New years resolutions often involve commitments to change some habit or pattern while a 'goal' implies a creative endeavor which one hopes to achieve.  While it is good to change habits and patterns that no longer serve us it is also important to set creative goals.  Whatever your resolution or goals are for 2012 please share them with the community and we can all post…

Some top thinkers recently gathered in Washington, DC to strategize on population, women’s rights and environment issues. Experts met at the Aspen Institute on January 12^th to discuss “The Road to Rio: Climate Change, Population and Sustainability” and find ways to collaborate and shed more light on these topics at the upcoming Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, taking place June 20-22, 2012.

Talks focused on the need, in light of the pressing problems facing us, for some new approaches to sustainable development and how policy makers and activists can tie this into the global unmet need for family planning information and services.

Carmen Barroso, regional director of International…

I am starting a permaculture demo side in the California Valley(learning dessert gardening) Any more people interested in learning and doing hands on permaculture practices with experienced educated permaculturist ?Reply to Apple.acupuncture@yahoo.com

Hello Transition California!

The Establishment is having at least two openings coming up in mid-November/December, and we want to get the word out to people who would be excited about participating in an intentional community.

The Establishment is a 19-bedroom home in downtown San Luis Obispo. Our community is loosely organized around house dinners, home projects, group fun and community projects.

I am posting a blog about swapping goods for goods. The author is a member of International Transition Towns, Sherry L. Ackerman, Ph.D and that is what really got my attention and thought it was something good to share. Here is what Sherry had to say. "

My hometown, Mount Shasta, California, is participating in the international Transition Town movement. We are officially a Transition Town and are actively trying to build a strong, sustainable, healthy, local economy. We are approaching this from multiple directions, but one of the key things that we are doing is sponsoring monthly Trader's Coops."

There is a great story attached to this about Sherry's trip to Portugal and what happens when economic downturns occur.

I am excited about this concept. I am anxious to find a home for my Kombucha mothers, of which I have quite a few.

Hope you enjoy this article as much as I…

When our team discovered 'A New We - EcoVillages & Ecological Communities in Europe' by Austrian documentary filmmaker, Stefan Wolf, we immediately made contact to propose an 'interdependent partnership' and publish a digital download version of the film. 

Our goal was to direct part of our portion of the proceeds to the Green Fire Foundation to be earmarked to fund a committee that would take on the task of importing the protocols and criteria that the Lammas EcoVillage in Wales pioneered to get planning permission from the local government. 

The biggest obstacle that has been preventing these new community models from being developed here in California is the lack of clearly defined standards…