Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Doug Willhite <drwillhite@earthlink.net>]

To Paul:

When the Transition Towns movement began there was a whirlwind of  
euphoria and hope that took hold of some folks who had been blogging  
on peak oil.  I was a longtime reader and fan of Bob Banner's  
regional magazine, HopeDance, when he shifted the entire focus of his  
magazine into promoting Transition California. Bob's trying to find  
someone else to take over the Transition CA website now.

I joined up for a brief stint when TC first began.  The site didn't  
work very well and had a cult feel... like "Facebook for Peak  
Oilers."   I quickly became aware that being a member wasn't going to  
help build my local community any because there weren't any other  
members from my area -- I would have to recruit my neighbors to join  
up. (Too much work!)  I haven't returned to their website since. I'd  
rather put my limited energies into building a real food system and a  
real community with real neighbors.

To Dan:

We agree that in actuality there are basically only two economic  
classes:  working class folks (the vast majority) vs. the owners of  
vital resources and production (the ruling elite).  But there is a  
class of workers -- a kind of managerial class -- who are direct  
beneficiaries of this longstanding arrangement.  They defend and  
perform the bidding of the ruling elite. (For an example, see  
everyone working at Fox News.)  For lack of a better word, we can  
call these folks the middle class.  ;^)

doug

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Transition California
• Local Self-Reliance for a Post-Petroleum World •
A message to all members of Transition California

Time for someone else to take over the CA ning site
If you are interested please contact me at bob.banner@gmail.com.

Some videos and articles that may be of interest to you:

BABIES - Official Trailer
Happy - A Documentary Trailer
Furry Vengeance - Can you imagine hollywood making a family comedy  
about the nastiness of corporate housing developers who wish to strip  
a pristine preserved forest?
INGREDIENTS (another food film) is finally available for public  
screenings

Something Monumental Is Going To Happen / Flordemayo

Bolivia's Evo Morales: Capitalism and Plastic No, Mother Earth and  
Indigenous Products, Yes
Sacred Economics

Alcatraz Goes Solar With 1,360 Panels
The Blue Economy Cultivating a New Business Model for a Time of Crisis

How some small towns are getting national recognition for local food:
From Farm to Fork: San Luis Obispo Feeds the Appetite and Soul

Time for someone else to take over the CA ning site
If you are interested please contact me at bob.banner@gmail.com.

Now up to 1,038 members.
Visit Transition California at: http://transitioncalifornia.ning.com/? 
xg_source=msg_mes_network

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