Greetings from Bob!

How might your current work contribute to the Transition movement?

Selling The Transition Handbook, started a Transition PORTAL (http://www.hopedance.org/cms/content/view/535/1)creating listservs, launching the Transition CA site with the help of Les Squires, am involved in the SLO County steering group, living in an intentional community / farm that is transitioning to more and more sustainable practices, publishing HopeDance Magazine which has been involved with transitional ideas and practices for 12 years, screening films about sustainable agriculture, permaculture, natural building, peak oil solutions, globalization / localization, etc.

In what ways do you personally identify with the Transition movement? Why are you interested?

Why? its a movement that appears to include every aspect of sustainability, regenerative principles, humor, positive thinking, a sense of the spiritual/sacred. The focus on the LOCAL has been very important to me, with support of the local, creating and funding local resources, creating local currencies and easing out of the comfort zone of globalization with all its various seductive forces to keep us asleep.

What background and skills do you bring to this community?

Publishing, screening films, writing, facilitating conversations / dialogues, creating events, networking, a diverse perspective of how many sectors in society need to participate in the transition movement, not just agriculturally but philosophically and psychologically. Once those basic foundational roots can accept resilience and transitional models, the others will follow more smoothly.

What aspects of the Transition Town movement most interests you?

By participating in activities like this and being more of a messenger to very effective information as well as a wealth of re-skilling models and activities and encouraging the conversation about personal and consciousness change in the movement.

Your Favorite Books/Websites/Blogs/RSS Feeds for Information about the Transition Movement

transitionculture.org
all the transition ning sites
clusterfucknation with James Howard Kunstler
HopeDance, Ode, Resurgence, The Ecologist, Adbusters, Treehugger, Energybulletin
The Transition Handbook, The Long Emergency, PowerDown, The Long Descent, Permaculture books, The Sacred Matrix by Dieter Duhm, Rumi, Sufi books

Your Personal Website (if you have one)

http://www.hopedance.org/cms

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Suggestions you have for improving our registration questions or how to know you better.

Ask about films that have been influential in your "Transition" process:
For me they would include: The End of Suburbia, INDEPENDENT AMERICA: The Two Lane Search for Mom and Pop, A CRUDE AWAKENING: The Oil Crash, Who Killed the Electric Car?, Too Hot Not To Handle, Everything's Cool, “Oil Apocalypse”, The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, WHAT A WAY TO GO: Life at the End of Empire... and others.....