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Training For Transition in Monterey Please note that this training will run on Friday, October 23rd and Sunday, October 25th with a special free, open-to-the-public Energy Descent Planning Session Oct. 23rd, 6 to 9pm. Saturday, the 24th will NOT be a training day as there are climate action activities underway (see below). Building Resilient Communities for a Post-Carbon World The Transition movement is a set of inspiring ideas for creating an attractive and enticing vision of how our communities could be. The converging crises of climate change and oil depletion and economic instability cannot be solved separately, and they cannot be solved with technological miracles, but only by lessening our dependence on fossil fuels. This doesn’t mean a bleaker future. The heart of transition is the belief that if we engage with enough imagination and ingenuity to unlock the collective genius of our communities, we can choose a future that is more satisfying, just and sustainable than what we have now. Participants in the training will: explore the opportunities for personal and social transformation presented by the challenges of peak oil, climate change and economic instability learn the key concepts of the Transition model, including how to set up and foster successful Transition groups., Permaculture principles and community visioning understand how to raise awareness of the need for transition through public talks and events form contacts with other change leaders in your local area establish a plan of action for yourself and your community Co-sponsors of this training Pilgrims Way Book Store, www.pilgrimsway.com, participants receive 20% off coupon Citizens for a Sustainable Monterey County, www.sustainablemontereycounty.org Tomorrow Matters, www.deborahlindsay.com , Sundays 4 -5pm, KRXA 540 AM Climate Action Join forces with folks around the globe to raise awareness through creative action by promoting the number 350. www.350.org Some of us will optionally join in participating in a 350 Climate Action Event in Big Sur, Pacific Grove and other locations. You are encouraged to create your own action too! Download the event flyer here. Trainers: Kat Steele Scott McKeown To register contact Deborah Lindsay, decal@deborahlindsay.com Registration fee is $135 before October 1st • $155 after October 1st. 350 Event in Sebastopol Start: Oct 24 2009 10:00 am As many of you know, there is a relatively new movement to make the entire world aware of the number 350. 350 parts per million is what many scientists, climate experts, and progressive national governments are now saying is the safe upper limit for CO2 in our atmosphere. There is an international day of action planned for October 24 where people around the world will be demonstrating the importance of this number in creative ways. You can go to 350.org to find an action near you. Marty Roberts is helping to organize one in Sebastopol and invites you to participate. We will be standing in downtown Sebastopol with signs in a Burma Shave style urging people to take action to save the planet. We need people for shifts from 10:00 to 12:00 and 12:00 to 2:00 and after 2:00 to participate in a photo op nearby. To sign up to be part of this fun activity, please go to http://www.350.org/sebastopol Or you can sign up on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=152248198049 The best thing is to sign up at both - the 350.org organizers want to know what is happening. All creative ideas are welcome and help is needed to make signs and posters and banners and so forth.

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