Next CCAN Meeting January 27 Transition Movement

Carbondale Climate Action Network is starting a Transition Movement STudy Group. We invite you to join our first meeting on Wednesday January 27 at 6 pm at the Gaia House. We are hopeful that many study groups will follow.

The Transition Movement is a group study process that people in a community can use to learn how to move away from a fossil fuel economy. The fundamental problems that are part of our current moment are hard to understand and communicate-- these include things like peak oil, and climate change. This difficulty of understanding them makes it also difficult to understand their impact and to to think about how we might be able-- and how we very well might have to change as a community and as a society to become more resilient in terms of our livelihoods- say, if the price of oil doubled. Our livelihoods encompasses everything- our food, jobs, our community net, and much about our daily life.

The Transition Movement started in the United Kingdom in several small towns like ours where small groups of peole began to look at ways they could adapt to changes in terms of energy production, health, education, economy and agriculture. By meeting together, having discussions, looking a movies and doing fun exercises, people are beginning to develop "road maps" for sustainable futures for their towns. In some towns, these exercises are being adopted by the city governments with the goal of achieving energy independence.

Wednesday January 27 Gaia House - 6:00pm. WRite sacamixta@gmail.com for information