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Gwendolyn Hallsmith
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Rapid Energy Descent?
Hello Transition Town Montpelier! I just learned of a study that was completed by NASA in January of this year that talks about a solar flare cycle that is due to occur sometime in 2012. Apparently our electric grids are not equipped to handle this…
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Hello Transition Town Montpelier! I just learned about a study that NASA completed in January, warning about a solar flare cycle that is likely to occur in 2012. Apparently our electric grid is not equipped to handle this kind of event. The last on…
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At 10:06pm on February 12, 2009, Keith Morris said…
Hi Gwen,

This is Keith- who was trying to figure out how we had met at Dave Jacke's event....

Heading home- I realized! You joined my class for a tour of John Wire's and Jim and Erin's house!

Anyway- things like that drive me crazy until I can pu tmy finger on them. Good to reconnect- I hope you enjoyed the EFG?

Best,
K
At 9:16am on January 19, 2009, Stephan Syz said…
Hi Gwen, I'd love to visit with you on some practical land .... agricultural....water ...city forest land conservation and doing. Stephan
At 8:06am on January 13, 2009, Emily Kaminsky said…
My post-script to that post is that yes, it would be great to learn more about ORE and it's initiatives (new ones and existing ones). I will try to sign up...I'm starting some neighborhood initiative in my hood and can see a bunch of neighbor-2-neighbor connections potentially starting up where ORE timebanking would come in handy appropriate vehicle. If you have information on how ORE can link in with a USD$-based currency, please let me know. I don't think I clearly made that request in my post below! Thanks! Emily
At 8:04am on January 13, 2009, Emily Kaminsky said…
Hi Gwen, Yes, I'm familiar with Onion River Exchange and the new site I set up includes a group called Barre Friends of ORE. Bern Rose is trying to get more people aware of it and there is a presentation during MLK at the Aldrich Library on it among other things. I thought that ORE, as a time bank, might not be as readily usable by merchants and consumers as a local currency is and that the two go hand-in-hand. The local currency would be pegged to the dollar and would just for the experimental month be available by an initial group of individuals purchasing it at a discount and then spending it at local retailers to get it circulating. It would circulate through the community for a month and then we would have a redemption period at the end of the month. If we were to extend the experiment, it could include the "earning of the local currency" for work completed, etc. but that seems to require infrastructure (as you suggest) that we don't need for the purpose of this experiment. The other thought is that when we get into the summer time prior to Barre Heritage Festival that we could do a 6-week lead up where any purchase made at a participating Barre retailer gets you 1 local currency for every $10USD you spend. And, then, the 3 days of Homecoming would be when everyone could redeem their currency. This would be a way of including the merchants during an event that they always say deflates sales. So, this would be two local currency experiments. Amy Kirschner's exchange seems like a good way to tie together different local currency inititiaves. Maybe that's the way to ultimately tie ORE and a Barre (and other local currencies) together...
At 11:21pm on January 11, 2009, Emily Kaminsky said…
Gwen, I'm interested in hearing more about your currency project. I'm interested in starting an experiment in Barre of a local currency. Moreso just to get people thinking about how money is spent in our community. See this site that I started for Barre - there's a discussion and a blog about introducing a new local currency called "CBGB's"!
At 2:05pm on December 12, 2008, Annie McCleary said…
Hi Gwen, Glad to see you here on this site. You wrote: "The Transition Town movement is inspiring people to work together to find a new lifestyle." I think this is core, and I appreciate that we are all working toward this shift of lifestyle in a number of ways, reaching even more folks. Cheers, Annie

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"How are you involved in preparing for the changes that peak oil, economic instabilty and climate change are bringing, and in creating resilience and sustainable life style in our communities?"
The enVision Montpelier project is creating a sustainable municipal plan for the City of Montpelier that looks 30-100 years in the future. We are learning about all the ways we meet our needs for a healthy and sustainable environment, a vibrant local economy, participatory governance, social cohesion and human development, and a deep sense of connection to our neighbors and the world. The action plan developed will be adopted by the City and by stakeholders throughout the community. enVision Montpelier has provided funding for the Transition Town initiative as one way of implementing the action plan - members of the Transition group will be providing training in sustainable life skills for people in the community.
In what ways do you identify with the Transition movement? Why are you interested?
We need to take immediate action to change our consumption, transportation, and other energy habits. The Transition Town movement is inspiring people to work together to find a new lifestyle.
How can you help the growth/acceptance/vitality of the Transition movement?
We are working to make Montpelier the first sustainable state capital, because I think when there are high visibility cities who have embraced the changes we need - like Totnes - more and more cities will follow. We have actually begun a 'race' with the City of Olympia, Washington, to encourage capital cities in the U.S. to become more sustainable. With publicity for the race and the efforts we are making in Montpelier, the Transition Town initiative can be part of that.
Your Favorite Books/Websites/Blogs/RSS Feeds for Information about the Transition Movement
www.global-community.org Global Community Initiatives
www.earthcat.org The Earth Charter Community Action Tool
www.global-laser.org Local Action for Sustainable Economic Renewal
Your Personal Website (if you have one)
http://www.montpelier-vt.org
 
 

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