We are working on a few ways to include more people: a salon, sub-groups, one open meeting per month. The core group though is not open at this time. There are plans to have a regular open salon group, so please inquire if you are interested. Please contact Susan Butler (daisychain@netidea.com) for more info.

Transition Sebastopol's Ready for Anything Working Group has recently been convened by a small group of readiness enthusiasts. This group intends to "help provide our community with the connections, resources and skills to respond to whatever comes our way," under the motto, "We are ready for anything!" We hope to energize local linkages between exisiting networks of friends and neighbors, as well as civic and church groups. We'd especially like to see small geographic neighborhoods or blocks getting to know each other and sharing readiness activities. We'd like to stimulate the formation of readiness groups however they want to evolve. Working group members are committed to improving our own personal readiness. We work under the assumption that our friends' and neighbors' readiness contributes towards our own.
 

We want to connect to existing plans, resources and services, both private and public. We have identified especially C.E.R.T. (Community Emergency Response Teams), including their "Map Your Neighborhood" program; COPE (Citizens Organized to Prepare for Emergencies); Red Cross; Ace Hardware (sponsors readiness courses); Kaiser; Public Health; state and county plans. Our role will be not to replace this work but simply to raise awareness, energize, and activate groups to work on being ready together. We envision organizing a series of events such as a Preparedness Party: a barbecue potluck social event on the readiness theme with special guests drawn from local organizations.

Group members include:

Lawrence Jaffe; attorney, organizer of Farm Link, chairman of the Sonoma County Community Development Commission, president of the Climate Protection Campaign, & member of the Sebastopol Grange; Gary Abreim, business and financial consultant, & community preparedness activist; Susan Butler, permaculture designer, property developer & Grange member; Carolyne Stayton, director of Transition US & past director of New College of California, North Bay Campus; and Denise Meier, bookkeeping & business services provider, CERT Board member, and community organizer.

The contact person is Susan Butler daisychain@netidea.com.