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Transition Culture

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The Saugeen region (Grey Bruce) has a vibrant cultural community. Culture is destined to play a major role in community re-imagining, revaluing, and re-presentation and celebration, as well as significantly increasing cultural businesses scale.
Heather Hartford joined Sep 15, 2011
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Transition Culture

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The Saugeen region (Grey Bruce) has a vibrant cultural community. Culture is destined to play a major role in community re-imagining, revaluing, and re-presentation and celebration, as well as significantly increasing cultural businesses scale.
The Serdas joined Nov 9, 2010
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Transition Culture

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The Saugeen region (Grey Bruce) has a vibrant cultural community. Culture is destined to play a major role in community re-imagining, revaluing, and re-presentation and celebration, as well as significantly increasing cultural businesses scale.
Nathan Carey joined Nov 2, 2010
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LM Regional Strategy Meeting at Anne Finlay-Stewart's House

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August 27, 2010 from 7pm to 9pm
A strategy meeting for those interested in the broader regional development of the LocalMotive Project.We will be thinking about some long term goals for the project, as well as looking at issues such as local/regional governance and the upcoming Municipal elections.Please RSVP.See More
John A Harrison is attending the event Aug 20, 2010
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The Greening of the Economy: A Community Dialogue at Grey-Bruce Public Health Building

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May 20, 2010 from 7:30pm to 9pm
Join us for a free community dialogue on The Greening of the Economy: Exploring a fresh economic vision for Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound.This evening conversation will feature Jed Goldberg, President of Earth Day Canada, as well as a moderated discussion with a panel of local experts. Bring your family, your friends, and your own thoughts and ideas on how our local communities can take a leadership position in the new "green economy" of the future - from manufacturing to local food.This non-partisan…See More
John A Harrison is attending the event May 20, 2010
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Transition Culture

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The Saugeen region (Grey Bruce) has a vibrant cultural community. Culture is destined to play a major role in community re-imagining, revaluing, and re-presentation and celebration, as well as significantly increasing cultural businesses scale.
Rob Porter joined Mar 28, 2010
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John A Harrison added 2 discussions to the group Climate Safety and Biodiversity Feb 20, 2010
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John A Harrison replied to John A Harrison's discussion 'We Are an Active Ecological Transition Zone Now!' in the group Climate Safety and Biodiversity
Regarding the dump truck: the aphorism was loaded with irony and paradox to provoke more thought! In some respects the male overthrow of the feminine and the rise of agriculture and the patriarchal pastoralists was also quite the geo-engineering…
Feb 20, 2010
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Douglas Nadler replied to John A Harrison's discussion 'We Are an Active Ecological Transition Zone Now!' in the group Climate Safety and Biodiversity
I think i'd leave the truck out of the equation. Scientists have real fears regarding geoengineering, and although the truck smacks of its own man-made fossil fuel ecological transformation, many ecologists think that we need to go past…
Feb 19, 2010
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John A Harrison replied to John A Harrison's discussion 'We Are an Active Ecological Transition Zone Now!' in the group Climate Safety and Biodiversity
Thanks Doug, and thanks again for launching this group. I will see about the Nature article. Congratulations on your excellent article and bringing The Tragedy of the Commons into this whole forum. Defining the Common of this region and its…
Feb 19, 2010
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Douglas Nadler replied to John A Harrison's discussion 'We Are an Active Ecological Transition Zone Now!' in the group Climate Safety and Biodiversity
Thank you for your note. There is a new biography on Muir that spends a little time on his stay here. In a recent article in the science journal, Nature, there are graphs showing over the next hundred years the velocity of climate change across the…
Feb 19, 2010
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Climate Safety and Biodiversity

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At the centre of the Transition movement is a resilient and therefore healthy ecosystem. Climate change is one of the major threats facing life on Earth. Important action and education on these issues are crucial for any localization movement.See More
John A Harrison joined Feb 19, 2010
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Transition Culture

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The Saugeen region (Grey Bruce) has a vibrant cultural community. Culture is destined to play a major role in community re-imagining, revaluing, and re-presentation and celebration, as well as significantly increasing cultural businesses scale.
Douglas Nadler joined Feb 17, 2010
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John A Harrison replied to Shane Jolley's discussion 'Development of LocalMotive film short.' in the group Transition Culture
Great idea and project undertaken! First time I have seen the four quadrants. Very interesting. Have been interested in the global Slow Movement for some years and Carl Honoré's book: In Praise of Slow. Have suggested several times to…
Feb 10, 2010
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The Saugeen region (Grey Bruce) has a vibrant cultural community. Culture is destined to play a major role in community re-imagining, revaluing, and re-presentation and celebration, as well as significantly increasing cultural businesses scale.
Karen McRae joined Feb 4, 2010
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John A Harrison replied to Terri & Robert Hope's discussion 'Business growth that replace imports is good growth' in the group The Business of Transition
Great opening discussion. If we add two key elements, the need to earn outside, or export, dollars for the health of our regional economy (Jane Jacobs' books and others) and the degree to which we can engage in the Creative Economy here, we may…
Feb 3, 2010

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