AUGUST 29, 2010 - Transition Movie of the Week & "Directory"
Update
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Greetings Transition California Community
This week Bob
Banner and
Wes Roe have brought to all of you 'Transition
Cities' which is an hour long excellent show that was produced by
PBS Studio 12. Host Tamara Banks takes a look at the Transition
Towns movement that is working for a way of life that is
environmentally friendly, supports the local economy, and conserves
natural resources. This video is an excellent way to share with
friends and family 'what is Transition Towns"?
Kick back and click here to watch
Also we wanted to update all of you about the 'posh directory'
big idea we wrote about last week. We have gotten thumbs up from
many members and a few a thumbs down. We are going to go for the
up's though and we have added a new tab called " TCA Biz
& Orgs " and we are ready to receive your business
or organization information so we can start building it.
Click
here for more information on how and what to send.
Thank you to those members who provided feedback and thoughts on
this 'big idea'.
In Sustainable Solidarity
Dandarius |
AUGUST 25, 2010 - Mid-Week Big Ideas
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Greetings Transition
Community
It is Wednesday again and most of the house cleaning is done
here on the Transition California network and as you all know when
you clean a space up suddenly you realize that you have some
space!
So we had a big idea of how we can use some of the space and wanted
to run it past you. It was inspired by our newest member
Tim Blair from Valley Ford and his website that features what
he is calling an Eco Earth Yacht...
As we told you before we have been checking out everyone's profiles
and many of you have some pretty incredible businesses, products,
services, and organization projects that we feel need to be
highlighted and easier to find.
It would be pretty easy for us to create a posh well organized
member directory of sorts that gives each business a space for a
logo, description paragraph, contact and link so all of you could
more easily find each other.
All we would need is for you to send us a 200x200 jpg of your logo,
a paragraph that describes your product, service, or project,
contact info, and website URL. We would then begin building the
directory.
We would be doing a quality control inspection of sorts (meaning we
are not going to list spammy sales letter pages or other swag crap
that we know you are not going to be interested in) and you must
have some kind of a logo/photo that YOU format at the right size
(300x300) - sorry but we spend enough time in Photoshop without the
extra load.
Does this sound like a good idea? Would you find such a directory
helpful? We do not want to invest a bunch of time into something
that is not going to benefit all of you. We are really impressed
though with many of the sites we visited from links on this
network. If you have an organization project or cause we will
probably have them all listed in another section?
Please know that this idea is selfishly motivated by us because we
want to be able to find all of your websites in one well organized
place - it is hard to click through hundreds of links to see what
is on the other side! :-)
We are starting a discussion about this here so please jump in and
give us your thoughts on the idea.
In Sustainable Solidarity
Dandarius
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AUGUST 22, 2010 -Transition Movie of the Week: Smart Green
Infrastructure: How To Grow Sustainable Cities
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AUGUST 19, 2010 - MID-WEEK HOUSE CLEANING
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Greetings Transition California Community!
Something about Wednesday's always seems to trigger an organizing
and cleaning frenzy for us both online and in our house...does
anyone else have that happen? We noticed a pattern of it a few
years ago and it still happens like clock work...Wednesday comes
along and suddenly the socks need sorting and the networks/websites
we manage need updates.
We have been looking at some of the features on the network and
would like to get rid of stuff that is not
being utilized as resources by very many members (if any) We don't
want
to take anything off that someone might miss so we thought we would
open
up a discussion here to get everyone's input....
read more here,,,,,,
We also still wondering
"How Our Driving" is...quiet passengers can either be content
or scared so give us a clue :-)
Cheers
Daniel & Darlene
'Dandarius' |
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AUGUST 17, 2010 - Wanted: EcoVillage Advocate to Join
Interdependent Project Team
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Greetings Transition
California Community
We are getting ready to update and go into a new stage of the
Interdependent
Project's ongoing evolution and we are looking for someone who
is a serious advocate of EcoVillage living/development to join our
team as the new Executive Administrator of the private Interdependent
Community Sphere .
Interested person(s) must have some basic knowledge of Ning
platforms, interested in connection and communication with folks
currently living at existing/developing EcoVillages, willing to
learn and apply any existing knowledge of EcoVillage/Sustainable
Communities within the network, and of course have time to devote
on a regular basis. We are looking for someone willing to commit to
the long term strategy and development of the Sphere. There is no
monetary compensation at this stage but there are opportunities to
develop compensation plans with the right synergy and
entrepreneurial team player.
Contact us for more information.
Cheers
Daniel & Darlene
'Dandarius'
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AUGUST 16, 2010 - Transition California Movie of the Week
August 16th
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Greetings Transition California
Community
We are getting this out late - we wanted to be able to
post a movie every Sunday but we had a pretty busy weekend and
today (Monday) had us running sideways as well. The movie for this
week is:
Greening the Desert II (including Part I) - Greening the Middle
East.
Grab a mug of your favorite beverage and
enjoy!
And don't forget - if you have any suggestions please
email us and
let us know what movie you think the community would be inspired
with!
In Sustainable Solidarity
Dandarius
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AUGUST 9, 2010 - Transition California Movie of the
Week
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Greetings Transition
California Community!
We put out a call for movie recommendations and Peter
Zabelin from LocalGrow.org sent us links to The World According to
Monsanto with the following message to the community:
"LocalGrow would like to introduce this film to the
community, this is what LocalGrow is gearing its system to help
prevent and we thank you deeply for all the support we have been
receiving so far." ~ Peter Zabelin
So please watch the movie - although we warn you some of the
information is very disturbing so keep in mind that all of our
collective efforts are truly changing the status quo and entities
like Monsanto will very soon be subjects of historical reference
under the 'corporate extinction' category list! Looking forward to
the discussions this movie will inspire....
CLICK HERE TO VIEW MOVIE
Only 60 hours to go for
the LocalGrow.org pledge drive! As we get closer to the
Kickstart deadline we are feeling quite a sense of excitement
knowing that often these kinds of community supported
endeavors often make it during the last minute of effort.
We want to thank
Kat Steele from Urban Permaculture
Guild,
Dianne McCourtney from Ojai,
Nick Parsons from San Francisco, and
Mark Bachelder from Mill Valley for their generous pledges of
support.
In Sustainable Solidarity
Dandarius
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AUGUST 8, 2010 - How's Our Driving?
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Greetings Transition
Community
Everyone has seen the company trucks and vehicles with the sticker
"How's My Driving" with an 800 number to call right? Well we may
not have an 800 number but we definitely read our emails!
We have heard from some of the members these past 11 days since we
began driving this network vehicle and we have had some great
feedback and ideas like the one from Nina about how she would love
to see some kind of a Transition event where everyone could meet in
the physical 3D.
We would love to hear your ideas, thoughts, projects, and
inspirations of how we can transition this community from being
just a 'social network' to being a highly effective community. We
love Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and much
of what was in that book inspired us to create the Interdependent
Project.
If you look at this network like it was a vehicle then of course
you would want to test drive it right? So we are on a test drive
with over a thousand people in the car - each of them with their
own maps and destination right? Who is at the wheel? Hopefully
someone(s) that can listen and pay attention to where everyone
wants to go...but we have to hear from you in order to steer in the
right direction.
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Local Grow Campaign Update:
ONLY 3 MORE DAYS TO GO ....We want to thank again
the people who have pledged their support to launch the
LocalGrow.org platform.
Mary Nelson
Wayne Thompson
Jane Bledsoe
Kay Bolin
Kathryn Quinnell
Dulanie Ellis
Bob Banner
Diane Bryden
There are more than 1100 members in this community...if everyone
were to simply pledge $6.60 (six dollars and
sixty cents) then LocalGrow.org would meet the
Kickstart goal - pledge $10 and take them over the top!
For those of you who have recently joined you can
read about it here .
With only 72 hours remaining to meet the kickstart fundraising goal
now is the time to join us in sustainable solidarity to get this
platform
launched and put Transition California Network on the list of
'Highly
Effective Networks".
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Tomorrow (Sunday) we will be posting
another 'Movie of the Week' so if you have any suggestions email us
before 5pm - must be a Youtube or Google video.
In Sustainable Solidarity
Dandarius
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AUGUST 1, 2010 - Transition Movie of the Week:
Waste=Food
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Greetings Transition
California Community
We hope your weekend is going great! We are still in our first week
of being at the helm of this online transition vehicle and having a
great time getting to know everyone. For those of you who have sent
us emails we appreciate your reaching out to connect with us and
provide us with your ideas and feedback. For those of you who may
have recently joined or missed our first broadcast (and wondering
where Bob went) you can read our first 'greeting'
message here and Bob's
message here .
We are going to be sending you links to movies and videos that we
find inspiring and informative relating to the big transition to a
sustainable culture.
This weeks movie of the week is "Waste=Food"
(An inspiring documentary on the Cradle to Cradle design
concept)
Grab a cup of your favorite beverage or dinner plate and enjoy this
movie. Let's have a conversation about it and please let us know if
you have already seen it (re-run, old news, got that memo or
whatever) - simply leave a comment on the page to begin the
dialogue.
Also we want to welcome the latest Transition California member
Dulanie Ellis from Ojai and thank her for being the 6th
Transition Califo rnia member who has pledged her support to the
LocalGrow.org Kickstart campaign. Dulanie is the chair of the Food
& Agriculture Committee of the Ojai Valley Green Coalition and
a documentary filmmaker. She understands the importance of building
an online platform that will give us all easy access to locally
grown food and how to grow our own delicious organic foodies
!
T here is only 9 more
days left of the LocalGrow.org kickstart campaign so please pledge
your s upport today!
In Sustainable Solidarity
Dandarius |
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JULY 30, 2010 - 1100 Members, Transition Handbook, and Earth
Scouts!
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Greetings Transition
California Community
Transition California had it's 1100th
member join this evening around 6:30pm (Friday July 30th) Her name
is Anneke van Krieken and she lives in Oakland -
click here to visit her profile page and welcome her. We
are making effort this week to connect and welcome all new members
and we wanted to encourage all members to take an active role in
the 'Welcome Wagon'. Whenever you log in and notice new folks
joining on that day pop on over to their profile and say hi and
share with them your favorite blog/video/discussion/
resource.
For those Transitioner's who have children
and are looking for some great programs that will support your
child's journey into the future then you will
definitely want to check out Earth Scouts!
Also we found an online PDF version of the
Transition Handbook that we posted as a resource - not sure if
anyone knew about this version or not so we put it up on the server
for easy download.
Click here to access
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JULY 28, 2010 - Where 3 or more are gathered..Transition
Happens!
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Good morning Transition
Community!
We are so excited that in less than 12 hours since we sent our
first message to all of you about
LocalGrow.org 3 of our community members,
Mary Nelson of Penn Valley,
Wayne Thompson of Ojai, and
Jane Bledsoe from Napa, have joined together and moved
LocalGrow.org closer to manifestation!
This is an excellent beginning and sign of success - " Where 3
or More are Gathered Transition Happens". ...should we make a
T-shirt of that saying? Would it be a cool slogan?
Let us know with a thumbs up or down here
In Sustainable Solidarity
Dandarius
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JULY 27, 2010 - Greetings from Dandarius
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Greetings Transition Town Community!
We are honored and privileged to be the new managers and sponsor of
the Transition California Network. Bob has entrusted us with the
task of the continuation and evolution of this community that he
put a ton of his life force into and with your participation we can
all thank him with our ongoing collective efforts.
We wanted to share with all of you a little about ourselves and our
deep commitment to the transition to sustainable living. We are the
owners of SeThInk Media, a
digital publishing company that is developing itself as a “Common Good ‘B' Corp” and
the founders of the Interdependent Project .
You can learn more by visiting the websites but we wanted to simply
state that all of our business endeavors and projects have
‘interdependence' and ‘sustainability' at the core. Both of these
terms are in the process of being defined by our collective actions
that lend to their meaning so it has been quite a learning spiral
since we founded in 2006.
As we begin this journey with this community we want to invite all
of you to join us in interdependent/sustainable solidarity to build
this network into the online vehicle that can transport and deliver
our collective visions into manifest reality.
Nothing galvanizes a community together better than collective
action and purpose. During the past couple months while we were in
discussions with Bob we read every person's profile to get a feel
for this collective community and read almost all of the
content...there is an enormous amount of user generated content on
this network which speaks for the community. We all know that
during this transition ‘contributing' is a key factor in our
success. So if you combine action, purpose, and contribution
together it is inevitable that vision will manifest.
We think we can all agree that one of the key elements to our
successful transition is access to local organic healthy food. When
we were contemplating ideas of how we could facilitate collective
evolution among the members of this community and the overall
intent of Transition Towns, we found a post by Nina Zabelin about a
project called LocalGrow.org.
LocalGrow.org is being
developed by Peter Zabelin and Jared Fine who have devoted
thousands of hours to the creation of the ultimate free user
generated online local agriculture knowledgebase website. Our
research into this endeavor yielded an absolute green light of
support and after speaking with Peter this past weekend we knew
this was the ‘action-purpose-contribution' opportunity that could
unite the Transition California community into a powerful
collective force of ‘ transition '.
Peter and Jared have just 2 weeks left on the Kickstart campaign to
raise the funds they need to launch this resource that is an
essential component to our successful shift to locally produced
agriculture:
“The site works by giving consumers the tools they need to find and
connect with farms and local producers. On the business side,
farmers have the tools they need—and might otherwise not have—to
present their information in a central organized place to the
public. Using an interactive map, business profiles and messaging,
users will find it easy to get local produce.”
There is currently over 1000 people on this network – if each of us
kicked in just $10 towards this project we could as a collective
launch this project and put Transition California Community on the
list of ‘highly effective networks'.
August 11th is the end date of the Kickstart campaign – if you
cannot spare 10 bucks then at least contact
friends/family/associates who believe having access to local food
is important and ask them to contribute – and invite them into the
Transition California family!
We look forward to celebrating our interdependent success with this
campaign and many more as we transition into the sustainable
future!
In Sustainable Solidarity
Daniel & Darlene Cavallaro
“Dandarius' |
