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Below you will find an archive of Transition Santa Cruz monthly Newsletter(s). Browse through the issues below, or follow the link located at the bottom of this page to subscribe.
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 | August 2011 newsletter (Aug 2011)
Transition Santa Cruz Newsletter August 2011from oil dependence to local resilience Dear Subscriber,With Andrew Harvey's visit to Santa Cruz (and our potluck, see below), I have been thinking a lot about the speed of our work towards a resilient local community. Are we going too slow?Answer: Of course we are going too slow. With serious economic trouble already reaching us and serious climate trouble likely not far away (having hit elsewhere already), we should be moving mu |
 | July 2011 newsletter (Jul 2011)
Transition Santa Cruz Newsletter July 2011from oil dependence to local resilience Dear Subscriber,According to Buddhist activist Joanna Macy, there are three aspects to the "Great Turning" from our industrial growth economy to a sustainable one. The first is "Holding Actions," all the environmental and social battles being fought to keep people, other forms of life, and our precious ecosystems from being destroyed while the current society still holds sway.The second is "Cr |
 | June 2011 newsletter (Jun 2011)
Transition Santa Cruz Newsletter June 2011from oil dependence to local resilience Dear Subscriber,I am often asked whether gardening in town is really a practical solution to the food crises that are likely to come with peak oil and climate change. The question gives me pause, because it is true that most of our potential local food supply will be the excellent ag land on the North Coast, in the Pajaro Valley, and elsewhere in the County and nearby, and not our small patche |
 | May 2011 newsletter (May 2011)
Transition Santa Cruz Newsletter May 2011from oil dependence to local resilience Dear Subscriber,Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning. —Barbara Kingsolver What renews your hope? Learning practical skills to build a resilient future and life for yourself? Listening to hopeful and visionary speakers? Helping save the climate by expressing yourself online? Or dancing your dreams for an healthy and e |
 | April Newsletter (Apr 2011)
Transition Santa Cruz Newsletter April 2011 Dear Subscriber, One of my favorite things about being part of Transition Santa Cruz is getting wind of a really hopeful number of efforts going on locally that are working for the transition to a post-cheap energy society.These are too many to mention here, but here is a list of some of the current or recent things most connected to TSC:♦ Our 16-point "Climate Action Community Response" to ensure that the City Climate Action Plan is as |
 | March Newsletter (Mar 2011)
Transition Santa Cruz Newsletter March 2011 Dear Subscriber, What do singing, dancing, storytelling, and poetry have to do with saving the Earth? Everything, it turns out. I was reminded of this recently while previewing The Economics of Happiness, a brilliant new movie TSC is co-sponsoring this month (see below). The movie features the people of Ladakh, in the Himalayas, whose rich, sustainable culture was a stranger to unemployment, pollution, and homelessness until the pressures of globali |
 | February Newsletter (Feb 2011)
Transition Santa Cruz Newsletter February 2010 Dear Subscriber, “By unleashing the collective genius of those around us…we can build ways of living that are more connected, more enriching and that recognize the biological limits of our planet.” —Rob Hopkins, founder, Transition Initiatives Since Transition Santa Cruz published its Towards a Sustainable Water Plan for Santa Cruz last August, the collective genius of the community has begun to generate sustainable water |
 | January Newsletter (Jan 2011)
Transition Santa Cruz Newsletter January 2010Dear Subscriber,Happy New Year! As we get underway with 2011, those of us in the Transition SC steering group are looking forward to finding ever more effective ways for getting the ideas of Transition out into the community. We hope to see local resilience increase beyond anything we've allowed ourselves to dream so far.At the same time, it is honest to say that we have discovered by trial and error that building a Transition Initiative here is diffe |
 | December Newsletter (Dec 2010)
Transition Santa Cruz Newsletter December 2010Dear Subscriber,As I sat in my car in the maddening traffic at Hwy. 1 and Hwy. 9 the other day, I wondered, what is essential in a local climate action plan (CAP)? Transportation accounts for perhaps half of the greenhouse gas emissions in our county. So should the highway bridge over the river be widened? What steps do we need to take now to meet our city CAP's goal of 30% reduction in emissions by 2020?Transition Santa Cruz is taking the lead, alon |
 | November Newsletter (Nov 2010)
Transition Santa Cruz Newsletter November 2010Dear Subscriber,Many of us a breathed a big sigh of relief when Prop. 23, which would have set California's global warming action back by many years, went down. And Santa Cruz now has a draft Climate Action Plan, with an excellent goal of reducing emissions 30% in the next 10 years. However, the Plan faces an uphill battle to get the "teeth" in it that it needs in order to achieve its goal. Here, as elsewhere, business as usual does not yield e |
 | October Newsletter (Oct 2010)
Transition Santa Cruz Newsletter October 2010Dear Subscriber,Happy Birthday, Santa Cruz!October is the month Santa Cruz' birthday is traditionally celebrated, because Mission Santa Cruz was founded around this time of year in 1791. TSC took the occasion this year to celebrate not just the 219 years since then, but the entire 10,000 year history of humans (that we know of) living in this place.Last Saturday, about 130 people gathered at Louden Nelson Auditorium to celebrate with a multi-musician |
 | September Newsletter (Sep 2010)
Transition Santa Cruz Newsletter September 2010Dear Subscriber,After three years of hard work by climate action coordinator Ross Clark and many other City staff, the City of Santa Cruz has released its draft Climate Action Plan. Now it's time for the rest of us to step up and do what only a community can do: make a good plan great. For my thoughts on why our efforts are crucial, click here. The draft Plan includes recommendations on how the City will reach its goal of 30% reduction in greenhouse |
 | August Newsletter (Aug 2010)
Transition Santa Cruz Newsletter August 2010Dear Subscriber,Transition Initiatives have garnered the attention and participation of many thousands of people around the world in a few short years, and much of the reason is their great hopefulness. We seem to represent an alternative to doom, gloom, and also to the adversarial politics many of us have become discouraged about. Like other Transition Initiatives, TSC attemps to unite the local population around positive visions for what we can creat |
 | July Newsletter (Jul 2010)
Transition Santa Cruz Newsletter July 2010Dear Subscriber,Those of us interested in the Transition movement are acutely aware of the multiple crises that lend urgency to the work of relocalization. We have a tendency to face things--such as the peaking of all kinds of resources--that most people would rather forget about. It is very, very important that we continue living awarely. It's also important to acknowledge that this is not easy to do. We need community in order to even think about the w |
 | June Newsletter (Jun 2010)
Transition Santa Cruz Newsletter June 2010Dear Subscriber,As the oil continues to gush in the Gulf, transitioning off fossil fuels is a topic that may make sense to more people than ever before. I count myself as lucky to be part of a worldwide movement to respond to the urgent needs of the time with positive community initiative.Transition is both heady and heart-y. Yesterday I made a presentation to the City Council, explaining what TSC is. I had tailored my presentation to what I thought of a |
 | 2/10 Newsletter (Feb 2010)
Transition Santa Cruz Newsletter February 2010Dear Subscriber,A couple of us had the pleasure of attending a meeting recently of Citizens for a Sustainable Monterey County. This group has done impressive work in spawning separate sustainability initiatives in Salinas, Monterey, Pacific Grove, Seaside, Big Sur, and Carmel Valley. All these groups draw strength through being part of CSMC.I shared with them the sense of hope and significance many of us here derive from being part of the internation |
 | May Newsletter (May 2010)
Transition Santa Cruz Newsletter May 2010Dear Subscriber,Transition Santa Cruz aspires to be a community of communities. The plan is for working groups in various issue areas to be linked by their vision of building community resilience. This plan is coming to fruition, as there are now several working groups. If you'd like to explore getting involved in a working group, email:Food Working Group, Michael WeaverHousing & Land Use, Rick LonginottiSustainable Water, Julie BoudreauHeart & So |
 | 4/10 Newsletter (Apr 2010)
Transition Santa Cruz Newsletter April 2010Dear Subscriber,April brings a good harvest of Transition events. The Food Group is expanding (see to the right), and a Water Group is forming (see below).The Heart and Soul group has begun a really lovely series based on Joanna Macy's work, Anna Lappe is speaking on Climate Change and Agriculture, and TSC is co-sponsoring an intriguing new event, Design Renaissance 2010. But wait, there's more... Best,Michael Levy Sustainable Water Group FormingA Trans |
 | 3/10 Newsletter (Mar 2010)
Transition Santa Cruz Newsletter March 2010Dear Subscriber,Looking at the events in this newsletter, a newcomer to Transition may ask, "How can this all be one project? Are these people lacking focus?" The range of events is indeed broad, from a support group mentioning "inner journeys" to a forum on desalination.However, this is not a problem with lack of focus. Rather, it reflects the large—and sometimes daunting—size of the task that lies in front of us. The Transition project is |
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