Cultivating a community of resilience in San Jose: connect, create, inspire, inform Background:
Climate change, peak oil, economic turmoil.
The more you look behind the headlines, the stronger grows the conviction that changes are coming. In a time when many of us feel anxious and frustrated, Transition offers a positive vision. It seeks to create "a sense of anticipation, elation and a collective call to adventure." The Transition Movement started in England and Ireland in 2005, and has since grown to hundreds of individual Transitio
10/24/2013
Farm Box We are not just any CSA Program. Our Farm Box members are part of the Veggielution family - people working to keep San Jose’s agricultural heritage alive and to create a more sustainable, equitable food system. In the winter we will be serving 40 families in San Jose, and about 120 in the summer. We...
05/13/2013
Support Veggielution! They have some big pants (acres) to fill, and they need a tractor for it. There are only five days left, help them out. It is one of the best ways I know of contributing to a local food system here in San Jose.
Join the Veggielution! We need your help to purchase a tractor to cultivate our 4 new acres of land.
Occupy Love movie night - Transition Silicon Valley
Check it out!
http://www.transitiontownsca.org/group/siliconvalley/forum/topic/show?id=2379767%3ATopic%3A71100&xg_source=msg
01/28/2013
Help Garden to Table get started! Support local food in San Jose by contributing to their Kickstarter campaign!
Garden to Table Building community one garden/ fruit tree at a time by taking advantage of the underutilized resources in our neighborhoods.
Genetic Roulette movie night at the Peace Center!
http://www.sanjosepeace.org/calendar_event.php?eid=20121012141925427
10/22/2012
The silence is deafening
Here is Miami, Florida flooding at high tide this weekend - just days before the final US Presidential Debate, also in Florida.
SHARE this if you agree that there is no excuse for our politicians to be ignoring climate change when major cities are disappearing under the ocean.
More: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/10/18/v-fullstory/3056465/activists-put-climate-change-on.html
Photo by Jaquie Ayala
10/19/2012
This podcast episode taps into some things I have been thinking about myself lately - we need massive action, yet the current doable solutions on the table tend to be pretty weak. What about making a habit of taking practical steps but continuing to move towards totally unreasonable goals (like San Jose being carbon neutral, clean water, clean air, zero waste within the next 20 years? Oh and have a thriving bio-regional economy while we're at it)
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How do we start from where we are and make that happen?
326: Why Not be David? | C-Realm Radiant Sun KMO and the lovely Olga K pay a visit to the home of Sandra Steingraber to talk about fracking and the need to resist reckless despoilment of the environment.
10/18/2012
Reality Check: why are we focusing on vague problems like peak oil and climate change when there already is a toxicology crisis going on RIGHT NOW?
Great talk by Andrew Faust on Regenerating Urban centers by starting with the problems we know about that are poisoning us now.
What struck me is that if we are approaching them from Permaculture design framework, it is highly likely we will simultaneously be bringing real solutions to the twin threats of Peak Oil/Climate Change
C-Realm Special: Regenerating Urban Centers | C-Realm Radiant Sun A lecture by permaculture instructor, Andrew Faust, on using permacultural design principles to make incremental upgrades to the urban landscape to help move
10/17/2012
10/16/2012
Also for those interested in local economies and how to take money out of Wall Street and put it back on Main Street, I highly recommend Local Dollars, Local Sense. I'm about 2/3rds through and it is just packed with great information on how the landscape is shifting for funding small local businesses, (the ONLY source of real job creation).
Local Dollars, Local Sense by Michael H. Shuman - Chelsea Green Local Dollars, Local Sense by Michael Shuman probes the future of investing -- making the case for investors to put their money into building local businesses and food and energy systems, and otherwise creating healthy regional economies that meet the stresses of a post-peak-oil world…
For those interested in contributing to the growing of local food systems across the nation, Slow Money is introducing the Soil Trust.
SoilTrust.org I support the Soil Trust. The Soil Trust is a non-profit fund dedicated to rebuilding local food systems, at the intersection of philanthropy and investing.
Great turnout for the first workday at New Community of Faith! The hard work is over, next up sheet mulching! Join us on the 20th.
http://www.meetup.com/Transition-San-Jose/events/87104092/
Transition San Jose This is the second workday at New Community of Faith to Sheet Mulch their front landscape! The schedule is as follows: 9 am - Site Preparation and Orientation (anyone is welcome) 10 am - Quick worksho