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Would you like to get involved with building resilience in your community this year? Here are just a few of the places you could jump in:
• Join the "Resilient Community Leaders' Support Group," a monthly potluck group that supports its members to build community in their neighborhoods and other places. Contact: Kar Fraser, karfraser@cruzio.com.
• Join the Live Oak Grange. You can help support this wonderful venue and force for sustainability in our community for just $28 a year, and the Grange can always use your creative volunteer energy. Sign up at greengrange.org.
• Sponsor a Transition Santa Cruz member to travel to Washington, DC to attend the Keystone XL pipeline protest, Feb. 17. Or join us and go yourself! Look for an email soon with details.
• Volunteer at Beach Flats Community Center as a tutor for their after-school homework club. Commitment: 3 hour block, once a week. Contact: Oscar, 426-2322.
• Volunteer at Homeless Garden Project. Open volunteer hours are on Thursday from 10-2 at the farm; rain cancels. If you have skills in job search training, or can help trainees prepare themselves for employment in a particular field, contact Darrie at 426-3609.
• WILPF (Women's International League for Peace and Freedom) needs help keeping their website up to date. (You don't need web design skills.) Contact: Randa at rsolick@gmail.com.
• People Power (a grassroots organization advocating for better bike and pedestrian infrastructure in Santa Cruz County) needs volunteers to help with bike valet parking, advocacy campaigns and other projects. Contact: director Amelia Conlen at 425- 0665.
Taking action is always better than sitting home and grumping!
—Michael Levy |
Pachamama Symposium gets focused
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Saturday, Feb. 2, 12:30 to 5:00 pm
Resource Center for Nonviolence
612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz
$15 (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Please pre-register here
The Pachamama alliance is getting more and more specific in its initiatives. At this Symposium, you will meet with leaders from several other organizations to explore 3 important "game changing initiatives" aimed at transforming social structures, systems and consciousness:
1. Move to Amend's work to pass a 28th amendment to abolish corporate personhood, and firmly establish that money is not a protected form of speech.
2. Citizen Climate Lobby's work to enact The Carbon Fee and Dividend Act to seriously address Climate change.
3. The Social Justice issues of Mass Incarceration in the "War on Drugs" and its disastrous impact on low-income communities of color. |
Transition's on the move in Aromas
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| Aromas Day Transition Booth |
From Aromas' Transition "ambassador" to Santa Cruz, Cindy Slade:
We are doing a whole lot of stuff down here in Aromas! We formed an Initiating Group last spring and started having public meetings in the spring and summer to find out what Aromans were interested in doing. We staffed a booth at the annual Aromas Day festival in August to answer the question, “What is Transition Aromas?” This autumn, we held 4 reskilling events, covering rainwater catchment, apple preservation, sewing/repurposing, and persimmon preservation. We’ve been showing a monthly movie at the Aromas Grange. So far we’ve shown “The End of Suburbia,” “In Transition 1.0,” and “The Story of Stuff.”
Read more and see photos here. |
Congratulations to Mesa Verde!
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Thanks to all of us who donated to the Pajaro Community Orchard project of Mesa Verde Gardens, the Kickstarter campaign was a success!
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| Orchard plan |
From their website: "The Pajaro Community Orchard will be a half-acre orchard planted, tended, and shared by the low-income families who participate in Mesa Verde Gardens’ programming. It will also be a space of beauty and enjoyment for all Watsonville residents to come enjoy a peaceful green space. The orchard, on land leased from the Lutheran Community Church, is Mesa Verde Gardens’ newest project serving the Pajaro Valley community in south Santa Cruz County." |
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♦ "Unstuck Economics" Webinar with the inspiring Janelle Orsi
Wednesday, January 9, 11:00am -12:15pm
New: Join other TSC folks (tomorrow) to watch the webinar together.
Contact cecile@cecileandrews.com to sign up.
Janelle is the brilliant author of
The Sharing Solution, our Book of the Month. In this free webinar, sponsored by Transition US, you will learn "How Cooperatives and Community Enterprise Will Get Us Out of this Gigantic Mess." Pre-register at this link (if you are not joining the group viewing).
♦ Rebecca Thistlethwaite, former co-owner of TLC Ranch
Tuesday, January 22, 7:30 pm
Capitola Book Cafe
Rebecca (formerly of TLC Ranch in Watsonville) will share from and discuss her new book
Farms with a Future: Creating and Growing a Sustainable Farm Business. More info here.
♦ Alternatives to Violence Project workshop
January 25-27
Resource Center for Nonviolence
612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz
The Alternatvies to Violence Project has been teaching how to resolve things peacefully since 1975. For more information, check out their website. To register, contact Linda McCue at Lindamccue@aol.com.
♦ Reskilling Expo
Sunday, January 27, 10-4
MAH (Museum of Art and History)
Including a Water Salon with LeAnne Ravinale, a Panel Discussion with Break-Out Groups and an inspiring video. New Teachers Kathryn Lukas, John Bartolero, Howard Ling, Sylvia Patience, Zane Griffin and Michael Olson. More info at reskillingexpo.org. |
| Become a member of Transition Santa Cruz |
Help support our important work of building local resilience! Go to http://transitionsc.org/donate and join at the $25, $50, $100 or $200 level, or join as a volunteer. Your participation matters!
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Contact Details
831-427-9916
http://transitionsc.org
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Potluck with a Purpose
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Tuesday, January 28
6-8:30 pm
Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave.
Free/by donation
Family friendly!
What is the "New Simplicity"?
Join us in a participatory workshop to explore "The New Simplicity." In the past, the idea of simplicity was seen as something austere and joyless. In the "new simplicity" people realize that "less is more" and that central to it are sharing, strong personal ties, celebration, and a commitment to the greater good.
The new research on happiness shows that being rich does not make people happy and that we need a culture of equality and concern for the planet as well as people.
The facilitator is Cecile Andrews, author of several books on Simplicity and author of the forthcoming
Living Room Revolution: A Handbook for Conversation, Community, and the Common Good.
Potluck 6:00, Program 7:00
Feel free to come for either or both!
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