Transition Mar Vista/Venice

Transition Mar Vista/Venice
Transition Mar Vista/Venice projects include Little Free Libraries community build days and Good Karma Gardens pay-it-forward edible gardens. Join us for these activities, as well as many others!

Calendar

HELLO! We invite you to explore the resources and links posted here. For information about Transition Mar Vista/Venice's events, please check (and like!) our Facebook page:

facebook.com/TransitionMarVistaVenice


ONGOING

Good Karma Garden Project: Pay-it-forward edible gardens
Email transitionmarvista@gmail.com for location information

Westside Produce Exchange: One Saturday per month
To join and find out the date of the next exchange,
e-mail
westsideproduce@gmail.com

Our Time Bank: Check OTB's Web site for schedule of events and monthly potluck
Visit ourtimebank.com for details and date of next potluck

Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center: Check Sivananda's Web site for class
schedule and special events
sivanandala.org

OF INTEREST TO MEMBERS

The Guerrila Gardener
Our friends at the Argonaut spotlight Sunshine Partnerships
and other urban farmers

Urgent Gardening: A Citizen Yogi's Call to Action
The Argonaut profiles Swami Omkarananda

A New Parkway Vision for Culver City
Transition Culver City members mobilize to produce a compelling film
about sustainable alternatives to wasteful grass parkways

Oneness Media Wins Best Healthy Cities Short Film Award
The New Urban Film Festival recognizes Stephon Litwinczuk's documentary
about TMV/V

Link to PAST EVENTS


5/19/09

What is Resilience?



(per Rob Hopkins, The Transition Handbook)

Resilience refers to the ability of a system, from individual people to whole economies. to hold together and maintain their ability to function in the face of change and shocks from the outside.
(p.12)

In the context of communities and settlements, it refers to their ability to not collapse at first sight of oil or food shortages, and to their ability to respond with adaptability to disturbance.
(p.54)

The benefits for a community with enhanced resilience will be that:
  • If one part is destroyed, the shock will not ripple through the whole system
  • There is a wide diversity of character and solutions developed creatively in response to local circumstances
  • It can meet its needs despite the substantial absence of travel and transport
  • The other big infrastructures and bureaucracies of the intermediate economy are replaced by fit-for-purpose local alternatives at drastically reduced cost.
(p.55, quoting David Fleming)

... being more prepared for a leaner future, more self-reliant, and prioritising the local over the imported.
(p.55)
See also page 5 of this pdf

Also available is The Transition Timeline for a local, resilient future by Shaun Chamberlin with a foreword by Rob Hopkins

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