Albany's Great Unleashing is a community celebration and workshop, a chance for us to share and create clever, local solutions to meet our basic needs for everyday goods and services when rising gas prices or other outside influences make them less affordable.
These same solutions in areas such as food, energy, waste, water, business, transportation, health, housing, and wellbeing will make our community stronger, more resilient to coming changes, AND more fun to live in!
Schedule (exact times may change)
- 1:30 p.m. Doors open
- 2 p.m. A presentation by young poets, then an interactive discussion on the threats to global/local stability posed by rising oil prices, a shaky economy and climate change. Then a brief presentation on how the worldwide transition movement offers leadership in developing or supporting a broad spectrum of visionary, local-based solutions.
- 3 p.m. An afternoon of discussion on the question, "What actions can Albany residents take to make our town more resilient, more equitable and more sustainable in response to the economic, environmental and energy crises?"
- 5:30-6:30 p.m. Local vendors will sell prepared food for a picnic dinner in the park with song and community. Please bring your own reusable utensils and silverware to reduce waste!
- 7:30 p.m. Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow at the Post Carbon Institute, speaks on The End of Growth a talk titled after his soon-to-be-published book of the same name
- 8 p.m. AshEL Eldridge is a rap artist and spiritual activist who starred in Green Sangha's video supporting the ban on single use plastic bags
- 8-9:15 p.m. Albany-based contradance band, Crow For Day