Our "Underwater Tour of Downtown Santa Cruz in 2112" was a great success. At least 50 people turned out to march through downtown, showing solidarity for a strong Climate Action Plan in Santa Cruz. We dressed in giant sea anemone costumes, masks and snorkels, and bathing trunks. We saw amazing sights, like Fred Keeley "paddling" a real boat down Pacific Avenue, a real estate agent (Micah Posner in a business suit) of the future selling dock space in the downtown area, a Farmer Lorax reading Dr. Seuss transformed to a plea to protect the farmer's market, and more.

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The craft swap continues, a chance to share your arts and crafts supplies, get some new-to-you goodies, and get to know other people in the area while keeping stuff out of the landfill! This time we have a special set of demos and show-and-tell of fun arts and crafts by experienced crafters. Estelle will show [...]

Films of Vision and Hope Presents The Last Crop Join Transition Silicon Valley and World Centric for a special showing of a new film about agriculture in the Bay Area. Filmmaker Chuck Schultz will be present for a showing of his film, The Last Crop. This is his story of farmers Jeff and Annie Main, [...]

By Ute Engelke (Transition Palo Alto) In an effort to restore democracy in this country I am excited to walk on stilts on Friday in San Jose and on Saturday in Palo Alto at the “Move to Amend” event (for details see below). I would love to see you at the event, but if this [...]

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Tuesday, January 24, 2012 4:00 pm City Hall, 809 Center St.

Come to an Underwater Tour of Santa Cruz, fun street theater designed to use laughter to help people imagine the urgent need for climate action. For best effect, come in costume for an underwater tour: snorkel, mask, sea animal costume, etc.

At 7 pm (after the Tour), will be a City Council Meeting on the Climate Action Plan. 
Your voice is needed at this meeting, to let the Council know how much we care about real climate action.

You can also join our petition drive... 

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Thursday, January 19, 2012 7:00 pm Ecology Action, Cedar St. at Church St.

Have you heard? The "final draft" of the City of Santa Cruz Climate Action Plan (CAP) is out.

But it's not quite final. We still have some important work to do to see to it that the City Council means business as they put their stamp of approval on this vital document. (Click here to read Michael Levy's opinion piece for the Sentinel explaining why.)

Join us as we host City Climate Action Coordinator Ross Clark and leaders from local environmental groups in an open discussion of the CAP. What's new in this draft? What's still missing? What more would you like to ask the City Council for? This meeting will be a good place to find out. 

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Time to come out of winter hibernation! Events at Transition Palo Alto are starting up again. Below are the events for the coming week(s) that I know about. If you have questions, look at the TPA website http://transitionpaloalto.org and calendar http://transitionpaloalto.org/events-2/ or contact transitionpaloalto@gmail.com Jan 3 – Tuesday – Conversation, community & calling group – [...]

Films of Vision and Hope Sacred Economics Today Announcing a special non-film opportunity: Films of Vison and Hope is sponsoring a special evening with Charles Eisenstein, author of The Ascent of Humanity, and Sacred Economics, and narrator of the widely-viewed video “Occupy Wall Street — The Revolution is Love” (http://tiny.cc/ws07b). Sacred Economics Today Learn about [...]

During last Friday’s Transition film night, we showed videos about the Occupy movement, which was followed by animated discussions. A contingent from Occupy San Jose came, and gave us reports of their on-the-ground experience. The discussion about Occupy will continue this Friday, December 9, at a potluck starting at 7 pm at World Centric. Among [...]

TRANSITION PALO ALTO Newsletter November 29, 2011 News for Transition Palo Alto New Transition book groups forming – Wed Nov 30 Transition Companion copies available Films of Vision and Hope- “Occupy Wall Street — What’s Happened? What’s Next?” – Fri Dec 2 and 9 Sharing Circle organizing with Cecile Andrews – Mon Dec 5 Slow [...]

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Tuesday, November 15, 2011 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave.

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Transition Towns across the nation are finding ways to join hands with the Occupy movement. Occupy, with its focus on economic justice and democracy, and Transition, with our focus on local resilience, can inform each other, build bridges and support each other where our aims overlap.

For this month's Potluck-With-A-Purpose, we will host representatives of Occupy Santa Cruz for a discussion of questions like:

--What changes are Occupy Santa Cruz looking for?
--What ideas and resources can Transition Santa Cruz supply that support the goals of both of our movements?

Bring:

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Films of Vision and Hope – December 2 and 9 Occupy Wall Street — What’s Happened? What’s Next? Occupy Wall Street has captured the imagination of millions and brought a level social activism not seen in the U.S. for decades. How did it start? What’s happened so far? What are the implications, and what can [...]

Friday, November 11, 2011 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Crocker Theater, Cabrillo College

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$12 general and $8 student/senior
Advance tickets here

Welcoming the author of Diet for a Small Planet
and EcoMind

Yes, this is the legendary paradigm-buster, who in the 70s blew the whistle on the idea of food scarcity by discovering that the real problem was one of irrational and unfair distribution. Now she is providing brilliant new alternatives to some of environmentalists' favorite myths with her book, EcoMind. She will be joined by John Robbins, Wallace Nichols, and Michael Levy.

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TRANSITION PALO ALTO Newsletter October 30, 2011 News New book groups forming New groups this month: Slow Money, Food, Chat, Gardening New book – “Transition Companion” – discount copies available first week of November Events Cecile Andrews on Sharing – Wed Nov 2 Community Food Conference in Oakland – Thurs Nov 5-8 Richard Heinberg at [...]

In Transition 1.0 – movie and discussion From Oil Dependence to Local Resilience ‘In Transition’ is the first detailed film about the Transition movement filmed by those that know it best, those who are making it happen on the ground. The Transition movement is about communities around the world responding to peak oil and climate [...]