[Scpg] Thurs Apr 9 "Organizing our Neighborhoods for Life After Oil" (free)

[LBUZZELL at aol.com]

Hello Fellow Transitioners, Garden Club Members, Food enthusiasts and  
Permaculturists,
 
At 7 pm on Thursday, April 9th at the Santa Barbara Natural History Museum,  
I have been asked to be part of a group speaking on "Organizing our  
Neighborhoods for Life After Oil" and will talk about how Transition Town Santa  
Barbara is working on that.  Also speaking will be architects John Kelley  and 
Dennis Thompson who will talk about their efforts towards community  sustainability 
in Santa Barbara's Mesa neighborhood.
 
This FREE event has been organized as part of the "Life After Oil" series  
(see below for info on all three evenings) organized by the Community  
Environmental Council and sponsored by The Sustainability Project and California  
Central Coast Chapter. Event partners include the Santa Barbara Permaculture  
Network, Quail Springs, COAST, GOO, SB Bicycle Coalition, SB Food Not Lawns, the  
Environmental Defense Center, the Mesa Paper and Fess Parker's Double Tree  
Resort.
 
Hope to see you there!
 
Linda Buzzell-Saltzman
       
 
Life After Oil lecture series

What will a post-oil world look like? Learn how everyday people  are coming 
together to develop a new, more resilient energy economy.  
Thursday, March 26, Why Do We Need to Think Beyond Oil?  
Cost: Free  
Speaker: Michael Brune is Executive Director of Rainforest Action  Network 
(RAN) and a founding board member of Oil Change International, an  organization 
dedicated to dissolving the political barriers to a clean  energy transition. 
His recent book Coming Clean: Breaking America's  Addiction to Oil and Coal 
explores the costs of oil dependency, the role  played by politics and finance, 
and the possibilities for a post-oil  economy.  
Speaker: Dave Davis is Executive Director of the Community  Environmental 
Council (CEC), whose Fossil Free by ’33 campaign is designed  to move our region 
toward more efficient and renewable forms of energy in  one generation 
(www.CECSB.org).  
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Thursday, April 2, Organizing our Communities for Life After Oil  
Cost: Free  
Speaker: Rick Cole, Ventura City Manager has been called "one of  Southern 
California's most visionary planning thinkers" by the Los Angeles  Times and has 
made Smart Growth a priority for his region. The recent  report, Post Peak 
Oil Vision Plan for Ventura, outlines how conserving  natural resources such 
water and energy – and designing homes,  transportation systems and communities 
to be more efficient with energy  use – can protect a community from potential 
disruptions in energy  supplies (oil shocks).  
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Thursday, April 9, Organizing our Neighborhoods for Life After Oil  
Cost: Free  
Speakers: John Kelley and Dennis Thompson are local architects involved  with 
a volunteer effort to increase self-sufficiency, community, and  
sustainability in Santa Barbara’s Mesa neighborhood. In addition to  creating an 
architectural vision of a "Mesa Village," community, leaders  in this neighborhood are 
publishing a monthly newspaper, hosting  bi-monthly village meetings, and 
organizing regular "Mesa Food Exchanges."   
Speaker: Psychotherapist and ecotherapist Linda Buzzell-Saltzman, M.A.,  
M.F.T. is a member of the Seeds Committee of Transition Town Santa Barbara  -- a 
new local organization that is part of a global grassroots effort to  help 
communities make the transition to post-fossil-fuel, sustainable  living.  


  
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