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Rich Besco
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- San Luis Obispo, CA
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Within Reach Movie
9 members
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LOCAL CURRENCY for SLO C…
11 members
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Permaculture SLO
32 members
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Bicycle Advocacy
14 members
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Transition Media
48 members
"Reverse" Engineering The Future
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A new group that will explore all the facets of COMMUNITY CURRENCY with articles, links, videos and meetings and classes and film gigs and other events to establish a solid foundation of whether our community actually NEEDS a local currency.
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- How might your current work contribute to the Transition movement?
- Would like to help facilitate growing the movement locally and regionally through education, outreach, and (of course) open source/group collaboration! Nurturing our local bike culture, learning more about permaculture and hoping to help spread more awareness of available positive solutions.
- In what ways do you personally identify with the Transition movement? Why are you interested?
- I think of this movement as the beginnings of a broad movement to redefine our ideas of progress, wealth, and happiness in more sustainable terms. I identify with how the movement begins from a place of blame-free recognition of the many ways our lifestyles have become unsustainable, and then guides collective energies towards creating positive changes that are both achievable and rewarding! I love this stuff! Alleviates feelings of hopelessness to become involved with exploring solutions, particularly rediscovering and updating older more appropriate technologies, what I call "reverse engineering".
- What background and skills do you bring to this community?
- Broad based environmental/science/engineering background. Bicycle maintenance, fixit guy (most anything, but especially like old reusable stuff), plumbing, electrical, mechanical. I've enjoyed doing progressive activism/outreach by tabling at SLO Farmer's Market.
- What aspects of the Transition Town movement most interests you?
- Spreading information/educational materials via events/film screenings/talks/market tabling/curriculum advocacy. Becoming more knowledgable/skilled with group facilitation methodologies.
- Your Favorite Books/Websites/Blogs/RSS Feeds for Information about the Transition Movement
- Post Carbon Inst/Post Carbon Cities, HopeDance.org, RodaleInstitute.org, UrbanPermacultureGuild.org, Walkable.org
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Buy Local! Eat Local! Grow Your Own! Local Energy! Living Local Economies! Transitioning from Oil Dependency to Local Resilience!
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Locavore Movie (trailer)
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Rob Hopkins at the TED
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Complicated is not always better. Have you ever worked on any gray water systems?
We've just implemented some get acquainted questions so we CA Transition folk can all get to know each other. When you're finished introducing yourself, it would be great if you could post one or two of your local SLO events -- even if they're local, they're news and inspiration to other communities wondering how they might get involved.
Again, we're delighted to see you. Ask questions. Talk with people. Have fun!
Great-always a pleasure to meet fellow Los Osos folks. Give a call. Want to meet for coffee?