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MRasey
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- How are you currently involved in the Transition movement?
- Beginner! Complete beginner. Waiting for the book to arrive and brainstorming ideas.
- In what ways do you identify with the Transition movement? Why are you interested?
- Interested in alternative energy, reducing environmental impact via local action.
- How can you help the growth/acceptance/vitality of the Transition movement? What can YOU teach us? What can your GROUP teach us?
- Good organizer and lots of business experience. Previously managed a 16 million dollar business unit so lots of logistics and supply chain experience. Also a recovering Preacher's Kid with community experience (clown troupe, fundraisers, plays, youth group leader, and other community initiatives). Writer (published, but nothing you've ever heard of!). Currently looking to return to school for Physician's Assistant (but having a hard time with the financial aspect). Oh and I'm a licensed massage therapist although currently non-practicing as I don't have the hand strength to do it as a career.
- Your Favorite Books/Websites/Blogs/RSS Feeds for Information about the Transition Movement
- Sharon Astyk's blog Casaubon's Book (http://sharonastyk.com/). Avid reader of Breaking News on Life After the Oil Crash.com. Have read The Long Emergency andThe Party's Over.
- Your Personal Website (if you have one)
- http://parmapowerdown2.blogspot.com/
MRasey's Blog
TRANSITION TOWN PARMA--THE FIRST BABY STEP
From the Parma Powerdown blog. "Creating an abundance of permaculture in a time of energy, economic, and environmental depletion." http://parmapowerdown.blogspot.com/
Yesterday I read The Transition Handbook in its entirety and out of 200+ pages of information, the fact I can't escape is the global warming issue:
"If we break through the 1C barrier as now seems inevitable, we'll see a Mount Kilimanjaro completely bereft of ice, the almost complete collapse of the Great Barrier Reef, and a numb… Continue
Yesterday I read The Transition Handbook in its entirety and out of 200+ pages of information, the fact I can't escape is the global warming issue:
"If we break through the 1C barrier as now seems inevitable, we'll see a Mount Kilimanjaro completely bereft of ice, the almost complete collapse of the Great Barrier Reef, and a numb… Continue
Posted on December 17, 2008 at 11:51am —
That New Permaculture Smell
Today I finished reading the Transition Handbook and my mind is reeling. With possibilities, ideas, inspirations, and scary scenarios. The fact that really stuck with me is that we are looking at a 2C increase in temperature pretty much no matter what we do. Goodbye Great Barrier Reef.
Anyway, I've pretty much read the book and now need to plan for the next step(s). First a detailed action plan of the things I can do to create an infrastructure. A rough draft of said plan...
1.Set up a blog fo… Continue
Anyway, I've pretty much read the book and now need to plan for the next step(s). First a detailed action plan of the things I can do to create an infrastructure. A rough draft of said plan...
1.Set up a blog fo… Continue
Posted on December 16, 2008 at 1:30pm —
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"Money is like blood," says NEF researcher David Boyle. "Local purchases recirculate it, but patronize mega-chains or online retailers," he says, and "it flows out like a wound."
"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
"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
Events
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Pancakes and Transition
December 29, 2009 from 9am to 10am – The Empire Grill
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