Local Future is pleased to announce the acclaimed “Training for Transition” workshop at the beautiful Pierce Cedar Creek Institute, featuring expert facilitators Bill and Becky Wilson of Stelle, Illinois. 

Date: 
Friday, November 20, 2009 – Sunday, November 22, 2009

Curriculum: 
The course includes the fundamentals for those wishing to know how to set up, run, and maintain a successful Transition Initiative.

It is packed with imaginative and inspiring ways to delve into both the theory and practice of Transition, providing training in the basics of Transition for new communities coming on board, as well as other skills necessary to successfully set up and run a Transition Initiative.

The training is based on the newly-updated Training for Transition course developed by Naresh Giangrande and Sophy Banks in Totnes, England.

Who should attend: 
Transition Initiative leaders, steering group members, working group members, and those considering Transition in their communities.

There are some 40 speakers, including Albert Bates, Robert Costanza, Tom Greco, and many more.

Check it out at:
 

What a great conference and post-conference.

Congratulations and thank you!

• We had over 1150 participants at our 8th annual Great Lakes Bioneers Conference. We enjoyed delicious, local organic food, great company, and excellent speakers.
• The post-conference, co-hosted by ISLAND and The Neahtawanta Inn, was attended by 74 people on a beautiful fall day. For more details, visit www.nrec.org.

1. Be kind to other people.

2. Plant flowers and garden.

3. Be conscious of what we use.

4. Ride a bike.

5. Recycle.

6. Dance, sing, and hug.

7. Breathe and talk slowly.

From the Family Circle at the “Child in the Center: Activism With Every Breath” workshop.

September 15, 2009

Dear Friends:

My family and I want to thank everyone for the outpouring of love and support that we have received over the past week or so. I resigned from the White House on September 6, and I have remained silent since then – in keeping with my promise not to be a distraction during a key moment in the Obama Presidency.

Over the past several days, however, many people have been asking how they can help and what they can do.

The main thing is this: please do everything you can to support both President Obama and the green jobs movement. Winning real change is ultimately the best response to these kinds of smear campaigns.

I ask everyone to:

1. Support President Obama’s efforts to fix our nation’s health care, energy and education systems. His victory last fall did not represent the “finish line” in the fight to renew America; his election was just the “starting line.” This autumn, it is time to make history again – with victories on health care and clean energy.
2. Sign up to support groups that are working for green jobs. As others seek to vilify or marginalize the movement for a clean energy economy, the leading groups deserve increased support. This is the year to ensure that the clean energy transformation creates good job opportunities for everyone in America.
3. Spread the green jobs gospel. The ideas and ideals of the green jobs movement are grounded in fundamental American values – innovation,entrepreneurship and equal opportunity. My true thoughts can be found in my book: The Green Collar Economy. Check it out from the library – or order a copy and share it with a friend. See for yourself why clean energy and green jobs are good for our country.
4. Stay connected and speak up for me via your favorite blogs (e.g., Huffington Post, Grist, Jack & Jill, etc.), on message boards and all of your favorite social networking platforms (Twitter, Facebook, etc.). Supporters have set up a couple of them, to help you stay engaged, including: I Stand With Van Jones and I Love Van Jones.

In due course, I will be offering my perspective on what has happened – including correcting the record about false charges. In the meantime, I must get my family affairs in order and sort through numerous offers and options.

I want to be clear that I have nothing but love and admiration for President Obama and the entire Administration. White House staffers are there to serve and support the President, not the other way around. At this critical moment in history, I could not in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. The White House needs all its hands on deck, fighting for the future.

Of course, some supporters actually think I will be more effective on the “outside.” Maybe so. But those ideas always remind me of that old canard about Winston Churchill. After he lost a hard-fought election, a friend told him: “Winston, this really is just a blessing in disguise.” Churchill quipped: “Damned good disguise.” I can certainly relate to that sentiment right now.

Nonetheless, we must keep moving forward. Let’s continue our work to make an America as good as its promise. These are historic times. And we have a lot more history to make.

Sincerely,

Van Jones

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The 7th Annual Great Lakes Bioneers Conference wrapped up in Traverse City on Sunday.

Traverse City is one of many communities across the country that linked up with the main Bioneers Conference in California over the weekend.

It’s an event that focuses on building stronger communities economically, environmentally, and socially. Finding solutions inspired by nature.

Booths, vendors, and workshops lined the halls of Northwestern Michigan College.

For more information on the Great Lakes Bioneers, please click on link below.

9&10’s Shainna Ziegler and photojournalist Jordan Nagel were at the event, they have the story.