Welcome Janet Beazlie, Program Manager!

Posted by Shelby Tay, May 22, 2007, 4:21 pm
we are thrilled to welcome Janet Beazlie, who recently joined the staff of Post Carbon Institute as the Relocalization Network Manager. Janet has more than 20 years of training and consulting experience in management and organizational effectiveness. She has a wide field of experience, having been Executive... (read more)

2006 Relocalization Network Report Online!

Posted by Shelby Tay, May 22, 2007, 4:19 pm
Relocalization Network Report is now available online. Click to download the PDF. The report looks back at the past year and highlights the projects and milestones of Local Groups in the Relocalization Network. If you have any questions about the report, contact us. Thanks to everyone who contributed... (read more)

NEW group pages URLs - group.relocalize.net

Posted by Shelby Tay, March 28, 2007, 4:01 pm
long awaited group URL pointers are now active! This means that all group url that were in the format http://www.relocalize.net/groups/GROUPNAME are now in the format: http://GROUPNAME.relocalize.net For example: http://www.relocalize.net/groups/saltlake is now http://saltlake.relocalize.net weehoo! If your group's url is not working, please let us know asap! at http://www.relocalize.net/contact... (read more)

New Group Hompages: Sneak Peak!

Posted by Shelby Tay, March 28, 2007, 3:48 pm
for the tech team at Post Carbon Institute over the past month has been working on improving the group homepages for the local groups in the Relocalization Network. We want to make it easy for groups to configure their home pages, so each group can have control over... (read more)

Upgrading the backend

Posted by mackh, February 1, 2007, 3:29 pm
last month, the Post Carbon tech team has been busy on two exciting projects. We are designing a single sign-on process that will give people access to Relocalize.net, Global Public Media, and the Energy Farms Network, no matter which site you sign up on first. You’ll only have to remember one... (read more)

Settling into a new home

Posted by Shelby Tay, November 30, 2006, 11:37 am
couple weeks have kept us busy tying up loose ends. We're just settling in to a new office and unpacking the last of the boxes. Over the weekend Sarah and I helped revise the final chapters of Relocalize Now! Getting Ready for Climate Change and the End... (read more)

November Newsletter hits your inboxes!

Posted by Shelby Tay, November 10, 2006, 10:58 am
all! Sarah and I have stayed up many a late night this week to bring you the November Newsletter, chock full of new features and resources. If it hasn't reached your inbox yet, check it out online at http://www.relocalize.net/newsletter/november06. Due to technical reasons, we were not able to... (read more)

Lunch Meeting and Newsletter

Posted by Sarah Smith, November 1, 2006, 11:17 am
Shelby and I are working away at November's Relocalization Network Newsletter. We are also designing an online survey to help us get feedback from members of the Network and Group Coordinators to include in the first Relocalization Network annual report. We will be releasing the survey... (read more)

New feature: Sort list of groups by name & location!

Posted by Shelby Tay, October 30, 2006, 11:15 am
After much anticipation, we are pleased to introduce our new list of groups, complete with location information. You can now sort through the list of 128 groups alphabetically by name, group manager, city/town, province/state and country. Try it out here: http://www.relocalize.net/grouplist Note to group site managers: We spent... (read more)

Happy Birthday to Shelby

Posted by Sarah Smith, October 27, 2006, 10:34 am
It is Shelby's Birthday tomorrow. So if you get a chance, send her a quick Happy Birthday wish. In other news, we have started on next month's Relocalization Network Newsletter and are in the process of adding location information to all Local Group's homepages. Once... (read more)

Newsletter now out!

Posted by Shelby Tay, October 25, 2006, 12:06 pm
OK so we got a bit ahead of ourselves. We had intended to have the newsletter out over a week ago, but as things would have it, we've taken some extra time to make sure the newsletter was as free of typos as possible. Formatting, Formatting,... (read more)

New Feature: Find people near you!

Posted by Shelby Tay, October 23, 2006, 2:25 pm
We've just introduced a new feature to www.relocalize.net - by popular demand, our tech team has put together a search function for users by location. Check it out at the top of the yellow right-hand sidebar or go to http://www.relocalize.net/search/users/location. At the moment unfortunately the province... (read more)

Newsletter Hits the Press (or your inboxes . . )

Posted by Sarah Smith, October 17, 2006, 1:20 pm
Shelby and I are very excited to release the first Issue of the Relocalization Network Newsletter, the monthly publication of the Relocalization Network. Look for it in your email inboxes at the beginning of every month. You can also view it here: http://www.relocalize.net/newsletter/october06.... (read more)

Back and ready to roll

Posted by Shelby Tay, September 26, 2006, 10:23 am
We're getting down to business today to talk about the Relocalization Network and tackle the burning question, "Is what we're doing useful?" We recently sat down with our accountant, Shawn Venne, to discuss a budget for the initiative and will continue to work on developing it.... (read more)

Shelby at home with strep throat - Sarah holding down the fort.

Posted by Sarah Smith, September 21, 2006, 2:38 pm
Shelby has been home this whole week with a bad case of strep throat and I was been working hard to keep up with emails. We are working on developing a one page brochure for the Relocalization Network and re-designing the Post Carbon Brochure into... (read more)

RWBI gets published

Posted by Sarah Smith, September 11, 2006, 4:06 pm
Energy Bulletin has published an article "A party plan for raising peak oil awareness," written by Chérie McGregor, co-coordinator of RWBI. She has some good ideas to share about community outreach and getting people involved in your Local Group's activities. Take a moment to... (read more)

Anyone going to Yellow Springs?

Posted by Shelby Tay, September 7, 2006, 9:44 am
Hello, If you or a representative of your group is going to attend the Community Solution Conference in Yellow Springs, Ohio on September 22-24, 2006, please send us an email at network(at)postcarbon(dot)org and let us know. There will be a potential funder who will be attending the... (read more)

Welcome back David Strongman

Posted by Shelby Tay, September 5, 2006, 12:32 pm
Today we had a surprise visit from David Strongman who has just returned to Vancouver after a thrilling six week trip down the Coast to California and back. He captured his experiences, as well as the experiences of the people he met along the way, through... (read more)

The Outreach Toolkit is Posted!

Posted by Sarah Smith, August 28, 2006, 2:43 pm
We have posted the first version of the Relocalization Network Outreach Toolkit at www.relocalize.net/resources/outreach/toolkit. For the second version of the toolkit we are going to develop a brochure template for Local Groups as well as create a couple more information sheets. All comments on this... (read more)

Summer cleaning

Posted by Shelby Tay, August 25, 2006, 10:20 am
www.postcarbon.org is going to get some much needed grooming. If you've visited the site lately you'll have noticed the grim front page and redundant menu items, wormholes, navigational nightmares... Well, that's all about to change. Yesterday, Sarah and I, Julian and Celine, and Karen (Oil Depletion... (read more)

Looking back on the day's work

Posted by Sarah Smith, August 22, 2006, 4:39 pm
It is very satisfying to be able to look back at the end of the day and see, on the website, the work that we have done. The process is always slower that we hoped (or realized), but the resource sections are starting to materialize,... (read more)

Interactive Map Updates!

Posted by Shelby Tay, August 21, 2006, 12:05 pm
Jim Zack of Sustainable Saratoga Springs has graciously provided his services to update the interactive map images with the new Local Groups that have recently joined the Relocalization Network. The new maps will be uploaded shortly. The August Post Carbon Institute newsletter will be rolling out... (read more)

Resources are on their way

Posted by Sarah Smith, August 17, 2006, 11:04 am
Today Shelby and I and putting the final touches on the Resource section of the website. This is just step one of our plan to provide Local Groups with valuable information and tools to take on projects and put on events in their communities. ... (read more)

Busy Busy Busy

Posted by Shelby Tay, August 15, 2006, 10:21 pm
Sarah and I have been catching up with emails today an setting out a plan for tackling the resources section of the website this week and next week. There's a lot that is set to happen before September rolls around. The Network Newsletter was sent out... (read more)

Peak Moment Visits

Posted by Sarah Smith, August 9, 2006, 11:27 am
Janaia and Robyn from Peak Moment Television are in Vancouver and came to visit the office yesterday. We had a very productive meeting in the back room. We talked about their trip up the west coast, ideas and goals about the Relocalization Network, and... (read more)

Upgrade Complete

Posted by Sarah Smith, July 21, 2006, 1:40 pm
We have successfully (with a few minor glitches) upgraded our operating system! This means that the next step for us is to start adding features to the website that will give Local Groups better organizational and communication tools. This is something we have been... (read more)

The Big Switch-Over

Posted by Sarah Smith, July 18, 2006, 5:08 pm
Are you wondering why things look a bit different on relocalize.net? Well, we are in the process of upgrading our operating system to the newest version. This means that we can start improving our services, tools and features and make sure that our system... (read more)

Peak Oil Art Show

Posted by Sarah Smith, July 4, 2006, 2:09 pm
Take a look at this Peak Oil Art Show: (Is it) the end of the world as we know it?. It was held on June 17, 2006 in San Francisco. (www.sfbayoil.org/sfoa/artshow) ... (read more)

Tidbit of the Week

Posted by Sarah Smith, June 27, 2006, 2:14 pm
Did you know that when you sign up on the website with a User Account, the program also creates a personal blog. You can find the link to your blog in the yellow side bar under "my blog." When you post a new... (read more)

Conversation Marathon

Posted by Sarah Smith, June 15, 2006, 5:14 pm
Next week we will be busy on the phone talking with Group Coordinators about what they have been up to and how we can better support the work they are doing in their communities. We will also spend some time talking about what we have been... (read more)

Welcome to the new Relocalization Network Website.

Posted by Sarah Smith, June 8, 2006, 12:38 pm
Shelby and I are very excited to welcome everyone to the new Relocalization Network website! We are still in the process of adding content and features and improving the functionallity. So, we expect that we will be finding bugs in the system for the next... (read more)

2005 Accomplishments

Posted by mackh, November 9, 2005, 12:19 pm
for Peak Read about our 2005 accomplishments and support our Plan for Peak! OUR MISSION Post Carbon Institute's mission is to assist societies in their efforts to relocalize communities and adapt to an energy constrained world. We believe that production of oil and natural gas will peak soon,... (read more)