Transition Town Movement
Thursday, March 31, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Gualala Arts Center
Featuring a talk by
Mendocino Transition Town Movement leader
Charles Cresson Wood.
The purpose of the event is to explore the Transition Town Movement – how it has expanded in neighboring communities, around the US, and around the world – in light of starting such an effort on our Mendonoma coast.
Transition Towns is an international movement of more than 400 communities worldwide that have organized to localize their economy, reduce their dependence on fossil fuels, establish food security, and build resilience in the face of climate change and peak oil.
Charles Cresson Wood’s presentation, The Impacts of Peak Oil on Our Community and Lifestyle, looks at the current and future impact of peak oil on our coastal community and lives. “We will soon be experiencing those impacts,” says Wood, “and it will then be painfully clear that we must promptly transition to other energy sources.” We will explore a wide variety of these impacts, responses to these impacts, and discuss what can be done individually, as a family, and as a larger community. “Transition Towns,” says Wood, “looks to be the most powerful new approach available for community mobilization in response to peak oil, climate change, and financial system degradation.”
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This event is sponsored by Mendonoma Transition Towns / Planning Group, Matrix of Change, Friends of the Gualala River, Democrats United for Progress, the Arena Technology Center, and others.