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December 2008 Blog Posts (13)

A Year of Focus

In 2008, my research showed this to be an extremely critical period of time, one that could determine whether or not humanity survives beyond this century. It was important to examine the basis for this and how to achieve a positive outcome.

It is important to remind readers that, to my knowledge, my consumption models and “laws” have neither been confirmed nor proven wrong by others. The theory and conclusions are totally mine, though the… Continue

Added by Brad Jarvis on December 31, 2008 at 2:55pm — No Comments

Birthday Tamales

My husband’s birthday is December 24th and I always try to do something special for him for dinner that day. This year as I was looking in the paper in the morning of the 24th, I realized that I had everything I needed for a simple variation of the very complex recipe for tamales that I found. I have never made tamales before, though clearly I was thinking about it this summer as my son grew the corn that we then dried for masa, and as I dried the corn husks from the corn we ate in July.… Continue

Added by Nisa B. Hallesy on December 26, 2008 at 12:30pm — 3 Comments

Some reading material for the rest of your body

In the last week, I've come across a couple articles in my daily overdose of newsfeeds that I found uncommonly, well, human. Rather than inundate me with grim statistics or get me all riled up with innovative solutions, both of these essays struck the non-cerebral parts of me in a refreshingly poignant sort of way.

I realized that, just like the snow that's slowly melting outside my window, this kind of… Continue

Added by Adam Brock on December 24, 2008 at 5:41pm — 1 Comment

WWII American Victory Gardens

Check out this article posted on Google Knol about Victory Gardens
which served to create community, self-sufficiency, and even patriotism during WWII.

Added by EML on December 22, 2008 at 6:30pm — 4 Comments

Transition Denver needs a moment of your time!

Hi all----a very happy holiday season to all of you.

I have the chance to go in front of Denver's Inter Neighborhood Coalition in Jan.....this is basically the "mothership" of the 150 neighborhood associations in Denver. I want to do an inspiring and dynamic presentation about Transition and what is going on in the movement.

I need your help.

Number #1- do you have any quotes about sustainability, community, Transition, localization, etc. that just knock your socks… Continue

Added by Dana Miller on December 21, 2008 at 8:31pm — 3 Comments

Greenhouse on Ice

Ah well, I saw it coming. NOAA is a helpful resource when one is attempting to keep green things alive out back this time of year. I prepared- adding a few more inches of mulch, watering everything including the floor between the beds, adding more floating row cover and some bubble wrap to the space blankets already in place. I also took in almost four pounds of greens and broccoli heads- especially the larger more vulnerable leaves. When I went out… Continue

Added by Nisa B. Hallesy on December 19, 2008 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment

TIME and currencies and Transition Towns

http://205.188.238.109/time/business/article/0,8599,1865467,00.html?iid=tsmodule

Added by Dana Miller on December 16, 2008 at 1:47pm — 2 Comments

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

Added by Coco Gordon on December 15, 2008 at 1:00pm — No Comments

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

Added by Coco Gordon on December 14, 2008 at 7:00pm — 1 Comment

Reply to Transition Culture Nov 6 "Why, for today at least, I’m celebrating Obama’s victory"

Coco Gordon aka SuperSkyWoman 8 Nov 7:08pm

Reply to

6 Nov 2008

Why, for today at least, I’m celebrating Obama’s victory

Am moved by Albert Bates’ (http://transitionculture.org/2008/11/06/why-im-happy-about-obama/#comments) level of observation, seeing through Obama’s first instinct to hold torches for War, atomic energy, coal, Cheney’s insistent PNAC supremacy, the so-long-on-the-automatic-runway Megamachine-snatching-away-of-soul. Yet I also see the willingness of new… Continue

Added by Coco Gordon on December 11, 2008 at 11:24am — No Comments

The Trials and Tribulations of the novice greenhouse-keeper

Well the weather has been hard on this novice greenhouse keeper this week. First the wind and heat. Not heat exactly, but very warm- enough to accentuate the degree of cold that follows, and trick the plants into thinking it must be some kind of light-starved Summer followed by a killer Winter. Of course the wind had me up in the middle of one night (we all know which night that was) to check to see if I sitll had a greenhouse...

So it finally started snowing in earnest yesterday and… Continue

Added by Nisa B. Hallesy on December 5, 2008 at 9:52pm — No Comments

Clean Water, Water rights, We all live downstream: Proactive Resolutions

Years ago the Bolivians at Cochabamba rallied around their own water rights being forcibly taken by Bechtel, and with a coup then legal resolution, won their battle issuing the Cochabamba Declaration, ousting Bechtel from their country. At the 2002 CBC 8 in Kansas (Bioregional Congress, http://www.bioregional-congress.org/Proceedings/proceedings.html), Ratifying our resolution to safeguard the Cochabamba Declaration was the primary effort of our plenary for that year. (read the Cochabamba… Continue

Added by Coco Gordon on December 5, 2008 at 5:44am — 1 Comment

Optimizing Happiness

Practically, increasing happiness involves creating a range of environments (sets of circumstances) that meets the desires of the most people in a population. One way this can be done is to increase the number and variety of environments; another is to create a single environment that is as close as possible to meeting the desires of an average member of the population. Mathematical modeling based on international statistics… Continue

Added by Brad Jarvis on December 4, 2008 at 11:00am — 2 Comments