January Newsletter

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January 25, 2011

author: Debbie Simpson

It’s hard to believe that 2010 is over. It has been a great year for Transition San Fernando Valley. A big “Thank You” goes out to the Steering
Committee for all of their efforts.

*2010 – Year in Review*

Over the past year, Transition SFV had several events including the C-Realm Salon, The Future is About Resilience, Intro to Transition, Transitioning in Place (2 parts), the Crash Course salon series and a Permaculture movie night. Featured workshops included Mead-Making, Self-Watering Containers, Worm Composting and an Introduction to CA Native Plants. Outreach was conducted at several “green” events in 2010 including the Topanga Earth Day Fair, The Valley Water Expo, and at Burbank Green Alliance’s free screening of “Crude” in September.

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Recording Our Past: Public Gatherings Cycle II, Apr to Jun 2010

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July 6, 2010

For historical purposes, we’re listing our older events, in the interest of transparency, dialogue and rampant joy!  This is the second post in the series.

The Transition SFV was formed at the urging of Bruce Woodside in September 2009 (after a few weeks of e-mailing back and forth).  We met every couple of weeks, plotting and planning and laughing and getting to know each other before, slowly, things started to emerge.

From January to March, we came out, ideas ablazing.  a total of six meeting were proposed and executed: the C-Realm Salon, Mead-Making, The Future is About Resilience, Intro to Transition, Transitioning in Place part 1 and Transitioning in Place part 2.

Then, hot on its heels came Cycle II and we came out to meet the public — you!  And we were very happy to meet you.

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Recording Our Past: Public Gatherings, Cycle I, Jan to Mar 2010

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July 6, 2010

For historical purposes, we’re going to start listing our older events, in the interest of transparency, dialogue and… well… fun!

The Transition SFV was formed at the urging of Bruce Woodside in September 2009 (after a few weeks of e-mailing back and forth).  We met every couple of weeks, plotting and planning and laughing and getting to know each other before, slowly, things started to emerge…

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Living in the Gardens of God

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April 3, 2010

This place is like a garden!  A garden given to us by God…

I’m paraphrasing — fictionalizing — a story I heard several times from members of the Tataviam tribe who live here, in the San Fernando Valley, in the place we call home.  It’s the first words uttered by the Spanish upon coming to this place, expressing their astonishment at not only the bounty they could see but its seemingly innate organization.  It reminded them so strongly of the beautiful gardens they had left back home in Spain and they came to the only conclusion they could; that God had created, here, a paradisical garden on Earth.

Only it wasn’t God who created it.

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