Eric Stewart's Blog – August 2010 Archive (12)

Lesson #1 in using the Website- Groups, Member map, Events, Chat

This is a broadcast to all members to inform you a little more about

applications on our website. Every member has the ability to

cooperatively lead by adding events and creating groups based upon their

interest and location. This gives people a meeting area for people to

discuss and meet where ever and whenever they want. We are going to

discuss 3 different functions on the Code Green Community website to

help you along your path of starting up a Transition… Continue

Added by Eric Stewart on August 29, 2010 at 1:52pm — No Comments

Community Economic Laboratories

Community Economic Laboratories (CELs)

by Richard Heinberg

As America adjusts to the New Reality of tight credit, chronically less-affordable energy, high unemployment rates, rising levels of

homelessness, and steeply declining tax revenues, new strategies will be

needed to help swelling ranks of low-income people adjust and adapt.

National policies designed to ease credit, lower mortgage…

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Added by Eric Stewart on August 23, 2010 at 11:31pm — No Comments

Fundraiser results!

We have had a great result from the fundraiser hosted today at Barbara's house. We raised a grand total of $185! Many new faces got to learn about Code Green Community as well as help by donating to our incorporation. Our member Rob Serenbetz's church the Spirit of Life UU has donated a total of $127 to our organization as well in helping to incorporate. The combination leads to a grand total of $312.

The future of Code Green Community depends on you! Our website has grown from 2 to… Continue

Added by Eric Stewart on August 21, 2010 at 8:30pm — No Comments

7 Principles of Transition- from the Transition US site

The 7 Principles of Transition

1. Positive Visioning

Transition Initiatives are based on a dedication to the creation of tangible, clearly expressed and practical visions of the community in question beyond its present‐day dependence on fossil fuel. Our primary

focus is not campaigning against things, but rather on…

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Added by Eric Stewart on August 20, 2010 at 10:23am — No Comments

News story about Transition Colorado

Watch the full episode. See more…

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Added by Eric Stewart on August 20, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

New Port Richey Community Garden

ALERT!:

It is with great sadness that I think we've reached the point at which

we must acknowledge that there is no longer sufficient interest in the

garden to keep it going.

So, unless I suddenly hear from a

...number of folks, willing and able to clean up the garden by tomorrow…

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Added by Eric Stewart on August 15, 2010 at 1:17am — No Comments

Stories about Collapse and the coming shortages in our society

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129052445 - a talk about how civilizations fail because of food and discusss the Russian fires which caused stopping of exportation of food.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/08/06/collapse/index.html - an article with several sources from… Continue

Added by Eric Stewart on August 9, 2010 at 2:48pm — No Comments

Expanding the Conversation- Thoughts and Minutes of meeting 8/8/10

In attendance:

Vicky, Barbara, Donna, Mark S., John and Libbie, Pam, Eric

Topics discussed:

~Carrot Mobbing: Restaurants to support local farmers by hosting special events where dishes are created from local farms. We reward the business by supporting and requesting these entrees and promoting the event.

~Can Day: a trip to the brooksville cannery, we will buy in bulk local produce and can it up in brooksville for storage and use.

~ECHO… Continue

Added by Eric Stewart on August 9, 2010 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

What you can do: A Framework for Personal Action

What You Can Do: A Framework for Personal Action (version 0.9)

Filed under: Preparing for Civilization's End — Dave Pollard @…

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Added by Eric Stewart on August 5, 2010 at 10:12am — No Comments

Post -Plant/Bake/Garage sale

In talking to my Aunt and Mother about the sale we have planed this Sunday the issue of what is Code Green Community came up. To sum it up: Code Green Community is a social website with a mission. We are establishing a community of individuals that want change seen both at an individual and community level. Forming relationships on a bioregion scale we can initiate transitions towns all throughout the Tampa bay area. These towns are self-organized groups… Continue

Added by Eric Stewart on August 4, 2010 at 9:00pm — 3 Comments

Community Based Co-Op economy

http://www.energybulletin.net/node/53652

How a community-based co-op economy might work

by Dave Pollard

Most people have been brought up to believe that the competitive, grow-or-die, absentee-shareholder-owned, “free”-trade “market” economy is the only one that works, the only alternative to a

socialist,…

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Added by Eric Stewart on August 3, 2010 at 8:47am — 1 Comment