Would you attend a class that teaches community persons how to overcome corporate "persons"? The following course outline offers some enlightening history and empowerment for regular persons like us. Be the Change you want to see.

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BIOREGIONAL ORGANIZATION

A Resource Index for Green Careers

(From Chapter 14, Strategies for an Alternative Nation, of Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual, by Bill Mollison)

A bioregional association is an associa

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TRANSITION TOWN NOTES FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Present: Danny Weddle, Dave Parsons, Christine Glaser, Dave Rollo, Dex Conway, Keith Johnson, Shodo Spring, Lucille Bertuccio, Scott Routen, Doug Hanvey, Gail Hale, Ann Kreilkamp

These people committed to these things:
3/2 meeting with Mayor Kruzan. Rhonda, (who? Not sure)
2/9 Sustainability Commission meeting, City Hall McCloskey Room 6:30 pm. Dave Rollo will ask Cynthia Schultz to put us on the agenda. WHO ATTENDS?
Christine will ask Elinor Ostrom to be… Continue

Help create a Community Orchard! Volunteers are needed to plan, plant, maintain, and (eventually!) harvest Bloomington's first Community Orchard. To find out how you can be involved with this project, please attend a public meeting to discuss the
possibilities on Monday, February 22 from 5:30-7:00 pm in the City Hall Council Chambers at 401 N. Morton St. For more information, please contact Amy Countryman at (812) 679-8261 or acountry@indiana.edu

I am not an economy person, nor do I know much about it beyond my personal experience with it's effect on me and my family, the art of keeping my overhead as low as humanly possible, and bearing witness to the convoluted ways in which capital flows in and out of building and real estate projects. But the economic system is fascinating to me, like watching fire.

A key point I often think about when contemplating the future of Transition initiatives is the inevitable intersection between "what fo… Continue