy systems. The Wild Thyme Farm, a premier<br/>permaculture demonstration site, offers an immersion in examples of<br/>beautiful and productive polyculture gardens, a 100 acre FSC certified<br/>forest, and strategies for rural revitalization. Through presentations,<br/>slides, games, lectures, field trips, and hands-on opportunities, this<br/>permaculture course will offer diverse learning styles to emphasize ways<br/>that students can design their lives and engage their communities in<br/>strategies for a sustainable future.<br/><br/>Course Topics Include:<br/>Permaculture Ethics & Principles<br/>Observation & Site Analysis<br/>Energy Conservation<br/>Natural Cycles & Pattern Recognition<br/>Mapping & Design Exercises<br/>Animal Husbandry<br/>Forests, Agroforestry, & Tree Crops<br/>Soil Building & Ecology<br/>Cooperative Economics<br/>Plants, Propagation & Planting Strategies<br/>Eco-Building & Appropriate Technology<br/>Water Harvesting, Management, & Conservation<br/>Urban Permaculture & Village Design<br/><br/>Cost: $1950 including accommodations and prepared organic meals.<br/>For more information, check out: <a href="http://www.herbnwisdom.com/" target="_blank">http://www.herbnwisdom.com</a><br/>To register, contact Marisha Auerbach<br/>(360)273-7117 <a href="https://auk.riseup.net/sm/src/compose.php?send_to=queenbee@herbnwisdom.com">mailto:queenbee@herbnwisdom.com</a><a href="http://herbnwisdom.com/events.php" target="_blank">http://herbnwisdom.com/events.php</a><br/></pre> Transition in less favoured areastag:transitionwhatcom.ning.com,2010-03-09:2723460:Topic:161532010-03-09T18:55:14.763ZMax Vittrup Jensenhttps://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/MaxVittrupJensen
Hi all,<div><br></br></div>
<div>Just want to let you know that I made a M.sc. about obstacles of introducing the transition concept in areas with not-so-fertile-ground- for-such-concepts! As a case model I used the rural local area I live in here in Czech Republic, however I draw parallels to Norway as well.</div>
<div>It concludes that in some cases it's better to prepare in a small group, and be ready for a positive 'Shock Doctrine' treatment, once the population is looking for an…</div>
Hi all,<div><br/></div>
<div>Just want to let you know that I made a M.sc. about obstacles of introducing the transition concept in areas with not-so-fertile-ground- for-such-concepts! As a case model I used the rural local area I live in here in Czech Republic, however I draw parallels to Norway as well.</div>
<div>It concludes that in some cases it's better to prepare in a small group, and be ready for a positive 'Shock Doctrine' treatment, once the population is looking for an answer.</div>
<div><br/></div>
<div>If you're interested in looking at it, you'll find it here; <a href="http://permalot.org/en/resources1">http://permalot.org/en/resources1</a></div>
<div><br/></div>
<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>Max</div>
<div>PermaLot Centre of Natural Building</div>
<div><a href="http://www.permalot.org">www.permalot.org</a></div>
<div><br/></div> Transition Comments on Copenhagen and New Ideastag:transitionwhatcom.ning.com,2009-12-21:2723460:Topic:118932009-12-21T21:43:06.512ZDavid MacLeodhttps://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/DavidMacLeod
The idea Rob suggests below sounds very much like the Perennial Project that Tristan and Chris organized for 350 day, only on a much larger scale.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://transitionculture.org/2009/12/21/what-if-they-held-a-climate-summit-and-nobody-came/" target="_blank"><b>What If They Held a Climate Summit and Nobody Came?</b></a><br />
<i>by Rob Hopkins, Transition Culture</i><br />
...How would it be if we all took a very different tack, if the approach of activists was one of ‘practically modelling the…
The idea Rob suggests below sounds very much like the Perennial Project that Tristan and Chris organized for 350 day, only on a much larger scale.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://transitionculture.org/2009/12/21/what-if-they-held-a-climate-summit-and-nobody-came/" target="_blank"><b>What If They Held a Climate Summit and Nobody Came?</b></a><br />
<i>by Rob Hopkins, Transition Culture</i><br />
...How would it be if we all took a very different tack, if the approach of activists was one of ‘practically modelling the world we want to see’? Clearly, one of the challenges among those sent to negotiate is that they have no vision of a post carbon world. This was driven home to me last week on a more local scale, when I interviewed a senior planner in my local council about climate change, Transition and so on as part of this PhD research I am still limping along with. I asked him, as my final question, what his vision was for our area of Devon in a scenario where it had successfully reduced its emissions by 90%. It was clear he had never thought about it. When pushed, all he could come up with was akin to 1950s Britain, rather like a Hovis advert, and when I asked him if it was something that would appeal to him personally, he replied that at his age, the idea had some appeal, but to younger people he thought they would see it as rather dull.<br />
<br />
Similarly, for the negotiators at Copenhagen, a world emitting 90% less carbon than it does today is not an attractive proposition. Their mental picture is of denial, austerity, misery, giving up things, losing things, certainly not a future they bounce out of bed each day determined to bring about. It is not a problem exclusive to them. The same is true for many of us. We expect the negotiators to come up with a deal that ’saves the planet’, but hope that we don’t have to make many actual changes to our own lives. This is what, nationally and internationally, makes it so difficult for politicians to offer any meaningful response, the fact that they are, in effect, trying to make unelectable policies electable.<br />
<br />
So how about this, as a co-ordinated approach for the next time there is such a gathering, which will again, no doubt, be trailed as ‘the last chance to save the planet’? We (that is, those who care passionately about climate change and the need for a proportionate response), confound expectations, and stay at home. Using the web-based technologies we now have at our disposal, we co-ordinate an international festival of meaningful change. We stay home and insulate whole streets, create community gardens, work meaningfully with our local authorities to do projects with them, eat local food diets for the duration of the conference, live without cars, insulate our schools, set up an area of the settlement in question as a model for what it would look like transitioned. We start bringing the future that we can imagine but which is still beyond the comprehension of so many, into focus. We would have enough lead-in to the conference to be able to do something meaningful and which tells a powerful story. We could even chip in what we would have paid to get there towards helping to resource it...<br />
<br />
<br />
<a href="http://transitionculture.org/2009/12/17/a-copenhagen-christmas-present-by-naresh-giangrande/" target="_blank"><b>A Copenhagen Christmas Present from Naresh Giangrande</b></a>, <i>by Naresh Giangrande, Transition Culture</i><br />
As many have now written, the Cop15 conference, which is focussed on creating a treaty that will prevent our climate from undergoing a systems state change and re-establishing itself in a new stable state that much less conductive to human survival, seems certain to fall far short of what is needed or fail completely. In describing what the treaty has to do I am calling attention to the meta narrative in the story of these negotiations. That is we have a self referential system, our economic and politic systems which takes little account of the ecology of our planet. We think in terms that ignore the basis of life...<br />
<br />
We are faced with a system that cannot and will not make the changes necessary to create a resilient world in the face of climate change and peak oil. It would go against everything the system is designed for. Economic growth and non renewable resource use are not the marks of a system that is ‘fit for the purpose’ of 21st century life. These talks so far are engaged in somehow allowing the present system to go on for a time longer, that’s all. Gordon Brown might have flown in 48 hours earlier than planned to ‘bang heads together’. But what does he hope this head banging will achieve? The necessary steps to halt CO2 emissions would be too painful to achieve and would not be accepted by the electorate in any industrial country.<br />
<br />
From where I am standing the best thing that could happen right now is for the talks to fail. There is talk of the G77 nations on Wednesday staging a walk out and holding a summit with demonstrators outside the Bella Centre where the main negotiations are taking place. It feels like the best solution right now would be to not have a treaty that politicians can wave in front of the folks back home and say, ‘see we succeeded!’. Rather it would be better if we confronted them with the failure of the present system to create a world that our method of determining truth – science- says will be stable and fit for the purpose of life.<br />
<br />
What should we in turn do? There are many pieces that will need to be put into place but one of the biggest and most important will be to go on with the business of creating a new system that makes the present system obsolete. Transition is in that business and that’s its purpose, to make a world that is fit for the purpose of life on planet earth. Whoever and whatever system, persons, or organisations that are in the same business we will happily collaborate with, and I am sure they will also be happy to join in. Indeed I have met some of them this last week.<br />
<br />
Only when the necessary conditions for a paradigm shift are in place that will allow us to make the necessary changes that a resilient culture demands, will we get a society ‘fit for the purpose of life’. The Transition approach is designed to start creating those new structures and systems of living right now and start putting into place alternative arrangements for every system we now depend. Only where there is enough in place that we can start to depend on it will the size and scale of change occur. We can’t just throw away the present mind set and life support systems. We need something in place, a parallel system that can begin to carry us and support us. A space craft would not be able to turn off its life support systems without having a back up in place. That is the position we find ourselves in...