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Transition Potlucks, Every 1st & 3rd Sat., 1:30pm, Shadyside

February 18, 2012 at 2pm to May 19, 2012 at 6pm – First United Methodist Church, Shadyside

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Transition Potlucks, Every 1st & 3rd Sat., 1:30pm, Shadyside at First United Methodist Church, Shadyside

February 18, 2012 at 2pm to May 19, 2012 at 6pm

1:30pm, Every First and Third Saturday, Transition Potluck, First United Methodist Church, 5401 Centre Ave., Shadyside (short presentations & discussion at 2pm): Network and socialize with fellow Transition folks, and people involved in localized economics, resiliency, sustainability, alternative living, environmentalist, and urban gardening, bring and eat (mostly) home-cooked food, hear brief presentations about what local-economy-building and activism efforts exist and that you can get…See More

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Transition Potlucks, Every 1st & 3rd Sat., 2pm, Shadyside at First United Methodist Church, Shadyside

February 4, 2012 at 2pm to May 19, 2012 at 6pm

Alison Mills is attending Justin Thakar's event Feb 3

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1\\/25 5:30pm Urban Green Growth Collaborative Meeting, East Liberty
January 25, 2012 from 5:30pm to 7pm
Transition Potlucks, Every 1st & 3rd Sat., 2pm, Shadyside
February 4, 2012 at 2pm to May 19, 2012 at 6pm

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Transition Potlucks, Every 1st & 3rd Sat., 2pm, Shadyside at First United Methodist Church, Shadyside

February 4, 2012 at 2pm to May 19, 2012 at 6pm

An event by Justin Thakar was featured Jan 22

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Caroline Savery commented on Justin Thakar's event '1/13-1/15 Training For Transition with Tina Clarke, Kingsley Association, East Liberty'

I'm thrilled to hear of this training and I commend the Kingsley Association for their fresh approach to the training. I wish I could participate, but I have several barriers to participating: lack of capital for the training fee, lack of…

Jan 12

Guerilla Gardening & Community Gardening Projects

If you're interested in Guerilla Gardening and start-up Community Gardening efforts, here's a group for you. I, Justin Thakar, will be cataloging, here and on my TransitionPGH.org blog, what I will have learned and a list of resources I will have compiled.I've already been talking to my apartment neighbors about doing some collaborative container/balcony gardening, splitting the produce and such--and I'll be putting up invites on everyone's doors to see if they're interested.That's material…See More

Michael Dodin joined Justin Thakar's group Jan 12

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1/13-1/15 Training For Transition with Tina Clarke, Kingsley Association, East Liberty at Kingsley Association

January 13, 2012 at 6pm to January 15, 2012 at 7pm

The unique and new aspect of this upcoming Transition Training—Larimer, East Liberty, and Homewood and "facilitating the creation of action plans and mutually-supportive relationships that will build resilience in these three neighborhoods"—was previously understated due to outdated descriptions. Use the link to the flier below and you'll find the most detailed and up-to-date info so far: http://tinyurl.com/7kwrpmvUpdated info from email on training:We welcome all who would like to attend this…See More

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1/13-1/15 Training For Transition with Tina Clarke, Kingsley Association, East Liberty at Kingsley Association

January 13, 2012 at 6pm to January 15, 2012 at 7pm

George Hoguet is attending Justin Thakar's event Jan 6

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Abby Samuels commented on Justin Thakar's event '1/7/12 1:30pm Transition Potluck, First United Methodist Church, 5401 Centre Ave., Shadyside'

ooo katamari, i want to learn and play :)

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1/7/12 1:30pm Transition Potluck, First United Methodist Church, 5401 Centre Ave., Shadyside at First United Methodist Church

January 7, 2012 from 1:30pm to 4pm

Network with fellow Transition, local economics, resiliency, sustainability, environmentalist, and urban gardening groups, bring and eat (mostly) home-cooked food, hear brief presentations about what local-economy-building and activism efforts exist and that you can get involved in, have a great time. (And if you miss this one, never fear--these are likely to become regularly-scheduled events.Note that this potluck will have Dance Dance Revolution, along with other things to delight a gamer's…See More

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1/13-1/15 Training For Transition with Tina Clarke, Kingsley Association, East Liberty at Kingsley Association

January 13, 2012 at 6pm to January 15, 2012 at 7pm

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What changes would you like to see in your community?: Imagine stalking elk past department store windows and stinking racks of beautiful rotting dresses and tuxedos on hangers; you'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life, and you'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. Jack and the beanstalk, you'll climb up through the dripping forest canopy and the air will be so clean you'll see tiny figures pounding corn and laying strips of venison to dry in the empty car pool lane of an abandoned superhighway stretching eight-lanes-wide and August-hot for a thousand miles.

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Pittsburgh Garden Experiment 2/5 Planning Meeting Notes

Lots of good stuff discussion happened , both within Jeff's Work Day group (which I was in) and in the reconvening meeting, where each smaller group shared its thoughts with the larger one. Notes are rough, as will probably be usual, but hopefully useful

Rick: Discussion groups:

something monthly, perhaps on Sunday afternoon
How do I save seeds? How do I start gardens? How do I start technical processes to get that…

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Posted on February 9, 2012 at 4:06pm

Transition Potluck 2/4 Discussion Notes

Here's the notes from the lively discussion last Saturday: there were three topics, and about 15-20 people total at the discussion. There was not enough DDR, but there was plenty of food and intellectual inter-rest. Notes are a bit rough, but hopefully useful.

Transition Structure, Nonprofit Status, Forming Connections with Other Groups

Latif: PCSI & Op. Better Block helped him figure out where to go for T4T. RACE organization too, Turkish. RACE:…

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Posted on February 9, 2012 at 4:00pm

OccupyPGH Community-Building Lessons: Part 1

OccupyPGH is an experiment in community-building, small-group resilience--and like any good set of sterile, lab-coated scientists, they've got their successes, failures, and work-arounds. This is what I've learned from talking to people at Mellon Green who have kept that experiment ongoing:

The consensus decision-making model can be tedious but nonetheless fruitful. I am told I can Google it and find something similar to the 8-ish steps they're using; also…

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Posted on November 13, 2011 at 10:54pm

Volunteering Days at Urban Gardens: 11/5 and 10/29

Keep learning things in this Transition venture, about people around Pittsburgh and the personalities driving change forward. Why not keep a public journal of experiences, see if others find the things I've been seeing as interesting as I do?

Well, first entry time: farm days--would like people to see the kinds of wonderful experiences one can have at these things. This'll be a more or less direct copy of what I put in the Meetup…

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Posted on November 5, 2011 at 10:50pm