Don't miss this local opportunity to benefit from world-renowned Transition Training. Learn to build strong and resilient communities that can weather all kinds of storms!
Local Resilience: A Transition Town Weekend with trainers Tina Clarke and Pamela Boyce Simms
- Spans Friday, February 1, 6:00 – 9:00, dinner included; Saturday, February 2, 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM, lunch included; to Sunday, February 3, 1:00 – 6:00 PM, dinner included
- at South Church, 343 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry, NY
- $140 for
weekend / $50 for students (minimum age 14).
- REGISTER HERE!
- No one turned away for lack of funds. For
scholarships contact Kathy: 914-693-7389 / kpokoik@verizon.net
- This training is sponsored by Roots
& Wings, the sustainable initiative of South Church, and is cosponsored by
Transition Hastings and Transition Westchester
For those that see today’s diminishing oil supplies, economic disparities and climate chaos as just the tip of the iceberg, change is necessary. But how? That’s where the Transition Network comes in. Transition is a community-organizing plan that responds to the realities of climate change and the shrinking supplies of cheap energy. It evolved in the UK in 2006, and quickly moved from towns in Ireland to neighborhoods in Portugal, from cities in Brazil to rural communities in Slovenia, from urban locations in Australia to islands off the coast of Canada.
There are now
1075 Transition initiatives worldwide, with 323 in the United States
alone. It’s a movement that has a toehold
in Westchester County, too, with groups in Katonah, Ossining, and Hastings. Common
goals of Transition Towns include energy descent plans, rebuilding the local
economy, supportive relationships with friends and neighbors, and growing food
year round.
Says John Bell,
founder of Transition Westchester, “We’ve just been through Hurricane
Sandy. We’ve seen the first gas lines since the 70s. Something is changing. Transition
Training will help you understand what is changing and will give you tools to
deal with these changes.”
“Hurricane Sandy
reminded us that our first responders are our neighbors,” adds Elizabeth
Marouk-Coe, one of the founders of Transition Hastings. “There couldn’t be a better time for this
training.
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“When I was laid off, I found myself craving
community,” says Elizabeth Marouk-Coe, of Hastings, NY. “I wanted to start new
and be part of the solution, rather than part of the system. I met someone in a
parking lot and she said to me, ‘Have you heard of Transition?’ I am now one of
the founding members of Transition Hastings. My neighbors and I are now sharing
a generator and a storehouse. We’re bartering. We’re hoping to map all of the
neighborhoods in Hastings and put public readiness practices in place.”
Pauline
Schneider, one of the founders of Transition Katonah,
went through Transition Training two years ago. She says, “I loved watching Tina Clarke take a room
full of strangers and turn us into a loving close-knit community. We are still
in touch with each other. Transition is fun.”