Community Resilience in the Steel City
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Justin Thakar
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- Pittsburgh, PA
- United States
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Justin Thakar's Groups
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The Big Advice & Info Sh…
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Website + Social Media +…
4 members
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Steering Space
5 members
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Community, Container, an…
6 members
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Movie Screening Group
20 members
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08/01/12 TransitionPGH Sits Down with Fred Brown
8/1/12, Kingsley Association: Fred Brown's Conversation with TransitionPGH about his further involvement with Transition Executive Summary (background, analysis, and full notes are after all this):We reaffirmed some of what TransitionPGH will be doing in the next weeks and months: education (on the issues, using movies and talks), skillsharing events (raised bed building!), and action…See More
Justin Thakar commented on Justin Thakar's group Community, Container, and Guerilla Gardens
"Container Gardening at Justin T's!
http://transitionpgh.org/photo/albums/container-gardening-justin-t-s-apartment
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Justin Thakar posted a blog post
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 Should've Favored the Latter But Didn't]. Talked to Barton Kirk over at SEEDS and former organizer of Bioneers, as well as Erin Copeland: told me that Bioneers has, in other places, been able to be better sustained when there was one paid part time (or even full-time) position keeping the effort going year after year after year.…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
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, with resources, pictures, & instructions, and maybe some materials on how to get started yourself:http://www.guerrillagardening.org/http://transitionpgh.org/photo/albums/whitney-avenue-urban-farmIf you have knowledge and resources to share, certainly do so in…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, with resources, pictures, & instructions, and maybe some materials on how to get started yourself:http://www.guerrillagardening.org/http://transitionpgh.org/photo/albums/whitney-avenue-urban-farmIf you have knowledge and resources to share, certainly do so in…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
Justin Thakar added a discussion to the group Guerilla Gardening & Community Gardening Projects
Container Gardening class w/Pittsburgh Garden Experiment!
http://www.meetup.com/PittsburghGardenExperiment/events/53715022/Definitely excited about this, definitely something we need for apartments. 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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5/1/12 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
3/29 @ 6pm [The Big Larimer Plan Kickoff] -- Larimer Vision to Action Plan Community Gathering
[Left and top-left we've got some pictures from the gathering--above is an architectural concept for what Larimer could look like in the…
ContinuePosted on April 4, 2012 at 12:40pm
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Container Gardening - Justin T's Apartment
by Justin Thakar Added June 24, 2012 at 11:14am
5/5/12 Bandi Shaum/South Side Slopes Community Garden Work Day
by Justin Thakar Added May 13, 2012 at 4:43am
5/5/12 Borland Green--Chocolate Factory of Fruit Trees, Gardens, & Housing
by Justin Thakar Added May 13, 2012 at 1:18am
01152012 Kingsley Training for Transition
by Justin Thakar Added February 9, 2012 at 3:01pm
10282011 Braddock Farms work day
by Justin Thakar Added January 4, 2012 at 9:29pm
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