Building Backyard Gardens

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Paul Heft

On Saturday, May 14th, volunteers and community members in East Palo Alto will come together to deliver and install up to ten backyard gardens for eager beginning gardeners. Many of these gardeners have completed a twelve week course of cooking, nutrition, and gardening with Collective Roots, and are excited to launch new lifestyles full of healthier, more environmentally sustainable, home-grown food.

Come help install raised beds and plant spring gardens to make these new lifestyles a reality!

To register for this event, or if you have any questions, please e-mail: nicole at collectiveroots dot org.

“Carbon Nation” on April 13

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Paul Heft

Swapalooza

Posted on March 31, 2011 by promiserani

The second-ever Transition Palo Alto Craft Swap took place in Palo Alto this time, upstairs at the lovely Opal’z store, filled with the fragrance of essential oils and soap. We arrived, arms full, and set up on the U-shaped tables. People arrived early, helped sort things into the categories. We found that there were lots of things that didn’t fit into the regular categories, and lots of things that already looked interesting.

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Grand Boulevard Initiative

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Paul Heft

Envisioning the Future of El Camino Real

Speakers from VTA, Strategic Economics, and ReConnecting America discuss:

Bus Rapid Transit along El Camino Real
Economic and environmental impacts of clustering jobs and homes on a transportation corridor
Successful corridor development

Wednesday, March 30, 2011
7- 8:30 PM
Sunnyvale City Hall:
City Council Chambers
456 W. Olive Avenue
FREE

Sponsored by the American Planners Association of Northern California, Strategic Economics, VTA, ReConnecting America, Sunnyvale Cool, Urban Habitat, the City of Sunnyvale, Greenbelt Alliance and the Grand Boulevard Initiative El Camino Real.

Craft Swap March 27, 2011 1-3pm

Posted on March 6, 2011 by promiserani

Are you a crafter or artist with pack-rat tendencies? Now is the time to come clean, and clean up!

One person’s trash is another’s treasure, so help reduce waste and share with your neighbors at the 2nd ever Craft Swap.

Join the fun at:

Opal’z of Palo Alto

719 Colorado Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94303

650-322-6500

Sunday, March 27
1-3pm

For details about what to bring and how it works, click here. Let us know what you’re bringing by emailing rani at b a c r a f t s w a p (at) g m a i l (dot) c o m.

Bring your friends! Share or post our flyer:

Conversation, Community, and Calling workshop

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Paul Heft

Transition Palo Alto’s “Conversation, Community and Calling” workshop continues, welcoming new participants. Admission is open and free.

Saving the planet means creating a caring culture. Social ties are central to health, happiness, and civic life. Yet our frantic, distracted culture makes it difficult to maintain and deepen social connections. Trust and civil discourse are in decline.

Based on the practice of good, effective conversation, in this workshop we examine how you can use conversation and community to follow your calling and advance your vision of cultural change.

Join us alternate Tuesdays starting March 1: 6:45 – 9 PM.

World Centric, 2121 Staunton Court
Palo Alto, CA 94306

TEDxManhattan Streaming Party

Posted on February 6, 2011 by Paul Heft

Slow Food South Bay presents:

TEDxManhattan Streaming Party

Changing the Way We Eat

Saturday, February 12, 2011, 7:30 AM – 3:00 PM

World Centric Community Space,
2121 Staunton Ct, Palo Alto, CA

On February 12, The Glynwood Institute for Sustainable Food and Farming will host TEDxManhattan: Changing the Way We Eat, a one-day TEDx event on sustainable food and farming. It will explore our food system — from what happened, to where we are, to what we are doing to shift to a more sustainable way of eating and farming. In an effort to have as many people as possible participate, the event will be webcast live.

For those of you unfamiliar with TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design), it is a small non-profit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, using talks and performances. Thought leaders from around the world are invited to give presentations up to 18-minutes long that explore important topics to society. All of the talks are recorded and available in an archive at TED’s web-site. Some memorable talks include, Dan Barber’s How I Fell in Love With a Fish and Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize Wish: Teach Every Child About Food. Check them out and get hooked.

Then plan to join us at World Centric on the 12th. The line-up is impressive, including Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, makers of King Corn, Brian Halweil of the Worldwatch Institute, Josh Viertel, president of Slow Food USA and many more. You can get the full list at the TEDxManhattan web-site. There is no schedule for individual speakers, but the event will be broken into sessions:

7:30 AM – 9:15 AM : Session 1 – What Happened?

9:15 AM – 10:30 AM : Break

10:30 AM – 12:15 PM : Session 2 – Where are we?

12:15 PM – 1:00 PM : Potluck Lunch Break

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM : Session 3 – Where are we going?

Come for one session or stay all day. Those of us staying over lunch time will plan to share a potluck lunch together. Bring something simple, seasonal, local – something sustainable – to share with your neighbors.

(This event is brought to you by a number of partners: Collective Roots, Slow Food South Bay, Transition Palo Alto, Transition Silicon Valley, and World Centric.)

New calendar for Transition events

Posted on January 22, 2011 by bart

JUST ADDED – Events Calendar courtesy of Yahoo groups

See what Transition-related activities are coming to our area for 2011

—— JANUARY —— FEBRUARY —— MARCH —— APRIL —— MAY —— JUNE ——

After you’ve clicked one of the links, you are prompted to log on to Yahoo to access the calendar.

Anyone can see the calendar. Members of Transition Palo Alto Yahoo group can add events.

You can access these links by clicking on the Events tab on these pages.

We’re got plans in the works for a Newsletter too.

Film library now available

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Paul Heft

Transition Silicon Valley is offering a film library. It includes some of the titles that have been presented in our movie series. Check it out!

Envisioning the Future of El Camino Real

Sunday, March 27 1-3pm

TEDxManhattan Streaming Party

Changing the Way We Eat

Saturday, February 12, 2011, 7:30 AM – 3:00 PM

Sunday, March 27
1-3pm