· WHAT: Connecting to the Transition Town Movement
· WHEN: Monday, February 6th, 2012, 6:30-8pm
· WHERE: Learning Center for Sustainable Futures, rm. 103
· WHO: All are welcome to attend.
Transition Columbia is a group of people working to connect Columbia with the global network of Transition Initiatives. The Transition Town movement seeks to build community resilience in the face of such challenges as peak oil, climate change, and the economic crisis.
Leaders of the local Transition Town group will be presenting their efforts to promote home-grown citizen-led action, believing that the creativity and ingenuity within each local community can fashion unique responses to the challenges of providing ourselves with food, housing, transportation, health care, and satisfying livelihoods in a future beyond fossil fuels.
Our Transition Columbia group is currently working mainly in the areas of awareness building and re-skilling. We discuss selected issues at each monthly meeting, and we are also beginning a book group in February which will read Richard Heinberg’s The End of Growth.
Our re-skilling activities involve teaching ourselves and others skills that will be vital in a lower energy economy – we have had programs on soil building, energy retro-fitting, wild foods, alternative health modalities, and most recently, bee-keeping. Transition Columbia meets at 6:30 pm on the first Monday of each month at the Green Quad Learning Center.
To learn more about Transition initiatives in the United States, visit http://transitionus.org/.
Brought to you by Sustainable Carolina’s “Greening the Mind” project team.
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