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Transition PDX
"Inherent within the challenges of peak oil and climate change is an extraordinary opportunity to reinvent, rethink, and rebuild the world around us." - Rob Hopkins, The Transition Handbook. 
It begins when a small group comes together with a shared concern: how can our community respond to the challenges and opportunities of peak oil, climate change and economic stagnation?
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our communities currently lack the resilience to withstand some of the disruptions that'll accompany climate change and unplanned energy descent
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we have to work together and we have to work now, rather than waiting for the government or "someone else"
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this transition has to happen at an inner personal level as well as a community level
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connect with existing groups, including local government, in the community
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form groups to look at all the key areas of life (food, energy, transport, health, heart & soul, economics & livelihoods, etc)
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kick off practical projects aimed at building people's understanding of resilience and carbon issues and community engagement
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Create an Energy Descent Action Plan
Transition PDX is sponsored in part by St. Francis of Assisi
Transition-PDX Westside Meeting with OccupyPDX
Where: West Hills Friends Church, 7425 SW 52 Ave., Portland (Near Gabriel Park and the Southwest Community Center).
What: Everything you wanted to know about Occupy Portland but were afraid to ask!
People from Occupy Portland will be attending our next meeting. Bring all your questions and get them answered!
Bring a potluck dish, your own utensils, plate, drink and napkin. Also, please invite a friend; the more the merrier!
Want to carpool? Lost? Call Kelly at 503.317.4873
Speaker: Paul Cienfuegos on community rights
There is a rapidly growing movement in this country to start taking back the people's authority to govern ourselves at the local level, rather than always begging and pleading with corporate-funded politicians to pass the laws we need in order to become more sustainable. To exercise our right of self-government, there are a number of legal barriers in the way. More than 130 communities in six east coast states have now taken a bold leap, and have stepped outside of existing regulatory and zoning laws, to a new paradigm of law that enshrines these local rights. The legally-groundbreaking ordinances these communities have passed prohibit all sorts of harmful but legal corporate activities, and strip corporations of their constitutional so-called "rights".
The Transition movement is committed to a fundamental transformation of our society, working locally, towards a truly sustainable culture. Paul Cienfuegos is convinced that these two movements could be working closely together, turning local sustainability GOALS such as Energy Decent Action Plan (EDAP)'s into legally binding local laws. Paul is an educator and community organizer who has been active in the Community Rights movement for 16 years. He founded Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County (CA) in 1995, and recently moved to Portland to build this rights-based movement across Oregon and beyond. He leads introductory two-hour workshops weekly in Portland. Details about his work and schedule at PaulCienfuegos.com.
There will be a few updates about Transition PDX's work regarding the Portland Plan and a few other topics.
NOTE: A standing policy of Transition PDX regarding the weather, if Portland Public Schools announces they are closed because of bad weather, TPDX will cancel the event as well.
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Marisha Auerbach at TransitionPDX.West Side Meeting
TransitionPDX.West Side, an organization that promotes preparing for the uncertain future through community and resilience, will present well-known permaculturist, Marisha Auerbach, who will talk with us about cool season gardening. TransitionPDX.West Side meets on the second Sunday evening of each month at the West Hills Friends Church, at 7425 SW 52nd Ave., Portland. On February 12, we will start with a potluck at 6:00 pm followed by the speaker.
Suggested donation is $15.00 at the door, although no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Preparedness Group Field trip to Portland Preparedness Center
The Transition PDX Community Preparedness Group’s regular 4th Tuesday meeting will feature a change of pace: a field trip to the Portland Preparedness Center at 72nd and NE Glisan St. We’ll have an opportunity to look over their collection of preparedness equipment and supplies as well as to discuss different options with owner Michael Knight.
The #19 bus runs on Glisan and stops at 71st. The #20, which goes more often, runs on Burnside and stops on 72nd, from which you would walk .2 mile north.
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Transition Woodstock is showing GASLAND
Join Transition Woodstock Area Thursday evening, January 12, to view GASLAND, the award-winning documentary about the highly questionable practice of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," in which multiple chemicals are forced into the ground in order to release and mine the natural gas trapped in bedrock. Fracking is shown to have highly polluting and health-endangering side effects for local environments/residents. You may have heard of this amazing film by a native Pennsylvanian whose own local environment was being threatened (in particular a nearby river) by such practices. The personal-quest style of investigative reporting combined with an artistic and entertaining film style make for a great viewing experience, despite the serious content. Watch people light tap water on fire! This film shows why fracking rates right up there with mountaintop removal as one of the most disturbing industrial practices of our time.
