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Bioregional Jump

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Transition Denver

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TRANSITION SKILLS FOR EARTH-BODY HEALING

Started Aug 19, 2009

Democratizing Finance & Hazel Henderson's Role in Fair Trade

Started Apr 9, 2009

Two Poems from Daron Mueller's Feb 19th Reading in Lyons

Started Mar 2, 2009

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Coco Gordon left a comment for Kelly Simmons

"Hi Kelly A friend has a daughter who wants info about enrolling in a sustainability program & thought of you- can you give me a contact #, email or website for the program you run please. have a happy holiday!!! cheers Coco"

Dec 24, 2011

Coco Gordon and Kelly Simmons are now friends

Dec 24, 2011

Coco Gordon replied to David Braden's discussion Pay it Up Stream in the group Front Range Gardeners

"Thanks for your views David and Jason. I was actually referring to the kind of moving water laterally with thousands of gabions (can in places appropriately be done with swales) slowing the accelerating descent & tracing a new path for plants…"

Sep 28, 2011

Les Squires joined Coco Gordon's group

Bioregional Jump

Jump into contour of earth called Home. I introduce Biocouncil preparations for continuous never-ending Bioregional Congress Aug 17-28 in the SW Oregon wild Klamath-Siskiyou.See More

Apr 13, 2011

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Bioregional Jump

Jump into contour of earth called Home. I introduce Biocouncil preparations for continuous never-ending Bioregional Congress Aug 17-28 in the SW Oregon wild Klamath-Siskiyou.See More

Apr 13, 2011

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Coco Gordon commented on David E Greenwald's event Meet Tom Greco - Author and Local Currency Expert

"Twas meant to be, teaching postponed, I can make it after all- count me in! cheers Coco"

Apr 10, 2011

Coco Gordon left a comment for Teri Dillion

"HITerri was thinking of you and hoping you'd recover fast from the flu- it's been going around & sticking around for almost a year now- I had it in dec & still not back to normal, & my friends are just getting it now-so I…"

Apr 7, 2011

Coco Gordon and Teri Dillion are now friends

Apr 7, 2011

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How are you currently involved in the Transition movement?: Am an original initiating member of Transition Town Lyons, certified in Permaculture with Bill Mollison 1997 and Dawn Shiner 1996; 25 years with Bioregional Congresses, sit on the Biocouncil planning for 2011 or 2012 Congress; Working on Gaia University Integrative Eco Social Design Masters degree. Past: 4 years contributed to NYC Civic Alliance’s Permaculture Life Cycle performance metrics to Ground Zero's rebuild; friends with Thomas Berry, met Helena Norberg Hodge, Vandana Shiva, Kirk Sale, Hazel Henderson; worked in Bella Abzug's 90's WEDO 'Women for healthy environment NYC group; Now team teach Permaculture PDC at Zia Parker's Willow Way Wellness Demonstration Permaculture Farm. Slipped right into Transition Movement.

Wrote 13 books capsulizing books of David Abram, Paul Hawken, Chellis Glendinning, Thomas Berry, Stephanie Mills, Sunryu Suzuki, David Korten and others central to eco-social interests; published 2 assembling books, 1992 and 2003 on Visioning Pemaculture Systems; published 60 books with my Water Mark Press, TIKYSK Press and W Space press since 1978. My publishing has morphed to Water Mark of Lyons PPP: (papers, press and permaculture), LLC.

My new website put up for Gaia University is being built, one site is open to read, a second site coming soon: http://www.ask-ssw.com/ask-ssw.com_1A/Intro.html

Transition has the ideal community/village/town/city scale and cooperative philosophy (us + them, beyond I teach you) no prior initiative has been able to organize such practical use on large scale.

I'm committed to impart Bioregional experience of ceremonial village living to local communities to give Transition visibility into an ancestral Bioregional base it draws from.

A steep curve to immerse my Local Governing bodies in Bioregional Permaculture Transition Town Resilience led to new PDC graduates and a contribution of ecological commitments penned into Lyons' 2010 revised Comprehensive Town Plan.

I've presented Transition to Lyons' Planning commission (PCDC) and Board of Trustees (BOT), was appointed to the Sustainable Futures Commission (SFC) where I now begin to chair strategies for Permaculture restoring town water systems, a 5 year project; and to develop Permaculture, food and economic localization. I represent Lyons at the Boulder County Sustainable Energy Group, Am part of a revitalized Economic Development Council to Implement the Town Plan, and do one-on-one's with locals, visitors and Transition people making mindmaps of our conversations.

Our initiating team is in flux: on automatic this past year, elders, and food groups are the most active after encouraging attendance to many films, talks, open Space programs, and summer inner Transition celebrative Be-In's thanking our gardens and confluence of rivers, with poetry gratitude and our musical instruments.

We embark on a new phase, go from initiating group meetings to inviting new folks to train for core group leadership roles that further Transition Town actions: youth, seniors, farmers, gardeners, Permaculturists, other community groups. Our SFC and Town government has listed all groups and meeting places in town similar to early initiating team resource work. All seem to be merging with the same goals in mind, to create a resilient self sustainability, interrelating community.

Transition Lyons has offered the town government to collaborate on revising an EDAP style plan for emergency/catastrophe that is needing revision.

In what ways do you identify with the Transition movement? Why are you interested?: I am a catalyst, In NYC most of my life, influenced Bloomberg's New Model Sustainable City PlaNYC direction until 2004.

Since 2006 I’ve instructed Permaculture one-on-one then began Perm 101 with sponsorship of Town Parks Rec. Transition popped into Lyons enthusiastically with a presentation by Michael Brownlee, and has been stablizing our economic downturned environment with more self-sustainable community roots.

As SuperSkyWoman in the art, poetry & Permaculture world, I am observant, objective, hovering, listening to others offer their own answers with their own seeds of skills and old knowledge. Transition offers a large community of similarly minded action oriented movers / shakers and listeners / changers. Lots a-poppin makes us all learn from each other. I support other Transition initiatives and have traveled to take part.

What background and skills do you bring to this community?: Was Permaculture certified twice, sit on the Bioregional Biocouncil, doing visioning, outreach, site planning, fundraising planning and biocurriculum work. I like working with water systems and retention, soil fertility improvement, growing my own food, making inoculum, breeding worms and mushroom, starting up extended season gardens at low cost, and am embarking on making bisque pots as alternate to drip irrigation.

I’ve been a master papermaker, skilled to create a community cottage industry and train artists to create their own papermaking studios.

I am still interested in starting a first 'Value Added', School with the help of Jerome Osentowski, who started the first CSA school in 1980. Am designing this idea on Lyons' future map, and concluded public process collaboration to pass revised Lyons Comp Plan as much more Sustainable in practice.

I had 17 years responsibility operating an industrial kitchen in the 60-70s, introducing the use of fresh farm produce. This food service knowledge may be needed in a future community-centered kitchen.

Since late 70s have published and handmade many in-house in small editions of art and books, an archiving them and organizing core world changing Action-Resilience projects this year as part of my Gaia University degree program.

Have 40 years experience as international practicing poet, land artist and art-performer, bringing the avant garde and ecological ways into all I do. I practice many inner healing skills, with certification in Reiki, keep up with best practices, and I do many one-on one helping people with emergency healing techniques.

How can you help the growth/acceptance/vitality of the Transition movement?: I can fill ongoing changing roles, be advisor for Transition core groups, help train newcomers.

Your Favorite Books/Websites/Blogs/RSS Feeds for Information about the Transition Movement: My daughter Deborah Gordon's new book TWO BILLION CARS (Oxford University Press), forward by A Schwartzneger.

Ask me for my you-tube video word.doc list & gladly will send all or parts.
I will be writing up a bibliography of recommended books.

My archives are open for special study on all movements related to Bioregionalism, Permaculture Transition, Financial Permaculture, and intersecting environmental community newspapers, magazines, books, papers, going back to the 70's, including a large collection of books by numerous favorite authors.

My past favorite authors: All permaculture authors, Frances Moore Lappe’, Donella Meadows, Helena Norberg Hodge, Vandana Shiva, Stephanie Mills, Thomas Berry, Wendell Berry, Helen Henderson, Schumacher, Lovelock, Dolores La Chapelle, Starhawk, Chellis Glendinning, David Abram, Freeman House, Rachael Carson, Derrick Jensen, Susan Griffin, Deena Metzger, Michael J. Cohen, Jerome Rothenberg, Gary Snyder, Emily Carr, Suzuki, Satyananda Saraswati, Francis Ponge, Gaston Bachelard, Paula Gunn Allen, Len Horowitz, John Cage, William McDunnough, Louise L. Hay, & many more.

Your Personal Website (if you have one): http://www.ask-ssw.com/home/links.html http://www.galerie.kultur.a...

Official Voice Communication: Skype from http://skype.com/download Add LSquiresSkype to your Contacts.: cocogordon

Suggestions you have for improving our Registration questions. Getting to know you better.: keep the sidebar active with the most recent additions & comments, it is an easy way to tap into what interest me.

Working on making a new website, + making movie projects from videos on my digital camera now on i-Movie.

http://harvestworks.org/creativec/index3.html
http://www.galerie.kultur.at/coco/base/core.htm
http://www.van.at/howl/cyb/cont01/cont01.htm
http://www.van.at/howl/device/set01/cont03.htm
http://www.kultur.at/howl/v/set02/v57.htm
http://www.galerie.kultur.at/coco/lt01/ssw03.htm
http://tell-a-mouse.be/sacrifice/terre/Terra.htm
http://www.tell-a-mouse.be/sacrifice/menu.htm Click on wild capture
http://tell-a-mouse.be/sacrifice/contribs/coco-g.htm
http://www.kultur.at/howl/mir/ click on enter, all contributions, open my files
http://www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/exhibitionhall/2002/edition05/cocoself.htm click on self representation, the numbers represent the years of my works -This german site is up for revision from year 2002-2008
http://www.nmartproject.net/artists/?p=914
http://www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/infodesk/september2002b.swf

http://www.planetaryhealer.net/meditation.html Coco Gordon
http://www.nationalwatercenter.org/celebrating_water_4.htm#Page%2038
article in Aquaterra-papermaking as a vast reservoir
http://printedmatter.org/news/news.cfm?article_id=172
http://www.deeplistening.org/site/catalog/Gordon
http://www.artingeneral.org/projects/262
http://www.eptrail.com/news/2008/aug/20/performance-artist/?printer=1/
http://www.pollution.net/news.php?news=8954809&newstitle=Performance+artist+Coco+Gordon+‘reconfigures’+thought+and+sound+waves
http://printedmatter.org/catalogue/search.cfm?email=&cookie1=9317261.8&search=resurrection&search_type=
http://rhizome.org/discuss/view/18484
http://www.franklinfurnace.org/goings_on/thismonth/go020306.html
http://www.franklinfurnace.org/goings_on/goings_on/04_03_10.html#go
http://www.franklinfurnace.org/goings_on/goings_on/08_01_28.html#13
http://www.franklinfurnace.org/goings_on/goings_on/04_10_12.html#22
http://www.ghostnets.com/events/press_release.htm
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http://www.pw.org/content/coco_gordon_2

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Positive Upbeat Videos to Recommend: Transition and Permaculture

Adding to this in time, this is latest update, you can add your favorites in the reply & I can place them in proper slots.

This is an upbeat list of u-tube videos requested by those present at the Thursday Dec 4th Transition Boulder County 12 steps meeting. It serves as a perfect starter for those who ask us for an entry into Transition, that can explain Permaculture in its relation with Transition, self reliance and resiliency. I added classic Transition, peak oil videos,… Continue

Posted on April 20, 2009 at 12:36am — 1 Comment

Join me at the Tenth Continental Bioregional Congress at The Farm in Summertown, TN. October 3rd-10th, 2009

Date of the next Continental Bioregional Congress at The Farm in Summertown, TN. October 3rd-10th, 2009 is confirmed.

http://www.bioregional-congress.org/CBCX/CBCX.html

This is a unique opportunity to connect with the roots of Transition and become friends with the younger and the elder generations participating in Reinhabitation of all our Home places, within a week of the best in Ceremonial Village living, consensus facilitation, plenary deliberations, local food, creativity,… Continue

Posted on February 19, 2009 at 12:11pm — 2 Comments

Transforming Dead Ends into Food Gardens: Answer to "Too late? Why scientists say we should expect the worst"

We've all long learned in Permaculture how to build a lush garden with sheet mulch on concrete and on tables in a street's dead end.

Hold this Image.

Insert Transition solutions to dead ends: Become Food Safe and Resilient, design our local Energy Descent Plans, our Plans for Catastrophe, Great Unleashings, roll out new currencies.

Put a Transition mark on every dead end. Go to the stopping places in articles you read. In this article by David Adam, Dec 9, 2008,… Continue

Posted on February 19, 2009 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

Flowforms drawn in the Transition Event Moment

I've started uploading the flowforms drawn while transition events are in process. I particularly like to connect one's thought to another's thought, nesting them to see the interconnections and dependencies, what comes out of what, where can it go, does it lie low or rise high.

It is useful to see how conversations, discussions, open space brainstorming, decisions are moment by moment affected by each other's tellings, drawn visually or many time just as lists, on a large board, or… Continue

Posted on December 15, 2008 at 1:00pm

Hazel Henderson: Redesigning Money Systems to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

This post is dear to my heart. I remember an exchange with Hazel Henderson high up overlooking the East River near the UN in 1998. We met via a common friend and exchanged our books. She gave me her Creating Alternative Futures: The end of Economics, Kumarian Press 1996, I gave her my Permaculture Getting to Know You: SuperSkyWoman Dialogues with the People TIKYSK Press 1998. Her inscription in my book reads, To Coco Go who knows all this! I loved your "taste of Permaculture" and meeting you.… Continue

Posted on December 14, 2008 at 7:00pm — 1 Comment

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At 11:13pm on January 4, 2011, Karina Zedalis said…: Hi Coco....it would be great to meet sometime soon, and the Stone Cup works great....my work load is a bit hectic right now after the holidays, but will look towards later this month. And don't hesitate to nudge me...I am eager to meet people in the Transition movement, and this would be a great opportunity! (Would a Friday morning or after school time (2:30) work for you?) With sunshine, Karina

At 2:39pm on March 22, 2010, Donald Studinski said…: Coco,
I want to send you a poem entry for your up-coming event, but I realized I don't have your email address. Please write to me at dstudin at yahoo dot com. ... Don ... the kooky guy with Transition Westminster/Arvada/Broomfield that gives everyone hugs.

At 5:33pm on March 7, 2010, allan werthan said…: Hello Coco - thanks for the request. Check out my web site if you are interested:
globalchildrensgardens.org

In friendship,
Allan

At 12:47pm on March 7, 2010, allan werthan said…: Hello Coco - I will be offering a free presentation at the Lyons Town Hall on Tuesday March 9 at 6 PM:

Ho to grow organic vegetables year round, even at altitude, using sustainable practices and renewable energy resources.
Spirited discussion to follow

I hope to see you there - Allan 303-378-6923

At 9:48am on February 9, 2010, Coco Gordon said…: oops hit the button twice-may as well write some thoughts
thinking today of the worms living deeply through one freeze under the sheetmulch after another then hopefully coming back out of dormancy, like the oyster mushrooms I planted in my home garden. & I woke up with these words from a dream: In Strocles Mile Mill... (where was I? I was saying where the dream was taking place)- how does the brain think up the unknown? That's my Transition question for today.

At 9:42am on February 9, 2010, Coco Gordon said…: Hi David, the kind of effort you took to develop your new spiral social technology is in of itself inspirational and adds up with other inspirational people's new thought technologies to build up one card at a time our inner connection skills that allow the leap we will need to make towards self-sufficiency, resiliency and a much more satisfying life in like resilient community.

I was following your presentation on the Transition site of your model and the text printed up here as well. And as with creative commons and open source tech, you are in good company sharing your vision. So Kudos. & be well
Coco

At 9:26am on February 9, 2010, David Braden said…: I don't know if you are following the discussion where you left that kind comment so I am thanking you here as well. It is my pleasure to share these ideas with you. I hope that you can make use of them in your own valuable efforts for a better planet.

David

At 4:21pm on January 29, 2010, Kimberly Matney said…: Many thanks, Coco for the nice welcome! :) I look forward to learning a lot!!!!!
Best wishes, Kimberly

At 3:49pm on January 15, 2010, Coco Gordon said…: continued:
You can also keep a worm pile like Zia does at Willow way, & keep it moist & covered by carpeting to stay warm. The sheet mulch acts in this way as a carpet for the worms to stay warm, & if it is too cold, they just stop performing making castings & hibernate till it warms up, according to John A, & that placing the red worms in a bed of sheetmulch is the easiest way of letting the red worms work & grow & create more castings.

I think your putting the sheet mulch in on top anywhere will just break down with the cold & warming weather & that frost layer is not even everywhere, depending on the microclimates some places will be warming & refreezing more than others, some carpeting or putting straw bales on N & West sides to protect from cold winds helps change the microclimate as well. YOu can experiment & leave several methods of affecting the microclimates side by side & see how they work out, leaving one alone as a control comparison, make different additions, mulching, etc to the others. You need to learn from your own land what it wants where.

cheers
coco

At 3:48pm on January 15, 2010, Coco Gordon said…: Hey good question Alexander, Yes keep adding anytime when you get the additional resources, like leaves, straw, pureed green manure you let break down in black bags, compost, any other amendments that won't wait- & the continuing snows & melts will keep it moist- always should be moist way underneath so the worms love it & stay- John Anderson the worm man says that putting in a batch of red worms (even on top) on the sheetmulch in one place in warm enough weather, will have them go diving under & spreading out everywhere in the contiguous mulch to avoid the light & they stay there feeding on the cardboard at first, then will feed on any added shredded moistened paper & compost you shovel in there, the worms love it so much here in my front garden that they begin to proliferate in the peripheral straw bales at the edges, then the wormy bales get dark inside & can spit up & are useful to place elsewhere to start off another sheet mulch area.

continued on next comment, it's too long-

If you see me, say hi, I may not recognize you
Cheers/
Coco