Home Gown Feast a yummy success
On Saturday 15th October, TTPR held the second annual Home Grown Potluck Feast. About 30 people brought dishes made with home made, home grown and/or local foods to share, and we had a wonderful spread to choose from. Of particular note was the huge pan of roasted garlic cloves that Lisa and Mike of Windfall [...]
October 17, 2011
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Tags: harvest home, home grown, home made, local food, potluck · Posted in: Event Reports
10/10/10 work party: meatless potluck!
Oct 10, 2010 is a global day of action where people are doing projects to make a real difference in their community’s CO2 emissions. You can find out more about what’s happening all over the world at http://www.350.org/. The idea is to show our “leaders” that we’re prepared to take action and get to work [...]
October 4, 2010
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Film and Food Night
Here’s a nice awareness-raising idea – a regular “Film and Food Night” with a film and a local potluck, as presented by the Path to Freedom people in Pasadena.
May 27, 2009
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Tags: awareness raising, community event, film screening, film showing, local food, potluck · Posted in: General chat
Kickoff meeting invitation
If you’re interested in getting involved with starting up a Transition initiative here in Powell River, this invitation is for you. Don’t forget to RSVP either here or direct to Kevin if you want to come! (Wednesday May 20, more details below.) What, you may well ask, is Transition Powell River and why would I [...]
May 7, 2009
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Tags: local food, meeting, potluck, powell river, steering group, transition, transition town · Posted in: General chat
Awareness raising events for Powell River
I went through the Transition Handbook and the Transition US website looking at the kind of events that transition groups have held during the “awareness” phase of getting people up to speed on Peak Oil and Climate Change. Here’s an incomplete list of things we could do here in Powell River: Film Screenings Peak Oil [...]
April 13, 2009
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Tags: alternative energy, an inconvenient truth, books, christmas, climate change, cob building, community event, cordwood building, diet, dvd, fall fair, film screening, garden tour, green day, library, local food, newcomers social, peak oil, permaculture, potluck, powell river, renewable energy, road show, slow food · Posted in: General chat
Building a core group
Some time in the next month I’d like to try and get 10-12 people together to talk about Transition and the possibilities for Powell River, over a potluck meal. Out of that we might be able to kick off a core group of 4-8 people to begin organising awareness-raising events in Powell River. I’ll be [...]
April 13, 2009
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Tags: awareness, community event, community leaders, core group, film screening, leaflets, library, network, potluck, powell river, steering group, transition, transition town · Posted in: General chat