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April 16, 7-9pm: Empowering Businesses in the Next Economy "Social justice and environmental justice are important to me. How can I make a positive impact and also make a living?" …… "We have an idea for a new business. How do we get started and define our mission?" …… "I want to do work that's in line with my values while also being able to pay my bills." Join TransitionSF in the 2nd of 2 special events led by Kevin Bayuk. Kevin will guide us in an interactive dialog exploring these questions of livelihood in the context of our personal and community Transition. This event will focus on business resources and tools in the Next Economy. Location: Gazebo Room at CPMC Davies Campus, Castro Street between Duboce Street and 14th Street Cost: Suggested Sliding Scale Donation, 5 to 15 dollars, No one will be turned away for lack of funds Kevin Bayuk is co-founder of Lift Economy (http://lifteconomy.com/), a business coaching organization committed to helping structure Next Economy organizations to scale for the benefit of people and planet. Kevin's roots are in entrepreneurship, having spent nearly a decade starting and growing technology companies, and activating projects and organizations that regenerate healthy ecosystems and socially just and joyful environments. After immersing himself in all aspects of starting and growing companies, Kevin focused his attention on learning about and teaching eco-systemic design. Now Kevin is merging his experience in business with his experience in permaculture to help businesses care for people while enhancing the earth. Loal Resources: Bay Area Worker Coopertives This organization provides resources and templates on how to set up a coop. http://nobawc.org/ Business Training Renaissance Enterprenourship Center Business Training Classes and Incubator Space http://www.rencenter.org/ Woman's Initiative Low cost training and on-going support for Women owned businesses http://www.womensinitiative.org/ Small Business Development Center Large selection of classes to get the business off the ground http://sf.norcalsbdc.org/ Other Local Group helping us Transition: http://www.transitionsf.org/organizations-transitioning-sf---spreadsheet |
March 19, 7-9pm: Exploring Personal Livelihood in the Context of TransitionAbout Kevin: Kevin Bayuk is co-founder of Lift Economy (http://lifteconomy.com/), a business coaching organization committed to helping structure Next Economy organizations to scale for the benefit of people and planet. Kevin's roots are in entrepreneurship, having spent nearly a decade starting and growing technology companies, and activating projects and organizations that regenerate healthy ecosystems and socially just and joyful environments. After immersing himself in all aspects of starting and growing companies, Kevin focused his attention on learning about and teaching eco-systemic design. Now Kevin is merging his experience in business with his experience in permaculture to help businesses care for people while enhancing the earth. Loal Resources: Bay Area Worker Coopertives This organization provides resources and templates on how to set up a coop. http://nobawc.org/ Business Training Renaissance Enterprenourship Center Business Training Classes and Incubator Space http://www.rencenter.org/ Woman's Initiative Low cost training and on-going support for Women owned businesses http://www.womensinitiative.org/ Small Business Development Center Large selection of classes to get the business off the ground http://sf.norcalsbdc.org/ Other Local Group helping us Transition: http://www.transitionsf.org/organizations-transitioning-sf---spreadsheet |
February 27th TransitionSF Meeting: Label Genetically Engineered Foods. It's Our Right to Know. What are genetically engineered foods, and why should they be labeled? Find out at the February 27th TransitionSF meeting, where Frank Plughoff and Liz Kroboth, San Francisco coordinators for the Committee for the Right to Know, will be presenting. The Committee for the Right to Know is a grassroots coalition of consumer, public health, environmental organizations, and food companies in California that is working to put an initiative on the 2012 California ballot requiring labeling of genetically engineered foods (also known as GE foods, or GMOs). Prompted by growing concerns about the impacts that genetically engineered foods may have on human health and the environment, the demand for labeling from consumers, and the lack of response from lawmakers, this coalition is taking the question of labeling to the people. Location: February 27th, 7pm - Gazebo Room at CPMC Davies Campus, Castro btw 14th & Duboce. |
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This month's community meeting will feature a presentation about the EDAP (energy descent action plan) process and roots of Transition as well as a working session on community mapping. Also please bring seeds to the meeting for a seed swap. Any leftover seeds will be donated to the SF Seed Library at Hayes Valley Farm. Feel free to bring snacks or something to share as well. DATE & TIME: Monday, May 23 7:00-9:00pm LOCATION: The "Gazebo", at CPMC Davies Campus, on Castro between 14th and Duboce San Francisco, CA 94114 From the Duboce Street entrance, follow the driveway in and curve around the building on your left onto a large patio area. The Gazebo is the glass-walled structure in front of you. Or look at this Google map: http://tinyurl.com/2fql2xe COST: FREE About TransitionSF: We are a community group working to catalyze a resilient and relocalized San Francisco that can proactively address Peak Oil and Climate Change and transition to a low-energy, high-satisfaction future. We are also part of the global Transition Towns movement. http://transitionsf.org http://www.transitionnetwork.org |
This month's community meeting will feature a presentation about the SF Seed Library project, one of the three projects that the TransitionSF community voted to support in 2011. We'll talk about the work that has been done so far and the plans for the future. Visit that site at www.sfseedlibrary.org. Also please bring seeds to the meeting for a seed swap. Any leftover seeds will be donated to the SF Seed Library at Hayes Valley Farm. We'll also have locally made snacks. Feel free to bring something to share as well. DATE & TIME: Monday, April 25 7:00-9:00pm LOCATION: The "Gazebo", at CPMC Davies Campus, on Castro between 14th and Duboce San Francisco, CA 94114 From the Duboce Street entrance, follow the driveway in and curve around the building on your left onto a large patio area. The Gazebo is the glass-walled structure in front of you. Or look at this Google map: http://tinyurl.com/2fql2xe COST: FREE MORE INFO: Contact: seeds at sfseedlibrary.org About TransitionSF: We are a community group working to catalyze a resilient and relocalized San Francisco that can proactively address Peak Oil and Climate Change and transition to a low-energy, high-satisfaction future. We are also part of the global Transition Towns movement. http://transitionsf.org http://www.transitionnetwork.org |
 DATE & TIME: Monday, March 28 7:00-9:00pm LOCATION: The "Gazebo", at CPMC Davies Campus, on Castro between 14th and Duboce San Francisco, CA 94114 From the Duboce Street entrance, follow the driveway in and curve around the building on your left onto a large patio area. The Gazebo is the glass-walled structure in front of you. Or look at this Google map: http://tinyurl.com/2fql2xe COST: FREE MORE INFO: Contact: Lynda Smith Email: lynda_smith_cowan@hotmail.com Phone: 415-564-6882 About TransitionSF: We are a community group working to catalyze a resilient and relocalized San Francisco that can proactively address Peak Oil and Climate Change and transition to a low-energy, high-satisfaction future. We are also part of the global Transition Towns movement. http://transitionsf.org http://www.transitionnetwork.org |
Next Community meeting will focus on City Repair Location: CPMC Davies (Duboce and Castro), Room: Gazebo in between two towers (glass room) Time: 2/28 - 7 pm - 10 pm Transition San Francisco has picked two main focus projects for 2011. We'll be helping with City Repair San Francisco and Kitchen Gardens San Francisco! 1. We’ll be working with an existing local group to help launch Portland’s much-praised City Repair project in San Francisco. See www.cityrepair.org. 2. We’ll be helping grow the Kitchen Gardens project – which brings a permablitz, a kind of organic gardening makeover (both indoor and outdoor), to SF households. See www.kitchengardensf.org. We’re really happy to have picked two projects with strong roots in permaculture. Our odds of success are much greater working with others. We’ve already heard interest in working together from other groups, including the Wigg Party, the Bike Coalition, Rebar, SPUR, and others. The neighborhood around the Wiggle might be ready to host a pilot project, and there may be synergy with an ongoing effort in Hunters Point as well. We’ll devote much of the meeting to kicking off our collaboration around City Repair, and will be inviting people from all interested groups to come. And we’ll devote a near- future meeting to Kitchen Gardens. We'll continue to be involved in the San Francisco Seed Library, which is off to a great start, and continue to discuss a food currency, which holds a lot of promise. We invite you to come and get involved. This is already an exciting year for Transition in San Francisco. |
Next Meeting: November 22, 7 - 9 pm, The Gazebo room at CPMC Davies on Castro and Duboce Ave, San Francisco, 94114
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Here's a recap of our Community Meeting - a key part of our project to find a big project for TransitionSF. Please read this admittedly long note, especially if you plan to come to the next meeting and contribute. Notes include that the seed library is making good progress at the Portola Valley branch; the solar bike ride went well; Andre is going to a peak oil conference called ASPOG; and I'm going to the UK for Transition consulting training. Gift circle: Bud needs a beach/Burning Man type bike, Joel may need a job, Susan has a houseshare in Portola (not Portola Valley - see below), Ania needs seeds, Dave needs help with kitchen gardens for 10/10/10 (see kitchengardensf.org), Mira needs participants in Timebakn, Steve needs help with plants for his sunny community loft. (A good chance to showcase your permaculture skills...) We discussed a potential big project for TransitionSF to take on. The hope is that a big project will help TSF with focus, impact, consciousness-raising, and increased effort. The process is: - We discussed "the rules" and some possible projects tonight. - In about three weeks, we'll have the 10/10/10 climate action day, which will be kind of a lab for sustainability projects. - At our next meeting, Monday, October 25th, we'll spend the first half discussing projects, and the second half on some kind of selection or narrowing process. Here are the needs that we discussed for a project: 1. Raises awareness. 2. Conveys Transition's vision for increasing local resilience 3. Is concrete, affordable and doable 4. Is replicable, like Bernal Bucks. 5. Inspires and supports work on the neighborhood level, ie seed project, gleaning project. 6. Pays attention to process, ie identifies leaders, builds communication, builds social capital. 7. Becomes part of the community (Transition doesn't have to maintain it). Added for consideration at the meeting: 8. Involves many people 9. Has ties to City Hall 10. Represents and includes diversity (which is also a permaculture value) There was a question about which of these were the real "musts", and there was input that perhaps 1, 2, and 8 might be the real deal-breakers - but we didn't resolve this question. We then went around the room for project ideas: 1. Food Forest. Could be at Golden Gate Park or McLaren Park, or block by block 2. Timebank, implemented at the neighborhood and organizational level, alternative currencies 3. Solar cookers project, ie 1000 solar cookers 4. City Repair (from Portland), Transition one intersection at a time! 5. 10/10/10-type day for Transition worldwide 6. Connect neighborhoods in San Francisco to Transition (ie neighborhood-level Transition groups) 7. Great Unleashing 8. Permablitz/kitchen gardens project 9. Something to do with finance 10. Energy Descent Action Plan (could be separate or parallel project) 11. Steve's sharable lot in the Mission 12. A printed newspaper for Transition activities, present and future 13. Working with the SF Organizing Project (see previous post) 14. Serve as a kind of volunteer corps/ support team 15. Work with the Bike Coalition et al on a big but time-limited biking project 16. Humanure - people-generated compost 17. A guide to nonprofits, perhaps tying in gift circles. Perhaps have a call center, like MarinLink 18. Work as assistants to Neighborhood Empowerment Network (NEN) to learn and build skills 19. Contribute to/evangelize/use NEN leadership training efforts 20. Go out to existing neighborhood groups and ask "what do you need"? Perhaps "flood" one neighborhood with help. Do one or more projects, build credibility, then fold Transition-related efforts into the mix. (Relates to #14) |
 The topic is: "What's Next for TSF, Part 1". We would like to identify a big (for us) project to complete in the next few months. Ania Moniuszko will lead us in discussing what we want our project to do for TSF and the overall cause of Transition in San Francisco. The meeting will be at our usual place, CPMC Davies Medical Center, on Monday, September 20th at 7pm (again, a week earlier than usual). |
Sponsored by TransitionSF, the Permaculture Guild, and San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Join TransitionSF and the San Francisco Permaculture Guild on bike rides that explore life-enriching food, water and energy projects in the city. The Transition Tours showcase local efforts that create community and support both the environment and economy. Lots of Abundance What happens to abandoned lots and former freeways? See the fruits of community labor transforming vacant space into urban farms. Learn about reclaiming land for public use, rejuvenating polluted soil, and restoring connections to the food we eat. Sunday, July 18 - meet 9:45 AM at CCA FARM (8th St. and Hooper St.). 2.5 hour ride. Water, Water, Everywhere… How can “waste” water be reused? Visit public projects and private residences that aren’t all wet in their approach to greywater and rainwater. Learn about greywater systems, rainwater harvesting, and the history of water in San Francisco. Saturday, July 24 - meet 9:45 AM at Garden for the Environment (7th Ave. and Lawton). 2.5 hour ride. Solar Systems Why let the free energy in sunlight go to waste? See electric and hot water systems at residential and commercial sites. Hear how one resident organized her neighborhood block to go solar together and purchase individual electric systems at a group discount. The extension will continue to Heron's Head Park for a visit to the EcoCenter - San Francisco's first completely off-grid building. Saturday, September 11 - meet 9:45 AM at Koshland Park (Page St. and Buchanan St.). 2 hour ride plus optional 1.5 hour extension. For more information, please contact Sarah Roggero at sroggero@gmail.com |
 Don't forget to check out the NEN's website, which features blog and video coverage of all sorts of amazing sustainability projects that local residents are undertaking right here, right now in San Francisco: http://www.empowersf.org/ DATE & TIME: Monday, August 23rd 7:00pm-9:00pm The room will be open at 6:30, so feel free to come early and bring food for yourself or to share! LOCATION: The "Gazebo", at CPMC Davies Campus, on Castro between 14th and Duboce San Francisco, CA 94114 From the Duboce Street entrance, follow the driveway in and curve around the building on your left onto a large patio area. The Gazebo is the glass-walled structure in front of you. Or look at this Google map: http://tinyurl.com/2fql2xe COST: FREE MORE INFO: Contact: Wes McCullough Email: glacierchaser7@yahoo.com Phone: 626 372 6614 About TransitionSF: We are a community group working to catalyze a resilient and relocalized San Francisco that can proactively address Peak Oil and Climate Change and transition to a low-energy, high-satisfaction future. We are also part of the global Transition Towns movement. http://transitionsf.org http://www.transitionnetwork.org |
DATE & TIME: Monday, June 28th 7:00pm-9:00pm The room will be open at 6:30, so feel free to come early and bring food for yourself or to share! LOCATION: The "Gazebo", at CPMC Davies Campus, on Castro between 14th and Duboce San Francisco, CA 94114 From the Duboce Street entrance, follow the driveway in and curve around the building on your left onto a large patio area. The Gazebo is the glass-walled structure in front of you. Or look at this Google map: http://tinyurl.com/2fql2xe COST: FREE MORE INFO: Contact: Wes McCullough Email: glacierchaser7@yahoo.com Phone: 626 372 6614 About TransitionSF: We are a community group working to catalyze a resilient and relocalized San Francisco that can proactively address Peak Oil and Climate Change and transition to a low-energy, high-satisfaction future. We are also part of the global Transition Towns movement. http://transitionsf.org http://www.transitionnetwork.org |
This month's community meeting features a presentation by Arno Hesse, who is going to talk about the Bernal Heights local currency known as "Bernal Bucks" (see http://bernalbucks.org) This will be followed by breakout "Open Space" discussions on local currency, with specific topics to be voted on at the meeting. DATE & TIME: Monday, May 24th 7:00pm-9:00pm The room will be open at 6:30, so feel free to come early and bring food for yourself or to share! LOCATION: The "Gazebo", at CPMC Davies Campus, on Castro between 14th and Duboce San Francisco, CA 94114 From the Duboce Street entrance, follow the driveway in and curve around the building on your left onto a large patio area. The Gazebo is the glass-walled structure in front of you. Or look at this Google map: http://tinyurl.com/2fql2xe COST: FREE MORE INFO: Contact: Wes McCullough Email: glacierchaser7@yahoo.com Phone: 626 372 6614 About TransitionSF: We are a community group working to catalyze a resilient and relocalized San Francisco that can proactively address Peak Oil and Climate Change and transition to a low-energy, high-satisfaction future. We are also part of the global Transition Towns movement. http://transitionsf.org http://www.transitionnetwork.org |
Community Resilience Workshop - April 17th 9:30 - 5 pm Recession, rising prices, climate change: our communities are feeling the crunch. How do we build stronger communities in tough times? Support our families in ways that help our planet instead of harming it? Develop solutions to multiple challenges at once? If you’re active in your community, you’re probably thinking about these questions. No one has all the answers, but we do have pieces of the solution that can be fit together to match the needs of your community. This Community Resilience Workshop is for people engaged in their community anywhere in the Bay Area to explore: - Specific impacts of climate change and peak oil in the Bay Area - What community resilience looks like - Assessing strengths, weaknesses, and opportunity in your community - Innovative models from other communities you can adapt for yours - Identifying priorities for your community to build resilience - Getting involved in the bigger political change we need to address these challenges Sponsored by Bay Localize and TransitionSF Workshop lead: Kirsten Schwind, Program Director, Bay Localize Kirsten Schwind is the author of Bay Localize’s Community Resilience Toolkit, and brings a diverse background in environmental policy and social justice. Kirsten holds a B.A. in Economics and Public Policy and an M.S. in Natural Resources Management. She has worked with a number of Bay Area nonprofits including as Program Director at Food First, and currently serves as the chair of the City of Berkeley’s Energy Commission. She co-authored the report Tapping the Potential of Urban Rooftops, which won an award from the American Planning Association’s California Chapter. Kirsten lived for several years in Latin Americaand is fluent in Spanish. April 17th, 9:30 - 5 pm Location: California Pacific Medical Center, Enright Room 2333 Buchanan St San Francisco, CA 94115 RSVP: ania@transitionsf.org or Cell: 415.819.9663 Please indicate which organization you are with and your location Cost: Suggested donation to Bay Localize ------------------------- Dear Community Resilience Workshop Participants,
We’re looking forward to seeing you on April 17th for some great community planning!
Bay Localize and Transition San Francisco have been putting our heads together to make this workshop as productive and inspiring for you as possible.
We’d like to ask you to do a little prep for the workshop. We’ve got a small research assignment for you to dig into the history of change in your own community. Please bring the results with you to share at the workshop.
Your assignment: identify an example of a change in your neighborhood in the last 80 years or so that made it a more fair place for everyone to live. We mean “fair” in the sense of equal rights. Who was involved in making the change, and how did they make the change happen? Feel free to search on the web or ask neighbors. Examples could include ending housing discrimination, desegregating schools, equal access to jobs, etc. The effort could be ongoing, or something you you’ve been involved in, or completely new to you.
Why are we asking you to research this question? For a couple of reasons. One, since we are setting out to create change for greater resilience in our communities, we can learn from how local social movements have created change in the past. Often we stand on the shoulders of giants. Two, some of the folks who made these changes may still be out there, and can serve as valuable resources for us. Three, it gets us thinking about how resilience and social justice interrelate.
Here’s an example I looked up about my community of Berkeley. Via Google I found the website of my local library had great resources at http://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/system/Chapter8.html. I had no idea Berkeley had such a dramatic public struggle over housing discrimination, resulting in groundbreaking state legislation.
Change: Laws passed preventing housing discrimination.
Who got it done: Initially, a group of African American Berkeley residents who helped get new liberal white City Council members elected to support their cause. When the council passed a law ending housing discrimination in Berkeley, more conservative residents got the law overturned. In response William Byron Rumford, the first African American state assembly representative elected in our district, passed California’s Rumford Fair Housing Act of 1963. Rumford was elected by a coalition of CIO union activists, white liberals and African American voters.
How: Electoral change. Political organizing across race and class to build coalitions that got public officials elected at the local and state levels, who were able to change laws.
There are all sorts of ways to create change, which we’ll talk about. Enjoy digging into the rich history of your community! I look forward to our day together on the 17th.
Best, Kirsten |
Envisioning a Future for San Francisco in Response to Climate Change and Peak Oil Mon, Mar 22, 7:00pm-9:00pm, San Francisco This is an event that engages SF residents in conversation and visioning process to form a resilience plan for San Francisco in the face of climate change and peak oil. We'll continue our discussions from last month on: ﾠFOOD - local food production, food security, CSA's, Permaculture, organic, & biodynamic growing, building healthy soils, food preservation & storage, community kitchens, buying in bulk ﾠRESKILLING - developing local products & materials, learning from elders & history, reuse, repairing, repurposing, reducing, recycling, cooking with fresh produce, cheese-making, soaps, plant-based textiles, baking, carpentry, blacksmithing, animal husbandry, bike repair ﾠPSYCHOLOGY OF CHANGE - focusing on how we as individuals and a community can support one another in the process of change ﾠENVISIONING A LOCAL FUTURE - Creating a vision and communicating through videos, blogs, and other media We'll use open technologies format for the meeting to form new groups around the following topics ﾠENERGY - use reduction, local renewable energy sources, distributed/decentralized energy grid, biogas conversions, solar, wind, micro-hydro, biofuels, zero carbon ﾠTRANSPORTATION - pedestrian-friendly, bicycles, mass transit and long distance rail, reclaiming roads for other uses ﾠECONOMY - local currencies, barter, childcare cooperatives, cottage industries, jobs & right livelihood, green business & local entrepreneurship, local business New participants will have an opportunity to hear the TransitionSF speakers, engage in closer conversation, and have opportunity to participate in our breakout groups on variety of resiliency topics. Please join us. DATE & TIME: |
Community Meeting Notes are in the Community Meeting Presentation - the last few slides. |
