What is Money?

When: Sunday, August 21st from 2:00-3:30pm
Where: First Unitarian Church 3114 Harney St., Omaha, NE

Transition Omaha meets monthly, the third Sunday of the month, to engage the community and heighten awareness in moving from oil dependency to local resilience. Each month a related topic is presented followed by an opportunity to practice the open space concept.

Previous topics have included co-housing, GDP and gross national happiness, local community garden food networks, fiber arts of spinning and weaving and environmental art. This month's program features "What is Money?" from Chris Martenson's the Crash Course. The Crash course is a series of videos that clearly explains how our economy, energy systems and environment face increasing challenges, and explores likely implications for the future.

Join others who want to discuss money and it's creation, and learn the answer to how much is a trillion dollars.

Permaculture Workshop

Essential Permaculture weekend workshop on Feb 19/20.

Saturday 9am-5pm
Sunday 9am-3pm

at Knowles Mercy Center, Waterloo, NE

Cost is $195

The book Gaia's Garden, continental breakfasts and lunches included

To register go to http://www.MidwestPermaculture.com

While we have the presenters, Bill and Becky Wilson from Midwest Permaculture, in town, we've also introduced a FREE talk on Friday evening, Feb 18, 6:30-8:30 at UNO, CPACS Building, Room 132D.

The focus of the talk will be on how we can use our ingenuity in working with nature to create sustainable cultures at our homes and community. We are at a crossroads with climate change and peak oil. Come and be inspired with Permaculture's hopeful approach for developing resilient communities!

More Recommended Books

Transition Omaha has these resources for sale

You can click on the above link and send an email to find out how to get access to these supportive materials.

The Transition Handbook: From oil dependency to local resilience

Rob Hopkins, Chelsea Green Publishing, $25

The Transition Handbook is a ground-breaking book that shows how we can move from feeling anxiety and fear in the face of “peak oil” to developing a positive vision and taking practical action to create a more self-reliant existence.

The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and The Collapse of The American Dream DVD

Barry Silverthorn, Producer, $18

The End of Suburbia explores the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet approaches a critical era, as global demand for fossil fuels begins to outstrip supply.

Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines

Richard Heinberg, New Society Publishers, $25

Peak Everything addresses the personal, psychological, and cultural challenges we face as nature rapidly dictates our new limits. A must read for individuals, business leaders, and policy makers who are serious about effecting real change.

Permaculture: Principles & Pathways Beyond Sustainability

David Holmgren, Holmgren Design Services, $25

David Holmgren uses permaculture principles as a framework for an empowering but challenging vision of creative adaptation to a world of energy descent.

Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate

Change

David Holmgren, Chelsea Green Publishing, $12

David Holmgren shows us what the future might look like in the generations-long era of energy descent that faces us—and also tells us how to adapt to the cultural, political, agricultural, and economic implications of two forces that will shape that future: peak oil and climate chang

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Transition United States

We are a nonprofit organization that provides inspiration, support, training, and networking for Transition Initiatives across the United States. Transition Initiatives are part of a vibrant, international grassroots movement that builds community resilience in response to the challenges of peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis. Together we can make the transition to a more fulfilling, equitable and sustainable world.

Transition Network International

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Training Opportunity

TRAINING for

TRANSITION in OMAHA

October 22-24, 2010

“For all those aspects of life that our community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience (in response to peak oil), drastically reduce carbon emissions (in response to climate change) and greatly strengthen our local economy (in response to economic instability)?”

As a response to this question, the Transition Omaha initiating group invites you to attend the second Training for Transition opportunity with certified Transition trainers Michael Brownlee and Lynette Marie Hanthorn, Co-founders of Transition Colorado.

October 22, 23, 24

Friday 6:30--9:00pm,

Saturday/Sunday 8:30 am--5:30 pm

Columbans Retreat Center,1902 Calhoun Street, Bellevue, NE

$195, lunches included

info and registration at www.transitionomaha.org

questions contact info@transitionomaha.org

Lynette Marie Hanthorn

Lynette Marie Hanthorn co-founded and is now executive director of Transition Colorado, a non-profit that embraces the ethics and principles of the global Transition Movement to localize and regenerate community. With over 20 years’ experience in justice and mediation work, Lynette Marie is a certified Transition trainer and also holds a Permaculture design certification.

Michael Brownlee

Michael Brownlee is co-founder of Transition Colorado, the first officially-recognized Transition initiative in North America (now a regional Transition Hub). He is a certified trainer for the international Transition Network, a board member of Transition U.S., and a frequent speaker on issues of community resilience. Michael is also publisher of Transition Times and the Boulder County EAT LOCAL! Resource Guide. Locally, he is a founding member of the Boulder County Food & Agriculture Policy Council.

Thoughts from the trainers:
“Having worked for the last two years with the training program developed by Sophy Banks and Naresh Giangrande in Totnes, England, we have developed a uniquely American approach to Transition, one that more fully takes into account our cultural context, as well as our current predicament in this country.

Our workshops are focused on ensuring the resilience and long-term success of local Transition Initiatives in implementing the Transition process. This workshop is a good opportunity to learn about the Transition model and to gain from the experience of Transition Initiatives around the nation. We provide a greater emphasis on the Heart & Soul piece and an exploration of the evolutionary process of Emergence. These are the first steps towards what we call “Deep Transition”-a deeper, more intense, and hopefully more sustainable experience of the essence of Transition.”