Initating Group meeting report – Dec 14 2009
Present: Kevin, Liz, Alfred, Julie, Wendy, Owen, Susan Management Treasurer’s report. We have money. We will donate $25 to U-Hall for Nov EoS screening and Dec vigil. Official Transition Status – waiting on Owen for bio. He filled it out and Kevin will ask Transition Network if they will let us in with only one [...]
December 14, 2009
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Initiating Group meeting report: 17 Nov 2009
Present: Kevin, Liz, Julie, Susan, Graham. We tried at this meeting to run through the business quickly, so that we could spend the second hour in a more free-form discussion of the group-evaluation papers Kevin brought back from the Transition training in October. Management CU account – is set up and ready, waiting for cash [...]
November 18, 2009
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Tags: awareness, books, cordwood building, farmers institute, film screening, land conservancy, steering group, sustainability, video · Posted in: Meeting reports (now under "Pages")
Steering group meeting report – Jun 16th
Present: Kevin Wilson Lizzie Milward Owen Gaskell Julie Thorne Guests: (to be co-opted  ) Wendy Pelton Barry Bookout Graham We welcomed guests and introduced ourselves. Kevin did a quick rundown on the Transition movement for the benefit of guests. Group Structure Julie reported back on the requirements to open a bank account at the [...]
June 17, 2009
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One down, eleven to go
Hi there. David here. For those folks following this blog, you might want to know about another blog of regional interest (the region being the Upper Sunshine Coast, AKA the Powell River Regional District, AKA Lund to Saltery Bay and Texada and Savary and a few other bits and pieces): Slow Coast. The name is [...]
May 25, 2009
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Kickoff meeting May 20th – report
This is a brief report of what went on at the kickoff meeting on May 20th. 15 people attended. We started off as people arrived with the “self-teaching Peak Oil talk”. This was an interesting experiment pulled from the Transition Handbook, the idea being that each person gets one slide from what would normally be [...]
May 22, 2009
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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
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