Get ready to inspire and be inspired! Spend the day up in beautiful Sonoma to help us launch the NorCal Transition Network. Come for part of the day or stay for the entire time... you can even spend the night!
The day's events will include:
MORNING WORK PARTY: 9-noon (or get there whenever you can):
Participate in the 350 Home and Garden Challenge! Grab your work gloves and head to the Sonoma Garden Park, where we will participate in helping to beautify the community garden. You will be helping beautify the garden, so please wear clothes you don’t mind getting dirty and bring garden gloves if you have them. We will provide gloves if you don’t.
Work Party Location: Sonoma Garden Park, 19996 7th Street East in Sonoma
LUNCH: noon-1 pm Bring some food for potluck lunch at the park, or head on over to the Community Cafe for lunch.
AFTERNOON MEETING: 1:30-4:30 pm We'll gather at the Sonoma Community Center for some lively networking, capacity building and concrete steps to move the NorCal Transition Network forward. Breakout sessions will include:
What's going on with Transition groups
Introduction to some exciting and successful projects. Project Coordinators will discuss the project details and how Transition Initiatives can participate and/or replicate them. The projects will include :
Marco Vangelista's Alternative Economics curriculum
Bay Bucks
Research about Solar Options
Empathic Listening from the Connection Action Project and
Crop Swaps.
Brainstorming session about the nexus with permaculture and the Transition Movement; how can permaculture and Transition Initiatives be more closely aligned and partnering? How can we collaborate to work on some tangible projects?
Interactive discussion about the Transition NorCal Steering Committee and proposed Fall Conference
Meeting Location:
276 East Napa Street Sonoma
DINNER:
5:30-9 pm
Come join us for dinner at a beautiful house in the hills of Sonoma!
If you are interested in spending the night, homestays will be available.
