Sorry to have missed the Bookstore transition event in Owen Sound on Sunday, look forward to hearing how it went. As a former Green Owen Sound member we know there is lots of interest and energy in Owen Sound for transition activities...good luck.

Now with bonus potluck...

Been slacking on adding these details.... and some of you are aware but ... anyone is welcome to join us for a potluck dinner, conversation, and perhaps a video after the Event at the bookstore winds down.… Continue

If you have an hour and want to get more background on the Transition Town movement the following video is an interview with Rob Hopkins, founder of Transition Town Totnes

"The founder of a growing movement shows us around 'Transition Town Totnes' in Devon and talks about peak oil, the origin of the Transition Towns concept and how to help your community develop an 'energy descent plan' and prepare to 'power down.' "

http://www.youtube.com/w… Continue

Following transition town links around the web I came accross an outline for a Transition Weekend in Chester (UK?)

You can see the post here http://transitiontowns.org/forum/topic/transition-chester-weekend-festival-january-22nd-24th

But I figured it wouldn't hurt of copy and past the outline here as well in case area transition town groups want to consider a simlar effort… Continue

Today is a great day for the local food movement.

Durham farmer Michael Schmidt was acquitted today on all charges related to his cow-share program. Members can now legally continue to obtain and consume raw milk through cow-share programs as they are technically "owners", not purchasers, of raw milk.

Th… Continue

If there's one thing I dislike intensely, it's long hours at the desk, and if you have the web-skills that I have (pretty much zippo!) then creating a website erases days from your life. Snow shoveling never looked so appealing.

But thanks to the help of Ryan (the master) Wiseman, we now have a network/workspace that I think is as good as it comes; at least in terms of what I can work with. No more weight loss ads, fake virus warnings, and incompatibilities with obsolete browsers. Just pure, sw… Continue