Turn your backyard into a Food Production Farm!

Why simply grow food for your family when you can become a local food producing farm for your neighbors too!

Their vision from the website:
At the end of the day... we're all going to have to make our own decisions and come to our own conclusions about what each one of us can do to ensure that what we enjoy today will continue to be here for our friends and family tomorrow.

At MyFarm it is our mission to make growing food and growing community one in the same. We believe in the power of the individual. But we believe true power comes from working together towards a better future for all.

Our vision is a truly secure and regenerative food system. We want to offer everyone in our community a chance to participate in achieving greater personal sustainability by installing local organic gardens, selling organic vegetables to neighbors and continually seeking ways for others to lend their ideas, their time and their hands to our growing organization.

Check out My Farm to either find neighbors to buy great organic food from or to become a local farm!
http://myfarmsf.com/

Transitions for the Planet! ~ Local Self-Reliance for a Post-Petroleum World!

It all starts off when a small collection of motivated individuals within a community come together with a shared concern: how can our community respond to the challenges, and opportunities, of Peak Oil and Climate Change?


http://transitiontowns.org

12 Key Steps to embarking on your town's Transition journey...

To begin with, it is important to note that although the term “Transition Town” has stuck, what we are talking about are Transition Cities, Transition Islands, Transition Hamlets, Transition Valleys, Transition Anywhere-You-Find-People! These are the 12 basic principles of the Transition movement:

#1. Set up a steering group and design its demise from the outset

#2. Awareness raising

#3. Lay the foundations

#4. Organize a Great Unleashing

#5. Form sub groups

#6. Use Open Space

#7 Develop visible practical manifestations of the project

#8. Facilitate the Great Reskilling

#9 Build a bridge to Local Government

#10 Honor the elders

#11 Let it go where it wants to go…

#12 Create an Energy Descent Plan

For more local information to California and San Francisco please join this imperative movement here:

http://transitioncalifornia.ning.com/events/transitionsf-group-meeting

Cheerful disclaimer!

Just in case you were under the impression that Transition is a process defined by people who have all the answers, you need to be aware of a key fact. We truly don't know if this will work. Transition is a social experiment on a massive scale. What we are convinced of is this:

• if we wait for the governments, it'll be too little, way too late
• if we act as individuals, it'll be too little
• if we act as communities, it might just be enough, just in time!

Green Collar Jobs- Myth or Reality?

"Green-collar" jobs are mostly springing up at companies that sell sustainability; the rest of the business world isn't rushing to hire a new crop of green execs.

In the media and in political pronouncements, much has been made of the promise of “green jobs” and the new “green economy.”

To read more please click onto The Ladders website:
http://sales.theladders.com/career-advice/green-collar-jobs-myth-reality?et_id=1134178416&sign=y&link_id=536

Green Gorilla- Bag the Bag Episode!

Another great venture from Free Range Studios and Green Gorilla. An animated kids show that educates kids on hot environmentally friendly issues and steps kids can take... from an animated kids perspective. Great idea!

www.greengorilla.com

PLEASE WATCH AND SHARE WITH KIDS YOU KNOW TODAY!

Better Place- Electric Car Battery Switch in Japan!

Better Place Battery Switch Technology Demonstration

Demonstration of the world’s first automated battery switch technology for electric vehicles in Yokohama, Japan.

Safety, recyclability, environmental friendliness

The safety of today’s battery technology is unprecedented. Better Place uses advanced lithium-ion batteries made from non-toxic materials. While early generations of lithium-ion batteries had a propensity to overheat, today’s lithium-ion battery has high abuse tolerance, low heat evolution, stable cathode material, and an intelligent pack design that ensures consumer safety.

A lithium-ion battery can also be recycled with minimal environmental impact. More than 95% of the battery materials can be recovered and reused.

http://www.betterplace.com/solution/batteries/

This is the End... Charlie Frosts Blog

Always remember, you heard it first from Charlie Frost.

Other interesting sites include:

The 2012 Film...

http://www.whowillsurvive2012.com/



and the Institute for Human Continuity...
http://www.instituteforhumancontinuity.org/