Thurston County Progressive Network held its annual picnic Sunday, July 12th. Despite our spectacular thunder and lightning storms that day, we had 140 people turn out for an outdoor event! 21 candidates for local offices spent 3 minutes each answering questions about their positions on issues of concern to progressive voters. The food was great. The company scintillating. And the event was capped off with a Transition Initiative workshop. We spend about 10 minutes warming folks up by creating a… Continue

Just wanted to let you know that the first TI public awareness raising presentation in Olympia on Monday night went really well. Olympia Climate Action group asked me to speak. They have been meeting most (?) of the last year and do a public educational event once a month.

We had 45 people turn out on a gorgeous sunny evening (it’s hard to compete with global warming ;^). Very engaged group. Lots of good interaction. Much positive feedback and some good constructive criticism. The criticism fro… Continue

Just read an amazing commencement speech that Paul Hawken gave at the U. of Portland in May, and want to share it, if it's new to you:

http://globalmindshift.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/the-unforgettable-commencement-address-by-paul-hawken-to-the-class-of-2009-university-of-portland-may-3-2009/

maybe we should wake up and do something!

http://transitiontownashland.org/trantown.html

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Here's a delightful video slide show (with wonderful music)
about the many Transition Towns in New Zealand:

What is a Transition Town?
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It all starts off when a collection of motivated individuals within a community come together with a shared concern: How can our community respond to the challenges, and opportunities, of Peak Oil and Climate Change, as well as exponential population grow… Continue

Joining the ROE caucuses
We have started a Running on Empty (ROE) caucus of Washington State Democrats . We have also started a national ROE caucus. The goal of this caucus is to bring more emphasis by our Party to the coming end of cheap oil and natural gas which will result in an extreme disaster.

To become a member of our caucus we require some more information from you. If you agree or basically agree with the following statements and you are a Democrat, then we will accept you into our cau… Continue