Community Resilience in the Steel City
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Justin Thakar
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- Pittsburgh, PA
- United States
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Website + Social Media +…
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EPPC House [Energy-Plus …
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Steering Space
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Guerilla Gardening & Com…
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Free Movie Screening Gro…
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5/21 7pm, In Transition 2.0 Pittsburgh Premiere, First United Methodist Church at First United Methodist Church Shadyside
May 21, 2012 from 7pm to 8:45pm
If you want to know the present state of Transition both here in Pittsburgh and all over the globe, this is your movie (site and trailer here!). It covers Transition Initiatives and the diverse, powerful communities driving their relocalization and community-rejuvenation efforts, from Europe to Asia to America and beyond, including an appearance from the Whitney…See More
Justin Thakar added a discussion to the group Website Working Group
To Do List (started 5/12/12)
Here's a list of things that need to get done by Admins (with possible aid/support from willing volunteers...)Get Alex Dale as an Admin for this site [DONE!] and the Facebook pageStatic block on front page w/intro and links + resources:Need links to articles like, "Why Transition?"+ other big articles (city paper!)Kingsley! EPPC House! Etc!Long term info storage:Not necessarily possible/easy to do on THIS website, since you can only do that with NingPro (which means making the service we…See More
Rosemary McMullen joined Justin Thakar's group
EPPC House [Energy-Plus PermaCulture]
We're in need of volunteers for our workdays in upcoming weeks, not to mention students and professionals as tenants! Email greenpittapt@gmail.com to get put in touch with those who schedule work days!EPPC House Definition:Energy-Plus = energy-efficiency to the point of feeding back into the electric grid. Permaculture = the basis of Transition and a design philosophy for housing, agriculture, and societal systems (among other things)This group houses the documentation of the project located in…See More
Justin Thakar posted an event
5/21 7pm, In Transition 2.0 Pittsburgh Premiere, First United Methodist Church at First United Methodist Church Shadyside
May 21, 2012 from 7pm to 8:30pm
If you want to know the present state of Transition both here in Pittsburgh and all over the globe, this is your movie (site and trailer here!). It covers Transition Initiatives and the diverse, powerful communities driving their relocalization and community-rejuvenation efforts, from Europe to Asia to America and beyond, including an appearance from the Whitney…See More
Alexander Dale joined Justin Thakar's group
EPPC House [Energy-Plus PermaCulture]
We're in need of volunteers for our workdays in upcoming weeks, not to mention students and professionals as tenants! Email greenpittapt@gmail.com to get put in touch with those who schedule work days!EPPC House Definition:Energy-Plus = energy-efficiency to the point of feeding back into the electric grid. Permaculture = the basis of Transition and a design philosophy for housing, agriculture, and societal systems (among other things)This group houses the documentation of the project located in…See More
Justin Thakar posted a group
EPPC House [Energy-Plus PermaCulture]
We're in need of volunteers for our workdays in upcoming weeks, not to mention students and professionals as tenants! Email greenpittapt@gmail.com to get put in touch with those who schedule work days!EPPC House Definition:Energy-Plus = energy-efficiency to the point of feeding back into the electric grid. Permaculture = the basis of Transition and a design philosophy for housing, agriculture, and societal systems (among other things)This group houses the documentation of the project located in…See More
Elisa Beck joined Justin Thakar's group
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
Lindsay Ferraro joined Justin Thakar's group
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
Justin Thakar posted a blog post
4/2/11 Larimer Vision to Action Primary Planning Team Mtg
[I walked in in the middle of it, thinking that I was in the room for the Economic Dev./Jobs group—they were meeting for the first time at the ECCO Center, actually. Poor dumb me. They're in the middle of their meeting when I get there, but I get a detailed & interesting look at what the planning process for really-developed Transition activities look like.]Karriem: 2 hr meetings once a month seems reasonableAndrea: …1hr is kinda pushing itTracy: Respecting people's time very much—seeing…See More
Justin Thakar added a discussion to the group Steering Space
4/9/12: TTPGH and Structure considering recent months' events & plans
I think discussing the structure of TTPGH requires some knowledge about what's been going on recently. Here's my updates, a non-condensed version of what I put in a recent email: Larimer—Transition Larimer appears to be happening, folded into a much larger & complex non-Transition effort (that still is very Transition-y) and so I'm trying to bring people to volunteering opportunities and internships there (and that is my current focus). Larimer—it's kickin'. Green Team, Steering Group,…See More
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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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5/3/12 Larimer Consensus Group Meeting
5/3/12
Larimer Consensus Group Meeting
[Two immediate lessons learned: Really helps to have a point-person for each action team for people to ask questions of; really need to broadcast to Transition that anyone can take one of the 40 beds the Green Team has at their lot.]
Lessons Learned from this Meeting:
- When a force as formidable…
Posted on May 12, 2012 at 6:51pm
5/1/12 Organizational Structure
Been doing a lot of thinking about how to structure organizations such that stuff gets done.
Bioneers and the All-Volunteer Vs. One-Paid-Position Choice [They…
ContinuePosted on May 12, 2012 at 6:42pm — 1 Comment
4/2/11 Larimer Vision to Action Primary Planning Team Mtg
[I walked in in the middle of it, thinking that I was in the room for the Economic Dev./Jobs group—they were meeting for the first time at the ECCO Center, actually. Poor dumb me. They're in the middle of their meeting when I get there, but I get a detailed & interesting look at what the planning process for really-developed Transition activities look like.]
Karriem: 2 hr meetings once a month seems reasonable
Andrea: …1hr is kinda pushing it
Tracy: Respecting…
ContinuePosted on April 11, 2012 at 1:43pm
3/31/12 Larimer T4T pt.3 [Led once again by Fred Brown]
[Here Fred gave us a bit more context and knowledge about how Transition Larimer could function in the midst of the other stuff going on in Larimer--he seems to see it being a more grassroots and education-oriented structure in the community. Afterwards we established plans for the Awareness Raising Group--namely, to fold ourselves into what One Voice, the Larimer Consensus Group's mouthpiece, was doing already, and offer our help to…
ContinuePosted on April 4, 2012 at 12:48pm
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5/11/12 EPPC House: The Other, Larimer House
by Justin Thakar Added May 13, 2012 at 5:25am
5/5/12 Bandi Schaum/South Side Slopes Community Garden Work Day
by Justin Thakar Added May 13, 2012 at 4:43am
5/11/12 EPPC House: Of Egg Cartons and Cardboard
by Justin Thakar Added May 13, 2012 at 4:18am
5/5/12 Borland Green--Chocolate Factory of Fruit Trees, Gardens, & Housing
by Justin Thakar Added May 13, 2012 at 1:18am
5/9/12 EPPC House: Planting Pear Trees (and others) Without Killing Them
by Justin Thakar Added May 9, 2012 at 2:19pm
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