Here is a link to a chain of great videos on this important subject, enjoy!

http://transitionfinsburypark.org.uk/ConfrontingChangeFilms

Well I have not heard about this until recently, any thoughts? Please see link below:

http://www.codexalimentarius.net/web/index_en.jsp

I saw this and wondered what people thought of this working here in Maple Ridge?

Please see link below, let me know what your thoughts are:

http://www.landshareaustralia.com.au/organisations/milkwood-permaculture/

I found this also very interesting, worth looking into.

http://www.mondragon-corporation.com/language/en-US/ENG/Co-operativism/Co-operative-Experience.aspx

Here is a very interesting article, this is closer than I thought!

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/02/peak-oil-culture-of-denial.php?campaign=th_rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+treehuggersite+%28Treehugger%29

Here is a great example of what can be done, enjoy!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/feb/06/totnes-transition-towns-ethical-living

Wendell Berry: 17 Rules for a Local Sustainable Community

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I just received this email from the Vancouver Permaculture Meetup group. I don't personally have the time to take something like this on but I think it is an exciting proposal. Just thought I would pass it on in case anyone knows anyone. . . I hope it happens.

 James Anthony's idea:…

Very interesting summary of a longer essay by Mariarosa Dalla Costa: http://p2pfoundation.net/Measures_for_Relocalization_and_Reruralization

Came across this organization's website today and liked their principles a lot.  Community food security focuses on:

1.  Low Income Food Needs

2.  Broad Goals

3.  Community Focus

4.  Self-reliance/ empowerment

5.  Local agriculture

6.  Systems-oriented

Check them out here:  http://www.foodsecurity.org/views_cfs_faq.html

Solar composting is an Interesting option for reducing the amount of food 'waste' that goes to the landfill. Maple Ridge will be subsidizing them for anyone who is interested. (50% off.)

I write a lot and then I get on a computer and find that my best writing comes from responses to other people's posts or random blurbs~ I now know that is what channeling is~ I pay attention to the synchronicities closely now and know when I am on the right track.

I see a large community of other people so close by who want to live peacefully and I am in love with that~

The souls journey is never over

A~

Dear Diary: November 8th, 2010.

Last month, I "told" an allegory -symbolic story- about peak oil and climate change resulting from greenhouse gases to a group of teachers in Vancouver. I'd read the story to folks before but not told it from memory. The idea was to demonstrate the specific and unique connection talking directly to others makes that reading or lecturing fails to do. Secondly, of course, it was an attempt to pull others into dialogue - as opposed to monologue from an…