Transition Mar Vista/Venice: Simplify the Holidays

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

11/2/12

Simplify the Holidays

EVENT: Sunday, November 18 from 1:00–4:30pm

Have more fun with less stuff this holiday season.

A creative and experiential workshop. Explore ways to make the holidays more meaningful. Enjoy inspiring conversation combined with an "idea table," templates for projects to do at home, and hands-on paper and fabric projects. Learn to make simple gifts and decorations—fun to create, lovely to receive. Children welcome with supervising adult. Hosted by reDiscover Center, Transition Mar Vista/Venice and Transition Culver City.

Upcycled greeting cards

WHERE
reDiscover Center, 12958 Washington Blvd, LA 90066
(Use back alley entrance - look for big green sliding gate)

FREE, donations welcome
RSVP helpful: transitionculvercity@gmail.com

RESOURCES
Check these links for more information about simplifying the holidays:

The Center for a New American Dream, www.newdream.org

Bill McKibbon's article, Are You Brave Enough to Say No to a High-Stress Holiday? http://www.alternet.org/environment/144223/are_you_brave_enough_to_say_no_to_a_high-stress_holiday_/

Your money or your life
http://ymoyl.wordpress.com/

Voluntary simplicity
http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/