Transition San Jose

Transition San Jose Cultivating a community of resilience in San Jose: connect, create, inspire, inform Background:

Climate change, peak oil, economic turmoil.

The more you look behind the headlines, the stronger grows the conviction that changes are coming. In a time when many of us feel anxious and frustrated, Transition offers a positive vision. It seeks to create "a sense of anticipation, elation and a collective call to adventure." The Transition Movement started in England and Ireland in 2005, and has since grown to hundreds of individual Transitio

n Towns or Transition Initiatives throughout the world - including here in Silicon Valley. We love living in San Jose and are doing what we can to cultivate a thriving city that is more livable, enjoyable and resilient. We do this by working creatively together and reaching out to the diverse communities, businesses, and organizations of San Jose to connect, communicate and work together toward common goals. Centered in our local neighborhoods and communities, we aim to reduce our carbon and water footprint, increase our resilience in the face of possible shocks, and make life here more abundant and fulfilling. Join us in our vision and efforts to create a vibrant, sustainable community.

10/24/2013

We are not just any CSA Program. Our Farm Box members are part of the Veggielution family - people working to keep San Jose’s agricultural heritage alive and to create a more sustainable, equitable food system. In the winter we will be serving 40 families in San Jose, and about 120 in the summer. We...

Support Veggielution! They have some big pants (acres) to fill, and they need a tractor for it. There are only five days...
05/13/2013

Support Veggielution! They have some big pants (acres) to fill, and they need a tractor for it. There are only five days left, help them out. It is one of the best ways I know of contributing to a local food system here in San Jose.

We need your help to purchase a tractor to cultivate our 4 new acres of land.

Help Garden to Table get started! Support local food in San Jose by contributing to their Kickstarter campaign!
01/28/2013

Help Garden to Table get started! Support local food in San Jose by contributing to their Kickstarter campaign!

Building community one garden/ fruit tree at a time by taking advantage of the underutilized resources in our neighborhoods.

11/02/2012

Genetic Roulette movie night at the Peace Center!

This podcast episode taps into some things I have been thinking about myself lately - we need massive action, yet the cu...
10/19/2012

This podcast episode taps into some things I have been thinking about myself lately - we need massive action, yet the current doable solutions on the table tend to be pretty weak. What about making a habit of taking practical steps but continuing to move towards totally unreasonable goals (like San Jose being carbon neutral, clean water, clean air, zero waste within the next 20 years? Oh and have a thriving bio-regional economy while we're at it)

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How do we start from where we are and make that happen?

KMO and the lovely Olga K pay a visit to the home of Sandra Steingraber to talk about fracking and the need to resist reckless despoilment of the environment.

Reality Check: why are we focusing on vague problems like peak oil and climate change when there already is a toxicology...
10/18/2012

Reality Check: why are we focusing on vague problems like peak oil and climate change when there already is a toxicology crisis going on RIGHT NOW?

Great talk by Andrew Faust on Regenerating Urban centers by starting with the problems we know about that are poisoning us now.

What struck me is that if we are approaching them from Permaculture design framework, it is highly likely we will simultaneously be bringing real solutions to the twin threats of Peak Oil/Climate Change

A lecture by permaculture instructor, Andrew Faust, on using permacultural design principles to make incremental upgrades to the urban landscape to help move

10/17/2012
Also for those interested in local economies and how to take money out of Wall Street and put it back on Main Street, I ...
10/16/2012

Also for those interested in local economies and how to take money out of Wall Street and put it back on Main Street, I highly recommend Local Dollars, Local Sense. I'm about 2/3rds through and it is just packed with great information on how the landscape is shifting for funding small local businesses, (the ONLY source of real job creation).

Local Dollars, Local Sense by Michael Shuman probes the future of investing -- making the case for investors to put their money into building local businesses and food and energy systems, and otherwise creating healthy regional economies that meet the stresses of a post-peak-oil world…

10/16/2012

For those interested in contributing to the growing of local food systems across the nation, Slow Money is introducing the Soil Trust.

I support the Soil Trust. The Soil Trust is a non-profit fund dedicated to rebuilding local food systems, at the intersection of philanthropy and investing.

10/15/2012

Great turnout for the first workday at New Community of Faith! The hard work is over, next up sheet mulching! Join us on the 20th.

http://www.meetup.com/Transition-San-Jose/events/87104092/

This is the second workday at New Community of Faith to Sheet Mulch their front landscape! The schedule is as follows: 9 am - Site Preparation and Orientation (anyone is welcome) 10 am - Quick worksho

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