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Saturday, November 2, 2013

Sustainable Community: Where We Go From Here


Please take a look at the attached newsletter article on a major sustainability conference, Where We Go From Here, held early October at the Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY.


The conference featured over a dozen sustainability leaders and I have reviewed the presentations of Jeremy Rifkin, Paul Hawken, David Orr and Rob Hopkins; concluding with a summary model of how we can get there following the major theme of those presentations:  local, post carbon and connected.


You will find a link in the article to a blog post on the emerging field of Community Ecosystems Mapping, based on systems ecology, that is seeking to build virtual, local, sustainable community.


I also reported the startup of the Mid-Atlantic Transition Hub (MATH) and its upcoming Waterways Reskilling conference, November 23-24, 2013, at New Paltz, New York.  You can find information about that conference at this link:  http://transitionmidatlantic.org/waterways-reskilling-information/.


Thank you


Bill Sharp, Director, Transition Centre

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