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Larry Menkes
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Larry Menkes's Discussions
Worshipping the Temple of Doom by James Hansen
Started May 7
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Latest Activity -- Who's Doing What...
Kelly,
Without knowing details of your situation (and what you call a "Comprehensive Plan", and assuming that you are familiar with "The Handbook" I'd like to recommend another book that I consider essential to the work. That is, "Post Carbon Citie…
Nice to have you here.
Keep this up and we'll need to start a twelve-step group.
Comment Wall (7 comments)
- At 4:16pm on September 17, 2009,
Philip C. Wert said…
- Hi Larry,
I met you last night in Bethlehem for Jim Kunstler's talk. I sent you a friend request here on Transition.
- At 11:59pm on August 26, 2009,
Jonathan Cloud said…
- Hi Larry,
Look forward to continuing to dialogue around this. We have launched a Sustainable Leadership initiative (see http://SustainableLeadershipForum.org) that is designed to support those involved in sustainability on both a local and a regional basis, whatever they are working on. This is in keeping with Paul Hawken's vision in Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming. Please check it out. We support folks in permaculture and the transition movement as they emerge, along with people working on electric vehicles, renewable energy systems, green business, etc., and have some unique tools and approaches, which we are interested in sharing with others. Let me know if you are interested in having us doing something in your area. Thanks.
- At 5:58am on August 19, 2009,
Jonathan Cloud said…
- No, went to the one in March, and have been in touch with many colleagues since then. The consensus (at least at this time) seems to be that the "Transition movement" is not the right model for NJ at this point; there is already a strong Sustainable Jersey coordinated initiative (with close to 250 towns signed up), and a need for a lot more basic education in permaculture, slow food, etc. I am still open to the possibility of supporting a real Transition NJ initiative - we registered TransitionNJ.org for this purpose, amongst other things - through my work as the head of the Sustainable Business Incubator at FDU. But I have not seen genuine signs that this is ready to take off, at least not yet; and I believe others, e.g., in NY, have had similar experiences.
- At 7:34am on May 7, 2009,
Bill Sharp said… - Larry,
I agree, it is a good time to be alive and what I see of the Transition movement is one of the most hopeful signs of a coordinated response to times that are both challenging and ripe with potential.
Bill
- At 7:02am on May 5, 2009,
Bill Sharp said…
- Larry,
Don't know if you remember but you contacted me some time ago when we were Relocalization. Happy Birthday.
Since Transition I have been promoting an initiative in Centre County and yesterday named the group, to which I hope to attract some members over the next few days.
Bill
- At 7:18pm on March 31, 2009,
Larry said…
- Clean Energy for Green Jobs!
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Albatross Lost
Immeasurable beauty lives where wildlife is free...
We are so blessed to experience life
on such a beautiful planet...
Although, blind to her beauty....
industrial giants profit as they destroy
the living whales alive...
and dolphins now swim in their toxic byproducts...
If we do not defend the Living Oceans
from the industrial profiteers,
who will...
For all of time....
and the infinite universe...
we have ONE planet...
How can we be so blind... to so much beauty...
In all the universe...
We have the only Living Oceans...
- At 12:10pm on February 1, 2009,
Mike Morin said… - Larry,
Maybe you could transition your town to PeaceMinister!
;-0
Mike Morin
Profile Information
- How are you currently involved in the Transition movement?
- I am a coordinator for a Post Carbon Relocalization chapter; the ECLA PA. I have been using the Transition Towns Handbook as an adjunct to Post Carbon Cities. I think that the merging of both groups is a positive step and will leverage both to greater capacity for effecting positive change.
- In what ways do you identify with the Transition movement? Why are you interested?
- I think that the Transition movement offers an outstanding bottom-up model for building community resilience and is an outstanding adjunct to Post Carbon Cities. The chapters on the psychology of climate change and on oil addiction alone, are worth the price of the book.
- How can you help the growth/acceptance/vitality of the Transition movement? What can YOU teach us? What can your GROUP teach us?
- I am working actively in my own community to build resilience. I am using the concept of fiscal responsibility as an entry point for discussion. This approach bypasses potential arguments about the validity of peak oil and global climate change. In my experience, by the time people eliminate the 50% to 75% of energy waste in the current system there will be enough data and events to overwhelm any opposition to sustainable living.
- Your Favorite Books/Websites/Blogs/RSS Feeds for Information about the Transition Movement
- Natural Capitalism
Peak Everything
Collapse
The Black Swan
The Great Turning
The Turning Point
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
Utopia or Oblivion
Post Carbon Cities
The Transition Towns Handbook
The Natural Step
The Paradigm Conspiracy
The Little Book on the Human Shadow
Small is Beautiful
Plan B 3.0 or greater
Exploring New Ethics for Survival
Filters Against Folly
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
The Paradigm Conspiracy
Cradle to Cradle
Biomimicry
Leadership and the New Science
A Failure of Nerve
Design Outlaws on the Ecological Frontier
The Death of Nature
Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings
Deep Economy
Green Politics
Meeting The Shadow
www.postcarbon.net
www.relocalize.net
www.rmi.org
www.aceee.org
www.usgbc.org
www.natcap.org
www.fritjofcapra.net
www.sacredlifeboats.com
www.ucsusa.org
www.earthcharterus.org
www.realclimate.org
www.nsidc.org
www.columbia.edu/~jeh1
- Your Personal Website (if you have one)
- http://www.relocalize.net/groups/earthcharterpa
- Suggestions you have for improving our Registration questions. Getting to know you better.
- Clear info about editing initial entries so we don't have to rack our brains working on this.
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Made two presentations on Transition Towns recently... Interesting experience... PA EAC's and USGBC chapters a help
I have been doing two monthly sustainability video-discussion events for almost a 18 months. As usual, I didn't think to post the most recent events here, even they were on the Transition movement. I don't think I've ever had a response from this website. I was surprised by a nice turnout for both the Doylestown and the Warminster, PA events. Sold (at cost) several copies of the Trans Initiatives Primer. I missed out getting mailing list at both, but can recover most. I knew about half of the cr… Continue
Posted on August 16, 2009 at 9:35pm — 1 Comment
How communities can combat 'climate fatigue'
Here's a cautionary tale that I found on a recent ENN post that points to the value of promoting community resilience.
LM
By Colleen Kimmett March 12, 2009 04:17 pm
(Editor's note: Kimmett is blogging about From the Ground Up, a conference on sustainable communities, hosted by the Columbia Institute last week in Harrison.)
Dawson Creek has a reputation of being one of B.C.'s most progressive municipalities when it comes to renewable energy.
So when councilor Cheryl Shuman completed Al Gore's… Continue
LM
By Colleen Kimmett March 12, 2009 04:17 pm
(Editor's note: Kimmett is blogging about From the Ground Up, a conference on sustainable communities, hosted by the Columbia Institute last week in Harrison.)
Dawson Creek has a reputation of being one of B.C.'s most progressive municipalities when it comes to renewable energy.
So when councilor Cheryl Shuman completed Al Gore's… Continue
Posted on April 15, 2009 at 10:05am —
NOAA Warns of Irreversible Climate Changes
Hi,
I continually ask if we are living in congruence with this (and other) warnings? How's your carbon footprint? Is there any valid excuse for not lowering it ASAP? I'm lucky right now, sitting in front of my corn/pellet stove and it's working today and we're warm. My oil burner crapped out last May and I can't afford to fix it. But I can afford corn and pellets. (By the way, at last July's prices, I couldn't even afford kerosene, let alone heating oil.)
Larry
http://www.pnas.org/content/ear… Continue
I continually ask if we are living in congruence with this (and other) warnings? How's your carbon footprint? Is there any valid excuse for not lowering it ASAP? I'm lucky right now, sitting in front of my corn/pellet stove and it's working today and we're warm. My oil burner crapped out last May and I can't afford to fix it. But I can afford corn and pellets. (By the way, at last July's prices, I couldn't even afford kerosene, let alone heating oil.)
Larry
http://www.pnas.org/content/ear… Continue
Posted on February 1, 2009 at 11:30pm —
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"Holding each other in the highest future intention" ~ Theory U
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. ~ Margaret Mead
Be Yourself. Everyone Else Is Taken!" ~ Charles Shulz
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Pancakes and Transition
December 29, 2009 from 9am to 10am – The Empire Grill
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