October 2010 Blog Posts (3)

Dealing with Anxiety Before Climate Change

I want to draw everyone's attention to this article, which should help us focus on strategies for bringing people into Transition mode. It's about the psychological barriers to acting on climate change that reside in the human consciousness.

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/shrinking-the-climate-problem/

Andrew

Added by Andrew James Knox on October 29, 2010 at 1:48pm — No Comments

"What are you going to do about it?" - A call for Volunteers

The Steering Committee of Green Neighbours 21 (Ken Traynor, Paul Antze, Marilyn MacKellar, and Jeanne Moffat) has issued a call for volunteers, asking if you would be able and interested in assisting with GN21's Second Annual Eco-Festival which we will hold at the Wychwood Barns on Sunday afternoon, November 28th, 1-4 p.m. You may… Continue

Added by Andrew James Knox on October 18, 2010 at 7:58am — No Comments

Solar Food Dehydrator

The following has just come from Blake Poland of Transition Oakville:

dear fellow transitioners,

I'm picking up a unique solar food dryer made for a member of the Brockville Climate Action Group (soon to become Transition Brockville) who I met this summer. Turns out he has a second one available if one of you wants it.

It's a food dehydrator that runs on the sun rather than electricity. It's big enough to fill the trunk of a mid-size station wagon. Made of… Continue

Added by Andrew James Knox on October 3, 2010 at 10:35am — No Comments