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    Talk on the Transition Town movement by Jennifer Gray



    Talk on the Transition Town movement
    by Jennifer Gray
    Founder of the second Transition Town in the UK
    Thursday, Jan 15 7:30 PM
    Aubergine Cafe
    755 Petaluma Ave., Sebastopol
    Free
    (great food and drink available for purchase)

    Presented by Transition Sebastopol
    (8th official Transition Town in the US).

    Jennifer will share her experience setting up a Transition Town in the U.K.
    She will talk about the nuts and bolts of engaging our community in
    working through the steps of Transition.

    Discussion on the Transition Town model to follow, with a brief presentation by the Transition Sebastopol initiating team on how you can get involved locally.

    What is a Transition Town?

    It all starts when a small collection of motivated individuals within a community come together with a shared concern: How can our community respond to the challenges and opportunities of Peak Oil and Climate Change?
    They begin by forming an initiating group with the intention of engaging a significant proportion of the people in their community to kick off a Transition Initiative –whereby a community looks Peak Oil and Climate Change squarely in the eye and addresses this BIG question: What are those aspects of life this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive? How do we significantly increase resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?




    Jennifer Gray


    Jennifer Gray is one of the pioneers of the Transition Town movement in the UK, having helped organize Transition Penwith, the second Transition Initiative after the beginning of the idea in 2005 in Totnes, a small town in Devon. She's worked closely with Rob Hopkins, a permaculture teacher who wrote "The Transition Town Handbook." Since moving to the US, Jennifer recently founded Transition US, working with the network in the UK to support the emergence of Transition initiatives across the US. She has been working in the environmental movement for over 20 years, and has traveled extensively around the world actively looking for solutions for sustainability. She holds a BA in 'Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Community' from New College of California, and an MSc in 'Ecological Education' from Schumacher College in Devon, which is a community-based living and learning program for international ecological studies. Jennifer is a permaculture designer, teacher and writer. She has an avid interest in helping communities make a positive transition to a low carbon world.



    For more information contact:
    [email protected]
    or Scott McKeown at 707-824-1361
    More about Transition Towns...


    After going through a creative process of:


    *Awareness-raising around the peak oil/climate problem and the need to find ways to build resilience and reduce carbon emissions together.
    *Connecting with existing groups in the community.
    *Building bridges to local government.
    *Working groups on the key areas of life (food, energy, transport, health, heart & soul, economics, livelihoods, etc.).
    *Initiating projects aimed at community engagement and building people's understanding of climate issues and community resilience.


    Eventually launch a community-defined, community-implemented "Energy Descent Action Plan" to take place over a 15 to 20 year timescale.

    The result is a coordinated range of projects across all these areas of life working to rebuild the resilience we've lost as a result of cheap oil –and reduce the community's carbon emissions drastically.

    The Transition movement celebrates two very positive ideas:

    *We used immense amounts of creativity, ingenuity and adaptability on the way up the energy upslope.
    *There's no reason for us not to do the same on the downslope.

    Climate change makes this carbon reduction transition essential.
    Peak Oil makes it inevitable.
    Transition initiatives make it feasible and attractive (as far as we know so far…)


    Cheerful disclaimer!
    Just in case you were under the impression that Transition is a process defined by people who have all the answers, you need to be aware of a key fact.
    We truly don't know if this will work. Transition is a social experiment on a massive scale.
    What we are convinced of is this:
    • if we wait for the governments, it'll be too little, too late
    • if we act as individuals, it'll be too little
    • but if we act as communities, it might just be enough, just in time.
    Everything that you read on the transition town https://transitiontowns.org site is the result of real work undertaken in the real world with community engagement at its heart. There's not an ivory tower in sight, no professors in musty oak-panelled studies churning out erudite papers, no slavish adherence to a model carved in stone.
    This site, just like the transition model, is brought to you by people who are actively engaged in transition in a community. People who are learning by doing - and learning all the time. People who understand that we can't sit back and wait for someone else to do the work. People like you, perhaps...
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    Re: Talk on the Transition Town movement by Jennifer Gray

    I Googled Jennifer and her movement and came up with this from The Christian Science Monitor.
    Communities plan for a low-energy future | csmonitor.com
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