Transition Cotati

Join us on Saturday, June 7 at 7:30 pm at the FrogSong cohousing Common House as Susan Sawyer Welch shares the inspiration she gathered recently in:

Ecovillages in the UK & Ireland: New Transition Initiatives from the Old World
Strategies for drastically cutting carbon use and massively increasing community resilience in the face of Peak Oil and Climate Change.

The evening will include the latest thoughts of leaders of the very dynamic Transition Town movement in England, the Director of Sustainable Projects Ireland (The Village: an ecovillage in formation at Cloughjordan, Ireland), and the President of the Global Ecovillage Network at the Findhorn Community in Scotland.

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Susan Sawyer Welch is a writer and an MFT Intern, with Masters Degrees in Counseling Psychology from JFKUniversity and Social Ecology from the Institute for Social Ecology in Vermont. She currently works with children with developmental disabilities and is a Partner of the Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative (LDDI) with the Institute for Children's Health and the Environment (CHE).

Susan is trained in Open Space Technology and facilitation, particularly of Co-housing groups. She is a longtime communitarian, with experience living in half a dozen intentional communities in the U.S. over the last 13 years. She was a former high school teacher of Economics and has a special interest in community currencies.

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Excerpts from a letter from Susan, April 2008:
"I have just returned from a trip to Scotland, Ireland and England and I attended an exceptional and historical conference in each country. I went to the Findhorn Community in Scotland and attended a conference entitled "Positive Energy: Creative Responses to Peak Oil and Climate Change." In Ireland I attended "Convergence 13: PostCarbon Cities, Transition Towns and Ecovillages." I visited a very exciting ecovillage project in Cloughjordan, Ireland, which is about to build 132 households adjacent to a small rural village and be a hub of sustainable modeling. I then topped it off by attending the second Transition Network Conference, a gathering of Transition Town initiatives inBritain, and part of a very dynamic and fast spreading movement in Britain to drastically reduce carbon use while simultaneously massively increasing community resilience. The movement is now spreading around the world."

For more information on Ecovillages visit: www.gaia.org

Susan's blog is: www.villagerelationships.blogspot.com

"You can never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." - R. Buckminster Fuller
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