How can our community respond to the challenges and opportunities of peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis? This small team of people begin by forming an initiating group and then adopt the Transition Model with the intention of engaging a significant proportion of the people in their community.
Come and join us on Sat. March 23, at the Weybridge School as we learn about Transition Towns, led by Ruah Swennerfeld. She has started "Transition Town Charlotte: Resilience Through Relocalization, Re-Skilling and Networking", which helps build community. Here's a link to the website:https://www.transitioncharlottevt.org/
We'll start with a potluck at 5 pm, and Ruah will bring china, silverware,glasses and napkins, so that our event can be zero-waste – something she does when she comes and speaks!
6-8 pm – Presentation
What if people in towns got together regularly for local foods potlucks, discussions about sharing resources and building resilience, listening to speakers, watching films, sewing, knitting, making music and having fun? Can we imagine bringing people together who are from different political viewpoints,different economic conditions, different cultures, different races, different educational backgrounds and different religious beliefs? How can we strengthen community, and share the practical wisdom of age, knowledge, experience and living? Who can weld? Who sews? Who can fix engines? Who grows wheat? Who grows vegies? Who has animals? How can we help each other? How can we live together, and tread lightly on the earth? Our planet is in crisis – what can we do?
People do Transition for all sorts of reasons:
to get to know their neighbours;
to feel like they are making a difference in the world;
because the world's huge challenges (climate change, social inequality, economic decline and so on) feel more manageable if addressed at the local scale (as one person put it, "Transition changed my relationship to the problems");
to catalyse all manner of new projects, enterprises and investment opportunities;
to learn new skills;
to feel like they are creating a new story for their place;
to feel connected to other people and to something historic and exciting happening around them;
because they feel it is "the right thing to do
Sponsored by Huddlebury. If you have questions, please contact Bethany by email. See you there!