Hello Transitioners!

You are receiving this email because we have you registered for the "Life After Oil" event this coming Saturday, Sept 20, 9am-5pm in Westchester/Los Angeles.

As we put the final touches on materials, etc, we're getting excited -- and we hope you are too.  The people included in this email (and thus in the participant list for Saturday) are coming from Santa Barbara, Carpinteria, Palmdale, Laguna Beach, Rancho Palos Verdes, Frazier Park, Valley View, and Hendersonville, Tennessee, as well as our more "local" areas of Santa Monica, West LA, Mar Vista, Marina del Rey, Culver City, Westchester, Inglewood, El Segundo, Redondo Beach and Torrance.

When we asked you to preregister, we said that we would send participant materials via email, but we've changed those plans somewhat.  We're now realizing that perhaps the most significant part of this (ground-breaking) session might become the fact that you each get to meet each other and know that you are not out there alone working on the only Transition action in So Calif.  Thus forming working relationships--interconnected and interdependent relationships--is very important. 

To this end, we're setting up an email loop so that we can all communicate.  Hop onto YahooGroups and join http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLA/   Introduce yourself and start to "meet" the people you'll meet in person on Saturday.  You can start the process of sharing the Transition progress your local area has made, or the potential receptivity of your local area if there is not yet anything happening there.  As we accumulate Transition initiative tips and resources, our discussions will be archived and become a resource for those people and communities who join the Transition movement later on.  So, come join in the Great Conversation of how we are going to go about Transitioning society toward a post-oil culture.

Meanwhile, as you probably already know, there is a list of resources at http://envirochangemakers.org/TTLA.htm  We will be expanding and transforming this list next week, so that it includes all the materials we use on Saturday.  That way, if you want to go back to something, or use it again in your local community, you will have access to it.  If there is sufficient interest from you, we'll move or replicate the list at the http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TTLA/ links.  The links and files at that YahooGroup are currently set such that you as members can add to them. Thus we could develop a local resource base of the Transition tools we have tried and tested in So Calif.

We look forward to meeting all of you, and to sharing an exciting day together this Saturday.

Joanne Poyourow
co-founder, Environmental Change-Makers
www.EnviroChangeMakers.org