The mission of Transition Sebastopol is to create a positive vision of the future by cultivating community resilience, in response to the potential challenges of resource depletion, climate change, and economic instability.

Terra Verde Radio Show talks to Transition Sebastopol!

Listen to host Adam Greenfield interview Transition Sebastopol's Scott McKeown and Transition Houston's Mark Juedeman.

Terra Verde - July 23, 2010 at 1:00pm

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TS Movie Night: "Food, Inc"

Aug 25 2010 7:00 pm

Transition Sebastopol and the French Garden Restaurant present Transition Movie Series
This month featuring:

Wednesday, August 25
7:00 - 9:00pm

(please arrive on time) 

Optional discussion following the screening

How much do we know about the food we buy
at our local supermarkets and serve to our families?

  

http://www.foodincmovie.com/trailer-and-photos.php#
Film length: 93 minutes

Food Inc. Synopsis

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that's been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, insecticide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of e coli--the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually.

We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.

Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farms' Gary Hirschberg and Polyface Farms' Joe Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising -- and often shocking truths -- about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.

FREE EVENT
~donations appreciated~

Come early and enjoy dinner!

Location:
The French Garden Restaurant
8050 Bodega Avenue, Sebastopol
http://tinyurl.com/frenchgardenmap

For more information contact connect@transitionsebastopol.org

 


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Transition Sebastopol’s movie night is always the last Wednesday of the month at the French Garden restaurant

 

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Cheerful Disclaimer

Just in case you were under the impression that Transition is a process defined by people who have all the answers, you need to be aware of a key fact.
We truly don't know if this will work. Transition is a social experiment on a massive scale.
What we are convinced of is this:
* if we wait for the governments, it'll be too little, too late
* if we act as individuals, it'll be too little
* but if we act as communities, it might just be enough, just in time.
Everything that you read on the transition town http://transitiontowns.org site is the result of real work undertaken in the real world with community engagement at its heart. There's not an ivory tower in sight, no professors in musty oak-panelled studies churning out erudite papers, no slavish adherence to a model carved in stone.
This site, just like the transition model, is brought to you by people who are actively engaged in transition in a community. People who are learning by doing - and learning all the time. People who understand that we can't sit back and wait for someone else to do the work. People like you, perhaps...

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