Transition Town Meeting

Transitions at the UUCLV: Series 2

Date/Time Friday, December 9, 2011
from 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM Details

In the face of a multitude of movements, organizations, efforts and general information overload all aiming at redeeming quality of life for all and/or survivability of the planet earth in one way or another:

Where do I put my personal energy and focus?

How do we integrate and coordinate ourselves and our efforts to accomplish our objectives, to manifest our visions, to create the kind of world we want?

• Through local or regional or state-level or national efforts?
• ​Through one or more of the converging Transition / Occupy / CELDF / etc campaigns?
• ​Through one or more of the traditional organizations or the new, emerging grassroots efforts?

Tonight: Integrating Local and Regional Efforts:

• What are our top 5 Local Outcomes that would fulfill your visions?
• What are our top 5 Regionally Larger Outcomes that would fulfill your visions?
• How can we Stack or Connect the Local and Regional?

Part of our second Transitions series, “What Do We Want and How Do We Get It?” at the UUCLV on second Fridays at 7pm. Please join us.

The focus this time around is on dialoguing about:

• the intertwined economic, environmental, and basic needs challenges we are facing
• how to move forward in creating the resilient communities we want

We are facing urgent needs/impending catastrophes:

• economic collapse
• the fossil fuel morass
• global climate distress
• rampant militarism
• strengthening of repressive governmental power
• and more.

But we are witnessing widespread evidence of the readiness to take action:

• Occupy Movement
• Tar Sands Pipeline protests
• Marcellus Shale actions
• 350.org
• Washington DC protests to end the war in Afghanistan
• Community Rights actions
• and more.

We know what we want, generally speaking: solutions to problems, resilient communities, a sustainable future.

Question is, how do we get there?

The Transitions Movement provides a wholistic approach that can provide the vehicle for moving ahead.

Location Unitarian Universalist Church of the Lehigh Valley
424 Center St
Bethlehem, PA
Map link
Enter via the side entrance on Wall St.
Contact Phone: 484-851-3910
transitionslv@sustainlv.org
Event Type Presentations