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Transition Denver is Creatively Transitioning from Oil Dependency to Local Resilience
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- How are you currently involved in the Transition movement?
- New to it
- In what ways do you identify with the Transition movement? Why are you interested?
- We have 5.6 kW of solar panels on our roof in SW Denver. In the 1970's, I testified before the US Congress and the President's Commission on Energy about the need to go to renewable energy sources.
- What background and skills do you bring to this community?
- I was an environmental activist and community organizer for years and now have time to return to that work - this time, on my own terms.
- How can you help the growth/acceptance/vitality of the Transition movement?
- I am retired from the City and County of Denver Public Works and Finance Offices and still have many contacts there. I'd like to help push the Denver sustainability office to become really effective. Imagine solar panels on top of all the parking lots in downtown Denver!
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WINTER HARVEST: COMMUNITY POTLUCK, APPRECIATION, AND TALENT NIGHT at Boulder Elks Club
December 11, 2009 from 5pm to 10pm
A time of reflection.
A time for good cheer.
A time for friends and family.
A special time of year!
All Permies, Transitioners, Bioneers, Friends and Families are cordially invited to A Winter Harvest: Community Potluck, Appreciation, and Talent Ni…
A community of citizens that believes we have the power to build community resilience and self-reliance such that all species, now and in the future, will be able to meet their basic needs while maintaining a healthy planet.
NEW DATE! Potluck and Used Book Exchange!
WHEN: Friday, January 15th at 6 pm
WHERE: 11093 Zephyr Street, Westminster, CO
DETAILS: Bring a dish to share and bring your good used books that you don't mind exchanging or giving away. Fiction, non-fict…
UPDATE:
Due to a conflict with another event, I am changing the date of the Potluck/Used Book Exchange to Friday, January 15th.
Power of Community / Transition W/A/B Meeting at Crescent Grange
December 8, 2009 from 7pm to 9pm
Come one Come all. Power of Community - The Story of How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, 53 minutes.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba's economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half – and food by 80 percent – people we…
EVENT POSTPONED UNTIL Jan 12 "Be the Change: Turning Vision into Action" - Transition Tuesdays Continue at the Mercury Cafe at Mercury Cafe
December 8, 2009 from 7pm to 9pm
How can Denver become more resilient, sustainable and vibrant in the next 20 years?
How can you work with others today to help make that future a reality?
Join us as we take the next steps together in designing Denver’s future!
Tuesday, Dec. 8
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I sure wish there were a way on this system to pass out gold stars to great ideas and contributions...a number of the recent posts would have gotten them from me and I am sure they would have accumulated more from others!
Transition Denver is Creatively Transitioning from Oil Dependency to Local Resilience
Well Hey Dana, seems that in addition to being a negative, uninformed racist my comments and blogs have been construed as attempts to berate the Transition movement. Can't quite understand how you've come to that conclusion and it certainly hasn't e…
- Planting the Spring Kitchen Garden on February 25, 2010 from 6pm to 8pm
- Tree Grafting on February 24, 2010 from 6pm to 8pm
- Starting Your Garden from Seed on February 23, 2010 from 6pm to 8pm
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Interesting comments about trying to energize Greenprint for a Climate Action Plan. Interneighborhood Cooperation is the overseer group for the individual neighborhood associations. To my knowledge, they don't have a "green team". Those are few and far between, usually as committee's of neighborhood organizations, but some are independent. Try www.denvergreenteams.ning.com. You may get some help there. The green teams have a voice with Michael Barney at Greenprint, however, the ciy seems to have a set agenda and not much flexibility. As I see it, the biggest problem is organizing us environmentalists into a collective voice. There is always greater power in numbers. You might try organizing in your neighborhood, start your own green team. That would give you a direct connection to Michael.
Or talk with Transition Denver's steering committee. See if you can set up a sub group to write a Climate Action Plan draft to present to the mayor, city council and Greenprint. Goodluck.
Interested in your comments about Greenprint...an organizations that is very bottom
up is Groundwork Denver, led by Wendy Hawthorne..we've worked with them in our
neighborhood--and they're great collaborators! Kathy Komarek